OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of intra-articular corticosteroids added to systemic antibiotics in experimental septic arthritis. METHODS Rabbits were injected intra-articularly by Staphylococcus epidermidis. Rabbits received no additional treatment and served as control (group 1), were treated with systemic antibiotics (group 2), or treated with systemic antibiotics and intra-articular corti...

Sinus histiocytosis massive lymphadenopathy (SHML) syndrome with hepatic involvement, occurring in a seven-year-old black female, is reported. Morphologic characterization of the hepatic lesion is accomplished utilizing conventional light, fluorescent and electron microscopy, and histochemical techniques and by comparing and contrasting the findings with those in cases of familial erythrophagoc...

Histochemical investigations have been carried out on epithelial mucins in the digestive tract of experimental animals (Martin, 1961; Gerard, 1964) and human subjects (Hoskins and Zamcheck, 1963; Schrager, 1964; Lev and Spicer, 1965; Lev, 1965), and different histochemical properties of these mucins have been observed in different parts of the gastrointestinal tract. Preliminary observations in...

The jaw muscles of a turtle [Mauremys (Clemmys) japonica (MCJ)], have been analyzed for the histochemical characteristics of their fiber types. Six jaw muscles of the MCJ have been analyzed for histochemical characteristics of their fiber types. In this study, fiber types in two groups of muscles are classified; 1) fast twitch glycolytic (FG), fast twitch oxidative glycolytic (FOG), slow twitch...

Background/objective: Despite the present routine treatment of septic arthritis with antibacterial agents, articular damage is persistent and frequently leads to loss of joint function.  The aim of this study was to assess the effect of intra-articular corticosteroids added to systemic antibiotics in the treatment of experimental staphylococcal knee joint infection in rabbits. Methods: Thirty r...

AIMS To compare the efficacy of histochemical and immunohistochemical methods in detecting forms of Sporothrix schenckii in tissue. METHODS Thirty five cutaneous biopsy specimens from 27 patients with sporotrichosis were stained by histochemical haematoxylin and eosin, periodic acid Schiff, and Gomori's methenamine silver methods and an immunohistochemical (avidin-biotin complex immunoperoxid...

Localized tumors composed of immature cells of the myelogenous series have been recognized for many years as an uncommon manifestation of granulocytic leukemia. The histologic diagnosis of chloroma (granulocytic sarcoma) may be extremely difficult when the myeloblastic cells are poorly differentiated and the tumor lacks the characteristic green color. The diagnostic difficulty may be further co...

The acid phosphatase activity of rat liver homogenates and of nuclear and cytoplasmic fractions isolated therefrom (by differential centrifugation) was determined biochemically in a series of experiments. For each liver, Gomori's histochemical test for acid phosphatase was run in parallel. No correlation was found between the biochemical and the histochemical results. According to the former, t...

Abstract Histochemical staining of histological sections Varroa destructor (Anderson and Trueman, 2000) mites reveal the internal body plan are used to contrast organs associated with feeding reproduction starved versus recently fed female mites. The gnathosoma is comprised a powerful sucking pharynx, which employs 11 alternating dilator constrictor muscles, chelicerae, salivary ducts, salivari...

background/objective: despite the present routine treatment of septic arthritis with antibacterial agents, articular damage is persistent and frequently leads to loss of joint function.  the aim of this study was to assess the effect of intra-articular corticosteroids added to systemic antibiotics in the treatment of experimental staphylococcal knee joint infection in rabbits.   methods : thirt...