Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in an endemic environment: wild sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) with infected ticks and antibodies.

Ticks and blood samples were collected from wild sika deer (Cervus nippon yesoensis) during a hunting season (August to October) of 1991 at a selected location in Hokkaido, Japan. Ixodes persulcatus (adult and nymph) and I. ovatus (adult) were the common ticks on sika deer.

[The effects of diclofenac sodium on thyroid function tests in vivo and in vitro].

In order to investigate the effects of the non-steroidal antiinflammatory drug, diclofenac sodium on thyroid function, 8 male and 2 female volunteers were given single dose of 50 mg diclofenac sodium. Ninety minutes after the administration of the drug, the concentrations of total T 3, total T 4 and free T 4 were decreased significantly, but the concentrations of free T 3 and the levels of T 3 uptake, % free T 3 and % free T 4 were increased. When diclofenac sodium was added to serum in vitro, the levels of free T 3, free T 4 and T 3 uptake were increased.