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Troke PF, Andrews RJ, Marriott MS, Richardson K. Efficacy of fluconazole (UK-49,858) against experimental aspergillosis and cryptococcosis in mice. J Antimicrob Chemother 1987; 19:663-70. [PMID: 3038824 DOI: 10.1093/jac/19.5.663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The efficacy of fluconazole, a new bis-triazole antifungal agent, was compared with that of orally administered ketoconazole and parenterally administered amphotericin B against aspergillus and cryptococcus infections in mice. Fluconazole was 5-20-fold more active than ketoconazole against systemic aspergillosis and against systemic, intracranial and pulmonary cryptococcosis but was less active than amphotericin B.
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Pierce NF, Kaper JB, Mekalanos JJ, Cray WC, Richardson K. Determinants of the immunogenicity of live virulent and mutant Vibrio cholerae O1 in rabbit intestine. Infect Immun 1987; 55:477-81. [PMID: 3804447 PMCID: PMC260354 DOI: 10.1128/iai.55.2.477-481.1987] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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Determinants of the capacity of live Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates to evoke specific immune responses in intestinal mucosa were studied in rabbits, using mucosal immunoglobulin A (IgA) antitoxin as the measured immune response. Antitoxin responses were evoked mostly by the primary inoculation and were dose dependent; secondary-type responses were modest and occurred only when the booster inoculum was large, i.e., 10(10) CFU. The efficiency of mucosal immunization correlated closely with the mucosal colonizing capacity of the infecting strain and was otherwise independent of toxin genotype (A+ B+ or A- B+) or whether the strain was motile or nonmotile. Live bacteria evoked mucosal antitoxin more efficiently than did purified cholera toxin. Prior immunization with a nontoxinogenic (A- B-) V. cholera strain interfered significantly with the induction of mucosal antitoxin by subsequent immunization with its fully toxinogenic (A+ B+) parent. These results demonstrate the marked efficiency with which live V. cholerae stimulate a specific enteric mucosal secretory IgA response. They support the view that mucosal colonization aids efficient delivery of bacterial antigens to responsive subepithelial lymphoid tissue. This might occur by transfer of colonizing bacteria through M cells into Peyer patches or by efficient delivery of secreted toxin to M cells by mucosa-associated organisms. Preexisting antibacterial immunity interferes with colonization, which may prevent efficient antigenic stimulation and which may explain the relatively weak response to booster immunization. The same process may also limit the efficacy of hybrid enteric bacterial vaccines when there is preexisting mucosal immunity to the carrier organism due to either natural exposure or prior immunization with another vaccine that uses the same carrier.
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Richardson K, Michalski J, Kaper JB. Hemolysin production and cloning of two hemolysin determinants from classical Vibrio cholerae. Infect Immun 1986; 54:415-20. [PMID: 3021628 PMCID: PMC260177 DOI: 10.1128/iai.54.2.415-420.1986] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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The hemolytic activity of 20 classical and 3 El Tor strains of V. cholerae O1 was examined phenotypically and genetically. The El Tor strains lysed bovine, chicken, human, rabbit, and sheep erythrocytes (RBCs), while the classical strains lysed only chicken and rabbit RBCs. The assay was done with RBCs in Tris-NaCl buffer, since phosphate-buffered saline was found to inhibit hemolytic activity. Hemolytic activity in culture supernatants from El Tor strains was more sensitive to heat inactivation than that in supernatants from the classical strain 395. A gene library of strain 395 was examined for hemolytic activity, and two distinct hemolytic clones were identified. One clone appeared identical to the previously cloned hemolysin structural gene from El Tor V. cholerae, while the other did not hybridize to the El Tor hemolysin probe, had a unique restriction enzyme digestion pattern, and encoded a hemolysin whose activity differed from that of the El Tor hemolysin clones. We suggest that the hemolysin specified by the determinant originally cloned from an El Tor vibrio be designated hemolysin I and the second hemolysin, cloned from the classical vibrio, be designated hemolysin II.
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Richardson K. Evidence for Relational-Coding in Concept Formation, and a Note on the Effects of Feedback. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 1986. [DOI: 10.1080/00207598608247611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Wright AC, Morris JG, Maneval DR, Richardson K, Kaper JB. Cloning of the cytotoxin-hemolysin gene of Vibrio vulnificus. Infect Immun 1985; 50:922-4. [PMID: 4066036 PMCID: PMC261170 DOI: 10.1128/iai.50.3.922-924.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Genes encoding the cytotoxin-hemolysin of Vibrio vulnificus were cloned in Escherichia coli by using the lytic cloning vector, lambda 1059. Subcloning in plasmid pBR325 resulted in the isolation of a 3.2-kilobase DNA fragment containing the cytotoxin gene. By using this fragment as a DNA probe, homologous gene sequences were detected in all 54 V. vulnificus strains studied; homologous sequences were present in none of 96 isolates from 29 other bacterial species.
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Troke PF, Andrews RJ, Brammer KW, Marriott MS, Richardson K. Efficacy of UK-49,858 (fluconazole) against Candida albicans experimental infections in mice. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1985; 28:815-8. [PMID: 3002246 PMCID: PMC180335 DOI: 10.1128/aac.28.6.815] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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UK-49,858 (fluconazole), a new, orally absorbed bis-triazole derivative, has been evaluated against systemic infections with Candida albicans in normal and immunosuppressed mice and against an intestinal infection with C. albicans in immunosuppressed mice. Orally administered ketoconazole was used as a comparison agent throughout, and orally administered amphotericin B was included for comparative in the experimental intestinal infection. In a 10-day dosage regimen, UK-49,858 was far more active than ketoconazole against systemic infections with C. albicans in normal and immunosuppressed mice. In normal mice, extension of UK-49,858 dosing to 30 days resulted in prolongation of survival to over 90 days, and up to 60% of treated animals had no detectable C. albicans in their kidneys. In addition, over 90% of mice with intestinal candidiasis had culture-negative feces after a 3-day treatment with UK-49,858, but only 62 and 23% of mice gave this response after amphotericin B and ketoconazole therapy, respectively. These data suggest that UK-49,858 may be of value in the treatment of systemic and gastrointestinal infections due to C. albicans in humans.
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Richardson K, Campbell MA, Brown MR, Masiulis B, Liptak GS. Biofeedback therapy for managing bowel incontinence caused by meningomyelocele. MCN Am J Matern Child Nurs 1985; 10:388-92. [PMID: 3932809 DOI: 10.1097/00005721-198511000-00007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Richardson K. Home Nursing Agency of Altoona, Pennsylvania. CARING : NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HOME CARE MAGAZINE 1985; 4:84-6. [PMID: 10272629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Richardson K, Parker CD. Identification and characterization of Vibrio cholerae surface proteins by radioiodination. Infect Immun 1985; 48:87-93. [PMID: 3980099 PMCID: PMC261919 DOI: 10.1128/iai.48.1.87-93.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Whole cells and isolated outer membrane from Vibrio cholerae (Classical, Inaba) were radiolabeled with Iodogen or Iodo-beads as catalyst. Radiolabeling of whole cells was shown to be surface specific by sodium dodecyl sulfate-urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole cells and cell fractions. Surface-labeled whole cells regularly showed 16 distinguishable protein species, of which nine were found in radiolabeled outer membrane preparations obtained by a lithium chloride-lithium acetate procedure. Eight of these proteins were found in outer membranes prepared by sucrose density gradient centrifugation and Triton X-100 extraction of radiolabeled whole cells. The mobility of several proteins was shown to be affected by temperature, and the major protein species exposed on the cell surface was shown to consist of at least two different peptides.
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Richardson K, Parker CD. Identification and occurrence of Vibrio cholerae flagellar core proteins in isolated outer membrane. Infect Immun 1985; 47:674-9. [PMID: 3972446 PMCID: PMC261354 DOI: 10.1128/iai.47.3.674-679.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Sodium dodecyl sulfate-urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of outer membranes from a flagellated and an isogenic nonflagellated strain of Vibrio cholerae (classical, Inaba) suggested that two proteins were absent from the nonflagellated strain. Immunoblot examination of such preparations demonstrated that two proteins, present only in outer membrane from the flagellated strain, were associated with flagella. Analysis of purified flagellar cores from strains CA401 and N16961 (El Tor, Inaba) by electron microscopy, sodium dodecyl sulfate-urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and immunoblotting showed that these two proteins, with apparent molecular weights of 47,000 and 49,000, composed the flagellar core. Antiserum specific for flagellar core proteins did not agglutinate or inhibit the motility of intact V. cholerae. These latter findings suggested that, for intact cells, the flagellar core proteins are not accessible to antibody.
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Sears SD, Richardson K, Young C, Parker CD, Levine MM. Evaluation of the human immune response to outer membrane proteins of Vibrio cholerae. Infect Immun 1984; 44:439-44. [PMID: 6715044 PMCID: PMC263538 DOI: 10.1128/iai.44.2.439-444.1984] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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The immune response of 114 volunteers with diarrhea after experimental challenge with four strains of Vibrio cholerae O1 was characterized in a microtiter enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay antibody detection system by using a partially purified outer membrane preparation (OMP) from these strains as an antigen. Analysis of paired sera from 29 persons with noncholera diarrhea (negative control population), demonstrated that a rise in net optical density greater than 0.10 was significant. A total of 50% of the 79 cholera volunteers challenged with El Tor biotype and 54% of the 35 volunteers challenged with classical biotype had significant rises in immunoglobulin G anti-OMP. Paired sera that showed significant rises when tested against homologous OMP all manifested significant rises when also tested against a serotype-heterologous OMP. Immunoblotting techniques showed that the antigens to which antibodies were reacting were mainly protein in nature, not lipopolysaccharide. Furthermore, absorption with lipopolysaccharide decreased the optical density by a mean of only 12% (0 to 30%), corroborating that antibody was mainly directed against OMP and not lipopolysaccharide. This study indicates that there is a human immunoglobulin G response to OMP during clinical cholera infection and that this response is constant among bio- and serotypes.
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Richardson K, Bynner JM. Intelligence: Past and Future. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 1984. [DOI: 10.1080/00207598408247543] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Richardson K. Confusion: recognition and remedy. Assessing communication. Geriatr Nurs 1983; 4:237-8. [PMID: 6553009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/05/2023]
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Richardson K, Sebilia AJ. Motivating critical care nurses through peer evaluation. Crit Care Nurse 1982. [DOI: 10.4037/ccn1982.2.4.54] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Richardson K, Sebilia AJ. Motivating critical care nurses through peer evaluation. Crit Care Nurse 1982; 2:54-7. [PMID: 6925519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Richardson K. Hope and flexibility: your keys to helping OBS patients. Nursing 1982; 12:64-9. [PMID: 6919795] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Richardson K. Fire safety in hospitals and homes for elderly and disabled people. WORLD HOSPITALS 1982; 18:20-4. [PMID: 10256162] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Richardson K. Right Brain-Left Brain: The Nurse Consultant and Behavior Change Following Stroke. J Psychosoc Nurs Ment Health Serv 1982; 20:37-9. [PMID: 6920411 DOI: 10.3928/0279-3695-19820501-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In summary, I have made suggestions for working with staff to promote empathy for the stroke patient presenting with behavior problems. All of us take for granted our "two ways of knowing," the richness of our experience being promoted by the two sides of our brain. When brain damage occurs, the results are sometimes dramatic as with paralysis or expressive aphasia, and sometimes subtle as with receptive aphasia and certain visual-spatial problems. Nursing staff provide the care which otherwise would have been self care. When expectations are low, patients withdraw and staff "care ... less." When expectations are high, patients become symptomatic, staff burned out. The nurse consultant can intervene most effectively by addressing the total milieu, enriching the perspective of staff and family members who are seeing only one side of the whole.
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Vestal KW, Richardson K. The nature of pediatric critical care nursing: perspectives of patient, family, and staff. Nurs Clin North Am 1981; 16:605-10. [PMID: 6916258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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No one would advocate the establishment of a PICU in every hospital. However, in establishing regional pediatric facilities, provisions for critical care for children should be considered. A PICU unit that serves as a referral center, with adequate resources and trained personnel, can be both accessible and cost-effective. Pediatric critical care is a challenging arena for the nurse. These children, their families, and the staff form an interdependent triad that continually must try to anticipate and to meet the needs of the participants. The importance of developing care delivery systems that can support each person involved cannot be overemphasized. The ultimate outcome will be a stable setting for patient care that serves to resolve crisis, rather than to precipitate it, preserving the best interests of the patients, family, and staff.
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Rosenbloom AL, Silverstein JH, Lezotte DC, Richardson K, McCallum M. Limited joint mobility in childhood diabetes mellitus indicates increased risk for microvascular disease. N Engl J Med 1981; 305:191-4. [PMID: 7242598 DOI: 10.1056/nejm198107233050403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 316] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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We detected limited mobility of small and large joints in 92 (30 per cent) of 309 patients with diabetes who were one to 28 years old. Among patients who had had diabetes for more than 4.5 years (the shortest duration at which microvascular complications were noted), 82 of 169 had joint limitation. Forty-one of these 82 also had microvascular complications, but only 10 of the 87 patients without joint limitation had complications. Life-table analysis indicated an 83 per cent risk for microvascular complications after 16 years of diabetes if joint limitation was present, but only a 25 per cent risk if joint limitation was absent. Consequently, limited joint mobility identifies a population exceptionally at risk for the early development of microvascular complications, and intervention to forestall or prevent these complications can now be focused.
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Anderson JD, Hess R, Richardson K. Test-retest reliability of the test for auditory comprehension of language when it is used with mentally retarded children. THE JOURNAL OF SPEECH AND HEARING DISORDERS 1980; 45:195-9. [PMID: 7442152 DOI: 10.1044/jshd.4502.195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The Carrow (1973) Test for Auditory Comprehension of Language (TACL) is used frequently as part of a test battery to assess the language skills of mentally retarded children. This study determined its reliability with this population using a test-retest paradigm. Forty-four retarded children were given the test and then retested after a five-week interval. A reliability coefficient of 0.91 was obtained between pre-test and posttest administrations of the TACL. Internal stability was highest for total scores, the subtests measuring form class and function words, and grammatical categories. The low coefficients obtained for the subtests of morphological construction and syntactic suggest that these should be viewed with considerable caution when considered separately from the total test results.
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Richardson K, Brammer KW, Jevons S, Plews RM, Wright JR. Synthesis and antibacterial activity of 1-N-(1,3-dihydroxy-2-propyl)kanamycin B (UK-31,214). J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1979; 32:973-7. [PMID: 528375 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.32.973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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1-N-(1,3-Dihydroxy-2-propyl)kanamycin B was prepared and its in vitro activity against aminoglycoside-sensitive and aminoglycoside-resistant organisms was compared with that of kanamycin B and gentamicin. This kanamycin B derivative (code No. UK-31,214) demonstrated potent activity in all of these tests and gave good protection in experimental infections in mice.
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An expanded linkage map of the Vibrio cholerae classical strain 162 chromosome has been prepared using a variety of new auxotrophic mutants. The chromosome consists of a single, linear linkage group. The map consists of 17 markers, which have been ordered; 20 mutational sites, which are tentatively ordered; five markers (ura-1, ser-2, mal-1, man-1, suc-1), which are linked but unordered; and three mutations (aro-2, cys-2 and cys-6) which showed little or no linkage. A proposal is made to standardize genetic nomenclature in V. cholerae genetic studies.
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Nowaczynski W, Murakami T, Richardson K, Genest J. Increased aldosterone plasma protein binding in women on combined oral contraceptives throughout the menstrual cycle. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1978; 47:193-9. [PMID: 263655 DOI: 10.1210/jcem-47-1-193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Plasma aldosterone concentration and the percentage of the fraction bound to a specific plasma aldosterone-binding globulin (ABG) were measured throughout the menstrual cycle in 26 healthy women aged between 19 and 38 yr who were receiving estrogen-containing oral contraceptives (OC), Midafternoon upright levels of total plasma aldosterone were similar in control and OC subjects and showed normal cyclic fluctuation in both groups. The percentage of ABG-bound aldosterone was markedly higher in OC subjects than in controls at all stages of the cycle and showed a positive correlation with the mean blood pressure when all OC subjects studied were considered. In addition, when the plasma ABG levels were measured 6 months or more after the start of medication, they appeared to be related to the dose of estrogen in the OC, but not to the length of time of its administration. The identity of plasma ABG in OC subjects with that in control subjects was also established.
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Pearson R, Richardson K. The smoking habits of 16-year-olds in the National Child Development Study. Public Health 1978; 92:136-44. [PMID: 663064 DOI: 10.1016/s0033-3506(78)80051-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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