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Levin M, Elkon KB, Nokes TJ, Buckle AM, Dillon MJ, Hardisty RM, Barratt TM. Inhibitor of prostacyclin production in sporadic haemolytic uraemic syndrome. Arch Dis Child 1983; 58:703-8. [PMID: 6354101 PMCID: PMC1628234 DOI: 10.1136/adc.58.9.703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Prostacyclin (PGI2) production was diminished when rat aortic rings were incubated with plasma from 5 of 6 patients with the sporadic form of haemolytic uraemic syndrome but was normal in the presence of plasma from 7 patients with the epidemic form of haemolytic uraemic syndrome or from patients with other renal diseases. The reduced PGI2 production was caused by an unstable inhibitor, extractable into polar lipid solvents, in sporadic haemolytic uraemic plasma. These results suggest that there may be at least 2 different pathogenetic mechanisms in epidemic and sporadic haemolytic uraemic syndrome and that the reduced PGI2 production observed in the sporadic type is due to an inhibitor of PGI2 production rather than a deficiency of stimulating factors.
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Levin M, Rigden SP, Pincott JR, Lockwood CM, Barratt TM, Dillon MJ. Goodpasture's syndrome: treatment with plasmapheresis, immunosuppression, and anticoagulation. Arch Dis Child 1983; 58:697-702. [PMID: 6625631 PMCID: PMC1628222 DOI: 10.1136/adc.58.9.697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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We report 3 children with Goodpasture's syndrome. In 2 children the diagnosis was delayed, treatment began late, and they did not recover renal function. In the third child early diagnosis and intensive treatment with plasmapheresis, immunosuppression, and anticoagulation resulted in an initial return of renal function after a prolonged period of anuria. In this child, however, although there was no evidence of disease activity, further deterioration of renal function subsequently occurred.
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Potmesil M, Kirschenbaum S, Israel M, Levin M, Khetarpal VK, Silber R. Relationship of adriamycin concentrations to the DNA lesions induced in hypoxic and euoxic L1210 cells. Cancer Res 1983; 43:3528-33. [PMID: 6861125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Exponentially growing L1210 mouse leukemia cells were incubated with Adriamycin (ADR) under hypoxic (95% N2:5% CO2) or euoxic conditions (95% air:5% CO2) for 1 hr at 37 degrees at a drug concentration ranging from 2.8 X 10(-8) to 2.8 X 10(-4) M, i.e., from levels attained clinically by bolus delivery to the high levels used as an i.p. drug dwell or experimentally, in in vitro conditions. High-pressure liquid chromatography analyses showed diminishing efficiency in drug uptake by the cells as the dose was increased. There were no significant differences between hypoxic and euoxic cells in drug uptake and metabolism. The frequency of DNA protein-associated single-strand breaks and DNA-protein cross-links per 10(6) nucleotides, detected by the alkaline elution technique, increased with the dose in the range of 2.8 X 10(-8) to 2.8 X 10(-6) M in both euoxic and hypoxic cells and declined thereafter. However, the number of DNA lesions relative to a normalized drug level declined steadily, starting with the 2.8 X 10(-7) M concentration. Concentrations greater than 2.8 X 10(-6) M of ADR induced still another type of lesion, direct DNA strand breaks, only in euoxic cells. The results indicate that a common mechanism of interaction between drug and DNA is present in hypoxic and in euoxic cells at low ADR, while an O2-dependent mechanism becomes operational in euoxic cells at high ADR levels.
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Levin M, Hjelm M, Kay JD, Pincott JR, Gould JD, Dinwiddie R, Matthew DJ. Haemorrhagic shock and encephalopathy: a new syndrome with a high mortality in young children. Lancet 1983; 2:64-7. [PMID: 6134958 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(83)90057-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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In the past year, ten infants have been admitted to hospital with a new or previously unrecognised disorder, characterised by an acute onset of encephalopathy, fever, shock, watery diarrhoea, severe disseminated intravascular coagulation, and renal and hepatic dysfunction. Seven of the infants died. No specific causative agent has been identified, but preliminary studies suggest that the pathophysiology of the disease may involve release of proteolytic enzymes (such as trypsin) into the circulation, with destruction of the microcirculation.
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Levin M, McLeod R, Young Q, Abrahams C, Chambliss M, Walzer P, Kabins SA. Pneumocystis pneumonia: importance of gallium scan for early diagnosis and description of a new immunoperoxidase technique to demonstrate Pneumocystis carinii. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE 1983; 128:182-5. [PMID: 6408961 DOI: 10.1164/arrd.1983.128.1.182] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Pneumocystis pneumonia presented in a homosexual with fever, a normal chest radiograph, and pulmonary gallium uptake. Bronchial washings yielded Mycobaterium tuberculosis, but despite antituberculosis therapy he remained febrile, and gallium uptake in the lung increased. Subsequently, silver stain of transbronchial lung biopsy obtained 2 months earlier at the time that tuberculosis was diagnosed showed many Pneumocystis cysts in alveolar spaces. In contrast to Pneumocystis cysts in infected lung tissue from other humans, our patient's Pneumocystis cysts reacted more avidly with antiserum to rat Pneumocystis than with antiserum to human pneumocystis, raising the possibility that organisms that infect humans may have varied surface antigenic properties.
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Hanauer A, Levin M, Heilig R, Daegelen D, Kahn A, Mandel JL. Isolation and characterization of cDNA clones for human skeletal muscle alpha actin. Nucleic Acids Res 1983; 11:3503-16. [PMID: 6190133 PMCID: PMC325982 DOI: 10.1093/nar/11.11.3503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023] Open
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Two cDNA libraries corresponding to polyA+ RNA from human adult skeletal muscle have been constructed by cloning in the PstI site of pBR322. Skeletal alpha actin cDNA clones have been isolated and characterized. Three of these plasmids have overlapping inserts which together contain the complete 5' non-coding and protein-coding region and part of the 3' untranslated region. Determination of the sequence of the cloned cDNA confirms the complete conservation in human of the amino-acid sequence of skeletal alpha actin compared to the rabbit or rat proteins. The 5' untranslated region, but not the 3' untranslated region, shows good homology with the corresponding one in the rat gene. Analysis of changes at silent sites within the protein-coding region suggests that the divergence of skeletal and cardiac alpha actin took place much earlier than the mammalian radiation. The plasmids described here have been used as probes to detect the homologous gene among the about thirty actin sequences present in the human genome.
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Nidus BD, Speyer JL, Bottino J, Green M, Levin M, Muggia FM. Repeated femoral vein cannulation for administration of chemotherapeutic agents. CANCER TREATMENT REPORTS 1983; 67:185-6. [PMID: 6825128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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A cannulation set has been designed for repeated short-term infusion of vesicant chemotherapeutic agents via the femoral vein. The major complication was thrombophlebitis in 2.1% of infusions. The procedure provides reliable venous access when therapeutic plans are changed or when the inability to provide catheter care makes an indwelling catheter unwarranted.
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Potmesil M, Levin M, Traganos F, Israel M, Darzynkiewicz Z, Khetarpal VK, Silber R. In vivo effects of adriamycin or N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate on a mouse lymphoma. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER & CLINICAL ONCOLOGY 1983; 19:109-22. [PMID: 6602051 DOI: 10.1016/0277-5379(83)90405-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Levin M. Review of environmental risk assessment studies sponsored by EPA. RECOMBINANT DNA TECHNICAL BULLETIN 1982; 5:177-80. [PMID: 6962468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Spiegel RJ, Blum RH, Levin M, Pinto CA, Wernz JC, Speyer JL, Hoffman KS, Muggia FM. Phase I clinical trial of 9,10-anthracene dicarboxaldehyde (Bisantrene) administered in a five-day schedule. Cancer Res 1982; 42:354-8. [PMID: 7053862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Bisantrene is a substituted anthracene derivative which preclinically demonstrated a spectrum of activity similar to that of doxorubicin but without associated cardiotoxicity. A Phase I evaluation of the drug has been performed using daily i.v. administrations for 5 days. Sixty courses of treatment were administered to 23 patients at doses from 2.5 to 90 mg/sq m/day. Courses were repeated at 4-week intervals. Dose-limiting toxicities were leukopenia and local cutaneous reactions. The leukopenia was dose related, noncumulative, and of brief duration. Local reactions occurred in 14 of 37 courses administered at doses greater than 60 mg/sq m and in 13 patients resulted in clinical cellulitis of the infused extremity. Gastrointestinal side effects were mild. No alopecia or cardiotoxicity was observed. Two mixed responses were obtained in patients with hypernephromas. Using a daily schedule for 5 days, approximately 40% more drug can be delivered per course than by single-day i.v. administration. However, with this schedule, local cutaneous reactions may prove additionally dose limiting. Phase II studies of Bisantrene in a daily i.v. schedule for 5 days are planned at a dose of 80 mg/sq m/day to be repeated every 4 weeks.
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Potmesil M, Levin M, Goldfeder A, Silber R. Adriamycin damage: in vivo repair by lymphoma cells. J Natl Cancer Inst 1981; 67:1259-63. [PMID: 6947109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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The in vivo repair of ADR-induced cell damage was investigated in the DBA3 transplantable mouse lymphoma. After a single injection of 5 or 15 mg ADR/kg body weight into DBA/2J mice, the survival fraction of clonogens showed a 2.2- to 4.4-fold decrease at 12 or 18 hours post injection and returned to pretreatment levels within 6 hours. These changes were accompanied by the appearance and disappearance of DNA crosslinks and breaks. Because cell division and/or cell loss could not explain the return of clonogens to pretreatment level, the results strongly suggest repair of ADR damage in tumor cells in situ. Such an efficient repair mechanism, responding to a high toxic dose of ADR, constitutes a therapeutically unfavorable event that may contribute to drug resistance.
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Bassingthwaighte JB, Levin M. Analysis of coronary outflow dilution curves for the estimation of cellular uptake rates in the presence of heterogeneous regional flows. Basic Res Cardiol 1981; 76:404-10. [PMID: 7025831 PMCID: PMC3496752 DOI: 10.1007/bf01908332] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Rund DA, Summers WK, Levin M. Alcohol use and psychiatric illness in emergency patients. JAMA 1981; 245:1240-1. [PMID: 7206113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Screening for alcoholism and associated psychiatric disorders using preselected research criteria demonstrated an overall prevalence of alcoholism of 20% in 200 emergency department patients. The nighttime prevalence of alcoholism was 29%, while the daytime prevalence was 11%. The psychiatric disorders most frequently associated with alcoholism were primary affective disorder (depression) and antisocial personality. The alcoholics had chief complaints relating to trauma in 63% of the cases, vague neuropsychiatric complaints in 23% of the cases, and complaints directly related to alcohol in 8% of the cases. Screening for alcoholism and associated psychiatric illnesses is important in determining an overall treatment strategy for emergency patients.
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Levin M, Silber R, Israel M, Goldfeder A, Khetarpal VK, Potmesil M. Protein-associated DNA breaks and DNA-protein cross-links caused by DNA nonbinding derivatives of adriamycin in L1210 cells. Cancer Res 1981; 41:1006-10. [PMID: 7459847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The effects of Adriamycin derivatives on L1210 mouse leukemia cells were studied with the DNA alkaline elution assay. The exposure of exponentially growing cells to approximately equitoxic concentrations of N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate (13.8 microM) and its metabolites, N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin (9.0 microM) and N-trifluoroacetyladriamycinol (43.7 microM), for 1 hr in vitro resulted in a high frequency of protein-associated DNA breaks and DNA-protein cross-links. These effects were comparable to those observed with Adriamycin (2.8 microM) and with adriamycinol (26.9 microM). In contrast to Adriamycin and its metabolite adriamycinol, N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate and its two major metabolites do not bind to DNA. Despite the absence of this direct interaction, N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate and its metabolites produce alterations in DNA comparable with the effects of intercalating agents. No evidence for conversion of N-trifluoroacetyladriamycin-14-valerate to Adriamycin or adriamycinol was found in L1210 cells. The similar effects on DNA macromolecules, observed between intercalating and non-DNA-binding anthracyclines, are consistent with the concept that mechanisms other than direct interaction with DNA play a role in the toxic effects of these compounds.
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Strayer DS, Reppun TS, Levin M, Deschryver-Kecskemeti K. Primary lymphoma of the liver. Gastroenterology 1980; 78:1571-6. [PMID: 6989705] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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We report here the case of a man who presented with nonspecific clinical symptoms and was found to have abnormal liver function tests and large filling defects on liver scan. At autopsy, a primary histiocytic lymphoma of the liver was found. The liver is frequently involved secondarily by lymphoma; primary hepatic lymphoma however however is rare, only five cases haveing been previously reported.
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Levin M, Kuikka J, Bassingthwaighte JB. Sensitivity analysis in optimization of time-distributed parameters for a coronary circulation model. MEDICAL PROGRESS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY 1980; 7:119-24. [PMID: 7393171 PMCID: PMC2929982] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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A method has been developed for parameter estimation using sensitivity analysis in a model for transport of substrates and ions between the blood stream and myocardial cells. Experimental data include indicator-dilution curves recorded from the coronary sinus of dogs and rabbits after bolus injections into the aorta. In addition, the intramyocardial density of deposition of radioactive microspheres was used to provide estimates of the heterogeneity of regional flows in the heart. The sensitivity analysis employed a calculation of the domains of dominance (regions of maximal impact defined with respect to the form of the indicator-dilution curves and the time after injection) for each parameter on the basis of their sensitivity functions. Parameter estimation in a new two-barrier convection-diffusion model of coronary circulation has been achieved with great efficiency. Computation time was reduced to several minutes on an Interdata minicomputer as compared with 45 minutes to several hours using conventional optimization techniques such as STEPT (a direct search routine) or Simplex. The new parameter estimation method based on selective sensitivity is recommended for the class of problems which involve parameters with a well expressed distribution over the range of the independent variable.
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Summers WK, Rund DA, Levin M. Psychiatric illness in a general urban emergency room: daytime versus nighttime population. J Clin Psychiatry 1979; 40:340-3. [PMID: 468758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Two hundred adults presenting to the emergency room of an urban general hospital were interviewed by a standardized technique to evaluate the existence of a current or previous psychiatric illness. Half of the subjects presented between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. (daytime group), and 100 presented between 12:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. (nighttime group). In the nighttime population 65% were judged to have current or past psychiatric illnesses. In the daytime population only 36% had current or past psychiatric illnesses. The differences between the 2 populations was highly significant. Fewer than 10% of the 200 patients presented with neuropsychiatric symptoms in their chief complaints.
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Rubin RH, Russell PS, Levin M, Cohen C. From the National Institutes of Health. Summary of a workshop on cytomegalovirus infections during organ transplantation. J Infect Dis 1979; 139:728-34. [PMID: 221598 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/139.6.728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Yermiahu T, Levin M, Stern J. [Changing pattern of Klebsiella pneumonia]. HAREFUAH 1978; 94:264-6. [PMID: 669467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Levin M. A low vision screening clinic. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION 1976; 47:1429-31. [PMID: 1025165] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Gentamicin sulfate was given to rabbits for four weeks in two dosage regimens, either 4 or 8 mg/kg subcutaneously twice a day. Two of the seven animals in each group regained nearly normal renal function after a transient rise in the level of serum creatinine, but the remainder developed severe renal failure leading to the death of all but one of these rabbits. None of the animals showed significant hyperglycemia, buy glycosuria appeared in all and was significantly correlated with the extent of renal damage. These findings demonstrate gentamicin-induced derangement of proximal tubular function and thus amplify the previously demonstrated histologic changes due to the drug. When the drug was administered twice daily, there was marked nephrotoxicity in rabbits given dosages of gentamicin only slightly higher than those employed clinically.
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Gibson R, Graham S, Lilienfeld A, Schuman L, Levin M, Swanson M. Epidemiology of diseases in adult males with leukemia. J Natl Cancer Inst 1976; 56:891-8. [PMID: 994201 DOI: 10.1093/jnci/56.5.891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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In the Tri-State Leukemia Survey, the history of diseases in 605 adult male leukemia cases 15 years and older and in 668 adult male population controls was examined. These diseases occurred at least 1 year before leukemia was diagnosed. The data were based on respondents' answers that the disease was diagnosed by a physician; the respondent was either the subject or his spouse. Of 30 diseases studied, 7 showed an excess among the patients with leukemia: infectious hepatitis, eczema, psoriasis, diabetes, arthritis and rheumatism, heart disease, and ankylosing spondylitis. Mumps had a lower reported occurrence among the cases, whereas pneumonia was less frequent in acute lymphatic cases than in population controls. Three diseases occurred significantly less in controls than in persons with specific histologic types of leukemia. Our data revealed a more frequent history of herpes zoster (shingles) in chronic lymphatic leukemia, more hives in acute chronic myeloid cases, and meningitis in acute myeloid leukemia. When we only considered the patients' responses, more of them admitted having had acne than did our controls. The remaining diseases--childhood viral diseases, infectious mononucleosis, smallpox, typhoid fever, dysentery, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, asthma, hay fever, and goiter did not occur more frequently in cases than in controls. The findings were consistent with evidence from previous laboratory and clinical studies. The increased occurrence of infectious hepatitis in our case series is consistent with the findings of other studies showing an increased frequency of Australia antigen in patients with hepatitis, leukemia, and Down's syndrome.
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A new case of the fetal gigantism-renal hamartomas-nephroblastomatosis syndrome is described, in which a Wilms' tumor occurred. It is considered that this observation provides strong evidence for the interrelationship between renal dysplasia and renal neoplasia.
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Levin M, Kelleher DK. Driving with a bioptic telescope: an interdisciplinary approach. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPTOMETRY AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS 1975; 52:200-6. [PMID: 1130482 DOI: 10.1097/00006324-197503000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Six low vision patients were fitted with bioptic telescopes in order to obtain driver's licenses. They were given intensive coordinated training to prepare them for the complexities of driving a motor vehicle.
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Huang CM, Atkinson AJ, Levin M, Levin NW, Quintanilla A. Pharmacokinetics of furosemide in advanced renal failure. Clin Pharmacol Ther 1974; 16:659-66. [PMID: 4422027 DOI: 10.1002/cpt1974164659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Perlman M, Levin M. Fetal pulmonary hypoplasia, anuria, and oligohydramnios: clinicopathologic observations and review of the literature. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1974; 118:1119-23. [PMID: 4817648 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(74)90692-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Auer AI, Sauer DC, Levin M. Iliac arterio-venous fistula from an aneurysm following seat belt trauma. Angiology 1974; 25:21-3. [PMID: 4812126 DOI: 10.1177/000331977402500104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Levin M, Pras M, Franklin EC. Immunologic studies of the major nonimmunoglobulin protein of amyloid. I. Identification and partial characterization of a related serum component. J Exp Med 1973; 138:373-80. [PMID: 4198200 PMCID: PMC2139393 DOI: 10.1084/jem.138.2.373] [Citation(s) in RCA: 199] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Antisera have been prepared against the major nonimmunoglobulin component of secondary and familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) associated amyloid which has been called A component or acid soluble fraction (ASF). The antisera were shown to be monospecific for ASF by precipitation of (125)I-labeled antigen and gave a reaction of identity with four different ASF preparations. The antisera were able to detect a circulating component in human serum that migrated in the alpha1-globulin region. This circulating component gave a line of identity with degraded ASF by double immunodiffusion. 57 normal sera and 89 sera from patients with diseases known to be frequently associated with amyloidosis were tested by immunodiffusion for the circulating ASF component. 7% of normal sera and 50-80% of the pathologic sera had elevated amounts of this component. Absorption studies showed that all normal sera probably have small amounts of this component while cord sera do not have detectable amounts. This component was partially purified and was shown to be slightly larger than albumin. The relation of the circulating component to the acid soluble fraction of amyloid is discussed.
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Wolfersberger MG, Tabachnick J, Finkelstein BS, Levin M. L-pyrrolidone carboxylic acid content in mammalian epidermis and other tissues. J Invest Dermatol 1973; 60:278-81. [PMID: 4758733 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12722981] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Hirsch MS, Levin M, Chien LT. Herpes encephalitis: controlled studies. Ann Intern Med 1973; 78:779. [PMID: 4711782 DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-78-5-779_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Holmes LB, Nash A, ZuRhein GM, Levin M, Opitz JM. X-linked aqueductal stenosis: clinical and neuropathological findings in two families. Pediatrics 1973; 51:697-704. [PMID: 4121400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Bergin D, Griffin J, Levin M. Hyperphoria of large magnitude--a case report. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OPTOMETRY AND ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ACADEMY OF OPTOMETRY 1972; 49:947-50. [PMID: 4508238 DOI: 10.1097/00006324-197211000-00009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Levin M, Franklin EC, Frangione B, Pras M. The amino acid sequence of a major nonimmunoglobulin component of some amyloid fibrils. J Clin Invest 1972; 51:2773-6. [PMID: 5056669 PMCID: PMC332979 DOI: 10.1172/jci107098] [Citation(s) in RCA: 329] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The complete amino acid sequence of a protein, acid soluble fraction, (ASF) which constitutes up to 50% of amyloid fibrils from a patient with familial Mediterranean fever has been obtained. Partial amino acid sequences of three other proteins from patients with secondary amyloidosis were identical in the regions studied except for an alanine-valine interchange in one. The ASF contains no cysteine, does not resemble any known immunoglobulin, and has not been detected as yet in myeloma-associated amyloid.
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Tyler ET, Levin M, Elliott J. Current status of contraceptives in population control. Int Surg 1972; 57:406-9. [PMID: 4112878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Franklin EC, Pras M, Levin M, Frangione B. The partial amino acid sequence of the major low molecular weight component of two human amyloid fibrils. FEBS Lett 1972; 22:121-123. [PMID: 11946577 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(72)80235-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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486
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Tyler ET, Levin M, Elliott J, Steiner H. Long-term studies of oral contraceptives and IUDs at the family planning centers of greater Los Angeles. THE JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE 1972; 8:162-4. [PMID: 5067624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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487
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Tyler ET, Levin M, Elliot J, Dolman H. Present status of injectable contraceptives: results of seven-years study. Fertil Steril 1970; 21:469-81. [PMID: 5508512 DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)37562-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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488
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Bonfils S, Levin M. More on models for the secretion of pepsin and other proteins. Gastroenterology 1970; 58:265-7. [PMID: 4904950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
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489
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Graham S, Gibson R, Lilienfeld A, Schuman L, Levin M. Religion and ethnicity in leukemia. Am J Public Health Nations Health 1970; 60:266-74. [PMID: 5263145 PMCID: PMC1350015 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.60.2.266] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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490
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Tyler ET, Cole SL, Levin M, Elliot J. A clinical evaluation of long-term continuous use of norethynodrel-mestranol for contraception. Fertil Steril 1969; 20:871-83. [PMID: 5361462 DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)37202-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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491
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492
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Levin M. Emotions and race prejudice. Hosp Top 1968; 46:30. [PMID: 5743065 DOI: 10.1080/00185868.1968.9950256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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493
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Levin M. The physician and the sexual revolution. JOURNAL OF THE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA 1968; 37:769-74. [PMID: 5652574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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494
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Abramson DI, Tuck S, Lee SW, Richardson G, Levin M, Buso E. Comparison of wet and dry heat in raising temperature of tissues. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 1967; 48:654-61. [PMID: 6073416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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495
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O'Hara LJ, Levin M. Carpal tunnel syndrome and gout. ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 1967; 120:180-4. [PMID: 4952671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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496
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Levin M. The teenager and the sexual revolution. SOUTHWESTERN MEDICINE 1967; 48:104-8. [PMID: 6045946] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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497
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Abramson DI, Chu LS, Tuck S, Lee SW, Richardson G, Levin M. Effect of tissue temperatures and blood flow on motor nerve conduction velocity. JAMA 1966; 198:1082-8. [PMID: 5953385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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498
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Williams MH, Levin M. Sudden death from bronchial asthma. THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF RESPIRATORY DISEASE 1966; 94:608-11. [PMID: 4224301 DOI: 10.1164/arrd.1966.94.4.608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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499
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Tyler ET, Matsner EM, Gotlib M, Levin M, Tucker JS, Parrott FM. Oral contraception by the sequential approach. JAMA 1966; 197:943-8. [PMID: 5953210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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500
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