Azinomycins A and B, isolated from the culture broth of Streptomyces griseofuscus S 42227, were examined for antitumor activities against P388 leukemia, P815 mastocytoma, B-16 melanoma, Ehrlich carcinoma, Lewis lung carcinoma and Meth A fibrosarcoma. Azinomycin B was markedly effective against the intraperitoneally inoculated tumors such as P388 leukemia, B-16 melanoma and Ehrlich carcinoma. The intraperitoneal administration of azinomycin B showed 57% survivors for 45 days and 193 % ILS against P388 leukemia. For Ehrlich carcinoma, azinomycin B gave 161 % ILS and 63% survivors for 45 days, but solid tumors such as Lewis lung carcinoma and Meth A fibrosarcoma were not susceptible to repeated injection of this substance. AzinomycinA was somewhatless effective than azinomycin B for the tumor systems tested.
To investigate how bacterial pathogens spread from child to child in a day care center, we monitored six children, two boys and four girls, born between August 1995 and November 1997, attending a day care center and analyzed nasopharyngeal samples from them using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). We obtained nasopharyngeal cultures from all of the affected children and almost all of the unaffected children between September 1998 and March 1999 after some children presented simultaneously with purulent rhinorrhea. Moreover, when a child was found to have acute otitis media, nasopharyngeal secretions from the child were independently cultured during treatment. During this period, 28 isolates of Moraxella catarrhalis, 13 ofStreptococcus pneumoniae, and 4 of Haemophilus influenzae were recovered. PFGE gave 8 patterns for M. catarrhalis, 10 for S. pneumoniae, and 1 for H. influenzae. PFGE patterns demonstrated spread of M. catarrhalis between children. However, each occurrence of clusters of infection with M. catarrhalis lasted 2 to 6 weeks, with a change in PFGE pattern between occurrences of clusters. The M. catarrhalis strain infecting each child also changed. Similarly, the S. pneumoniae strain in each child also changed. In contrast, infection with H. influenzaepersisted for about 3 months in an affected child.
Studieson Synthesis of 3-ƒ--Alkyl-D-glucose and 3-ƒ--Alkyl-Dallose Derivatives and Their Biological Activities TETSURO IKEKAWA,*, a KAZUHIKO IRINODA,a, 1 ) KOICHI SAZE,a TATSUHIKO KATORI ,b
Squalene (SQ) which was highly purified from shark liver oil and its related compounds were tested for antitumor activity. SQ has no cytotoxic activity in vitro and in vivo, and showed rather high tumor growth inhibitory effect against sarcoma 180 by p.o. administration. It is due to host-mediated antitumor activity. SQ prevented lung metastasis in mice bearing Lewis lung carcinoma by p. o. administration and showed dominant effects by combination with other cancer therapy.
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