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Weiner CP, Dong Y, Zhou H, Cuckle H, Ramsey R, Egerman R, Buhimschi I, Buhimschi C. Early pregnancy prediction of spontaneous preterm birth before 32 completed weeks of pregnancy using plasma RNA: transcriptome discovery and initial validation of an RNA panel of markers. BJOG 2021; 128:1870-1880. [PMID: 33969600 PMCID: PMC8455415 DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.16736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/16/2021] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To compare the second-trimester plasma cell-free (PCF) transcriptome of women who delivered at term with that of women with spontaneous preterm birth (sPTB) at or before 32 weeks of gestation and identify/validate PCF RNA markers present by 16 weeks of gestation. DESIGN Prospective case-control study. SETTING Academic tertiary care centre. POPULATION Pregnant women with known outcomes prospectively sampled. METHODS PCF RNAs extracted from women at 22-24 weeks of gestation (five sPTB up to 32 weeks and five at term) were hybridised to gene expression arrays. Differentially regulated RNAs for sPTB up to 32 weeks were initially selected based on P value compared with control (P < 0.01) and fold change (≥1.5×). Potential markers were then reordered by narrowness of distribution. Final marker selection was made by searching the Metacore™ database to determine whether the PCF RNAs interacted with a reported set of myometrial Preterm Initiator genes. RNAs were confirmed by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction and tested in a second group of 40 women: 20 with sPTB up to 32 weeks (mean gestation 26.5 weeks, standard deviation ±2.6 weeks), 20 with spontaneous term delivery (40.1 ± 0.9 weeks) sampled at 16-19+5 weeks of gestation. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Identification of PCF RNAs predictive of sPTB up to 32 weeks. RESULTS Two hundred and ninety-seven PCR RNAs were differentially expressed in sPTB up to 32 weeks of gestation. Further selection retained 99 RNAs (86 mRNAs and 13 microRNAs) and five of these interacted in silica with seven Preterm Initiator genes. Four of five RNAs were confirmed and tested on the validation group. The expression of each confirmed PCF RNA was significantly higher in sPTB up to 32 weeks of gestation. In vitro study of the four mRNAs revealed higher expression in placentas of women with sPTB up to 32 weeks and the potential to interfere with myometrial quiescence. CONCLUSIONS The PCF RNA markers are highly associated with sPTB up to 32 weeks by 16 weeks of gestation. TWEETABLE ABSTRACT Women destined for spontaneous preterm birth can be identified by 16 weeks of gestation with a panel of maternal plasma RNAs.
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- C P Weiner
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA
- Rosetta Signaling Laboratory, Mission Hills, KS, USA
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- Rosetta Signaling Laboratory, Mission Hills, KS, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, KS, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
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- Office of Clinical Research, University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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Edwards D, Ramsey R, Breeze J. How should we manage severe anxiety towards dental treatment in UK service personnel? BMJ Mil Health 2021; 169:277-279. [PMID: 33547190 DOI: 10.1136/bmjmilitary-2020-001701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2020] [Revised: 12/30/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Anxiety towards dental treatment is a significant barrier towards care within the United Kingdom Armed Forces. Avoidance of dental treatment results in morbidity, and severe dental infections can lead to systemic disease, which in turn may require hospitalisation. Of greater concern are deployed phobic patients who may develop dental pathology or suffer dental trauma and will likely require evacuation to the UK or a suitable host nation. This has considerable financial implications and in a war setting may place everyone in the evacuation chain at greater risk especially considering that it is not possible to manage these patients in Role 1 or 2 environments. Managing anxiety using either sedation or a general anaesthetic as a long-term management strategy for anxious military patients is simply not practical. This is reflected by current Defence policy stating that service personnel who are unable to tolerate treatment under local anaesthetic (LA) alone should be medically downgraded. However, the situation should ideally be addressed at the time of first recruitment. Currently, despite regulations recommending that potential new military recruits who cannot tolerate routine dentistry under LA should be medically discharged, in reality the subjectivity of such an assessment means this rarely happens. We would instead recommend that following identification of dental phobic recruits in initial training, they be placed in a holding platoon while methods to address their anxiety are explored. This would potentially avoid them entering military service and ultimately being discharged.
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- Defence Centre for Rehabilitative Dentistry, Royal Army Dental Corps, Aldershot, Hampshire, UK
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- Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.,Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Ramsey R, Isenring E, Daniels L. Comparing measures of fat-free mass in overweight older adults using three different bioelectrical impedance devices and three prediction equations. J Nutr Health Aging 2012; 16:26-30. [PMID: 22237998 DOI: 10.1007/s12603-011-0085-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVES To compare measures of fat-free mass (FFM) by three different bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) devices and to assess the agreement between three different equations validated in older adult and/or overweight populations. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Orthopaedics ward of Brisbane public hospital, Australia. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-two overweight, older Australians (72 yr ± 6.4, BMI 34 kg/m² ± 5.5) with knee osteoarthritis. MEASUREMENTS Body composition was measured using three BIA devices: Tanita 300-GS (foot-to-foot), Impedimed DF50 (hand-to-foot) and Impedimed SFB7 (bioelectrical impedance spectroscopy (BIS)). Three equations for predicting FFM were selected based on their ability to be applied to an older adult and/ or overweight population. Impedance values were extracted from the hand-to-foot BIA device and included in the equations to estimate FFM. RESULTS The mean FFM measured by BIS (57.6 kg ± 9.1) differed significantly from those measured by foot-to-foot (54.6 kg ± 8.7) and hand-to-foot BIA (53.2 kg ± 10.5) (P < 0.001). The mean ± SD FFM predicted by three equations using raw data from hand-to-foot BIA were 54.7 kg ± 8.9, 54.7 kg ± 7.9 and 52.9 kg ± 11.05 respectively. These results did not differ from the FFM predicted by the hand-to-foot device (F = 2.66, P = 0.118). CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that foot-to-foot and hand-to-foot BIA may be used interchangeably in overweight older adults at the group level but due to the large limits of agreement may lead to unacceptable error in individuals. There was no difference between the three prediction equations however these results should be confirmed within a larger sample and against a reference standard.
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- R Ramsey
- School of Public Health - Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4059, Australia.
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O'Toole M, Legault H, Ramsey R, Wynn TA, Kasaian MT. A novel and sensitive ELISA reveals that the soluble form of IL-13R-alpha2 is not expressed in plasma of healthy or asthmatic subjects. Clin Exp Allergy 2008; 38:594-601. [PMID: 18307523 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2222.2007.02921.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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BACKGROUND IL-13 plays a key regulatory role in asthmatic responses and immunity to parasitic infection. In vivo, IL-13R-alpha2 is a critical modulator of IL-13 bioactivity. When inducibly expressed on the surface of fibroblasts and other cell types under inflammatory conditions, IL-13R-alpha2 contributes to resolution of IL-13 responses. A soluble form of IL-13R-alpha2 (sIL-13R-alpha2) can be detected in murine circulation, and functions as a regulator of IL-13 bioactivity. In humans, sIL-13R-alpha2 has been more difficult to detect. Recently, novel assay systems have been described to quantitate sIL-13R-alpha2 in human circulation, and revealed unexpectedly high levels of sIL-13R-alpha2 in healthy subjects. OBJECTIVE To verify sIL-13R-alpha2 quantitation in human plasma samples under stringent conditions of signal verification and false-positive detection. METHODS A standard ELISA protocol was evaluated for specificity using false-positive detection reagents. A more stringent ELISA protocol was developed by optimizing the composition of blocking and dilution buffers. RESULTS Using the stringent assay protocol, endogenous sIL-13R-alpha2 was undetectable in plasma samples from a total of 120 asthmatics and 20 healthy subjects, and in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from 10 asthmatics and eight healthy subjects undergoing allergen challenge. CONCLUSION These results underscore the necessity to perform rigorous assay controls in the biological matrix to be tested. Because the soluble form could not be demonstrated, our findings question a role for sIL-13R-alpha2 in the regulation of IL-13 bioactivity, and highlight the potentially important contribution of the membrane-bound form of IL-13R-alpha2 in humans.
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- M O'Toole
- Department of Biological Technologies, Wyeth Research, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA
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Ghamande S, Ramsey R, Rhodes JF, Stoller JK. Right hemidiaphragmatic elevation with a right-to-left interatrial shunt through a patent foramen ovale: a case report and literature review. Chest 2001; 120:2094-6. [PMID: 11742944 DOI: 10.1378/chest.120.6.2094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022] Open
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A right-to-left shunt (RLS) is an uncommon complication of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) that may cause hypoxemia from venous admixture and ischemic complications from paradoxic embolization. This report presents the third described patient whose RLS through a PFO and profound hypoxemia developed in association with right hemidiaphragm dysfunction (but without a pressure gradient driving the right-to-left flow). In addition to extending the available experience with this unusual clinical event, we report on the successful closure of the PFO by a catheter-deployed double-umbrella device, after the positioning of which the patient's oxygenation normalized.
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- S Ghamande
- Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA
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Livingston JC, Haddad B, Gorski LA, Neblett P, Ahokas RA, Ramsey R, Sibai BM. Placenta growth factor is not an early marker for the development of severe preeclampsia. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2001; 184:1218-20. [PMID: 11349191 DOI: 10.1067/mob.2001.113877] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine whether plasma concentrations of placenta growth factor may be used as a marker for women who ultimately have severe preeclampsia. STUDY DESIGN We performed a nested case-control study to compare plasma concentrations of placenta growth factor in women with severe preeclampsia with the concentrations in normotensive pregnant control subjects. Plasma samples were collected at <20 weeks' gestation and again in the third trimester. Twenty-two women who ultimately had severe preeclampsia were matched for gestational age at delivery with 22 normotensive control subjects. Placenta growth factor concentrations were measured by a specific antigen capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Comparisons were made by using the Mann-Whitney U test for nonparametric data such as placenta growth factor concentrations. The Student t test was used for parametric data. RESULTS A total of 880 pregnant women were screened. Severe preeclampsia developed in 22, for an incidence of 2.5%. As expected, women with severe preeclampsia had significantly higher systolic and diastolic blood pressures, and their infants had lower birth weights. Placental weights at delivery were similar between those with severe preeclampsia and control subjects (659 vs 699 g; P =.51). During the third trimester, the median placenta growth factor concentrations were significantly lower in women with severe preeclampsia than in normotensive control subjects (125 vs 449 pg/mL; P =.003). When samples drawn at <20 weeks' gestation were compared, there was no difference between the group with severe preeclampsia and those who remained normotensive (98.8 vs 56.34 pg/mL; P =.15). CONCLUSION During the third trimester, patients with severe preeclampsia have decreased maternal concentrations of placenta growth factor. This difference is not seen earlier in pregnancy. Lower concentrations of placenta growth factor may be a result of severe preeclampsia rather than a causal factor. Placenta growth factor is not a good marker for the subsequent development of severe preeclampsia.
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- J C Livingston
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, Memphis, USA
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Grossman RI, Rubin DL, Hunter G, Haughton VM, Lee D, Sze G, Kuhn MJ, Maravilla K, Tu R, Heindel W, Wippold FJ, Leeds N, Zelch J, Jinkins JR, Grodd W, Truwit C, Kanal E, Provenzale JM, Ramsey R, Simon J, Brunberg JA, Stevens GR, Kristy RM. Magnetic resonance imaging in patients with central nervous system pathology: a comparison of OptiMARK (Gd-DTPA-BMEA) and Magnevist (Gd-DTPA). Invest Radiol 2000; 35:412-9. [PMID: 10901102 DOI: 10.1097/00004424-200007000-00003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The objective of the two pivotal phase 3 studies was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of OptiMARK (Gd-DTPA-bis(methoxyethylamide) [Gd-DTPA-BMEA]) compared with Magnevist (Gd-DTPA) in magnetic resonance imaging of the central nervous system. METHODS Two multicenter, randomized, double-blind, parallel group studies were conducted in 395 patients with known or suspected central nervous system pathology. Subjects were randomized to receive a single 0.1 mmol/kg intravenous injection of either Gd-DTPA-BMEA or Gd-DTPA. The safety of Gd-DTPA-BMEA and Gd-DTPA was monitored for up to 72 hours after study drug administration. Precontrast and postcontrast administration magnetic resonance scans were acquired using identical imaging planes and techniques. RESULTS No deaths or unexpected adverse events were reported in either group. A comparison of adverse events by intensity and relation demonstrated no statistically significant differences between the two groups. Gd-DTPA-BMEA and Gd-DTPA were equivalent with respect to confidence in diagnosis, conspicuity, and border delineation. CONCLUSIONS Gd-DTPA-BMEA and Gd-DTPA demonstrated comparable efficacy profiles, and the safety profiles were considered similar.
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- R I Grossman
- University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA
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Yousef OM, Smilack JD, Kerr DM, Ramsey R, Rosati L, Colby TV. Gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis. Morphologic findings in a cluster of six cases. Am J Clin Pathol 1999; 112:610-6. [PMID: 10549247 DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/112.5.610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We describe the histopathologic features of 6 cases of gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis examined at 4 Phoenix, AZ, area hospitals during the last 4 years. Resected stomach and intestinal specimens were characterized by marked mural thickening with fibrosis, prominent tissue eosinophil infiltration and palisading granulomatous inflammation around pale fungal hyphae. In 2 cases, there was colonic perforation. Basidiobolus ranarum hyphae (associated with spore-like spherules in 4 cases) were identified within tissue sections; the irregularly branched, thin-walled, occasionally septated hyphae were typically surrounded by a thick eosinophilic cuff (Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon). Although the histologic features of B ranarum are well described in the skin and subcutaneous tissue, gastrointestinal involvement has presented considerable diagnostic difficulty. Before the occurrence of this cluster of cases, intra-abdominal B ranarum infection has been reported only rarely.
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- O M Yousef
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, AZ, USA
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Copper RL, Goldenberg RL, Das A, Elder N, Swain M, Norman G, Ramsey R, Cotroneo P, Collins BA, Johnson F, Jones P, Meier AM. The preterm prediction study: maternal stress is associated with spontaneous preterm birth at less than thirty-five weeks' gestation. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1996; 175:1286-92. [PMID: 8942502 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9378(96)70042-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 426] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine whether various measures of poor psychosocial status in pregnancy are associated with spontaneous preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, or low birth weight. STUDY DESIGN Anxiety, stress, self-esteem, mastery, and depression were assessed at 25 to 29 weeks in 2593 gravid women by use of a 28-item Likert scale. Scores for each psychosocial subscale were determined, and an overall psychosocial score was calculated. Scores were divided into quartiles, and the lowest quartile scores were used to define poor psychosocial status. The percent spontaneous preterm birth, low birth weight, and fetal growth restriction in women with low and high psychosocial scores were compared. Logistic regression analyses provided the odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS Analyses revealed that stress was significantly associated with spontaneous preterm birth and with low birth weight with odds ratios of 1.16, p = 0.003, and 1.08, p = 0.02, respectively, for each point on the scale. A low score on the combined scale or on any subscale other than stress did not predict spontaneous preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, or low birth weight. After multivariate adjustment was performed for psychosocial status, substance use, and demographic traits, black race was the only variable significantly associated with spontaneous preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, and low birth weight; stress and low education were associated with spontaneous preterm birth and low birth weight. CONCLUSION Stress was associated with spontaneous preterm birth and low birth weight even after adjustment for maternal demographic and behavioral characteristics. Black race continues to be a significant predictor of spontaneous preterm birth, fetal growth restriction, and low birth weight even after adjustment for stress, substance use, and other demographic factors.
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- R L Copper
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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Ramsey R. Negative thoughts. RDH 1995; 15:30-31. [PMID: 9534485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Reznick AZ, Kagan VE, Ramsey R, Tsuchiya M, Khwaja S, Serbinova EA, Packer L. Antiradical effects in L-propionyl carnitine protection of the heart against ischemia-reperfusion injury: the possible role of iron chelation. Arch Biochem Biophys 1992; 296:394-401. [PMID: 1321584 DOI: 10.1016/0003-9861(92)90589-o] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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L-Propionyl carnitine has been shown to improve the heart's mechanical recovery and other metabolic parameters after ischemia-reperfusion. However, the mechanism of protection is unknown. The two dominating hypotheses are: (i) L-propionyl carnitine can serve as an energy source for heart muscle cells by being enzymatically converted to propionyl-CoA and subsequently utilized in the Krebs cycle (a metabolic hypothesis), and (ii) it can act as an antiradical agent, protecting myocardial cells from oxidative damage (a free radical hypothesis). To test the two possible pathways, we compared the protection afforded to the ischemia-reperfused hearts by L-propionyl carnitine and its optical isomer, D-propionyl carnitine. The latter cannot be enzymatically utilized as an energy source. The Langendorff perfusion technique was used and the hearts were subjected to 40 min of ischemia and 20 min of reperfusion. In analysis of ischemia-reperfused hearts, a strong correlation was found between the recovery of mechanical function and the presence of protein oxidation products (protein carbonyls). Both propionyl carnitines efficiently prevented protein oxidation but L-propionyl carnitine-perfused hearts had two times greater left ventricular developed pressure. The results indicate that both metabolic and antiradical pathway are involved in the protective mechanism of L-propionyl carnitine. To obtain a better insight of the antiradical mechanism of L-propionyl carnitine, we compared the ability of L- and D-propionyl carnitines, L-carnitine, and deferoxamine to interact with: (i) peroxyl radicals, (ii) oxygen radicals, and (iii) iron. We found that none of the carnitine derivatives were able to scavenge peroxyl radicals or superoxide radicals. L- and D-propionyl carnitine and deferoxamine (not L-carnitine) suppressed hydroxyl radical production in the Fenton system, probably by chelating the iron required for the generation of hydroxyl radicals. We suggest that L-propionyl carnitine protects the heart by a dual mechanism: it is an efficient fuel source and an antiradical agent.
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- A Z Reznick
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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In order to better focus the role of the pharmacist on patient need and patient outcome, a means of categorizing drug-related problems (DRPs) is presented. A DRP exists when a patient experiences or is likely to experience either a disease or symptom having an actual or suspected relationship with drug therapy. Eight different categories of DRPs are described and examples of each category are offered. This categorization serves a number of functions, such as: (1) to illustrate how adverse drug reactions form but one category of extant DRPs, (2) to make tangible the pharmacist's role for the future, (3) to serve as a focus for developing a systematic process whereby the pharmacist contributes significantly to the overall positive outcome of patients, (4) to bring to pharmacy practice a vocabulary consistent with that of other healthcare professionals, and (5) to aid in the development of standards of practice for pharmacists.
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- L M Strand
- Department of Pharmacy Practice, College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455
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Katti A, Ramsey R, Guiochon G. Quantitative extraction of thymine-thymine dimer from a large excess of thymine by preparative liquid chromatography. J Chromatogr A 1989. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9673(01)89625-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Bergen D, Bleck T, Ramsey R, Clasen R, Ristanovic R, Smith M, Whisler WW. Magnetic resonance imaging as a sensitive and specific predictor of neoplasms removed for intractable epilepsy. Epilepsia 1989; 30:318-21. [PMID: 2656252 DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1989.tb05304.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Twenty-three patients had magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) of the head prior to surgery for medically intractable epilepsy. Eleven patients had neoplasms, mostly astrocytomas. Six of the 11 tumors were seen on CT. In five of the six cases, the MRI showed a focal area of increased signal on T2-weighted images. All 11 tumors were detected by MRI. None of the non-neoplastic lesions produced an abnormal T2-weighted signal area on MRI. Only one of the non-neoplastic lesions was seen on both CT and on MRI. MRI allowed clear discrimination between tumors and non-neoplastic lesions in patients coming to surgery for intractable epilepsy.
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- D Bergen
- Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois 60612
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Higbee M, Ramsey R, Swenson E. Cefonicid-induced seizure. Clin Pharm 1987; 6:271-2. [PMID: 3665381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Fisher-Hoch SP, Mitchell SW, Sasso DR, Lange JV, Ramsey R, McCormick JB. Physiological and immunologic disturbances associated with shock in a primate model of Lassa fever. J Infect Dis 1987; 155:465-74. [PMID: 3543155 DOI: 10.1093/infdis/155.3.465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The degree of cell and organ damage in clinical and histological studies of patients dying of Lassa fever has been insufficient to explain the catastrophic shock characteristic of the fatal illness. To explore this issue further, we conducted a study of the evolution of shock in three Lassa virus-infected rhesus monkeys. By the sixth day after infection, a marked, progressive reduction of in vitro platelet aggregation occurred despite normal numbers of circulating platelets and a normal platelet survival time and was accompanied by loss of prostacyclin production by postmortem endothelium. Both of these functions recovered rapidly in a surviving animal. There was no evidence of disseminated intravascular coagulation, nor were clotting factors significantly abnormal. We observed association of viral antigen with neutrophils and progressive neutrophilia. Viremia was not reduced by a brisk antibody response in our animals, and there was a general depression of response to mitogens in mixed lymphocyte stimulation assays. Our findings suggest that shock in Lassa fever is due to biochemical dysfunctions of platelets and endothelial cells and results from loss of intravascular plasma volume, effusions, and hemorrhage.
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Ollero M, Leal M, Ramsey R, Wichman I, Vinuesa M, Muñoz J, Palmer E, Lissen E. [Penetration of anti-LVA/HTLV-III in type A and B hemophiliacs. Clinical and immunologic follow-up]. Med Clin (Barc) 1986; 86:100-4. [PMID: 3485746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Leal M, Wichmann I, Ramsey R, Palmer E. [Evidence of exposure to the virus of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in risk groups from the Seville area. Preliminary evaluation]. Med Clin (Barc) 1986; 86:130. [PMID: 3007883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Chorba TL, Brynes R, Kalyanaraman VS, Telfer M, Ramsey R, Mawle A, Palmer EL, Chen AT, Feorino P, Evatt BL. Transformed T lymphocytes infected by a novel isolate of human T cell leukemia virus type II. Blood 1985; 66:1336-42. [PMID: 2998509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Human T cell leukemia virus type II (HTLV-II) has been isolated from a patient (Mo) with features of leukemic reticuloendotheliosis (LRE) and from a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). We have obtained another isolate of HTLV-II from a patient (CM) with severe hemophilia A, pancytopenia, and a 14-year history of staphylococcal and candidal infections but no evidence of T cell leukemia/lymphoma, AIDS, or LRE. Fresh mononuclear cells and cultured lymphocytes from CM express retroviral antigens indistinguishable by molecular criteria from HTLV-IIMo. Leukocyte cultures from CM yield hyperdiploid (48,XY, +2, +19) continuous lymphoid lines; human fetal cord blood lymphocytes (CBL) are transformed by cocultivation with these CM cell cultures but retain normal cytogenetic constitution. Electron microscopic examination of the CM cultures and transformed CBL reveals budding of extracellular viral particles, intracellular tubuloreticular structures, and viral particles contained within intracellular vesicles. CM cell cultures and the transformed CBL do not require exogenous interleukin 2, have T cell cytochemical features and mature T helper phenotypes, and exhibit minimal T helper and profound T suppressor activity on pokeweed mitogen-stimulated differentiation of normal B cells. These characteristics, which are similar to those observed with the first HTLV-II isolate, may represent properties of all HTLV-II-infected T cells.
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Clark RB, Donaldson PL, Gration KA, Lambert JJ, Piek T, Ramsey R, Spanjer W, Usherwood PN. Block of locust muscle glutamate receptors by delta-philanthotoxin occurs after receptor activations. Brain Res 1982; 241:105-14. [PMID: 6125237 DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(82)91233-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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One component (delta-philanthotoxin (delta-PTX) of the venom from the wasp Philanthus triangulum blocks transmission postsynaptically at excitatory synapses on locust muscle. delta-PTX depresses both the iontophoretic glutamate potential and the excitatory junctional current (e.j.c.) in a glutamate receptor activation-dependent manner. The rate of recovery from the effects of the toxin is reduced following either prolonged application of L-glutamate or repetitive iontophoretic application of this amino acid or high frequency neural stimulation of the muscle in the presence of delta-PTX. The decay phase of the e.j.c. is shortened by delta-PTX. The effects of delta-PTX on the e.j.c. are not voltage dependent. The open-close kinetics of glutamate channels in extrajunctional muscle membrane are modified by delta-PTX as shown by patch clamp analysis. The mean life time of the glutamate channel is reduced, whilst the mean interval between single opening events is increased with the events often occurring in bursts. These data are consistent with glutamate channel blocking by this toxin. It is proposed that the toxin blocks open channels gated by both junctional and extrajunctional glutamate receptors on locust muscle. It is further proposed that delta-PTX enters a compartment of the muscle through the glutamate open channels and that it can also block the open channels from this site.
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Gration KA, Lambert JJ, Ramsey R, Usherwood PN. Non-random openings and concentration-dependent lifetimes of glutamate-gated channels in muscle membrane. Nature 1981; 291:423-5. [PMID: 6113544 DOI: 10.1038/291423a0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Ramsey R, Evatt BL. Rapid assay for von Willebrand factor activity using formalin-fixed platelets and microtitration technic. Am J Clin Pathol 1979; 72:996-9. [PMID: 316281 DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/72.6.996] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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An inexpensive assay for von Willebrand factor using microtitration plates, formalin-fixed platelets, and ristocetin is described. With this technic, the assay for von Willebrand factor is simple enough to be considered for use in any diagnostic laboratory for patients with prolonged bleeding times.
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Forty-one unrelated juvenile, insulin-dependent diabetics have been HLA tissue typed for A, B and Dw anitgens and compared with a normal control population. We have found statistically significant increases in the frequencies of B8, B18, and Dw3, and significant decrements in the frequencies of B7, B12 and Dw2. The log-linear modeling technique was used to study the association of JIDD with Dw3 and B8 antigens. We confirmed that the B8 excess seen in diabetics is secondary to the excess of Dw3. The decrements of B7, B12 and Dw2 could reflect an association of these antigens with a protective factor for the disease, or could be due to an artifact. The latter possibility was excluded for B7 and Dw2 by adjusting for the excess antigen frequencies. These findings suggest that the associations between the HLA and diabetes are compatible with the existence of genes which are concerned with the pathogenesis of the disease and are closely associated with the D locus of the major histocompatibility system.
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- J Barbosa
- Section of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA
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Ramsey R, Hays EF. Factors promoting colony stimulating activity (CSA) production in macrophages and epithelial cells. Exp Hematol 1979; 7:245-54. [PMID: 225188] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The regulation of colony stimulating activity (CSA) release from CSA producing cells is a poorly understood process. Using freshly isolated mouse peritoneal cells and a continuous line of mouse thymic epithelial cells a precise and reproducible method of short term culture was developed to study this phenomenon. Serum, endotoxin, lithium, and cyclic GMP stimulated CSA release from both cell types. Particles such as zymosan, inulin, latex, and iron filings stimulated CSA release from mouse peritoneal cells but not from thymic epthelial cells. Theophylline and cyclic AMP inhibited CSA release from both cell types. Trypsin activated guinea pig C3 and C5 did not stimulate CSA release. Cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, completely inhibited CSA release. We believe these findings may reflect mechanisms of in vivo regulation of CSA release.
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Ramsey R, Golde DW. Aplastic anemia from veterinary phenylbutazone. JAMA 1976; 236:1049. [PMID: 989582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Stefoski D, Bergen D, Fox J, Morrell F, Huckman M, Ramsey R. Correlation between diffuse EEG abnormalities and cerebral atrophy in senile dementia. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 1976; 39:751-5. [PMID: 956861 PMCID: PMC492442 DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.39.8.751] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Thirty-five elderly patients were investigated because of clinical signs of dementia. The presence or diffuse cerebral atrophy, and its severity, were determined by the use of computed tomography (CT scan). All of the patients were also examined by electroencephalography (EEG), and the presence of diffuse abnormalities, especially diffuse slowing, was noted. Specifically, patients with normal or near-normal EEGs were compared with those with severe diffuse slowing. No correlation between the presence or severity of diffuse EEG abnormalities and the degree of cerebral atrophy as measured by CT scan was found. Though the EEG is clearly identifying physiological dysfunction of nerve cells in demented patients it does not appear to be reliable tool for the prediction of diffuse cerebral atrophy in this population.
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Albertson KW, Doppman JL, Ramsey R. Spinal seizures induced by contrast media. A new method of comparing neurotoxicity of radiopaque agents. Radiology 1973; 107:349-51. [PMID: 4695902 DOI: 10.1148/107.2.349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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✓ The authors describe a percutaneous technique for producing extra- and intramedullary mass lesions in the dog and monkey. Small balloon catheters introduced through needles into the spinal canal can be positioned under fluoroscopic control to simulate epidural masses or masses within the cord. Selective spinal cord arteriography and silicone perfusion studies demonstrate the effect of such masses on spinal cord blood flow.
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Street S, Ramsey R. Sarcolemma: tension transmission. Science 1965; 150:1846. [PMID: 5859737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Ramsey R. TWO CASES OF MULTIPLE INTESTINAL OBSTRUCTION. West J Med 1907; 1:1296. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.2422.1296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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M'Gregor AN, Ramsey R. Notes of Experiments to Determine the Relative Efficiency of Some Surgical Dressing Materials. West J Med 1904; 1:1361-3. [DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.2267.1361] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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