Six children with recurrent parotitis were studied by ultrasound. Of the 12 parotid glands thus observed, 5 were swollen and 7 were not enlarged. Multiple round hypoechoic areas measuring 2-4 mm in diameter were seen in all 5 enlarged parotid glands and in 5 non-enlarged glands. These small hypoechoic areas were larger than the punctate pools of contrast medium shown by sialography. We consider that these hypoechoic areas represented both peripheral sialectasis and surrounding lymphocytic infiltration. We propose that ultrasonography may be useful for the diagnosis and follow-up of recurrent parotitis in childhood.
The structural requirement has been studied for apolipoproteins in their free form to interact with cells, to generate high density lipoprotein (HDL), and to cause cellular lipid efflux (J. Biol. Chem. 266, 3080-3086, 1991). It is shown that human apolipoprotein (apo) A-IV and apolipophorin III of Manduca sexta cause cholesterol efflux from cholesterol-loaded mouse peritoneal macrophages and reduce intracellularly accumulated cholesteryl ester as a result of forming HDL-like particles with cellular lipids, as do apoA-I, A-II and E. On the other hand, similar to apoC-III, reduced-and-carboxymethylated human apoA-II had no such effect. Thus, apolipoproteins seem to require at least four amphiphilic helical segments per molecule to express this function.
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