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Miller K, Michael AF. Immunopathology of renal extracellular membranes in diabetes mellitus. Specificity of tubular basement-membrane immunofluorescence. Diabetes 1976; 25:701-8. [PMID: 782982 DOI: 10.2337/diab.25.8.701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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This study documents the presence of marked immunofluorescence for IgG and albumin in renal extracellular membranes, especially tubular basement membranes (TBM), of patients with severe diabetic nephropathy. A comprehensive immunofluorescent analysis was carried out on kidney tissue from 83 patients--Group I: 24 living normal renal allograft donors and two infants less than one week of age. Group II: 24 patients with severe nephropathy who had juvenile onset of diabetes 16 to 30 years previously and who ranged in age from 20 to 47 years. Group III: 33 patients with severe kidney disease of varied etiologies with an age range of five to 63 years. The sections were assayed for a variety of proteins (immunoglobulins, complement components, and tissue antigens). Kidney sections of all patients with severe diabetic nephropathy were readily distinguished from kidneys of other patients and normals by the intense linear staining of the extracellular membranes, especially the tubular basement membrane for IgG and and albumin. Dual-labeled studies using FITC anti-basement membrane (BM) and tetramethyl rhodamine (TMR) antialbumin demonstrated localization of the albumin predominantly to the outer but also the inner TBM while the BM antisera reacted more intensely with the inner membrane. There is no evidence that an immunologic process is responsible for these findings. These immunofluorescent findings are specific for severe diabetic nephropathy and may reflect structural changes in the renal extracellular membranes that permit entrapment of serum proteins, possibly due to changes in permeability.
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Mauer SM, Miller K, Goetz FC, Barbosa J, Simmons RL, Najarian JS, Michael AF. Immunopathology of renal extracellular membranes in kidneys transplanted into patients with diabetes mellitus. Diabetes 1976; 25:709-12. [PMID: 782983 DOI: 10.2337/diab.25.8.709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Kidneys of patients with severe diabetic nephropathy demonstrate marked linear immunofluorescent staining of extracellular membranes, including the tubular and glomerular basement membranes (TBM and GBM) and Bowman's capsule. Immunofluorescent studies were carried out on kidney tissue obtained from 12 diabetic and 17 nondiabetic patients from two to 12 years following renal transplantation. The frequency and intensity of SgG and albumin staining of these membranes were significantly greater in the diabetic than in the nondiabetic patients (P less than 0.0005). TBM, GBM, and Bowman's capsule staining did not occur in any of the seven kidneys studies at the time of their transplantation into diabetic recipients. Thus, the abnormalities leading to the deposition or trapping of proteins in renal extracellular membranes occur early after the placement of normal kidneys into the abnormal metabolic environment of the diabetic transplant recipient. The present study supports the concept that basement membrane alterations in diabetes are a consequence of the biochemical perturbations of diabetes rather than a separately inherited genetically linked disorder.
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Velosa J, Miller K, Michael AF. Immunopathology of the end-stage kidney. Immunoglobulin and complement component deposition in nonimmune disease. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 1976; 84:149-62. [PMID: 779494 PMCID: PMC2032361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Seventy nephrectomy specimens from patients with end-stage renal disease, four renal biopsies from patients with focal sclerosing glomerulonephropathy (FSGN) and normal renal function, and 17 control biopsies from normal renal allograft donors (Group I) were studied by immunofluorescence with respect to deposition of immunoglobulins and classic and alternative complement (C) pathway components. The end-stage kidneys were divided into three groups according to etiology: 16 patients with immune-mediated glomerulonephritis (Group II), 22 patients with congenital and/or familial renal disease (Group III), and 32 patients with systemic or primary renal disease in which an immune-mediated injury could not be established (Group IV). The pattern of immunoprotein deposition in glomeruli in Groups II, III, and IV, and in biopsies of patients with FSGN was similar: peripheral lobular, globular and/or granular, focal and segmental; it was limited to dying glomeruli or abnormal glomerular segments. A statistically significant correlation existed between the percent of properdin-containing glomeruli and the percent of glomeruli undergoing hyalinization in Groups II, III and IV (II, r=0.67; III, r=0.92; IV, r=0.78). No deposition was observed in normal or completely fibrotic glomeruli. In vitro heterologous complement fixation was demonstrated in 17/19 end-stage kidneys in a similar distribution. Early classic C components, C1q and C4, were detected in a somewhat higher frequency in Group II (14/16) than Group III (11/22) and Group IV (20/32) (Group II vs. III, P=.02 and II vs. IV, P=.07). C3 and properdin were detected in 77 to 100% of all 3 groups; in 18 patients, C3 and properdin were present without detectable C1q and C4. Immunoglobulins, primarily IgM, and components of the classic and alternative C pathways are regularly present in hyalinizing glomeruli irrespective of the etiology of the renal failure. These observations suggest that an immune process is operative in glomerular obsolescence regardless of the underlying etiology of the renal disease.
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Miller K. A fable. Perspect Psychiatr Care 1976; 14:66-7. [PMID: 1046581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Miller K, Rosenmann M, Morrison P. Oxygen uptake and temperature regulation of young harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardi) in water. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. A, COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY 1976; 54:105-7. [PMID: 3329 DOI: 10.1016/s0300-9629(76)80078-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Kagan E, Webster I, Cochrane JC, Miller K. The immunology of asbestosis. INHALED PARTICLES 1975; 4 Pt 2:429-33. [PMID: 1236232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Forty-one employees with varying degrees of asbestosis have been tested for any alteration in the immunological profile. Of these, twenty-two employees showed evidence of pleural thickening and nineteen parenchymal asbestotic fibrosis. Those employees showing pleural thickening gave a strong reaction to different skin tests and a few of those with a parenchymal asbestotic fibrosis showed depressed cutaneous reactivity. Lymphocytotoxic antibodies were present in the sera of 60% of those with pleural thickening and 94% of those with parenchymal asbestosis. An immunological screening schedule is suggested for those employees who show pleural thickening.
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Miller K, Irving L. Metabolism and temperature regulation in young harbor seals Phoca vitulina richardi. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY 1975; 229:506-11. [PMID: 1167192 DOI: 10.1152/ajplegacy.1975.229.2.506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Metabolism and the ability to regulate core and peripheral temperatures under a variety of ambient conditions were studied in five unrestrained pups (less than 5 wk old) and four 3- to 5-mo-old harbor seals. Pups born with nonlanugo (adultlike) hair and little fat were able to swim in 5 degrees C water for several hours without becoming hypothermic. They were also found to tolerate 5 degrees C air temperature with the fur wet and exposed to a 35-knot wind. Basal metabolism in pups averaged 0.8 ml O2 g-1 h-1, which is 2.6 times the predicted value for an adult mammal of the same weight. Lower critical temperature in air was about 3 degrees C. Oxygen uptake in 3- to 5-mo-old seals under basal conditions was 0.5 ml g-1 h-1. Minimal thermal conductance values were .02 and .015 ml O2 g-1 h-1 degrees C-1 in pumps and 3- to 5-month-old seals, respectively. Appendages, and to a lesser extent the skin on the torso, cooled appreciably at lower air temperatures, and the flippers were kept just above freezing in subzero air. Tissue insulation provided by low peripheral temperatures and a high resting metabolic rate enable newborn and developing harbor seals to tolerate the low temperatures encountered in their natural environment.
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Benjamins JA, Guarnieri M, Miller K, Sonneborn M, McKhann GM. Sulphatide synthesis in isolated oligodendroglial and neuronal cells. J Neurochem 1974; 23:751-7. [PMID: 4430915 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1974.tb04400.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Miller K, Packard GC. Critical thermal maximum: exotypic variation between Montane and Piedmont chorus frogs (Pseudacris triseriata, Hylidae). EXPERIENTIA 1974; 30:355-6. [PMID: 4837614 DOI: 10.1007/bf01921660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Roxby R, Miller K, Blair DP, Van Holde KE. Subunits and association equilibria of Callianassa californiensis hemocyanin. Biochemistry 1974; 13:1662-8. [PMID: 4831353 DOI: 10.1021/bi00705a016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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Blieden LC, Lucas RV, Carter JB, Miller K, Edwards JE. A developmental complex including supravalvular stenosis of the aorta and pulmonary trunk. Circulation 1974; 49:585-90. [PMID: 4813193 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.49.3.585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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A developmental complex is described characterized by (1) supravalvular stenosis of the aorta and pulmonary trunk, (2) dysplasia of valves and (3) stenosis of ostia of coronary arteries and branches of the aortic arch. From the four cases described, it is evident that not all of the features of the complex need be present in a given case and, when present, some lesions are not of functional significance. The variations underly the potential for differences in the hemodynamic states of affected subjects.
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Benjamins JA, Miller K, McKhann GM. Myelin subfractions in developing rat brain: characterization and sulphatide metabolism. J Neurochem 1973; 20:1589-603. [PMID: 4352515 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.1973.tb00276.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Perdue JF, Warner D, Miller K. The isolation and characterization of plasma membrane from cultured cells. V. The chemical composition of plasma membranes isolated from chicken tumors initiated with virus-transformed cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1973; 298:817-26. [PMID: 4354125 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(73)90386-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Harington JS, Ritchie M, King PC, Miller K. The in-vitro effects of silica-treated hamster macrophages on collagen production by hamster fibroblasts. J Pathol 1973; 109:21-37. [PMID: 4352592 DOI: 10.1002/path.1711090104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Activities of galactokinase and galactose-1-phosphate uridyltransferase in red cells were assayed in a mixed racial population of 645 pregnant women. The distribution of individual transferase activities for black subjects was the same as that for whites. In contrast, the distributions of individual galactokinase activities differed significantly in blacks and whites, the mean for the black population being 30 percent lower than the mean for the white population. The same racial difference was found when red cell galactokinase activity was examined in males and in newborns. Because low-, intermediate-, and high-galactokinase activities appear to segregate within several black families, this observed difference suggests a new, racially determined enzyme polymorphism.
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Racusen R, Miller K. Photochrome-induced Adhesion of Mung Bean Root Tips to Platinum Electrodes in a Direct Current Field. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY 1972; 49:654-5. [PMID: 16658020 PMCID: PMC366024 DOI: 10.1104/pp.49.4.654] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/09/2023]
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Beech G, Miller K. Nuclear magnetic resonance study of the solvation behaviour of cobalt-(II) halides in non-aqueous solvents. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1972. [DOI: 10.1039/dt9720000801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Perdue JA, Kletzien R, Miller K, Pridmore G, Wray VL. The isolation and characterization of plasma membranes from cultured cells. II. The chemical composition of membrane isolated from uninfected and oncogenic RNA virus-converted parenchyma-like cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1971; 249:435-53. [PMID: 4332412 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(71)90121-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Perdue JF, Kletzien R, Miller K. The isolation and characterization of plasma membrane from cultured cells. I. The chemical composition of membrane isolated from uninfected and oncogenic RNA virus-converted chick embryo fibroblasts. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1971; 249:419-34. [PMID: 4332411 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(71)90120-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Curtis HJ, Miller K. Chromosome aberrations in liver cells of guinea pigs. JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGY 1971; 26:292-3. [PMID: 5092809 DOI: 10.1093/geronj/26.3.292] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Harington JS, Miller K. Effect of poly-2-vinylpyridine-1-oxide on hemolysis by water. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 1971; 4:118-120. [PMID: 5556098 DOI: 10.1016/0013-9351(71)90039-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Harington JS, Macnab GM, Miller K, King PC. Enhancement of haemolytic activity of asbestos by heat-labile factors in fresh serum. LA MEDICINA DEL LAVORO 1971; 62:171-6. [PMID: 5167678] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Rubenstein AH, Seftel HC, Miller K, Bersohn I, Wright AD. Metabolic response to oral glucose in healthy South African white, Indian, and African subjects. BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 1969; 1:748-51. [PMID: 5769861 PMCID: PMC1982828 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5646.748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The response of serum insulin, growth hormone, plasma free fatty acids, triglycerides, and blood glucose to an oral glucose load was investigated in healthy White, African, and Indian subjects. Serum cholesterol, uric acid, platelet adhesiveness, and urine insulin clearance were also measured. Each racial group responded differently. Most striking were the differences between Africans and Whites; despite similar mean blood glucose values at all times during the test, the Africans had lower serum insulin levels, a lower urine insulin clearance, a much greater rise of growth hormone, a more definite and prolonged suppression of free fatty acid release, lower serum cholesterol and uric acid levels, and a trend towards lower plasma triglyceride values.The Indians tended to resemble Whites rather than Africans with respect to their insulin, growth hormone, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. Their glucose tolerance was decreased compared with that of the other two groups, but suppression of their free fatty acids was enhanced. Platelet adhesiveness was similar in all three groups.The reasons for these differences are unknown, but must be related to genetic and environmental differences among the three races.
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Miller K, Rubenstein A, Astrand PO. Lipid values in Kalahari bushmen. ARCHIVES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 1968; 121:414-7. [PMID: 5645718] [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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Morris CD, Miller K. Studies on the modification of a method for determining platelet stickiness. THE SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 1966; 31:45-46. [PMID: 5953938] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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