1. Leucocyte electrolytes were measured in pre-eclampsia and comparison was made with leucocytes from normal primigravidae and from the original pre-eclamptic subjects 6 months after delivery when blood pressure had returned to normal. 2. In pre-eclamptic subjects, leucocyte sodium was elevated and potassium depressed, and the rate constant for sodium efflux was depressed. 3. These changes retu...

C hemokines (chemotactic cytokines) are small (7–10 kDa) heparin binding proteins that govern the migration of circulating leucocytes to the sites of inflammation. Chemokines, currently numbering more than 50, are classified into four supergene families based on cysteine residues: CXC, CC, C, and CX3C chemokines (table 1). Chemokines are distinguished from other cytokines by acting on the G pro...

Indium-111 labelled autologous leucocyte imaging was used to assess severity in 13 patients with acute pancreatitis. All three patients with severe disease as judged by a prognostic factor grading system had a positive result on imaging. A fourth patient with mild disease as judged by prognostic factors had a positive imaging result and 14 days later developed a pseudocyst. There were no false ...

they were present in the peripheral blood of the mother, they either did not survive for more than 4 weeks, or at least they disappeared from the circulation. They were not selected out in a long term leucocyte culture. The latter fact however is not surprising as we have been unable to detect the marker chromosome specific of the leukaemic cells in established long term leucocyte cultures in 1...

The intracellular sodium, potassium, and water content of isolated leucocytes was estimated in 47 patients with cirrhosis. The values for sodium showed a wide scatter. In patients without ascites the mean value was significantly increased but in those accumulating ascites it was normal, although often reduced in individual subjects. Reduced values were found in patients with hyponatraemia assoc...

Of 24 published clinical reports of periodic chronic myelogenous leukaemia (PCML), 21 had sufficient data to analyse for periodicity, and 12 showed significant periodicity (p < or = 0.05) using the Lomb periodogram. Leucocyte oscillations had periods T ranging from 37 to 83d. When data were also reported for platelets and reticulocytes there was no significant difference between their periods a...