A morphological study of ferritin synthesis in macrophages with ingested ferric hydroxide-potassium polyvinyl sulfate complexes.

A ferric hydroxide-polyvinyl sulfate colloidal solution (Fe-PVS), prepared by mixing potassium polyvinyl sulfate (PVSK) and ferric hydroxide colloidal solution was used to study ferritin synthesis in rat peritoneal macrophages. The colloidal particles had spherical electron opaque ferric hydroxide cores with diameters of about 250 nm surrounded by radially arranged fibrous PVS molecules. They also had strong negative electric charges.

The anionic barrier of blood vessel walls and the possible pathologic changes due to the deionization of the barrier and plasma proteins.

For the purpose to observe the possible vessel wall damage by deionization of the related anionic groups the perfusion test of rat kidney and aorta with cationic iron colloid particles and the injection experiments with albumin-poly-L-lysine complex were carried out. By staining the fixed tissue sections with the cationic iron colloid at pH 7.3 the ionized anionic sites on vessel walls have been demonstrated histochemically.

Macromolecular charge and cellular surface charge in adhesion, ingestion, and blood vessel leakage.

To get reliable information about the role of charged groups of tissue components on the integrity of blood circulation, the staining and perfusion experiments of rat organs with cationic (cacodylate iron colloid) and anionic iron colloid (chondroitin iron colloid) particles were carried out. These cationic and anionic iron colloid particles are stable in a wide range of pH's. Dissociation curves of several tissue components at varied pH levels were observed for the analysis of the results obtained by histochemical observations and perfusion experiments.

Cationic cacodylate iron colloid for the detection of anionic sites on cell surface and the histochemical stain of acid mucopolysaccharides.

Stable cationic iron colloid solution was prepared by mixing the Hale's iron colloid (Hale 1946; Mowry 1963) with sodium cacodylate buffer solution. The colloid particles obtained were 30-50 A in size and kept their positive charges in a wide range of pH 1.8-7.

Clinical significance of serum bile acid measurement in liver diseases.

To determine the clinical significance of serum bile acid measurements, changes in the serum bile acid composition in liver diseases and endogenous bile acid clearance due to test meal loads were investigated. In the case of changes in the serum bile acid composition, a characteristic pattern of a remarkable increase of chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) was found in fulminant hepatitis. In patients with acute hepatitis, increases in CDCA were somewhat greater than those of cholic acid (CA) and there was tendency for these changes to precede changes in other liver function tests.

Liver protocollagen proline hydroxylase in human liver diseases and experimental liver fibrosis.

Liver protocallagen proline hydroxylase activity (PPH activity) was determined in patients with various liver diseases, CCl4-induced liver fibrosis rats and cholin deficiency (tcd) fatty liver rats. The following results were obtained: Liver PPH activity in patients with chronic hepatitis was higher than that in patients with acute hepatitis, while the activity in patients with liver cirrhosis was much higher than that in patients with chronic hepatitis. The activity was higher in patients with chronic active hepatitis than in those with chronic inactive hepatitis.

Sibling cases of chronic recurrent hepatocerebral disease with hypercitrullinemia.

Two sibling cases with chronic recurrent hepato-cerebral syndrome which correspond to the nutritional form of hepato-cerebral disease entitled by Shikata et al. and the data of plasma free aminoacids analyses of these cases were reported. The one case is 27 years old male and the other case is 36 years old female.

Studies on the inhibition of experimental liver fibrosis. 2. The mechanism of the inhibition of liver fibrosis of rats due to carbon tetrachloride by elastase.

In the previous experiments, it was demonstrated that high purity elastase extracted from porcine pancreas remarkably inhibits liver fibrosis of rats having chronic liver injury caused by carbon tetrachloride. This time, with the purpose to clarify the mechanism of inhibition of liver fibrosis by elastase, comparative study was made on the activity of lysosomal enzymes by measuring beta-glucuronidase, cathepsin and collagenolytic activity, with the rats administered with elastase and with those untreated, during the period of development of liver fibrosis and the recovery from it. In addition to it, in vitro experiments were made by having elastase act on the substrate comprising mixed collagen of acid soluble and neutral soluble collagens extracted from the skin of guinea pigs and by observing collagen components by disc electrophoresis.