PRINCIPLES Hypersplenism can be defined by thrombocytopenia and/or neutropenia resulting from blood cell sequestration in an enlarged spleen. In multimorbid patients the differential diagnosis of cytopenia is challenging and currently there is no established test for diagnosing hypersplenism. METHODS The epinephrine stimulation test (EST) measures changes in platelets, neutrophil counts and s...

OBJECTIVE Recent clinical trials use cell therapy with bone marrow (BM) cells or endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) for ischemic syndromes. We explored the effect of BM cell- or spleen cell-derived EPC transfer on plaque size and stability markers in the apolipoprotein E knockout (apoE KO) mouse model. METHODS AND RESULTS ApoE KO mice aged 10 weeks served as recipients. Labeled BM cells and ...

A significant (P less than 0.05) interaction resulting in increased mortality occurred in chickens fed T-2 toxin (16 mug./g. of diet) and infected with either Salmonella worthington, S. thompson, S. derby, or S. typhimurium var. copenhagen, all species that cause paratyphoid. No interaction on growth rate or relative size of the bursa of Fabricus occurred, although T-2 toxin alone caused a sign...

Pseudocysts of the spleen are very rare, found in <1% of the splenectomies done and usually develop secondary to trauma. Pseudocysts of spleen rarely grow to large size and most of these remain asymptomatic, they require exploration only in symptomatic cases and chances for spleen preservation in these cases are usually less. Here, we present two cases of this rare entity developing secondary t...

This study aims to describe ultrasonographic imaging of the spleen, stomach, liver, kidney, bladder, and prostate in piglets (Sus scrofa domestica). Ultrasonography was performed on six male aged 1 month with a body weight 4-8 kg. urinary observed dorsal-recumbency position, kidney lateral-recumbency position. The ultrasound examination used Chison EBit 60, which is linear type transducer frequ...

a purification procedure of pertussis toxin (pt) from submerged culture of bordetella pertussis (b.pertussis) strain 134 using adsorption and affinity chromatography was discussed. the yield of the resulting pt was approximately 37.5mg/l of concentrated culture supernatant. the polypeptide pattern of the purified pt was investigated by sds-page and showed five bands between 11 to 26 kda using l...

PURPOSE The aim of this retrospective study was to compare the splenic vein diameter and longitudinal size of the spleen in patients with portal hypertension in whom Gamna-Gandy bodies were present in their spleen with those of cirrhotic patients without Gamna-Gandy bodies and a control group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between July 2001 and February 2006, patients in whom Gamna-Gandy bodies were ...