Rat inferior caval vein (ICV) ligature and particular new insights with the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157.

Unlabelled: Rat inferior caval vein (ICV) ligation (up to the right ovarian vein (ROV)) commonly represents a recapitulation of Virchow: with ligation leading to vessel injury, stasis, thrombosis and hemodynamic changes. We revealed that BPC 157's therapy collectively attenuated or counteracted all these events and the full syndrome.

Methods: We applied BPC 157 (10 μg, 10 ng/kg) as an early regimen or as a delayed therapy.

[Agglutinins in the diagnosis of pertussis].

The performed investigation showed that the results of agglutination test in diagnostics must be explained with reserve as a supplement to the clinical picture and the other laboratory findings. Titre must be followed at least for 20 days on many blood samples. The more reliable diagnosis according to agglutination test can be given only if we know in question is a nonimmunized child and titre is > or = 1:80.