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Forty-six patients with the gastrinoma syndrome were divided into 2 categories: 1) benign sporadic gastrinoma (n = 30), and 2) gastrinoma with metastases to liver (n = 16). Thirteen of the 46 patients had multiple endocrine neoplasia type I syndrome. Serum gastrin levels in patients fasted overnight were determined by RIA using antisera directed toward the NH2- and COOH-terminals of heptadecapeptide gastrin (G17) and the NH2-terminus of the triacontatetrapeptide (G34). These results were compared with findings in 50 normal subjects. In the normal subjects, the mean COOH-terminal gastrin-17 level was higher [65 +/- 8 (+/- SEM) pg/ml] than the NH2-terminal gastrin-17 level (11 +/- 0.2 pg/ml) and lower than the NH2-terminal gastrin-34 level (134 +/- 20 pg/ml). The levels of NH2-terminal gastrin-17 were higher in patients with metastatic disease than in those with benign gastrinoma, whereas the COOH-terminal gastrin-17 and the NH2-terminal gastrin-34 levels were similarly high in both groups. The mean ratio of NH2-terminal gastrin-17 to COOH-terminal gastrin-17 was less than 1 in normal subjects (0.22 +/- 0.02) and benign gastrinoma patients (0.2 +/- 0.04), and it was 2.2 +/- 0.41 in the patients with metastatic gastrinoma. An NH2 to COOH gastrin-17 ratio greater than 1 was found in 13 of 16 patients with metastatic gastrinoma, but in none of the patients with benign gastrinoma or normal subjects. Similar results were found in multiple endocrine neoplasia type I patients with benign and metastatic disease. A high NH2 to COOH gastrin-17 ratio is suggestive of metastatic gastrinoma. In 4 patients with metastatic gastrinoma, the NH2 to COOH gastrin-17 ratio fell in parallel with the response to chemotherapy.
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PMID:Evaluation of NH2-terminus gastrins in gastrinoma syndrome. 287 76

Adsorption/desorption in a new Zn(II)-TiO2 adsorption system was investigated at different particle concentrations (Cp). TEM, SEM and XRD analyses revealed that the TiO2 particles were an aggregation of nano-sized (approximately 10 nm) pure anatase-type TiO2. Adsorption experiments were carried out with particle concentrations of 100, 400 and 1000 mg/L, and their adsorption isotherms were found to decline successively, showing an obvious Cp effect. Desorption experiments indicated that adsorption in this system was irreversible, and the irreversibility increased with increasing Cp. These phenomena could be explained by the MEA (metastable equilibrium adsorption) theory and the Cp effect could be modeled well with an MEA-Freundlich-type Cp effect isotherm equation. This study may help understand environmental behavior of contaminants on ultrafine natural particles.
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PMID:Particle concentration effect in adsorption/desorption of Zn(II) on anatase type nano TiO2. 1827 47

The mechanism was proposed of heterogeneous catalytic CO2 absorptions with primary/secondary amines involving 'catalytic carbamate formation'. Compared with the non-catalytic 'Zwitterion mechanism', this Eley-Rideal model was proposed for CO2 + RR'NH with MCO3 (M = Ca, Mg, and Ba) with four elementary reaction steps: (B1) amine adsorption, (B2) Zwitterion formation, (B3) carbamate formation, and (B4) carbamate desorption. The rate law if determining step of each elementary step was generated based on 'steady-state approximation'. Furthermore, the solid chemicals were characterized by SEM and BET, and this rate model was verified with 39 sets of experimental datasets of catalytic CO2-MEA absorptions with the existence of 0-25 g CaCO3, MgCO3 and BaCO3. The results indicated that the rate-determining step was B1 as amine adsorption onto solid surface, which was pseudo-first-order for MEA. This was the first time that the Eley-Rideal model had been adopted onto the reactions of CO2 + primary/secondary amines over alkaline earth metal carbonate (MCO3).
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PMID:Eley-Rideal model of heterogeneous catalytic carbamate formation based on CO2-MEA absorptions with CaCO3, MgCO3 and BaCO3. 3121 67