In the rat, dimeric immunoglobulin A (dIgA) is cleared rapidly from the systemic circulation into bile by vesicular transport through the hepatocyte. Whether such transfer of dIgA occurs in man is ...controversial. The fate of dIgA and monomeric IgA (mIgA) was studied in rats with biliary drainage, and in parallel in 4 patients, 3 of whom had biliary drainage. Human dIgA and mIgA were prepared from myeloma sera and labeled with radioisotopes of iodine. Ten microcuries each of 125I‐dIgA and 131I‐mIgA (2 to 4μg protein) were given i.v. simultaneously. In the four patients, 125I‐dIgA disappeared more rapidly from the serum than did 131I‐mIgA. Biliary recovery of 125I‐dIgA (expressed as per cent total dose given) was only 0.2 to 0.9% in 8 hr while that of 131I‐mIgA was 0.1 to 0.2%. In contrast, biliary recovery over the same period in rats was 21 to 32% for l25I‐dIgA and 3.0 to 4.6% for 131I‐mIgA. The data show that in man after injection of a trace amount of human myeloma IgA, rapid transport of dIgA into bile, as observed in the rat, was not seen. Although selective transport of dIgA over mIgA into bile occurred in man, the total amount of dIgA transported was small, and it is suggested that under physiological conditions, the major part of human biliary IgA is derived from local synthesis.
Transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1), suggested in some studies to suppress astrocyte and neutrophil function, has also reduced ischaemic brain injury when administered immediately prior to ...clot embolization in models of thromboembolic stroke. The effect of TGF-beta 1 as a post-treatment paradigm was investigated in a rabbit model of thromboembolic stroke. Following clot embolization, regional cerebral blood flow fell to < 10 cc 100 g-1 min-1 in all animals. TGF-beta 1 (10 micrograms) or vehicle (n = 5 each group) was infused via the contralateral carotid artery. TGF-beta 1 administration resulted in a rapid and selective reduction in the peripheral neutrophil count as compared to a significant (p < 0.05) increase in control values (2336 +/- 817 vs 4320 +/- 928 neutrophils mm3, mean +/- SEM). Neutrophil aggregation was increased within 30 min of TGF-beta 1 infusion when compared to control (2.07 +/- 0.70 vs 1.09 +/- 0.17 ohms, p < 0.05); neutrophil chemiluminescence, an index of the oxygen respiratory burst was not significantly affected by TGF-beta 1 administration. No difference in platelet counts or aggregation was noted. There was no significant difference between the two groups regarding brain infarct size (47.5 +/- 10.9 vs 56.5 +/- 10.4, n = 4, TGF-beta vs control, mean +/- SEM), intracranial pressure, or brain excitatory amino acid levels (aspartate and glutamate) within ischaemic regions.
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MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ABERBACH. The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman.
MOSHE ABERBACH and DAVID ...ABERBACH. The Roman-Jewish Wars and Hebrew Cultural Nationalism. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xix, 170. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Louis H. Feldman.
BENGT SUNDKLER and CHRISTOPHER STEED. A History of the Church in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xix, 1,232. $140.00 (us). Reviewed by Andrew C. Ross.
TIMOTHY REUTER, ed. The New Cambridge Medieval History: III: c. 900-c. 1024. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xxv, 863. $110.00 (us). Reviewed by John J. Contreni.
JOSEPH P. HUFFMAN. The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066-1307). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. Pp. x, 361. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Benjamin Arnold.
ROBERT CHAZAN. God, Humanity, and History: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 270. $40.00 (us). Reviewed by Jonathan Riley-Smith.
BERNARD HAMILTON. The Leper King and His Heirs: Baldwin IV and the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xxv, 288. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Peter Edbury.
LAURIE SHEPARD. Courting Power: Persuasion and Politics in the Early Thirteenth Century. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999. Pp. xxii, 240. $55.00 (us). Reviewed by Kenneth Pennington.
PETER RUSSELL. Prince Henry 'the Navigator': A Life. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 448. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Francis A. Dutra.
CHRISTINE SHAW. The Politics of Exile in Renaissance Italy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. x, 257. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Julius Kirshner.
DANIELA FRIGO, ed. Politics and Diplomacy in Early Modern Italy: The Structure of Diplomatic Practice, 1450-1800, trans. Adrian Belton. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. v, 262. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Antonio Santosuosso.
LEE A. CRAIG and DOUGLAS FISHER. The European Macroeconomy: Growth, Integration, and Cycles, 1500-1913. Cheltenham and Northampton, Mass.: Edward Elgar, 2000. Pp. xii, 389. $120.00 (us). Reviewed by Karl Gunnar Persson.
IDA ALTMAN. Transatlantic Ties in the Spanish Empire: Brihuega, Spain, and Puebla, Mexico, 1560-1620. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 254. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by John E. Kicza.
IAN NISH and YOICHI KIBATA, eds., with assistance from TADASHI KURAMATSU. The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations: I: The Political-Diplomatic Dimension, 1600-1930. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xiii, 282. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by Roger Buckley.
KAREN ORDAHL KUPPERMAN. Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 297. $17.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Timothy J. Shannon.
DAVID ELTIS. The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 353. $59.95 (us), cloth; $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth Morgan.
PHILIP D. CURTIN. The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response in the Age of Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv, 294. $27.95 (us). Reviewed by J. A. De Moor.
WILLIAM R. NESTER. The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1775. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. xiii, 326. $69.50 (us); WILLIAM R. NESTER. The First Global War: Britain, France, and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775. Westport: Praeger, 2000. Pp. ix, 308. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by John Grenier.
GLENN J. AMES. Renascent Empire? The House of Braganza and the Quest for Stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c. 1640-1683. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2000; dist. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. Pp. 262. $34.50 (us). Reviewed by M. N. Pearson.
PETER T. BRADLEY and DAVID CAHILL. HabsburgPeru: Images, Imagination, and Memory. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. xii, 167. $19.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by Kenneth J. Andrien.
KLAUS J. BADE. Europa in Bewegung: Migration vom späten 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2000. Pp. 510. DM 58.90. Reviewed by Pieter Emmer.
D. DENNIS HUDSON. Protestant Origins in India: Tamil Evangelical Christians, 1706-1835. Grand Rapids and Richmond, UK: William B. Eerdman's and Curzon Press, 2000. Pp. xi, 220. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Penelope Carson.
ROBIN EAGLES. Francophilia in English Society, 1748-1815. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. x, 229. $69.95 (us). Reviewed by J. C. D. Clark.
NIKOLAS K. GVOSDEV. Imperial Policies and Perspectives towards Georgia, 1760-1819. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxi, 197. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony Rhinelander.
H. W. BRANDS. The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday, 2000; dist. Toronto: Random House. Pp. vi, 759. $35.00 (us). Reviewed by Lawrence S. Kaplan.
ELIGA H. GOULD. The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000; dist. Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. xxiv, 262. $49.95 (CDN). Reviewed by K. David Milobar.
STUART ANDREWS. The British Periodical Press and the French Revolution, 1789-99. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xi, 280. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Hannah Barker.
ANNE-MAREE WHITAKER. Joseph Foveaux: Power and Patronage in Early New South Wales. Sydney: University of New Soudi Wales Press, 2000; dist. Portland: ISBS. Pp. viii, 257. $29.95 (us), paper. Reviewed by John Gascoigne.
STEVEN E. MAFFEO. Most Secret and Confidential: Intelligence in the Age of Nelson. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. Pp. xxvii, 355. $32.95 (us). Reviewed by Paul Webb.
STEPHEN HOWE. Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 334. £25.00. Reviewed by Deirdre Mcmahon.
ELIZABETH SIBERRY. The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. xii, 228. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Malcolm C. Barber.
DAVID R. MEYER. Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 272. $64.95 (us). Reviewed by Catherine R. Schenk.
CLARE ANDERSON. Convicts in the Indian Ocean: Transportation from South Asia to Mauritius, 1815-53. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xii, 192. $65.00 (us). Reviewed by Anthony J. Barker.
PATRICIA LEE SYKES. Presidents and Prime Ministers: Conviction Politics in the Anglo-American Tradition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. xiii, 399. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Kendrick A. Clements.
OLIVER MARSHALL, ed. English-Speaking Communities in Latin America. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxviii, 387. $79.95 (us). Reviewed by Ralph Lee Woodward Jr..
CHERYL MCEWAN. Gender, Geography, and Empire: Victorian Women Travellers in West Africa. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 2000. Pp. ix, 250. $74.95 (us). Reviewed by Helen Callaway.
OWEN WHITE. Children of the French Empire: Miscegenation and Colonial Society in French West Africa, i895-1960. New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. 200. $116.00 (CDN). Reviewed by Gregory Mann.
JULIANNA PUSKÁS. Ties that Bind, Ties that Divide: 100 Years of Hungarian Experience in the United States, trans. Zora Ludwig. New York and London: Holmes & Meier, 2000. Pp. xix, 444. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Peter Kivisto.
J. R. MCNEILL. Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. Pp. xxvi, 421. $29.95 (us). Reviewed by Vaclav Smil.
LUCIAN M. ASHWORTH. Creating International Studies: Angell, Mitrany, and the Liberal Tradition. Aldershot and Brookfield: Ashgate, 1999. Pp. vii, 200. $65.95 (us). Reviewed by Charles C. Pentland.
MARK CORNWALL. The Undermining of Austria-Hungary: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xvi, 485. $50.00 (us). Reviewed by.
ROGER CHICKERING and STIG FÖRSTER, eds. Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 531. $54.95 (us). Reviewed by Ian F. W. Beckett.
VEJAS GABRIEL LIULEVICIUS. War Land on the Eastern Front: Culture, National Identity, and German Occupation in World War I. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. viii, 309. $59.95 (us). Reviewed by Modris Eksteins.
CHRISTOPHER M. BELL. The Royal Navy, Seapower, and Strategy between the Wars. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Pp. xx, 232. $51.00 (us). Reviewed by C. I. Hamilton.
JOHN SMITH, ed. Administering Empire: The British Colonial Service in Retrospect. London: University of London Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 350. £22.50. Reviewed by John W. Cell.
DAVID R. STONE. Hammer and Rifle: The Militarization of the Soviet Union, 1926-1933. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000. Pp. vii, 287. $39.95 (us). Reviewed by R. W. Davies.
JULIAN BULLARD and MARGARET BULLARD, eds. Inside Stalin's Russia: The Diaries of Reader Bullard, 1930-1934. Charlbury, Oxfordshire: Day Books, 2000. Pp. x, 310. £19.50. Reviewed by Michael Jabara Carley.
ROBERT W. THURSTON and BERND BONWETSCH, eds. The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000; dist: Toronto: Scholarly Book Services. Pp. x, 275. $65.95 (CDN). Reviewed by Paul Dukes.
EYAL ZISSER. Lebanon: The Challenge of Independence. London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2000; dist. New York: Palgrave. Pp. xiii, 297. $59.50 (us). Reviewed by Farid El Khazen.
GEORG KREIS, ed. Switzerland and the Second World War. London and Portland: Frank Cass, 2000. Pp. xvii, 378. $45.00 (us). Reviewed by Jean-Christian Lambelet.
GÜNTER BISCHOF. Austria in the First Cold War, 1945-55: The Leverage of the Weak. New York: Palgrave, 1999. Pp. xvii, 237. $72.00 (us). Reviewed by Norman
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