Mucoprotein Concentrations in Psychotics

Virus Enzyme and Mucoprotein *

With regard to size and enzymatic equipment viruses may be regarded as representing the lowest level of life. Their size ranges from about 20 to 400 m,. Viruses do not grow on cell-free culture media; they multiply in living cells, and only those cells are host cells whose membranes have suitable adsorption areas for attachment of the virus particle and whose metabolic processes can be directed...

Stereotaxic amygdalotomy and basofrontal tractotomy in psychotics with aggressive behaviour.

Twelve patients with personality disorders or chronic schizophrenia in whom aggressive-destructive behaviour was a prominent feature were treated by bilateral stereotaxic electrocoagulation of the amygdala. In two of the patients a cingulectomy and in five of the patients a frontal lobotomy had been performed several years previously without effect. In 11 of the patients the amygdalotomy result...

Mucoprotein-containing histiocytes (muciphages) in the rectum.

Mucoprotein-containing macrophages (muciphages) are a common finding in routine rectal biopsies, occurring in about 50% of cases. No correlation was found between their presence and the sex, age, and disease of the patient. They must be distinguished from the cells of Whipple's disease and from lipofuscin-containing macrophages. The origin of the mucoprotein is discussed and rectal epithelial m...

Preparation of highly potent intrinsic factor mucoprotein.

Immunofluorescent localization of Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein in human kidney.

A fluorescein-labelled antiserum to human Tamm-Horsfall mucoprotein applied to frozen human kidney sections gave strong specific labelling, mainly of cells of tubules in the outer medulla. By comparison with adjacent serial sections stained for alkaline phosphatase and succinic dehydrogenase, it is suggested that material reacting immunologically as Tamm-Horsfall muco-protein is found particula...