Fructose consumption and moderate zinc deficiency influence growth and adipocyte metabolism in young rats prone to adult-onset obesity.

The effects of low zinc, high fructose diet on growth and adipocyte metabolism were examined in rats. At 28 days of age, animals were assigned to diets either adequate in zinc (30 ppm) with water (AZW) or fructose solution (AZF), or low in zinc (5 ppm) with water (LZW) or fructose solution (LZF). Body weight and food and fructose solution intake were measured three times a week.

[Association of an epithelial dermoid with alopecia and a sebaceous verrucose nevus: hologynic hereditary malformations].

The association of alopecia with a sebaceous verrucose nevus and an epibulbar lipodermoid is a rare condition (8 cases reported in the literature). Only girls suffer from this disease; this suggests a hologynic heredity, as in the case of Aicardi's syndrome. The authors present a new observation of a 7-year-old girl who exhibits all the characteristics of this new syndrome.

Epidemiologic features of Reye syndrome seen in southwestern Pennsylvania 1970-80.

In 11 years of surveillance in southwestern Pennsylvania there were 97 cases of Reye syndrome. Peak incidence was in February and March, corresponding to periods of influenza A and B activity. Mean age of cases was 7.

[Biomicroscopic pneumatic ophthalmodynamography (author's transl)].

One hundred volunteers were examined with a new pneumatic dynamometer which permits the use of the slit lamp and the Hruby lens, this is a noncorneal-contact instrument indicating the relationship between diastolic systemic pressure and diastolic ophthalmic pressure; in the latter case, the pressures in the two eyes are compared.

[From perceptive flicker to macular ERG by sinusoidal stimulation (author's transl)].

A short presentation is given of the instrument used for perceptive flicker and for macular ERG. A modified de Lange's curve is obtained (the trimodal curve) and a macular ERG response is obtained from stimulation within a theoretical angle of 46 minutes of are.

[Operations for glaucoma: long-term results (author's transl)].

The author compares the long-term results of operations for glaucoma with or without scleral flap and also the operation of angiodiathermocoagulation.

[Is angiodiathermocoagulation an outmoded operation?].

Following a short summary of the anatomical and physiological aspects of the surgical procedure, the authors present a series of 320 eyes operated upon by the method of angiodiathermocoagulation. Open-angle glaucoma, followed by aphakic glaucoma, respond the best to this procedure, the expected number of good results being approximately 25% where the criteria are severe. The low percentage of severe complications represents one of the greatest advantages of angiodiathermocoagulation, which may be recommended in desperate cases.

Epidemiologic studies of Reye's syndrome: cases seen in Pittsburgh, October 1973-April 1975.

Twenty-seven cases of Reye's syndrome (RS) were admitted over a 19-month period to one urban hospital. All lived in a suburban or rural location and 23 cases occurred during two influenza outbreaks. Two to three months following the last cases of RS, 24 families of RS cases and 21 control families representing neighbors or friends were interviewed for factors which could predispose to RS.

[Introduction to problems of plastic surgery of the eyelids (author's transl)].

The qualities of the plastic surgeon and the basic principles of plastic surgery are briefly described, particularly in relation to the reconstruction of wounded eyelids.

[The syndrome of multiple basal cell nevoid epitheliomatosis].

The syndrome of multiple basal-celled naevoid epitheliomatosis is characterized by systeme affections of the skin, the bony skeleton, the endocrine glands, the C.N.S.

"Hippie" hepatitis: an epidemiologic investigation conducted within a population of "street-people".

An epidemiologic investigation of viral hepatitis among "street-people" was conducted in Pittsburgh, PA in 1971. Among 146 individuals, 100 admitted to parenteral drug use and 73 (50%) had evidence of acute viral hepatitis. Counterelectrophoresis (CEP) and complement-fixation (CF) were used to test for type B antigen (HBS AG).