Cervical priming prior to dilatation and evacuation: a comparison of methods.

Vaginal administration of prostaglandin analogues resulted in cervical changes that facilitated dilatation and evacuation in 80 patients in the late first trimester and the second trimester of pregnancy. When 0.5 mg and 1.

A new abortion technique: intravaginal and intramuscular prostaglandin.

The 15-methyl analog of prostaglandin F2 alpha (15-ME-PGF2 alpha), administered in a 3-mg dose via a single vaginal suppository and supplemented at 24 hours by intramuscular injection(s) of 250 micrograms, successfully induced abortion in 80 of 81 patients in the midtrimester of pregnancy. The mean abortion time was 19.6 hours.

Adenylate kinase isoenzyme patterns in normal and neoplastic human lung, and in various adult as compared to fetal rat tissues.

The isozyme pattern and total activity of adenylate kinase were studied in normal adult and fetal human and rat tissues using starch gel electrophoresis. Three adenylate kinase isoenzymes were identified in human tissues. Although normal adult lung exhibited higher adenylate kinase activity than did its fetal or neoplastic variant, isozyme patterns in the three types of tissues were indistinguishable from each other and from that in fetal human liver.