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Grehn M, Müller F, Hany A, Meier P. Pasteurella multocida septicemia not associated with primary liver disease. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1984; 3:258-60. [PMID: 6468369 DOI: 10.1007/bf02014897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Although systemic infections with Pasteurella multocida rarely occur in humans, liver cirrhosis associated with septicemia due to this organism has been frequently reported. Two cases of elderly women with Pasteurella multocida septicemia are described who had diabetes mellitus and breast cancer, respectively. Underlying diseases other than liver cirrhosis as well as factors hitherto unknown in otherwise healthy persons also enhance the risk of Pasteurella multocida septicemia.
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Meier P, Windemann H, Baumgartner E. [Determination of alpha-gliadin content in gluten-containing and gluten-free heated food]. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR LEBENSMITTEL-UNTERSUCHUNG UND -FORSCHUNG 1984; 178:361-5. [PMID: 6464556 DOI: 10.1007/bf01042228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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The amount of alpha-gliadin and whole gliadin in bread dough after heating at temperatures of 50-100 degrees C was determined by ELISA. At temperatures above 80 degrees C the amount which could be found was greatly reduced. In pasta foods containing wheat (with a max. drying temperature of 75 degrees C) alpha-gliadin could be determined totally but in wheat bread (crust and crumb) only 0.5-40% of the content in the original flour was found. The results of an analysis of "gluten-free" pasta foods on the market and the amounts of alpha-gliadin found are discussed in relation to the recommendations of the Codex alimentarius (WHO).
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Ostgen M, Meier P, Schaldach M. Ein passives Telemetriesystem zur Überwachung von Herzschrittmacher-Elektroden. Implantable Reflection Telemetry for Long-term Evaluation of Pacemaker-Electrodes. BIOMED ENG-BIOMED TE 1984. [DOI: 10.1515/bmte.1984.29.9.202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Cagan J, Meier P. Evaluation of a Discharge Planning Tool for Use with Families of High-risk Infants. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983; 12:275-81. [PMID: 6555397 DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6909.1983.tb01076.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The effectiveness of using a discharge planning tool for families with high-risk infants in a special care nursery is evaluated. Consistent use of the discharge planning tool resulted in parents' increased feeling of preparedness for discharge of their high-risk infants. Implications that resulted from the evaluation are presented.
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The four-day, 40-hour alternative work schedule was presented to professional nurses in the special care nursery at a hospital and medical center in Chicago, Illinois. Within a few months, every nurse in the unit, in addition to those newly recruited, elected to work the alternative schedule. The project was evaluated at 12 and 18 months, with encouraging results. The nurses perceived the 10-hour day as a major structural support enabling them to provide optimal patient care while coping with work-related stress.
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Helm L, Meier P, Merbach A, Tregloan P. Five coordinate tetramethylcyclam complexes of Co(II) and Ni(II); associative interchange and dissociative mechanisms for solvent exchange in acetonitrile. Inorganica Chim Acta 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0020-1693(00)90818-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Ferguson DJ, Meier P, Karrison T, Dawson PJ, Straus FH, Lowenstein FE. Staging of breast cancer and survival rates. An assessment based on 50 years of experience with radical mastectomy. JAMA 1982; 248:1337-41. [PMID: 7109156] [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: 01/23/2023]
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The correlation of staging criteria for mammary carcinoma with the curability of primary and recurrent local and regional lesions was assessed by follow-up after 1,259 consecutive radical mastectomies performed in women under age 70 between 1927 and 1978. Using a staging scheme revised in the light of our experience, the incidence of recurrence by 20 years was 34% +/- 2.7% for pathological stage I, 65% +/- 2.6% for stage II, and 83% +/- 2.5% for stage III. Recurrence after 20 years was observed in one of 178 patients. After treatment of local recurrence, three of 51 patients survived 20 years. By restriction of entry into clinical or pathological stages I and II, currently employed revisions of staging criteria appear to increase survival in all stages, while placing patients with possibly curable lesions in stages III and IV.
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Cohen L, Morgan J, Babbs R, Gilula Z, Karrison T, Meier P. A statistical analysis of the loss of muscle strength in Duchenne's muscular dystrophy. RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS IN CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 1982; 37:123-38. [PMID: 7122997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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We have confirmed that the loss of muscle strength in 12 boys with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, as measured by manual muscle testing, approximates a linear decay model, but we have also found that it fits as well a first order decay model. The strength in the same eight muscles was measured over time. Results of an analysis of 111 examinations are reported here. An arbitrary numerical scale for grading muscle strength was used, such that normal was 13 units, and no movement was zero. The maximal sum, if all 8 muscles were normal, would be 104 units. Pooling all measurements, the linear decay rate in this sum was -0.189 +/- 0.023 (estimate +/- standard error) arbitrary muscle strength units . month-1. The corresponding first order fractional decay rate was -0.0034 +/- 0.0004 month-1. However, a more detailed statistical analysis indicated that decay rates in muscle strength were not homogeneous, i.e. muscle strength decayed faster in some patients than others. The decay constants in 11 of the 12 subjects spanned a 10-fold range, and in one subject increased the spread to 40-fold. The distribution frequency of decay rates appears to be bimodal. In these assessments, the muscle strength at time zero was not known. Therefore, an estimate of muscle strength at 10 years was made. This varied from 34 to 71 units. The group mean was 53.0 units using the exponential model, i.e. on average, only 51% (= 53.0/104 X 100) of the normal muscle strength remained in the 8 muscle groups assessed at age 10 years. In conclusion, a quantitative characterization of muscle strength deterioration is reported, which emphasizes the heterogeneity in this disease. This approach may eventually allow quantitative distinctions between Duchenne's and Becker's varieties of muscular dystrophy.
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Meier P. Current research in statistical methodology for clinical trials. Biometrics 1982; 38 Suppl:141-53. [PMID: 7046819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Statistical Methodology for Clinical Trials has advanced primarily in those domains opened up by the advent of high speed computation. Data acquisition, data management, and data monitoring have been revolutionized, and statistical analysis in clinical trials has advanced from simple cross tabulation and lists of averages to the use of special regression and other methods for estimation and for covariance adjustment. Research on sequential designs has had little effect on practice, largely because the usual sequential methods fail to address the key problems posed by ethical constraints, but a related development of research on "stopping rules" seems promising. Although considerable attention has been given to the problems of multiplicity--analysis of subgroups, choice of endpoints, post-randomization exclusions--little progress in this area has been made as yet. The paper explores these issues in some detail with the aid of illustrative examples.
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Meier P, Blume A, Ohmes E, Neugebauer FA, Kothe G. Structure and dynamics of phospholipid membranes: an electron spin resonance study employing biradical probes. Biochemistry 1982; 21:526-34. [PMID: 6279145 DOI: 10.1021/bi00532a018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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The large zero-field splitting of rigid biradicals makes them important candidates for spin probes of phospholipid membranes. Here we develop an electron spin resonance line-shape model for such probes on the basis of the stochastic Liouville equation. Particular emphasis is given to the slow-diffusional regime, characteristic of bilayers in the gel phase. The theory is employed to study the line shapes of bis(verdazyl) biradicals, incorporated into oriented multibilayers of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine. Computer simulations of the angular-dependent spectra provide the orientational distribution functions and rotational correlation times of the spin probes. They occupy two different sites in bilayer membrane. The orientational distribution of the spin probes is related to the structure of the phospholipid phases. In the L beta' phase the hydrocarbon chains are uniformly tilted by delta = 23 degrees with respect to the bilayer normal. For the P beta' phase we observe a random distribution of tilt angles from delta = 0 degree to delta = 19 degrees, indicating that the chains orient perpendicular to the local (rippled) bilayer surfaces. This structure has not been established previously. In agreement with other studies we find no tilt for the L alpha phase. The order parameters of the hydrocarbon chains increase with decreasing temperature, jumping from S less than or equal to 0.6 to S greater than or equal to 0.8 at the main transition. From the rotational correlation times of the spin probes, intrinsic bilayer viscosities of 0.08 P less than or equal to eta less than or equal to 20 P (50 degrees C greater than or equal to T greater than or equal to 1 degree C) are determined. An Arrhenius plot provides activation energies of the viscous flow. The values increase from Evisc approximately 10 kcal/mol in the L alpha phase to Evisc approximately 18 kcal/mol in the L beta' phase.
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Meier P, Teng C, Battaglia FC, Meschia G. The rate of amino acid nitrogen and total nitrogen accumulation in the fetal lamb. PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE. SOCIETY FOR EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 1981; 167:463-8. [PMID: 7279924 DOI: 10.3181/00379727-167-41198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Cohen L, Gilula Z, Meier P, Lazaron B, Herbstman D. Competitive effects of verapamil and calcium ion as regulators of myocardial enzyme leakage. J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 1981; 3:581-97. [PMID: 6168839 DOI: 10.1097/00005344-198105000-00017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Verapamil (Vp) has been found to augment the creatine kinase (CK) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage from isolated mouse heart incubated in vitro at 25 degrees C. This leakage was concentration-dependent, and in the second hour followed the Henri-Michaelis-Menten kinetics model. Least-squares estimates obtained with this model for the Km values of verapamil were 0.38 +/- 0.16 mM (CK leakage) and 0.51 +/- 0.21 mM (LDH leakage). Calcium ion inhibited this effect of verapamil, completely abolishing it when the [Ca2+]:[Vp] greater than or equal to 2. At lower [Ca2+], the effect of verapamil also followed hyperbolic kinetics; the Km of verapamil was increased, but the asymptomatic leakage rate at high [Vp] was not changed significantly. These features indicate that the calcium ion is a competitive inhibitor of verapamil-augmented enzyme leakage. These observations suggest that there may exist a common calcium ion and verapamil binding site, or two allosterically related binding sites, which represent a prime determinant of myocardial leakage. The concept of a vulnerable site that binds calcium ions and verapamil competitively and initiates or vitiates processes that influence myocardial enzyme leakage is attractive because it suggests new approaches to the problem of myocardial preservation. As verapamil is thought not to enter the cell, the site of the competitive inhibition may be the sarcolemmal coat.
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Meier P. Jerome Cornfield and the methodology of clinical trials. CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS 1981; 1:339-45. [PMID: 7021066 DOI: 10.1016/0197-2456(81)90038-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Renfree MB, Meier P, Teng C, Battaglia FC. Relationship between amino acid intake and accretion in a marsupial, Macropus eugenii. I. Total amino acid composition of the milk throughout pouch life. BIOLOGY OF THE NEONATE 1981; 40:29-37. [PMID: 7284490 DOI: 10.1159/000241469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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The total amino acid composition of 57 samples of milk was analyzed by ion exchange resin chromatography after acid hydrolysis of proteins. The concentrations of most of the amino acids in the milk increased in proportion to the increase in milk protein. Sharp increases in the sulfur-containing amino acids, cystine (and/or cysteine) and methionine occurred at around 140-160 days which is about the time of hair follicle development. The remaining amino acids reached a peak concentration by 220 days, by which stage of development the pouch young has fully developed homeothermy. These higher amino acids levels were sustained to day 260, the time of highest milk protein concentration. The amino acids provided in the milk to the suckling pouch young thus show changes in relative amounts which correlate with some of the developmental events occurring during this phase of active growth and maturation.
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Neugebauer FA, Fischer H, Meier P. Verdazyls, 27. 1,1′,5,5′-Tetraphenyl-3,3′-biverdazyl, the Primary Bisverdazyl. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1980. [DOI: 10.1002/cber.19801130543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Meier P, Landau RL. Estrogen replacement therapy. JAMA 1980; 243:1658-9. [PMID: 7359757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Meier P, Porreco R. Husbanding the blood-glucose in pregnancy. Lancet 1980; 1:553-4. [PMID: 6102283 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(80)92819-6] [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: 01/18/2023]
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Cagan J, Meier P. A discharge planning tool for use with families of high-risk infants. JOGN NURSING; JOURNAL OF OBSTETRIC, GYNECOLOGIC, AND NEONATAL NURSING 1979; 8:146-8. [PMID: 256580 DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6909.1979.tb00820.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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The transition from hospital care to home care for high risk infants can be facilitated by the process of discharge planning. A tool designed specifically to coordinate discharge counseling and instruction for parents of high-risk infants has been developed and implemented in a perinatal center. Preliminary results indicate that the tool enables the health team to make an objective, rather than subjective, decision in respect to discharge of infants. Use of the tool also standardizes and documents the nurse's role in discharge planning.
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A comparative clinical trial will often lead to the conclusion that one regimen is clearly better than another. Should the estimated difference in the regimens be large and precisely determined, continuation of the trial would constitute abuse of the participants. Some earlier proposals for ethical decision making on continuing a trial are shown to be unsatisfactory, and a more general framework for dealing with the problem is proposed.
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Meier P. Diabetes drugs: clinical trial. Science 1979; 204:367. [PMID: 375392 DOI: 10.1126/science.375392] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Knobbe T, Meier P, Wenar C, Cordero L. Psychological development of children who received intrauterine transfusions. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1979; 133:877-9. [PMID: 434030 DOI: 10.1016/0002-9378(79)90304-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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The intellectual, visual-motor, and social development of 15 children, 3 to 10 years of age, who received IUT for eythroblastosis fetalis was compared with that of 15 children of similar age who had required only exchange transfusions for the treatment of the same disorder. No over-all differences were found between the two groups or between the groups and the normal population. In comparison with normal population, recipients of IUT have above average IQ's and normal development in visual-motor integration and adaptive behavior.
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