HISTOPATHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON HUMAN LEPROSY (IV)

Studies on Plasma Protein. IV. Leprosy

Clinico Histopathological Correlation in Leprosy

Introduction: Leprosy is a chronic, infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae. It is classified into five groups based on clinical, histological, microbiological and immunological criteria (Ridley & Jopling Classification). However a great variation is seen in interpretation of clinical and histopathological examination of these lesions. The present research was taken to study the corre...

Histopathological Studies on Radiation Pneumonitis.

Studies on radiation pneumonitis have been made from the beginning of the 20th century in Europe and America. Prior to the Second World War, many articles have appeared including the works of Engelstad5> and Warren et al.25) who described the general aspects of this problem. In Japan, the incidence of this disease has been rare. A case report by Hamaguchi and Akazaki9) was only available before...

Structural studies on human type IV collagen.

Type IV collagen was isolated from limited pepsin digests of human placenta by selective salt precipitation at acidic and neutral pH. The native protein was resistant to human skin collagenase but was cleaved by a rat mast cell protease. Molecular sieve chromatography of the reduced and alkylated material separated relatively homogeneous components of molecular weight 140,000 (140K) and 100,000...

Studies on the therapy of leprosy.

Of a score or more experimental treatments employed in human leprosy at Carville only two, chaulmoogra oil and the sulfone drugs, have proved worthy of more than passing consideration. Chaulmoogra oil, of course. had been an established treatment in leprosy long before its use in this country. It was considered experimental only in the sense that it had not had an extensive and critical clinica...