The Keio Journal of Medicine
Online ISSN : 1880-1293
Print ISSN : 0022-9717
ISSN-L : 0022-9717
30 巻, 4 号
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  • TSUTOMU SAKUTA, SATORU SAITO
    1981 年 30 巻 4 号 p. 155-168
    発行日: 1981年
    公開日: 2009/03/27
    ジャーナル フリー
    The authors collected 71 cases of infanticide from the records of the National Police Agency in Japan (all victims were less than one year old) and divided into the filicide group (18 cases) and the neonaticide group (53 cases). Neonaticide is defined as the killing of a neonate on the day of its birth. Filicide is operationally defined as the murder of children older than 24 hours. The neonaticide group is subdivided into ‘Anomie type’ and ‘Mabiki type or thinning out type’. The Mabiki type corresponds to the ancient means of the population control. Mabiki is a Japanese term which signifies ‘thinning out’, originally used in plants, later applied to killing babies for population control in older days. The Anomie type is a product of `anomie situation' in modern society and has possibly been increasing in number.
  • TOSHIHIKO ARAI, YOKO KOMATSU, SADAO KOMATSU
    1981 年 30 巻 4 号 p. 169-175
    発行日: 1981年
    公開日: 2009/03/27
    ジャーナル フリー
    Agglutinating and opsonic activities of the commercially available human immunoglobulin as well as a healthy human volunteer serum against various bacteria were examined. The opsonin titers of both serum materials against most of the rare resident bacteria were found to be almost same as their agglutinin titers, suggesting that opsonins in the serum materials were specific agglutinating antibodies. Therefore, the protective activities of the serum materials against various opportunistic pathogens could be judged by their contents of specific antibodies. But it was also observed that the opsonin titers against the major resident bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, Streptococcus faecalis and Lactobacillus spp. were higher than the agglutinin titers, suggest-ing that the circulating antibodies specific for major resident bacteria were small, because of the frequent consumptions by the invaded bacteria into cir-culation.
  • TOSHIHIKO ARAI, TAKAO ANDO, SADAO KOMATSU, YOKO KOMATSU
    1981 年 30 巻 4 号 p. 177-186
    発行日: 1981年
    公開日: 2009/03/27
    ジャーナル フリー
    A plasmid-mediated surface antigen of naturally occurring Escherichia coli strains were demonstrated. This antigen was classified into L type (heat-labile K) antigens but was suggested not to be a pilus antigen, because no pilus was found on the surface of those common pili-free E. coli C strains carrying the responsible plasmids and also because the strains did not hemag-glutinate red blood cells of any animal species so far studied. Incidences of such antigen-forming strains were higher in the strains isolated from feces and respiratory tract secretions than in those from other sources. Plasmid DNAs from these strains were different from one another in their molecular sizes, but they had a common size band after digestion by EcoRI endonuclease, suggesting that they had a similar or the same origin(s).
  • TOSHIHIKO ARAI, SADAO KOMATSU, YOKO KOMATSU, SINJI TAKAHASHI, AKIO KOB ...
    1981 年 30 巻 4 号 p. 187-192
    発行日: 1981年
    公開日: 2009/03/27
    ジャーナル フリー
    We surveyed the strains which had the specific adhesive functions to human and swine small intestine in the Escherichia coli strains isolated from clinical materials and swine feces. Incidences of these specific adhesive strains were shown to be not so high being around 10% or lower. Among those, the incidence of the specific adhesive strains to swine small intestine was higher in the clinically isolated strains than in swine fecal strains. In contrast the incidence of the specific adhesive strains to human small in-testine was higher in the swine fecal strains than in the clinically isolated strains. Since these strains were collected from the materials not related to diarrhea, the detected specific adhesive strains were carried by animals not susceptible for them as non-pathogenic resident flora. These strains could by potentially pathogenic to the susceptible host animals.
  • YUTAKA SAWA
    1981 年 30 巻 4 号 p. 193-204
    発行日: 1981年
    公開日: 2009/03/27
    ジャーナル フリー
    Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) was applied to nine endogenous de-pressed patients and the concentrations of cyclic-AMP (c-AMP), free (non-albumin bound) tryptophan, total tryptophan, non-esterified fatty acid (NEFA) and tyrosine in the plasma were measured before and after the first single ECT. As for six patients that could be followed after a course of ECTs, the change of these components and clinical assessments with rating scales was also measured. The content of c-AMP was significantly increased at 1 min, 5 min, 10 min and 30 min after the first single ECT and returned to 121% on the average by 1 hr. As to the maximum content of free trypto-phan of each patient from 1 min to 10 min after ECT, a significant increase was noted. Total tryptophan levels were significantly decreased at 5 min and 10 min after the first single ECT and gradually returned to the original level by 1 hr. The content of tyrosine was significantly increased just after the first single ECT and, conversely, a significant decrease was noticed at 1 hr after ECT. NEFA was significantly decreased at 1 min and 5 min after the first single ECT. As for the six patients that could be followed concerning the changes of various components and clinical assessments, all six patients showed dramatic and significant improvement in both subjective and objec-tive rating scales. Percent free tryptophan tended to increase significantly in these patients, but there was no significant change in c-AMP, total trypto-phan, NEFA, and tyrosine values.
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