Safety and efficacy of alinidine in symptom-free asthmatics.

Alinidine is a new bradycardic agent which has been shown to be beneficial in the treatment of coronary heart disease. Patients with both coronary heart disease and obstructive lung disease are difficult to treat, because the use of beta-blockers in them is greatly limited by their potential to provoke bronchospasm. Alinidine has no beta-blocking, muscarinic or quinidine-like properties.

Growth of the hippocampal formation in man.

The fresh volumes of the cortical area of the hippocampal formation were determined in 29 male, normative human brains ranging in age from 137 to 36,221 ontogenetic days inclusive of mid-gestation to the 99th postnatal year. The data were fitted by the 3-, 4-, and 5-parametric logistic functions. The ideal value P1 of the left hippocampal formation is 3 ml (SD = 0.

Brain growth in man.

25 male brains meeting the criteria for normativity and available in serial sections suitable for morphometric studies were selected from the Yakovlev Collection. Growth parameters were calculated based on the generalized logistic function. The ideal weight is 1,313 g (SD = 41), with a half value time of 387 (SD = 26) ontogenetic days and a growth factor of 4.

The development of the habernular nuclei in SPF - cats: a light microscopic and morphometric study.

The ontogenesis of the habenular nuclei in SPF-cats is described with respect to cytodynamic processes and the development of differentiations in the epithalamic ventricular wall. The volume was measured in 61 male SPF-cats aged 39 to 584 ontogenetic days. On the 156th ontogenetic day both sides of the nucleus medialis habenulae attain a mean fresh volume of 3.