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Three unusual cases of posterior interosseous nerve palsy involving an entrapment mechanism are described. The findings in these three cases seem to support the view that PIN entrapment usually results from interaction of exogenous factors (occupation, pregnancy, compression during sleep, etc.) with anatomical anomalies at the level of the supinator brevis muscle.
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PMID:Posterior interosseous nerve palsy. Report of three unusual cases. 673 93

An unusual case of transient, reversible entrapment of the PIN has been described. The entrapment was due to a fibrous band at the distal edge of the body of the supinator muscle, not at the level of the arcade of Frohse. The transient paralysis was exacerbated by pronation and alleviated by supination. Release at operation alleviated all symptoms. A radiograph showed erosion in the proximal radius, presumably due to the posterior interosseous nerve. One must consider such an entrapment of the PIN when there is weakness of muscles innervated by the radial nerve distal to its course through the supinator muscle.
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PMID:Entrapment of the posterior interosseous nerve by a fibrous band in the dorsal edge of the supinator muscle and erosion of a groove in the proximal radius. 727 85

The structural requirements for aromatic amino acid reabsorption and secretion in the dog were investigated using a series of tyrosine analogs. In clearance experiments, l-tyrosine and l-phenylalanine underwent net reabsorption at rates 5 to 6 times greater than those of the corresponding d-enantiomers and about 1.5 time those of o- and m-dl-tyrosine. 3-(p-hydroxyphenyl)Propionic acid underwent net secretion under conditions of polyuria and high urinary pH and net reabsorption under conditions of oliguria and low pH. In stop-flow experiments, (U/Pl-amino acid)/(U/Pln) ratios, where U/P = concentration in urine and plasma and In = inulin, of proximal tubular samples were 1.5 to 5-fold greater than the control (free-flow) values of 0.1 to 0.3, indicating tubular secretion. Secretion was inhibited, and net reabsorption enhanced, by probenecid, p-aminohippuric acid and 2,4-dinitrophenol. (U/Pd-amino acid)/(U/PIN) ratios of proximal tubular samples were below the control values of 0.6 to 0.8, indicating tubular reabsorption. Probenecid had no effect on the overall pattern but caused a slight decrease in the relative clearance values. The stop-flow pattern of 3-(p-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid excretion was similar to that of the I-amino acids. It was concluded that the I-amino acids undergo bidirectional transport and that the I-configuration and amino group are required for optimal active reabsorption, whereas ring hydroxylation has little effect on reabsorption transport. No absolute structural requirements for active secretion were elucidated.
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PMID:Structural specificity in the renal tubular transport of tyrosine. 728 17

Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) diagnosis and grading are affected by uncertainties which arise from the fact that almost all knowledge of PIN histopathology is expressed in concepts, descriptive linguistic terms, and words. A Bayesian belief network (BBN) was therefore used to reduce the problem of uncertainty in diagnostic clue assessment, while still considering the dependences between elements in the reasoning sequence. A shallow network was used with an open-tree topology, with eight first-level descendant nodes for the diagnostic clues (evidence nodes), each independently linked by a conditional probability matrix to a root node containing the diagnostic alternatives (decision node). One of the evidence nodes was based on the tissue architecture and the others were based on cell features. The system was designed to be interactive, in that the histopathologist entered evidence into the network in the form of likelihood ratios for outcomes at each evidence node. The efficiency of the network was tested on a series of 110 prostate specimens, subdivided as follows: 22 cases of non-neoplastic prostate or benign prostatic tissue (NP), 22 PINs of low grade (PINlow), 22 PINs of high grade (PINhigh), 22 prostatic adenocarcinomas with cribriform pattern (PACcri), and 22 prostatic adenocarcinomas with large acinar pattern (PAClgac). The results obtained in the benign and malignant categories showed that the belief for the diagnostic alternatives is very high, the values being in general more than 0.8 and often close to 1.0. When considering the PIN lesions, the network classified and graded most of the cases with high certainty. However, there were some cases which showed values less than 0.8 (13 cases out of 44), thus indicating that there are situations in which the feature changes are intermediate between contiguous categories or grades. Discrepancy between morphological grading and the BBN results was observed in four out of 44 PIN cases: one PINlow was classified as PINhigh and three PINhigh were classified as PINlow. In conclusion, the network can grade PIN lesions and differentiate them from other prostate lesions with certainty. In particular, it offers a descriptive classifier which is readily implemented and which allows the use of linguistic, fuzzy variables.
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PMID:Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN). Performance of Bayesian belief network for diagnosis and grading. 749 Jun 82

Prostate specific antigen has become an important adjunct to the digital rectal examination in screening for prostate cancer. The clinician should be familiar with interpretation of this test. Many men with BPH have elevated serum PSA concentrations; however, the majority of these men will have other pathologic processes such as occult cancer, PIN, or acute inflammation that may account for the elevations in serum PSA. Certainly, serial increases in serum PSA should increase concern that occult carcinoma is present. Patients with PIN may also have elevated PSA concentrations. When PIN is associated with elevated PSA, a high incidence of invasive carcinoma is noted on subsequent biopsy. Further investigation into the associations will further refine the clinical utility of this powerful tumor marker.
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PMID:PSA in benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia. 750 69

Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN) is a putative premalignant lesion of the prostate gland. PIN has been demonstrated to share morphologic and phenotypic similarities to invasive carcinoma of the prostate. In addition, PIN is spatially related to invasive carcinoma and occurs with greater frequency in men whose prostates harbor carcinoma. Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a glycoprotein produced by the prostatic epithelium. For PSA to be detected in the serum, it must traverse several tissue layers to reach the circulatory system. PSA levels associated with PIN are intermediate between those of benign and malignant prostate tissue. Spatially associated occult carcinoma, disruption of the basal cell layer, and increased vascularity may account for elevated PSA values in PIN.
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PMID:Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia and prostate-specific antigen. 750 83

The common prostatic carcinoma consists of two different types with respect to development, spread, histopathology, morphogenesis and prognosis. These are the carcinoma of the dorso-peripheral zone and the tumor which is located in the antero-central zone. The first one corresponds to the clinically manifest prostatic carcinoma, the latter is identical to the prostatic carcinoma incidentally found by the pathologist examining unsuspicious prostatic tissue from transurethral resection or simple prostatectomy. The antero-central tumor growths to the ventral area and infiltrates the apex and bladder neck frequently. It is biologically not as important as the tumor of the dorso-peripheral zone showing a lower grade of malignancy in the majority of cases. In 2 of 3 cases, however, there are one or more coexisting carcinomas in other, frequently dorso-peripheral zones. Therefore the risk of the individual patient can not precisely be estimated. The carcinoma of the dorso-peripheral zone does predominate by frequency and biological potency. The incidence of positive lymph nodes strongly increases when seminal vesicle invasion is found. The disturbance of the epithelial-stromal interaction is the starting point of carcinogenesis. In the first step, PIN results of an intraductal proliferation of atypical epithelial cells, whereas atypical hyperplasia develops from an overwhelming proliferation of tubular glands with progressive decrease of basal cells. Based on the topographical and histological relationships the role of PIN as a precursor lesion of the dorso-peripheral prostatic carcinoma is considered, whereas atypical hyperplasia is thought to represent the preneoplastic state of the incidental and antero-central prostatic carcinoma, respectively.
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PMID:[Pathology of prostatic carcinoma: new approaches to its development and biological significance]. 751 3

The topic of this investigation was to compare precancerous lesions of the prostate (prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia -PIN- and atypical hyperplasia -AH-) and invasive carcinomas concerning DNA ploidy (image cytometry/ICM) and morphologically feasible chromosomal aberrations (interphase cytogenetics/NISH). The aim was to find clues to formal pathogenesis of prostatic cancer. Prostatic tissue of 76 patients (76 areas with carcinoma, 71 with PIN, and 12 with AH) was examined by means of ICM. In 44 cases of coincidental PIN and carcinoma, the gradings of PIN and carcinoma correlated. C-values, 2,5c-exceeding-rate, and aneuploidy rate turned out to increase in PIN and carcinoma with increasing grading (P < 0.01). In some of these cases NISH was carried out in serial sections by applying centromer-(X,Y,1,7,8,10,17,18) and telomer-(1p) specific DNA probes. The result of this approach was an increase in the number of chromosomal aberrations and chromosomes involved correlating with the grading. Our conclusion is that PIN 1 could be regarded as the precancerous lesion mainly to higher differentiated carcinomas, whereas PIN 2 and 3 should be considered a preneoplastic condition mainly of moderately and low differentiated carcinomas.
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PMID:[Prostate cancers and potential precancerous conditions: DNA cytometric investigations and interphase cytogenetics]. 751 9

Anti-proteinase 3 (PR3) and anti-myeloperoxidase (MPO) autoantibodies are present in many patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (WG) and microscopic polyarteritis. The aim of this study was to determine whether these antibodies bound to linear peptide sequences on their target antigens. If common linear epitopes were demonstrated, then these could be manufactured and used in diagnostic ELISAs for anti-PR3 and anti-MPO antibodies. In addition, any homology between these epitopes and bacterial or viral sequences might implicate those microorganisms in the development of these antibodies and the pathogenesis of the associated diseases. The presence of linear epitopes on PR3 and MPO was suggested by the binding of the corresponding autoantibodies to these proteins after they had been reduced with beta-mercaptoethanol (beta-ME) and denatured with SDS or boiling, and digested with proteases. Four of the 22 sera with anti-PR3 antibodies bound to PR3 in Western blots after treatment with SDS, beta-ME and boiling for 5 min. Thermal denaturation reduced the amount of binding more than other forms of denaturation. One serum with anti-PR3 antibodies bound to Lys-C and Glu-C-digested PR3 in dot blots. Linear epitopes could not be further defined by their binding in an ELISA using overlapping peptides corresponding to the PR3 molecule because of non-specific binding. Three of the five sera with anti-MPO antibodies bound to MPO in Western blots after treatment with SDS, beta-ME and boiling for 5 min. One serum with anti-MPO antibodies bound to Lys-C and Glu-C-digested MPO in dot blots. Again, linear epitopes could not be further defined using an ELISA with overlapping peptides because of non-specific binding. Some anti-PR3 and anti-MPO antibodies are likely to recognize linear epitopes, but these cannot be defined by use of a PIN ELISA system.
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PMID:Epitope mapping of anti-proteinase 3 and anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies. 755 77

To improve signal-to-noise (S/N) ratios in biological NMR experiments we have regularly employed close-fitting receiver coils. The poor RF (radio-frequency) homogeneity often exhibited by these coils can be partly overcome by using them with large transmitter coils, provided that good between-coil isolation during the RF transmission and receive periods is achieved. With this in mind, we have used combined PIN diodes and tuned line to isolate transmitter and receiver and to remove transmitter noise. A series of experiments reported here demonstrate (a) distortion-free receiver detuning during free-induction decay, (b) the reduced effect of the receiver coil on the transmitter pulse, (c) an increase in S/N from 71:1 to 158:1, and (d) the effectiveness of transmitter noise isolation. Improvements in S/N, isolation, and image homogeneity illustrate the value of utilizing these devices. Hardware to allow PIN diode switching under computer control is described, utilizing mostly nonmagnetic materials and batteries.
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PMID:Active coil isolation in NMR imaging and spectroscopy using PIN diodes and tuned transmission line: a practical approach. 760 Jan 74


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