Measurement of urinary steroid production rates using stable-isotopes and GC-MS

Summary The urinary production rate of pregnenolone has been determined for a male subject using 7,7-d₂-pregnenolone as an isotopic tracer.To whom correspondence should be addressed.     

Sexual dimorphism of mouse fetal brain lesions after X-irradiation prior to gonadal differentiation

Fractionated X-irradiation of gestational days 11-13 in the mouse, with doses between 3 x 1.05 and 3 x 1.33 Gy resulted in rosette-like clusters of primitive ependym-resembling cells dispersed within the cortex walls. Quantification of these abnormalities showed a general prevalence in the female fetuses, especially due to the larger number of rosettes in the females than in the males. It was concluded that X-irradiation acts on sex-specific differentiation steps, which are fully developed at the beginning of the fetal period. As it was recently speculated that these are linked to an early divergence of gene expression between the sexes, we suggest that X-chromosome damage may be involved in the pathogenesis of the dimorphic lesion pattern. While, in principle, this will valid for any fetal tissue, it only becames evident in the forebrain because of the outstanding relationship between cell necrosis and rosette development in this specific organ.     

The optical rotatory dispersion curves oftrans-decalones and their polycyclic analogues

Zusammenfassung Der Einfluss von Methylsubstituenten, sowie von zusätzlich anellierten Ringen auf die Amplitude der Rotationsdispersionskurve vontrans-Dekalon (1) undtrans-Dekalon (2) wird durch Analyse eines umfangreichen Tatsachenmaterials ermittelt. Die in tabellarischer Form zusammengestellten, für den jeweiligen Substitutionstyp charakteristischen Beiträge verhalten sich in erster Näherung additiv und können deshalb zur Überprüfung von Strukturen, Konfigurationen und Konstellationen herangezogen werden.

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Paper IX of the seriesOptical Rotatory Dispersion. For Paper VIII, seeJ. Hrbek jr., J. P. Jennings, W. Klyne, andF. antavý, Coll. Czech. Chem. Comm.,29, in press (1964).     

Effect of histamine on the diameter of skeletal muscle fibers in mice

Résumé Des souris reçurent des injections intrapéritonéales de bichlorure d'histamine. Le diamètre moyen des fibres musculaires s'en trouva nettement réduit et des modifications histologiques furent notées chez les souris traitées.

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Supported by grant HD-00221, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service. I wish to gratefully acknowledge the technical assistance of MissF. Vaughan.