Muscarinic action of acetylcholine in the pigeon optic tectum

Eighty visual units were extracellularly recorded from the pigeon optic tectum, and the effects of iontophoretically applied acetylcholine and its antagonists, atropine and tubocurarine, on these units were examined. The results showed that acetylcholine in the avian tectum functions as an excitatory transmitter or modulator and acts predominantly through a muscarinic mode of action.

Squamous cell carcinoma of the breast

Squamous cell carcinoma is a rare type of breast malignancy. Three patients are described. The clinical features, histologic findings, and postoperative course are described. All three patients had operation, and two received chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Two patients are well 2 and 6 years postoperatively, and the third patient died from extensive metastases within 34 months after radical mastectomy without postoperative chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Properties of electrophoretic fractions of human embryonic kidney cells separated on Space Shuttle flight STS-8

Suspensions of cultured primary human embryonic kidney cells were subjected to continuous flow electrophoresis on Space Shuttle flight STS-8. The objectives of the experiments were to obtain electrophoretically separated fractions of the original cell populations and to test these fractions for the amount and kind of urokinase (a kidney plasminogen activator that is used medically for digesting blood clots), the morphologies of cells in the individual fractions, and their cellular electrophoretic mobilities after separation and subsequent proliferation. Individual fractions were successfully cultured after return from orbit, and they were found to differ substantially from one another and from the starting sample with respect to all of these properties.