The Tako-Tsubo syndrome is a reversible form of an acute stress-related cardiomyopathy that was reported during the last decade. It typically presents with a constellation of symptoms, electrocardiographic changes, and elevated cardiac enzyme levels consistent with an acute coronary syndrome. However, when the patient undergoes cardiac angiography, left ventricular apical ballooning finding is seen, but no significant coronary artery stenosis. This balloon-like morphology, being the hallmark of this entity, can be detected by imaging. We present a case report of a patient who was admitted to our hospital and met all the diagnostic criteria of the Tako-Tsubo syndrome. Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) showed an anteroapical perfusion defect at rest, moderated systolic dysfunction, and intraventricular asynchrony all assessed by gated-SPECT phase analysis. Two months later, all MPI findings returned to normal parameters.

The detection of antibodies to H-2 and species cell-surface antigens, on suspensions of leukemia and MC-induced sarcomas by an assay using fluorescein-labelled protein A from Staphylococcus aureus is described. The presence of ‘foreign’ H-2 allospeci-ficities on MC-induced sarcoma cells were detected. Antibodies to leukemia and MC sarcoma cells showed a high degree of cross-reactivity in their reaction with different MC-induced sarcomas and with leukemia cells.

Leishmania braziliensis reportedly is capable of producing a reduction in the growth of solid and ascites murine leukemia and lymphomas. The possibility that the inhibitory effect on the ascites tumor was produced by the activation of the macrophage peritoneal cell population was explored. It was observed that adherent cells from the peritoneal cavity of L. braziliensis injected mice caused a marked inhibitory effect on the in vitro growth of the 6C3HED lymphoma and EL-4 leukemia cells. This effect was dependent on the degree of the macrophage activation, was not produced by supernatants from cultures of activated macrophages, and it seems that contact cell between target and effector cells is necessary. In addition to being cytostatic, this effect was also cytotoxic. The L. braziliensis activated macrophages were also capable of suppressing the multiplication of normal cells induced by mitogen, but this was not observed if the cells were already undergoing multiplication. A similar cytostatic effect on the tumor cells was observed to be produced by the peritoneal non-adherent cell population of the L. braziliensis injected mice.