Twenty patients were treated with antilymphocyte globulin (ALG) which was prepared from the serum of immunized horses. The ALG was used as an adjuvant to azathioprine and prednisone and its use limited to 4 months. The surviving patients are now 1 to 7 months postoperative. There was 1 death, the consequence of a technical accident. The function in the remaining 19 patients is excellent, despit...

The term motion sickness was originally introduced to provide a nosological classification for disorders elicited by exposure to unusual patterns of motion, such as sea sickness, train sickness, and swing sickness. The term came to subsume air sickness as well, and in recent years, simulator sickness, space sickness, and cybersickness (virtual environment sickness). It is now recognized that bo...

Bee venom injection therapy is an alternative treatment sometimes used for chronic inflammatory diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, to reduce pain. Several chemical components of bee venom have anti-inflammatory effects, and apitoxin, one of the mixed components, has been used for pain prevention therapy. However, there have been no large-scale investigations regard...

IGF-I and increase serum GH which causes irreversible change in the partitioning of nutrients for tissue deposition. Ward et al. (1992) found that fasted cattle have higher serum cortisol concentrations than do fed cattle. Cortisol may be involved in anorexia-associated decreases in carcass weight and fatness through decreased thyroid hormone activity and increased protein catabolism. Third, cy...

Many diseases affecting the eyes are considered to be allergic manifestations (Cooke, 1947), but the retina and optic nerve are involved only rarely; retinitis, detachment of the retina, and optic neuritis may result (Tassmann, 1946). A contrary view is that retinal oedema was common during the era of serum therapy because of the high incidence of serum sickness. Foods, pollens, and drugs were ...

background: working conditions have considerably changed and exposure to psychosocial risk factors, particularly occupational stress, has recently had an increasing trend. studies have shown that sickness absence was the worst outcome of occupational stress. the present study aimed to assess the relationship between dimensions of occupational stress and sickness absence in a gas company in bous...

Antieosinophil serum (AES), obtained by immunizing rabbits with a highly purified suspension of mouse eosinophils, contains high titers of specific agglutinating and cytotoxic antibodies to eosinophils. Absorption with macrophages, lymphocytes, and neutrophils does not affect the antieosinophilic activity while it is markedly lowered by absorption with eosinophils. One dose of AES (0.1 ml) inje...