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Kellner R, Houthaeve T, Kurzchalia T, Dupree P, Simons K. Internal fragmentation of proteins in polyacrylamide matrices for microsequencing. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01673706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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There are controversies in the literature about the diagnosis and most appropriate treatment of hypochondriasis. The author offers guidelines for diagnosis of hypochondriacal syndromes that have not been adequately dealt with in the literature and discusses the choice of treatments.
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Diagnoses of comorbid disorders were determined in a sample of 54 patients with panic disorder as defined in DSM-III-R. The sample was divided into the following three groups: (1) uncomplicated panic disorder (PDU); (2) panic disorder with mild agoraphobia (PDM); and (3) panic disorder with moderate to severe agoraphobia (PDA). In comparison with patients with PDU, patients with PDA had higher comorbidity rates in general, received multiple comorbid diagnoses more frequently, had a higher prevalence of major depression, dysthymia, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and scored higher on most measures of self-rated psychopathology. These findings support the notion that PDA may be a disorder essentially different from PDU.
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Kellner R, Neidhardt J, Krakow B, Pathak D. Changes in chronic nightmares after one session of desensitization or rehearsal instructions. Am J Psychiatry 1992; 149:659-63. [PMID: 1349459 DOI: 10.1176/ajp.149.5.659] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of one session of instructions on the frequency of chronic nightmares and on self-rated distress. METHOD Twenty-eight volunteers with chronic nightmares (mean duration = 19 years) were treated with either one session of desensitization with instructions on how to practice this treatment or with one session of instructions to change the nightmare and how to rehearse the new version. The authors administered four scales of the SCL-90 and the corresponding scales of the Symptom Questionnaire. RESULTS At 7-month follow-up of 23 patients, there was a significant reduction in the frequency of nightmares and significant decreases in self-rated depression, anxiety, and hostility. There were no significant differences between the effects of the two types of treatment. In four patients, whose mean duration of nightmares was 23 years, the nightmares ceased. CONCLUSIONS The results of this preliminary study suggests that the instructions given to the patients reduced the frequency of their chronic nightmares and decreased their self-rated distress.
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Gäde G, Kellner R. Primary structures of the hypertrehalosemic peptides from corpora cardiaca of the primitive cockroach Polyphaga aegyptiaca. Gen Comp Endocrinol 1992; 86:119-27. [PMID: 1505721 DOI: 10.1016/0016-6480(92)90133-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Two hypertrehalosemic neuropeptides from the corpus cardiacum of the cockroach Polyphaga aegyptiaca were isolated by reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography, and their primary structures were determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman chemistry, after enzymically deblocking the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue. As neither peptide was cleaved by carboxypeptidase, the C-terminus of each peptide was also blocked. Both peptides were found to be uncharged octapeptides with the sequences: Peptide 1: pGlu-Leu-Asn-Phe-Ser-Pro-Asn-Trp-NH2; and peptide 2: pGlu-Ile-Thr-Phe-Thr-Pro-Asn-Trp-NH2. Both peptides are clearly defined as members of the adipokinetic hormone/red pigment-concentrating hormone family of peptides. Whereas peptide 1 is identical in structure to the previously sequenced hypertrehalosemic neuropeptide from tenebrionid beetles (and is therefore designated the acronym Tem-HrTH), peptide 2 is a novel peptide and is designated the acronym Poa-HrTH. Both synthetic peptides caused an increase in the hemolymph carbohydrate concentration in P. aegyptiaca, specifically changing the trehalose concentration. The novel peptide Poa-HrTH was not very potent in elevating blood carbohydrates in the American cockroach.
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Four self-rating scales of hypochondriasis and the Symptom Checklist-90 were administered to 100 general practice (GP) patients and matched non-psychotic psychiatric out-patients. In a stepwise linear regression, self-rated somatic symptoms and anxiety predicted hypochondriacal fears and beliefs; self-rated depression did not appear as a predictor. There were differences between males and females and between psychiatric patients and GP patients in the associations of these constructs. These results varied in part with the scale of hypochondriasis used. Various scales of hypochondriasis appear to measure different features of the hypochondriasis syndrome. Fear of disease (disease phobia) was associated with anxiety, whereas a false belief of having a disease (disease conviction) was associated more with somatic symptoms.
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Krug A, Suleiman AA, Guilbault GG, Kellner R. Colorimetric determination of free and total cholesterol by flow injection analysis with a fiber optic detector. Enzyme Microb Technol 1992; 14:313-6. [PMID: 1368425 DOI: 10.1016/0141-0229(92)90157-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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A flow injection method for the determination of total and free cholesterol is presented. Cholesterol esterase and cholesterol oxidase are immobilized on aminoalkyl glass beads. The beads are packed into a tubular glass reactor. The cholesterol esters traversing through the esterase reactor are cleaved to cholesterol and fatty acids. The oxidase reactor converts cholesterol to cholest-4-en-3-one and hydrogen peroxide is generated. The sample stream is merged with reagent streams consisting of a peroxidase solution and a solution of 2,2'-azino-bis-(3-ethyl-benzthiazoline-6-sulfonic acid) diammonium salt, and a hydrogen peroxide-dependent color reaction takes place in a short coiled reactor. The signal is monitored by means of fiber optic instrumentation. Cholesterol concentration can be related to the absorption of the oxidized dye form at a wavelength of 425 nm. The working range is 0.5-0.8 mmol l-1, and the sample throughputs are 60 and 30 h-1 for free and total cholesterol, respectively.
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Gäde G, Lopata A, Kellner R, Rinehart KL. Primary structures of neuropeptides isolated from the corpora cardiaca of various cetonid beetle species determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing and tandem fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY HOPPE-SEYLER 1992; 373:133-42. [PMID: 1586453 DOI: 10.1515/bchm3.1992.373.1.133] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A peptide with the same retention time on gradient reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography was present in the corpora cardiaca of 5 scarabaeid beetles, subfamily Cetoniinae: the three fruit beetle species Pachnoda marginata, P. sinuata and P. aemulae and the two protea beetle species Trichostetha fascularis and T. albopicta. Crude corpora cardiaca material from P. sinuata had a small hypertrehalosaemic effect in American cockroaches and a very weak hyperlipaemic activity in migratory locusts. Injections into P. sinuata caused hypertrehalosaemia when a dose of 1.0 corpora cardiaca equivalents was injected. An identical neuropeptide was isolated, by RP-HPLC, and sequenced by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman chemistry after enzymically deblocking the N-terminal 5-oxopyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid residue, as well as by collision-induced decomposition tandem fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry. The peptide is a blocked octapeptide: Glu-Leu-Asn-Tyr-Ser-Pro-Asp-TrpNH2, previously designated Mem-CC. The synthetic peptide is able to elicit haemolymph carbohydrates in P. sinuata upon injection of low doses. Activity studies using synthetic analogues of this peptide revealed that Tyr4 may be important for receptor recognition/binding. The peptide is synthesized in intrinsic cells of the corpus cardiacum as shown by in vitro incorporation of [3H]Trp and [14C]Tyr in Mem-CC.
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The purpose of this study was to examine correlates of hypochondriacal fears and beliefs in patients with panic disorder (PD) (n = 54). They were evaluated using the structured diagnostic interviews for axis I and axis II disorders (SCID-UP-R and SCID-II). They were administered the Illness Attitudes Scales (IAS) as a measure of hypochondriacal fears and beliefs, the Hopkins Symptom Checklist 90 (HSCL), and the Fear Questionnaire (FQ). One half of the patients rated themselves as having substantial hypochondriacal fears and beliefs. The sample was divided into groups of patients seeking predominantly treatment or relief from symptoms (treatment-oriented), and those who were searching for a cause of their illness (explanation-seeking): the latter had significantly more hypochondriacal concerns. Avoidant, histrionic, and borderline personalities were more common in the hypochondriacal group. The results of several analyses suggest that patients with PD who are also agoraphobic, fear physical disease more and have more false beliefs of having a disease than PD patients without agoraphobia.
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OBJECTIVE To review the published studies on the sex distribution of hypochondriasis, and to examine sex differences in hypochondriacal concerns and in attitudes toward illness. METHOD The Illness Attitude Scales, Factors 2 and 3 of the Whiteley Index and the Symptom Checklist-90 (SCL-90) were administered to fifty randomly-selected female family practice patients ages eighteen to sixty-five, and to male patients matched by age in decades. From a pool of 130 consecutive nonpsychotic psychiatric outpatients, fifty females and fifty males were matched with the family practice patients. RESULTS Although females rated themselves as more depressed than males in both groups, there were no significant differences between the sexes in hypochondriacal fears and beliefs. Psychiatric male patients reported the most adverse effects of bodily symptoms on work and leisure. There were no other significant differences between the sexes in any of the other attitudes toward illness or symptoms. Hypochondriacal concerns were more common in the psychiatric patients than in the family practice patients of both sexes. CONCLUSION The review of published studies on the sex distribution of hypochondriasis suggests that disease phobia is more common in females, except for the cardiophobic syndrome, which is more common in males. The other reported differences are inconsistent and appear to be caused by referral biases, varying diagnostic criteria, and cultural factors. In our study, we found no substantial differences between males and females in hypochondriacal concerns and attitudes toward illness.
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In order to examine the relationship of dyspnea to anxiety and depression, the authors rated dyspnea using several methods in 50 patients with chronic respiratory impairment. Anxiety and depression were measured by the Symptom Checklist-90 and the Symptom Questionnaire. Results varied with the method of assessing dyspnea. Physician-rated dyspnea was significantly associated with patients' self-ratings of breathlessness as well as with pulmonary function tests, but not with any of the self-rating scales of emotions. Self-rated breathlessness was significantly associated with self-rated depression. In multiple regression analyses, depression was predictive of breathlessness. When the sample was limited to patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the results remained the same. The patients were significantly more depressed and anxious than matched family practice patients. In the study of the complex relationship of dyspnea to physical and emotional factors, it is desirable to use more than one measure of dyspnea because the results depend in part on the method of assessment.
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Niinist� L, Kellner R. Working party on analytical chemistry (WPAC). Anal Bioanal Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00321907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Kellner R. European analytical column # 17. Trends Analyt Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/0165-9936(92)87020-k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Krska R, Taga K, Kellner R, Messica A, Katzir A. A new fiber optic physico-chemical sensor for chlorinated hydrocarbons in water. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00321728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Flasshove M, Schütte HJ, Kellner R, Höffken K, Seeber S. Meningeal fluid granulocytosis after cytarabine. Eur J Cancer 1992; 28:243. [PMID: 1567670 DOI: 10.1016/0959-8049(92)90418-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Kellner R, Hernandez J, Pathak D. Self-rated inhibited anger, somatization and depression. PSYCHOTHERAPY AND PSYCHOSOMATICS 1992; 57:102-7. [PMID: 1518917 DOI: 10.1159/000288582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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In order to examine the relationship of self-rated inhibited anger to somatization, the authors administered several self-rating scales, including the SCL-90 and a Likert scale pertaining to inhibited anger, to psychiatric patients and family practice patients of both sexes. In a linear stepwise regression, depression predicted inhibited anger in all four groups. Previous studies have reported an association of inhibited anger and somatization; the present study suggests that depression is the link between the two in the majority of patients. The relationship of inhibited anger to depression may have implications for psychotherapy.
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Kellner R, Uhlenhuth EH. The rating and self-rating of anxiety. Br J Psychiatry Suppl 1991:15-22. [PMID: 1840759] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The principles of measuring anxiety are reviewed. Scales of anxiety differ in their time focus: state-anxiety scales measure the present or recent past, whereas trait-anxiety scales measure the ways the subject generally feels. Commonly used scales have adequate validity, but there is incomplete agreement on the boundaries of the construct of anxiety. There are consistent differences in sensitivity among anxiety scales, and they vary greatly in the number of items, number of cues and in the method of scoring. For self-rating scales a large number of items with only two cues (e.g. 'yes' and 'no'), or only two scores for each item, increases the sensitivity of the scale for screening as well as for detecting differences between drug and placebo. A large number of cues decreases the sensitivity of a self-rating scale; it is unknown whether a large number of cues is advantageous in group research, but a small number of items is adequate both for rating and self-rating scales.
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OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper was to review the clinical and conceptual implications of the studies investigating prodromal symptoms of mania, depression, and panic disorder. METHOD Twenty-four studies specifically addressing the issue of prodromal symptoms in mood and anxiety disorders were selected by computer search (Medline) and manual search of Index Medicus and the psychiatric literature. RESULTS Most of the studies have described a prodromal phase in the development of mania, depression, and panic attacks. CONCLUSIONS The appearance of prodromal symptoms may precede the full syndrome by weeks or months; if these symptoms are detected, recurrences of affective disorders (bipolar illness, unipolar depression, panic disorder) could be treated earlier and perhaps more effectively. DSM-III has emphasized the traditional clinical syndromes and cross-sectional descriptions. Appraisal of prodromal and residual phases may complement this approach. The longitudinal study of prodromes, the fully developed disorder, and residual states calls for an assessment of personality, neurotic traits, and their interaction in the evolution of affective disorders.
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Krug A, Weigel C, Kellner R. Contributions to the Development of an ATR-FTIR-Spectroscopic Sensor for Aldehydes and Ketones in Solutions. ANAL LETT 1991. [DOI: 10.1080/00032719108052967] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Trendafilova N, Kellner R. Temperature-dependent vibrational spectra of zinc(II) bis-(N,N′-diethyldithiocarbamate) in solid state and solution. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1991. [DOI: 10.1016/0584-8539(91)80251-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Ochs D, Tappe CH, Gärtner P, Kellner R, Poralla K. Properties of purified squalene-hopene cyclase from Bacillus acidocaldarius. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY 1990; 194:75-80. [PMID: 2253626 DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1990.tb19429.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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The squalene-hopene cyclase from Bacillus acidocaldarius cytoplasmic membrane, was purified to homogeneity by solubilization with Triton X-100, chromatography on DEAE-cellulose, phenyl Sepharose and two gel-filtration columns. The enzyme monomer had a molecular mass of 75 kDa. The sequence of the first 23 amino acids was determined by Edman degradation. The enzyme activity was efficiently inhibited by n-alkyldimethylammonium halides with alkyl chain lengths between 12 and 18 C atoms. Inhibition was also observed with (5-hydroxycarvacryl)trimethylammonium chloride 1-piperidine carboxylate, dodecyldimethylamine N-oxide, azasqualene and farnesol. Competitive inhibition with dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide, (5-hydroxycarvacryl)trimethylammonium chloride 1-piperidine carboxylate and dodecyldimethylamine N-oxide was demonstrated by Lineweaver-Burk plots.
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Trendafilova N, Nikolov G, Kellner R, Mikosch H, Bauer G, Bogatchev G. Manifestation of the Jahn-Teller active vibrations in the vibronic spectra of tetracoordinate Cu2+, Ni2+ and Zn2+ chlorides. Chem Phys 1990. [DOI: 10.1016/0301-0104(90)85052-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Hörner T, Ungermann V, Zähner H, Fiedler HP, Utz R, Kellner R, Jung G. Comparative studies on the fermentative production of lantibiotics by staphylococci. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 1990; 32:511-7. [PMID: 1366437 DOI: 10.1007/bf00173719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The production of the lanthionine-containing polypeptide antibiotics gallidermin from Staphylococcus gallinarum TU 3928 and pep 5 from S. epidermidis 5 is investigated with respect to regulation and stimulation of productivity by media components, optimization of both the media used and the fermentation process and is compared to the production of the lantibiotic epidermin from S. epidermidis TU 3298. Efficient methods for rapid quantification of lantibiotics, optimization of the media and a primary enrichment by adsorption chromatography are reported.
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Gäde G, Wilps H, Kellner R. Isolation and structure of a novel charged member of the red-pigment-concentrating hormone-adipokinetic hormone family of peptides isolated from the corpora cardiaca of the blowfly Phormia terraenovae (Diptera). Biochem J 1990; 269:309-13. [PMID: 2386478 PMCID: PMC1131577 DOI: 10.1042/bj2690309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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A hypertrehalosaemic neuropeptide from the corpora cardiaca of the blowfly Phormia terraenovae has been isolated by reversed-phase h.p.l.c., and its primary structure was determined by pulsed-liquid phase sequencing employing Edman chemistry after enzymically deblocking the N-terminal pyroglutamate residue. The C-terminus was also blocked, as indicated by the lack of digestion when the peptide was incubated with carboxypeptidase A. The octapeptide has the sequence pGlu-Leu-Thr-Phe-Ser-Pro-Asp-Trp-NH2 and is clearly defined as a novel member of the RPCH/AKH (red-pigment-concentrating hormone/adipokinetic hormone) family of peptides. It is the first charged member of this family to be found. The synthetic peptide causes an increase in the haemolymph carbohydrate concentration in a dose-dependent fashion in blowflies and therefore is named 'Phormia terraenovae hypertrehalosaemic hormone' (Pht-HrTH). In addition, receptors in the fat-body of the American cockroach (Periplaneta americana) recognize the peptide, resulting in carbohydrate elevation in the blood. However, fat-body receptors of the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria) do not recognize this charged molecule, and thus no lipid mobilization is observed in this species.
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Kramer A, Meng W, Reinwein D, Weuffen W, Below H, Ermisch U, Jülich WD, Koch S, Kellner R, Meng S. [Experimental and epidemiological studies on the interrelationship of thiocyanate and thyroid function]. ZEITSCHRIFT FUR DIE GESAMTE HYGIENE UND IHRE GRENZGEBIETE 1990; 36:383-7. [PMID: 1697719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The testing of a SCN- dose (32 mg NaSCN/kg oral 21 d long) which is about 100 fold above the alimentary SCN(-)-uptake on guinea pig has shown neither histologic/morphometrical nor clinical clue to thyrostatic effect. In 6 regions of the GDR (1,349 persons) has not been secured epidemiologically any relationship between SCN- serum level as well as SCN- urine level and goiter. The partly in the tendency low increase of SCN- level by patients with bland goiter was always under the levels of smokers without goiter, exceeded indeed the threshold of significance in the area of Werdau. In the industrial agglomeration areas the I(-)-SCN(-)-quotient at the most unfavourable cases ran to 3.5 (Halle, smoker, struma), was consequently close to the critical level of the goiter risk.
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