As our population ages and the rate of spine surgery continues to rise, the use epidural lysis of adhesions (LOA) has emerged as a popular treatment to treat spinal stenosis and failed back surgery syndrome. There is moderate evidence that percutaneous LOA is more effective than conventional ESI for both failed back surgery syndrome, spinal stenosis, and lumbar radiculopathy. For cervical HNP, ...

The purposes of the present s tudy have been to explore the possibility of producing a strongly active fibrinolytic system in the circulating blood of rabbits by intravenous injections of streptokinase and to observe its effect on art ificially induced intravascular clots. In developing the study, a number of quantitative estimations have been made pertaining to the streptococcal fibrinolytic s...

The response of nucleated bone marrow cells from C3H mice to hyperthermic temperatures of 41.5 to 49.5 degrees for a fixed heating period of 30 min has been determined. The threshold temperatures for cell lysis, loss of trypan blue exclusion, and histological evidence of cell injury were greater than 49.5 degrees, 45.5 degrees and 43.5 degrees, respectively. Growth of mature granulocyte-monocyt...

Tumor lysis syndrome (TLS) is a known complication of malignancy and its treatment. The incidence varies on malignancy type, but is most common with hematologic neoplasms during cytotoxic treatment. Spontaneous TLS is thought to be rare. This case study is of a 62-year-old female admitted with multisystem organ failure, with subsequent diagnosis of aggressive B cell lymphoma. On admission, labo...

From the Department of Oncology and International Outreach Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (S.C.H., C.-H.P.), and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center, College of Medicine (S.C.H., D.P.J., C.-H.P.) — both in Memphis. Address reprint requests to Dr. Howard at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, 262 Danny Thomas Place, Barry-Longinotti Bld...

A morphologic study of normal and AET-treated lymphocytes than in their AET-treated lymphocytes exposed in untreated counterparts. These results vitro to cytotoxic antibody and compleconfirm the serologic finding that AETment (C) has been carried out using both treated lymphocytes possess a higher transmission and scanning electron microthan normal susceptibility to the damagscopy. The abnormal...

The outer membrane fraction from Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides was isolated by isopycnic density centrifugation. The purity of this fraction was assayed by several methods. When the outer membrane fraction obtained after French press lysis of cells was compared with the outer membrane fragments released during spheroplast formation, the polypeptide profiles were identical. Detergent solubilizati...

In an effort to discover an alternative antibiotic for treating infections with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Pseudomonas sp. UJ-6, a marine bacterium that exhibited antibacterial activity against MRSA, was isolated. The culture broth and its ethyl acetate extract exhibited bactericidal activity against MRSA. The extract also exhibited antibacterial activity against gram-n...