Focal hyperhidrosis of axillae, palms or soles is a frequent, socially debilitating condition triggered by various emotional stimuli. There are several treatment options such as local application of metal sales (aluminum chloride) or tap water iontophoresis, which provide temporary relief for some patients. More recently, local intradermal injections of botulinum toxin A (BTX-A), a neurotoxin b...

1. Calcium chloride given subcutaneously, intraperitoneally, or intravenously has been found to have no effect upon the production of botulism following the injection of Bacillus botulinus (Strain 80B) into the peritoneal cavity of guinea pigs. 2. Treatment of Bacillus botulinus with alcohol has been found markedly to decrease its toxicity for guinea pigs. This is in conformity with the work of...

Chronic Haloperidol or Fluphenazine: Effects on Dopamine Metabolism in Brain, Cerebrospinal Fluid and Plasma of Cercopithecus Aethiops (Vervet Monkey). N. G. BACOPOULOS, D. E. REDMOND, J. BAULU AND R. H. Rom 1 Possible Mechanisms of Reduction of Plasma Luteinizing Hormone by EthanoL ROBERT E. CHAPIN, GEORGE R. BREESE AND ROBERT A. MUELLER 6 Localization and Quantitation of Lithium in Rat Tissue...

The effects of alpha-toxins from Bungarus multicinctus (alpha BuTX) and Naja naja siamensis (alpha NTX) were studied on synaptic responses and on extrasynaptic responses to focally applied acetylcholine (ACh), histamine (Hm), gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), and glutamate (glu) in neurons of the marine mollusc, Aplysia californica. Binding of 125I-alpha BuTX to Aplysia ganglia homogenates was ph...

Two methods of detecting antibodies to tetanus toxoid were compared, a radioimmunoassay (RIA) employing radiolabelled staphylococcal protein A and a direct haemagglutination (HA) method employing sheep erythrocytes coupled to tetanus toxoid with chromic chloride. These were shown to have a similarly high specificity with the HA method showing slightly higher sensitivity. Haemagglutination offer...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and permanently improve axillary hyperhidrosis. BACKGROUND Excessive sweating of the axillae is a common problem for which patients frequently seek dermatologic advice and therapy. Many treatments, including aluminum chloride, topical and systemic anticholinergic agents, tranquilizers, iontophoresis, direct surgical excision, botulinum toxin injection, and thoracic sympa...

mIMCD-k2 cells are derived from the inner medullary collecting duct of a mouse and exhibit electrogenic sodium absorption and cAMP- and vasopressin (AVP)-stimulated electrogenic chloride secretion [N. L. Kizer, B. Lewis, and B. A. Stanton. Am. J. Physiol. 268 (Renal Fluid Electrolyte Physiol. 37): F347-F355, 1995; and N. L. Kizer, D. Vandorpe, B. Lewis, B. Bunting, J. Russell, and B. A. Stanton...

designing and producing a proper fusion construction is the most important problem of producing large quantities of a properly folded functional protein. this construction should have all necessary components of a real gene. a good designed fusion gene construction could be cloned into a good and suitable host. clostridium perfringens is an important pathogen of humans and livestock and produce...