64 male rats were divided into two groups and fed on the diet containing, as percentage of dietary energy, 20% protein, 50% carbohydrate and 30% fat, which composed of undecanoin: caprin: soyabean oil (45:45:10 V/V/V) for the experimental group and soyabean oil only for the control group. At the end of the 8th week, 8 animals of each group were sacrificed after fasting 4, 24, 48 and 72 hours respectively.

Since the terminal three-carbon residue of the odd-numbered medium chain fatty acids (OMFA) was glucogenic, OMFA enriched rats possessed a potential source of gluconeogenetic precusors, thus the blood glucose and immunoreactive insulin (IRI), perhaps the liver glycogen of those rats maintained at higher level as compared with the controls.

In brief, the present study revealed that OMFA could be deposited into as well as mobilized from the adipose tissue. During prolonged starvation OMFA was catabolized rapidly.

An Ratten wurden experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Prophylaxe von abdominalen Verwachsungen und von Adhäsionsileus durchgeführt, und zwar in getrennten Versuchsreihen: (1) Untersuchungen zur Prophylaxe von abdominalen Verwachsungen mittels chinesischer Heilkräuter und moderner Medikamente; (2) Ileusprophylaxe durch Mesenterialraffung mittels Buty1-Cyanoacrylat. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, daß durch kombinierte Applikation von chinesischen Heilkräutern, einem Kortisonderivat, Antihistamin und Fibrinolytika die Ausbildung von Verwachsungen nach intraabdominalen Eingriffen signifikant gehemmt wird, und daß die Methode der Mesenterialraffung mit dem Gewebeklebstoff “Buty1-Cyanoacrylat” zur Prophylaxe und Therapie des rezidivierenden Dünndarmileus geeignet ist.

Orthotopic liver transplantation in the rat is selected as a model for transplantation researches in a few countries in recent years, but the technique previously reported is difficult to master. Since 1981, we have been testing a new technique which differs from any so far reported mainly in the sequence of vascular anastomoses. At first, the portal veins are connected by using cuff technique before removal of the recipient’s liver and then the supra- and infrahepatic venae cavae are anastomosed. As a result, the clamping time of the portal vein and inferior vena cava are shortened to 13 and 14 minutes respectively, resulting in high postoperative survival rate.

The results obtained in detecting circulating immune complex (CIC) and HBsAg-CIC dissociation in children with hepatitis B glomerulonephritis (GN) by using simplified methods of polyethylene glycol precipitation (PEG) and PEG-trypsin were reported in this paper. As the difference of results in detecting CIC was not significant in different HBsAg (+) patient groups, this method seems not to be specific to the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of hepatitis B GN. However, HBsAg-CIC dissociation was positive in most cases of active hepatitis B GN. Its positive rate reached as high as 90.5%, while in remission as low as 23 %. So we come to the conclusion that the dissociation method of specific antigen is not only a valuable laboratory parameter for diagnosing hepatitis B GN, but also is useful in judging whether this disorder is in active stage or not.