The presence of effusion in association with multiple myeloma or macroglobulinemia is an unusual finding which generally occurs late in the course of the disease. Occasionally, cytoligic detection is a diagnostic problem. In both conditions, the fluid is characrerized by a high specific gravity and high protein content. In myeloma, plasma cells at varying stages of differentiation are present, ...

There is a need to identify novel scaffolds and targets to develop new antibiotics. Methylene blue is a phenothiazine derivative, and it has been shown to possess anti-malarial and anti-trypanosomal activities. Here, we show that different phenothiazine derivatives and pyronine G inhibited the activities of three structurally different bacterial RNase P RNAs (RPRs), including that from Mycobact...

Genes (ebrAB) responsible for ethidium resistance were cloned from chromosomal DNA of Bacillus subtilis ATCC 9372. The recombinant plasmid produced elevated resistance against ethidium bromide, acriflavine, pyronine Y, and safranin O not only in Escherichia coli but also in B. subtilis. It also caused an elevated energy-dependent efflux of ethidium in E. coli. EbrA and EbrB showed high sequence...

There exist many methods for the application of the Gram stain to histological sections, and with all of them there is generally no difficulty in recognising Gram-positive organisms. However, with most of the well-recognised methods Gram-negative bacteria are difficult to distinguish from the background. Twort's method distinguishes Gram-negative bacteria from the background but is relatively t...

A method for the cultivation of embryo chick tissues which gave rise to numerous and unusually large crystals and particles is detailed. Forms were helical, tubular, ribbon-like, hexagonal, rhomboidal, and filamentous. Rhomboids and hexagonals often had surface areas several times the size of the broad and flat tissue-cultured cells, and helices were observed up to 300 @ in length. Transformati...

Lymph nodes and splenic tissue from patients with congenital agammaglobulinemia and dysgammaglobulinemia and from normal subjects were studied with the use of immunofluorescence and histochemical stains to determine the site of synthesis of the 19S gamma(1)-globulins. The two patients with dysgammaglobulinemia had high serum concentrations of the 19S gamma(1)-globulins and a marked deficit of t...

Host-guest materials containing strongly fluorescent donor and acceptor molecules have been prepared. Fine-tuning of the donor to acceptor distance in this material allows beautiful visible and quantitative observation of electronic excitation energy transfer phenomena. Oxonine and pyronine have been used as guest molecules and zeolite L as host. The dyes have been inserted by ion exchange. Sta...

The distribution and renewal of RNA in mature rod visual cells has been studied by histochemical and autoradiographic technique in the rat and the frog. Staining with methyl green and pyronin, combined with ribonuclease extraction, revealed the presence of RNA in the nucleus and inner segments of rods in both species. Synthesis of RNA was studied by injecting cytidine-H, a radioactive precursor...

Methyl-green-pyronin-Y staining was performed on 57 biopsies of Burkitt's tumour and 62 biopsies from other types of malignant lymphoma. The specificity of the pyronin staining for ribonucleic acid (RNA) was controlled by staining duplicate slides previously digested in ribonuclease. Burkitt's tumour cells have a higher cytoplasmic content of RNA than the cells of most other malignant lymphomas...