Sexual fantasies of sexually distressed and nondistressed men and women: an empirical comparison.

Sexual fantasies are seen as an important source of information and a modality for treatment procedures in sex therapy programs. While drive-reduction models view fantasy as a symptom of a deficiency state, cognitive-behavioral approaches take fantasies as an index of a satisfying sex life. While current data tend to support the behavioral position, no systematic comparison has been undertaken of men and women with and without sexual distress.

Bacterial mutagenicity and mammalian cell DNA damage by several substituted anilines.

Several substituted alkyl- and haloanilines were tested for their ability to mutate Salmonella typhimurium and to damage the DNA of mammalian (V79) cells. These results were correlated with their reported carcinogenicity. Of 9 suspected carcinogens, 4 were bacterial mutagens and 4 (out of 7 tested) damaged DNA of V79 cells.

Criteria for determining steam sterilization cycles for lubricated and nonlubricated mechanical equipment.

Requirements and procedures for determining steam sterilization cycles for lubricated and nonlubricated, complex, mechanical equipment are established. Factors affecting exposure times are discussed, as are procedures and data needed to determine the penetrability of steam into mechanical equipment, and the effect of lubricating oil in impeding steam penetration to the spore. The total effects of these factors in sterilizing times are presented.

[Sociopsychiatric treatment combination in patients who are partly inpatients and genuine outpatients: definition and comparison (author's transl)].

The article gives a definition and brief description of those possibilities of treatment which are important in the sociopsychiatric therapy of psychoses: sociotherapy, therapy with neuroleptics, and psychotherapy as such, as well as their various combinations. Basing on a representative random trial from the fields of outpatient and nightpatient wards, the distribution of therapeutic potential among these combinations is described and outlined in a manner customary for the work bone by the Zürich Sociopsychiatric Service. It is evident, despite the fact that the work performed at our hospital is basically of the psychotherapeutic nature, patients can be rehabilitated with a lower level of neuroleptics provided sufficient sociotherapeutic measures are offered, including satisfactory psychotherapeutic efforts--the chances of meeting these demands being greater in our night ward.

Mammalian host- and fluid-mediated mutagenicity assays of captan and streptozotocin in Salmonella typhimurium.

The mutagenicity of captan and of streptozotocin was tested in vivo by reversion of hisG46 base-pair substitution histidine auxotrophs of Salmonella typhimurium in the peritoneal cavity or in blood, plasma or urine of rats or mice. Genetic response was determined by the frequency of revertants (quantitative test) or by the number of revertants per plate (semiquantitative test). In quantitative HMA captan gave negative results following 3 hourly 500 mg/kg s.

[Comparison of altered states of consciousness induced by the hallucinogens (--)-delta9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta9-THC) and N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) (author's transl)].

The study compares altered states of consciousness induced by the hallucinogens (--)delta9-trans-Tetrahydrocannabinol (delta9-THC) and N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) using two placebo control groups. A total of 24 subjects received 250 mug delta9-THC p.o.

Mutagenicity of streptozotocin and several other nitrosourea compounds in Salmonella typhimurium.

The following nitrosourea compounds were compared for their ability to induce mutation (to histidine independence) in the histidine-requiring auxotroph Salmonella typhimurium his G46: MNU, streptozotocin (SZ, streptozocin) and its analogs SZA1 and SZA2, and the antitumor drugs BCNU, CCNU and DCNU. At equitoxic doses SZ, SZA1, SZA2 and MNU were almost equally mutagenic causing 150, 42, 140 and 170 mutants/106 survivors at 20% lethal dose (ID20) ALTHOUGH, ON A WIEGHT BASIS, SZ was the most mutagenic of all the compounds tested. At ID20 BCNU, CCNU and DCNU gave about 0.

Evaluation of the germ plasm collection of safflower Carthamus tinctorius L. VI. Length of planting to flowering period and plant height in Israel, Utah and Washington.

Germ plasm collections of safflower, Carthamus tinctorius L. were evaluated for variability and divergence in two traits which are strongly influenced by the environment, viz. length of the growing period from planting to flowering (GPPF) and plant height.

[Effects of (--)delta-9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol (delta-9-THC) on tests of psychoticism. A study of Eysenck's drug postulate on the effects of hallucinogens in relation to psychoticism (author's transl)].

In a double-blind study on 36 volunteers the effects of 250 mug/kg (--)delta-9-trans-tetrahydrocannabinol p.o. on objective and performance tests measuring psychoticism according to Eysenck were assessed.