The distribution of antibodies against swine and Hong Kong influenza viruses among hogs in Miyagi Prefecture was examined. Of 456 serum specimens collected since July 1977, 12 were found to be positive against swine influenza virus and 6 against Hong Kong influenza virus. Such serological results reveal that swine and Hong Kong influenza viruses coexist in Japanese hogs and suggest that swine i...

Since 1978 continuous intravenous infusion with Althesin has been used instead of barbiturates in the regime. Mortality rate fell from 83.7 percent (1970 1977) to 43.7 percent (1978 1980) for nonhead injury patients and from 72.1 percent (1970 1977) to 45.6 percent (1978 1980) in the headinjured group, the differences between the periods being statistically significant. The possible influencing...

Dye-labelled DNA sequencing is one of the most common and robust technique required for molecular biology since 1977 (Sanger, 1977) [1]. I have recently provided the single-step purification method for dye-labeled sequencing products, which is based on the removal of the washing step in EDTA/ethanol precipitation (Fujikura, 2015) [2]. Here I assess and report the accumulated data of the modifie...

In the case of Beal v. Doe, decided in 1977, the US Supreme Court ruled that states could constitutionally restrict money from Medicaid from funding elective abortions. After the 1973 case Roe v. Wade [2], in which the US Supreme Court had ruled that women have rights to terminate pregnancies within the first trimester [3], the state of Pennsylvania passed legislation that restricted the use of...

The New York Appellate Court ruled on 11 December 1977 in favor of Steven and Hetty Park and against Herbert Chessin for the wrongful life [5] of the Parks' child. In a wrongful life [5] case, a disabled or sometimes deceased child brings suit against a physician for failing to inform its parents of possible genetic defects, thereby causing harm to the child when born. Park v. Chessin [4] was t...

Stimulated phosphatidylinositol breakdown, followed by compensatory resynthesis, is a response of a wide variety of cells to many hormones and neurotransmitters. Until recently, most work on this response employed secretory tissues, nervous tissues or smooth muscles, and the most intensively studied stimuli were muscarinic, cholinergic and a-adrenergic. As a tentative synthesis of all of these ...