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Relationship between elongation factor I- and elongation factor II- dependent guanosine triphosphatase activities of ribosomes. Inhibition of both activities by ricin. | The elongation factor 1- and elongation factor 2-dependent GTPase (guanosine triphosphatase) activities of ribosomes are inhibited by ricin, a toxic protein known to inactivate the 60S ribosomal subunit. It is suggested that also in eukaryotic ribosomes a "GTPase site', located on the larger subunit, is common to the two elongation factors. | 173,282 | [
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Utilization of gluconate by Escherichia coli. A role of adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate in the induction of gluconate catabolism. | 1. Cultures of Escherichia coli growing on gluconate use both gluconate and glucose when glucose is added. 2. Glycerol-grown cells adapt to gluconate utilization even in media containing glucose as well as gluconate. 3. The rates of gluconate utilization by cells growing on a mixture of glucose and gluconate, and the specific activities of the gluconate uptake system and of gluconate kinase, are greater if adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) is present in the medium than in its absence. 4. Growth on media containing gluconate and cyclic AMP is accompanied by the formation of methyl glyoxal and pyruvate, and progressive inhibition of growth. 5. A mutant devoid of adenylate cyclase activity (cya) grew well on glucose in the absence of exogenous cyclic AMP but grew only poorly on gluconate; neither the gluconate uptake system nor gluconate kinase was adequately induced. The addition of cyclic AMP promoted growth on gluconate and facilitated the induction of proteins required for gluconate catabolism. 6. Phage Pl-mediated transduction of cya+ into the cya-mutant also restored the wild-type phenotype in its ability to adapt to gluconate utilization. | 173,298 | [
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Subcellular localization of superoxide dismutase in rat liver. | The subcellular localization of superoxide dismutase was investigated in rat liver homogenates. Most of the superoxide dismutase activity is present in the soluble fraction (84%), the rest being associated with mitochondria. No indications for the occurrence of superoxide dismutase in other subcellular structures, particularly in peroxisomes, was found. Mitochondrial activity is not due to adsorption, since the sedimentable activity is essentially latent. Subfractionation of mitochondria by hypo-osmotic shock and sonication shows that half of the mitochondrial superoxide dismutase activity is localized in the intermembrane space, the rest of the enzyme being a component of the matrix space. In non-ionic media the matrix enzyme is, however, adsorbed to the inner membrane, from which it can be desorbed by low (0.04M) concentration of KCl. Superoxide dismutase activity was found in all rat organs investigated. Maximal activity of the enzyme is observed in liver, adrenals and kidney. In adrenals, the highest specific activity is associated with the medulla. | 173,300 | [
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Influence of anti-oestrogens on the specific binding in vitro of (3H)oestradiol by cytosol of rat mammary tumours and human breast carcinomata. | The anti-oestrogenic potential of two nitrogen-mustard-containing compounds, I.C.I. 79792 and I.C.I. 85966, was studied. I.C.I. 85966 usually did not decrease specific binding of [3H]oestradiol by breast-tumour cytoplasmic proteins. I.C.I. 79792 decreased specific [3H]oestradiol binding, but not to the same extent as similar concentrations of I.C.I. 46474, diethylstilboestrol or dibutyldihydrostilboestrol. | 173,302 | [
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Stimulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (guanosine triphosphate) activity by low concentrations of circulating glucose in perfused rat liver. | 1. After nicotinic acid treatment, rat liver glycogen is depleted and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity increased, to about twice the initial value. 2. The increase in phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity promoted by nicotinic acid is prevented by cycloheximide or actinomycin D, suggesting that this effect is produced by synthesis of the enzyme de novo. 3. Despite the enhancement of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity and glycogen depletion, which occurs 5h after the injection of nicotinic acid, the gluconeogenic capacity of liver is low and considerably less than the values found in rats starved for 48h. 4. When the livers of well-fed rats are perfused in the presence of low concentrations of glucose, the activity of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase significantly increases compared with the control. 5. This increase is not related to the glycogen content, but seems to be also the result of synthesis of the enzyme de novo, since this effect is counteracted by previous treatment with cycloheximide or actinomycin D. 6. Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity is not increased in the presence of low concentrations of circulating glucose when 40 mM-imidazole (an activator of phosphodiesterase) is added to the perfusion medium. 7. Addition of dibutyryl cyclic AMP to the perfusion medium results in an increase in phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase activity, in spite of the presence of normal concentrations of circulating glucose. On the other hand, the concentration of cyclic AMP in the liver increases when that of glucose in the medium is low. 8. These results suggest that, in the absence of hormonal factors, the regulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase can be accomplished by glucose itself, inadequate concentrations of it resulting in the induction of the enzyme. The mediator in this regulation, as in hormonal regulation, seems to be cyclic AMP. | 173,301 | [
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[Experimental results with systematically synthetized substances for antiviral chemotherapy / 4th communication: The role of physical binding in the synthesis of antiviral chemotherapeutics and its influence on potential mutagenic effects (author's transl)]. | 13 antiviral substances containing specific hydrogen bridge linkage systems out of the classes of 2-substituted 4-phenylthiazoles, 4-phenylimidazoles and indandiones-(1,3) were tested for their mutagenic potency in the host-mediated assay, in bone marrow of rats, in spermatogonia of mice and in the micronucleus test of rats. Only one substance, N1-methyl-N2-[4-phenylthiazolyl-(2)]-urea, was found to be mutagenic. This fact substantiates the hypothesis that the antiviral effectiveness of the substances is not caused by a chemical change in the coding system but by forming "physical" linkages like hydrogen bridge complexes with coding structures. Altogether 159 compounds of very different structures were investigated for their antiviral chemotherapeutic potency in 893 tests in cell cultures and 461 animal tests. It can be stated that compounds with a low molecular weight containing the "effective structures" (see article) show a larger yield of antiviral compounds than do substances without these structures (about 50% positive results in cell cultures and 25% in animals 15% and 0%, respectively). | 173,351 | [
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[Determination of anti-cytomegalovirus antibodies by the immunoperoxidase method: comparison with the methods of complement fixation and immunofluorescence]. | Indirect immunoperoxidase technique (IIP) has been employed for determination of IgG antibody titer to cytomegalovirus (CMV) in sera from 110 blood donors. Titers have been compared with complement fixation (CF) and indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) technique titers, the latter being applied to determination of all specific antibody classes. Within variability range of the quality of reagents employed in different tests, it seems reasonable to conclude IIP technique is as sensitive as IFA and much more sensitive than CF test. Considering CF test is able to detect only IgG antibody, the advantage of using immunohistochemical techniques is obvious. Moreover IIP does not need fluorescence microscope and results reading is easier and can be delayed. Non-specific staining of Golgi area is shared by both techniques, but endpoint determination has to take into account only the nuclear virus-specific inclusion labelling. | 173,374 | [
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Characterization of the T antigen induced by SV40. | 3 or 4 antigenic SV40 specific components were established in hamster tumors induced by SV40-transformed cells, using linear sucrose gradient centrifugation and Sephadex G-200 column chromatography. The lightest component, approximate molecular weight 21,000, did not inhibit the nuclear staining of SV40-transformed cells in the fluorescent antibody inhibition test. | 173,379 | [
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Tubuloreticular structures in human lymphoid cell lines. A cell biological study. | Human lymphoid cell lines were studied as an experimental model for the spontaneous or induced occurrence of tuburloreticular structures (TRS). It was possible to induce TRS after culturing the EB-3 cell line with 20 mug/ml bromodeoxyuridine (BrUdR) during 96 h. Starvation, culturing at lower temperature (32 degrees) or inhibition of DNA synthesis did not give rise to the production of TRS. The response to BrUdR could be blocked with 60 mug/ml thymidine but not with 60 mug/ml deoxycytidine. The addition of 5 mug/ml cytarabine or the removal of BrUdR at different times resulted in inhibition of TRS induction, indicating that BrUdR had to be incorporated into DNA during at least 48 h. After incorporation, neither the presence of BrUdR nor DNA synthesis was necessary for the production of TRS. These experiments and the finding that in the cell line IHTC-33, which does not produce Epstein-Barr virus associated antigens, TRS were spontaneously present, exclude a correlation between TRS and these antigens. However, the induction of TRS by BrUdR may be related to the activation of another (latent) virus. | 173,383 | [
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Influence of carbon tetrachloride or riboflavin on liver carcinogenesis with a single dose of aflatoxin b1. | Liver carcinogenesis with a single dose of aflatoxin B1 (7 mg/kg body weight) has been investigated in a group of female Wistar strain rats by repeated biopsies and necropsies. Another group received a subsequent intoxication with carbon tetrachloride by inhalation (approximately 200 doses) and another one was overloaded with riboflavin (25 parts/10(6) in drinking water). The frequency of hepatomata was almost equal in the aflatoxin and aflatoxin-carbon tetrachloride group. It was lowere in the riboflavin-aflatoxin group. In these 3 groups cirrhosis was never present in neoplastic livers. Megalocytosis was the first lesion observed. All tumoral livers had previous or concomitant megalocytosis. This modification was about as frequent, intense and widespread in aflatoxin-CCl4 and aflatoxin groups but appeared much earlier, as did the first hepatoma, in the aflatoxin-CCl4 group. It was less frequent, less intense and less widespread in the riboflavin-aflatoxin group than in the aflatoxin group. There was also a lower frequency of hepatomata in the riboflavin-aflatoxin group, but the difference was not significant due to the too small number of animals involved. The facts are not a proof of the existence of an obligatory link between megalocytosis and carcinogenesis since a slight megalocytosis was observed in the riboflavin group not affected by the neoplastic process. However, the simplest explanation of our results would be to consider that the potential tumour cells are located among the megalocytic cells, without admitting that every megalocyte is obligatorily a precancerous cell. CCl4 seems to act in shortening the time of appearance of megalocytosis. The protective effect of riboflavine should be regarded with more caution. | 173,384 | [
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Stimulation of cholesterol ester exchange by lipoprotein-free rabbit plasma. | A fraction in normal and hypercholesterolemic rabbit plasma of density greater than 1.25 stimulates the exchange of cholesterol esters between very low density and low density lipoproteins from hypercholesterolemic rabbit plasma. The exchange does not result from lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase activity. The active factor appears to be a high molecular weight globulin with an isolelectric point of 5.2. | 173,390 | [
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Protein synthesis in homologous and heterologous cell-free systems from chick embryo connective tissues. | Two homologous systems for cell-free protein synthesis from chick embryo connective tissues are described. Both the skin polysomes and the wing-leg polysomes are active in collagen synthesis, but they have different requirements for optimum protein synthesis. Protein synthesis was not dependent on tissue-specific factors, since heterologous preparations of supernatant enzymes or initiation factors were able to stimulate maximum protein synthesis with each fraction of polysomes. | 173,396 | [
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[Structural transitions in DNA, isolated from normal and neoplastic cells]. | A decrease of temperature transition in spin-labeled DNA isolated from leucose cells compared with normal cells is found. It is shown by kinetic formaldehyde method that it may be the result of many defects in the secondary structure of macromolecule in DNA1. The spin label method is shown to be used for the analysis of DNA macromolecule damaged with small irradiation doses. Various radiosensitivity of DNA isolated from the blood of normal and leucose cells is observed. | 173,399 | [
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[EPR- and IR-spectroscopic study of the processes of carbonization of amino acid crystals]. | Initial stages of "low temperature" carbonization in crystal amino acids have been studied by ESR- and IR-spectroscopy. It was revealed that block polycondensation of amino acids with the formation of polypeptide chains took place. In the air oxygen also surface carbonization of crystals took place; it became stronger with the occurrence of radiation defects. | 173,400 | [
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[Rate of interaction of ferricytochrome c with negatively charged liposomes from natural lecithin: effect of the physicochemical state of the membrane hydrophobic layer]. | The absorption velocity of ferricytochrome c on the surface of liposomes from egg lecithin containing 10% of lauric acid was studied. Liposomes were prepared from lecithin of three fractions which differed by the composition of fatty acids, unsaturation and the lipid interaction decreased at the temperature below T phi pi for lecithin fractions containing larger quantity of saturated fatty acids. An opposite tendency was observed for the temperature above T phi pi. In the phase transition region of lecithin of refractory fraction the local maximum of protein-lipid interaction was observed. Judging by the character of the changes of the values of energy activation, small additions of cholesterol in the membrane loosen the bilayer at the temperature below T phi pi and condense it at above T phi pi. The data obtained are discussed in terms of the effect of the state of molecule hydrophobic part on the velocity of protein-lipid interaction. | 173,407 | [
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Effects of catecholamines on rat myocardial metabolism. I. Influence of catecholamines on energy-rich nucleotides and phosphorylated fraction contents. | 1. The influence of catecholamines (adrenaline and noradrenaline) on energy metabolism of the rat myocardium has been studied by incubating slices of this tissue with these hormones and by following the levels of the different phosphorylated fractions and adenylic nucleotides. 2. Similar effects are obtained with both hormones, adrenaline being more effective. 3. Catecholamines decrease significantly the total amount of phosphate while Pi content increases during the first 10 minutes of incubation; labile and residual phosphate contents increase at the beginning of incubation and decrease to the initial values afterwards. 4. ATP and ADP levels decrease significantly with both hormones; however, the effect of noradrenalin on the ATP level needs a longer time of incubation. The ATP/ADP ratios decrease after 5 minutes incubation and the total adenylic nucleotide content is severely decreased (35 per cent with adrenalin, after 20 minutes incubation). 5. Similar results have been obtained with other tissues; these results can explain the decrease of aerobic metabolism we observed under the same conditions. | 173,416 | [
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Primary oat cell carcinoma of the larynx: an ultrastructural study. | An extrapulmonary oat cell carcinoma arising in the larynx is described. Ultrastructurally the tumor is identical to the oat cell carcinoma of pulmonary origin. The pressure of neurosecretory granules in our case strongly suggests that the tumor is derived from Kulchitsky-like cells, a histogenesis previously proposed for oat cell carcinoma of the lung. | 173,456 | [
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Ultrastructural study of a postinflammatory "tumor" of the lung. | A typical postinflammatory "tumor" of the lung was resected from an asymptomatic 22-year-old white woman. Light and electron microscopic studies showed the lesion to be composed of metaplastic pneumonocytes, proliferated stroma, and chronic inflammatory cells. These findings confirm the inflammatory nature of the lesion and serve to distinguish this lesion from the neoplastic pulmonary sclerosing hemangioma. | 173,457 | [
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Primary malignant fibrous histiocytoma of bone. | A review of over 400 primary bone tumors yielded 11 lesions with features allowing classification as malignant fibrous histiocytoma on a purely histological basis. Correlation with roentgenograms and clinical data indicated that these tumors occurred as osteolytic lesions associated with a high incidence of pathologic fractures in the metaphyses of skeletally mature long bones. Nine patients developed pulmonary metastases and 3 developed lymph node metastases within 21 months following diagnosis. The average survival was 12 months in 6 of the 9 patients who had no secondary treatment in their metastases. Treatment of 3 patients with metastatic lesions with chemotherapy or radiotherapy has been clinically encouraging. Some evidence was obtained that either or both the histiocytic and fibroblastic component may metastasize. There is a need for biopsy of metastatic lesions and autopsy followup to more accurately assess the mode of spread and histologic type of the metastases. | 173,460 | [
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Contrasting effects of hypoglycemia on plasma renin activity and cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) in low renin and normal renin essential hypertension. | Insulin-induced hypoglycemia previously has been shown to provoke a beta-adrenergic response that normally results in an increase in plasma renin activity (PRA). In our study, hypoglycemia induced definite increases in PRA in a group of five patients with normal renin essential hypertension but failed to do so in a group of six patients with low renin essential hypertension. In both groups, plasma cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP; cAMP) increased more than 2-fold during hypoglycemia, but the response in the low renin group was significantly less than that previously observed in normal subjects under the same conditions. Plasma cortisol increased to an equal extent in both groups of hypertensive patients during hypoglycemia. Infusion of the phosphodiesterase inhibitor, theophylline, resulted in definite increases of PRA in patients with normal renin hypertension but not in patients with low renin hypertension. Because changes in the level of plasma cAMP during hypoglycemia have been thought to reflect adrenal catecholamine release, our finding of a blunted increase in plasma cAMP during hypoglycemia in patients with low renin hypertension may suggest that there is a generalized alteration in adrenergic responsiveness in this condition. | 173,476 | [
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On the metabolism of lipoprotein-X (LP-X). | The characteristic low-density lipoprotein of cholestasis (LP-X) earlier described for humans is found with identical properties in dogs and rats after experimental cholestasis. After ligation of the common bile duct, LP-X may be detected in the plasma within the first 20 hours. A period of marked increase in concentration is followed by decreasing plasma concentrations and LP-X becomes undetectable 7-10 days after ligation of the bile duct in rats. High plasma bile salt concentration may alter the structural integrity of LP-X and may in part be responsible for its disappearance after long-lasting and severe biliary obstruction. Plasma decay curves for isolated LP-X injected intravenously into healthy animals revealed a rapid early fall in concentration followed by a gradual decline. The calculated fractional catabolic rate of LP-X was found to be 0.450 +/- 0.069 for dogs and 1.553 +/- 0.096 for rats corresponding to a mean biological half life of 37.7 +/- 6.4 h or 10.7 +/- 0.6 h, respectively. In vitro LP-X degradation occurs in post-heparin plasma, however, it seems to be too early to speculate on the enzyme activity and on the mode of action responsible for this disappearance. | 173,481 | [
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E and EAC rosetting lymphocytes in patients with carcinoma of bronchus I. Some parameters of the test and of its prognostic significance. | Using peripheral blood lymphocytes separated by a Ficoll method and suspended in saline, means of 77-1% (s.d. 5-2) E rosettes (T lymphocytes) and 20-1% (s.d. 6-7) EAC rosettes (B lymphocytes) have been obtained with normal healthy donors. Poorer E-rosette formation resulted from higher centrifugation speeds during the washing of lymphocytes or erythrocytes, insufficient chilling, or rough handling. The presence of 5% albumin in the final mixture stabilized the rosettes and brought a constant subpopulation of B lymphocytes into rosetting. In patients with bronchial carcinoma who, at the time of diagnosis, had E-rosette percentages below 1 s.d. of the mean for normal donors, the length of survival was significantly shorter than in those with normal or high values. The same was true for those in whom null cells were detected. In each case the correlation effect was mainly found in the group of patients with squamous carcinoma. | 173,486 | [
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Effects of repeated doses of scopolamine on the electroencephalographic stages of sleep in normal volunteers. | Single doses of scopolamine markedly alter sleep patterns in man. This study intended to evaluate the persistence of these changes during continued administration. The design consisted of a sequence of habituation, no-medication, saline (control), scopolamine (0.006 mg/kg intramuscularly 3 consecutive nights), and saline. The first dose of scopolamine markedly retarded the onset of stage rapid eye movement (REM) sleep (p less than 0.005) and diminished the total amount of REM sleep during the night (p less than 0.025). A decrease in total number of eye movements (p less than 0.05) and an increase in body movements (p less than 0.025) were also observed. Changes after the second dose of scopolamine were less marked but still significant. The third dose of scopolamine produced less marked changes than the preceding two. When compared with the first scopolamine night, the onset of stage REM was retarded to a lesser extent (p less than 0.05) and the total amount of REM sleep was increased (p less than 0.05). An increase in the duration of the first REM period was also observed. Rebound effects on the appearance of the first REM period (p less than 0.01), number of eye movements (p less than 0.001), total amount of REM sleep (p less than 0.01), and body movements were observed in the last saline night. | 173,490 | [
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Variations in thyroid function and sleep in healthy young men. | 1. The total serum thyroxine, tri-iodothyronine resin uptake, total plasma protein concentration and the free thyroxine index (FTI) were determined repeatedly, at 07.15, 13.00 and 22.30 hours over 4 days, in six healthy young men. 2. There was a significant diurnal variation in the total serum thyroxine concentration but this reflected changes in the binding capacity of serum proteins and in the total plasma protein concentration which could be explained by changes of posture. The FTI, and presumably therefore the free thyroxine concentration, varied very little with the time of day. 3. The FTI varied significantly from day to day in three of the six subjects, presumably as a result of changes in thyroxine secretion because the serum binding capacity did not vary. 4. The subjects' sleep at night was assessed by electro-encephalogram. In days when the FTI was highest for a particular subject his sleep was more fragmented by spontaneous awakenings, the amount of rapid-eye-movement sleep was reduced and that of delta-wave sleep was increased, implying that variations in thyroid function over a period of a few days in healthy subjects can be of physiological significance. The cause of these variations is uncertain. | 173,492 | [
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ADP-ribosylation of DNA-dependent RNA polymerase of Escherichia coli by an NAD+: protein ADP-ribosyltransferase from bacteriophage T4. | A protein from bacteriophage T4 responsible for the alteration of host DNA-dependent RNA polymerase and absent in T4 alt- phage was purified from T4 phage and enriched from T4-infected cells. It is injected during infection together with the known internal proteins. It has a molecular weight of about 70000 and catalyses the release of nicotinamide and the transfer of the ADP-ribosyl moiety from NAD+ to arginyl residues of various proteins including itself. RNA polymerase from Escherichia coli accepts ADP-ribosyl residues in all four subunits; the alpha subunit reacts with very high specificity. Only half of the alpha subunits are labelled, 45% with one, 5% with two residues. The main product shows the same electrophoretic mobility as alpha subunits altered or modified in vivo. The alpha subunit in modified RNA polymerase is no acceptor. | 173,540 | [
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Procollagen biosynthesis by embryonic-chick-bone polysomes. Estimation of the relative numbers of active proalpha1 and proalpha2 messenger ribonucleic acids. | Both total polysomes and polysomes of different size classes isolated from embryonic chick cranial bones were allowed to complete their nascent polypeptide chains in a cell-free system containing rabbit reticulocyte post-ribosomal supernatant fraction. In this system, no de novo initiation of polypeptide synthesis occurred. The product was analysed for relative content of proalpha1 and proalpha2, the precursors of the alpha chains of collagen, by dodecylsulphate-acrylamide gel electrophoresis as well as by paper electrophoresis following tryptic digestion. The results showed that the products of polysome protein synthesis contained proalpha1 and proalpha2 in the 2:1 ratio in which the corresponding alpha chains are present in native collagen, and that proalpha1 and proalpha2 synthesising polysomes are of the same size. These findings, in conjunction with results from a previous report (Vuust, J. and Piez, K.A. (1972) J. Biol. Chem. 247, 856-862) suggest that active messenger ribonucleic acids for the proalpha1 and proalpha2 chains, respectively, are present in the cells in a ratio of 2:1, and that the rates of initiation, elongation, termination and release from polysomes are all identical for the two chains. | 173,541 | [
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Nitrogenase from Azotobacter chroococcum. Purification and properties of the component proteins. | 1. A large-scale purification of the nitrogenase components from Azotobacter chroococcum yielded two non-haem iron proteins, both of which were necessary for nitrogenase activity and each had a specific activity of approximately 2000 +/- 300 nmol of acetylene reduced/mg protein per min in the presence of sautrating amounts of the other. This procedure freed the Mo-Fe protein from a protein contaminant which had an electron paramagnetic resonance signal at g = 1.94. 2. Both proteins were purified to homogeneity as determined by disc gel electrophoresis and ultracentrifugal analysis. Both proteins were oxygen-sensitive but not cold-labile. Ultracentrifugal analysis indicated that both proteins dissociated to a slight degree at concentrations below 2 mg/ml. 3. The larger of the two proteins had a molecular weight of 227 000 and contained 1.9 +/- 0.3 atoms of Mo, 23 +/- 2 atoms of Fe, 20 +/- 2 acid-labile sulphide and 47 tryptophan residues/mol. The protein consists of 4 subunits of mol. wt 60 000 (approx.). The reduced protein showed electron paramagmetic resonance signals at g = 4.29, 3.65 and 2.013 but not in the area of g = 5 to 6. Upon oxidation abosrbance increased throughout the visible region of the ultraviolet visible spectrum, with a maximum difference between oxidised and reduced protein occurring at 430 nm. 4. The smaller protein had a molecular weight of 64 000 and contained 4 g-atoms of Fe and 4 acid-labile sulphide groups/mol but no tryptophan. It had two subunits of mol. wt 30 800. The reduced protein showed electron paramagnetic resonance signhe protein retained almost full activity after oxidation with phenazine methosulphate. The ultraviolet visible spectrum of oxidised protein was clearly different from that of the oxygen-inactivated protein: it had a sharp peak at 269 nm and a broad absorbance between 340 and 470 nm with a maximum difference between oxidised and reduced forms at 430 nm. Oxygen-inactivated protein showed a sharp peak at 277.5 nm and broad peaks from 305 to 360, 400 to 425 and 435 to 475 nm. 5. Amino acid analyses of both proteins showed that most common amino acids were present with a preponderance of acidic residues. Analyses of compositional relatedness showed that the nitrogenase proteins from A. chroococcum were most closely related to those from A. vinelandii and least so to those from Clostridium pasteurianum. | 173,545 | [
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Characterization of calf-ovary adenosine;3':5'-monophosphate-dependent protein kinases and adenosine-3':5'-monophosphate-binding proteins. | Protein phosphokinase activity from the calf ovary cytosol (105000 X g supernatant fraction) has been resolved by chromatography and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis into two major protein kinases, PK-H1 and PK-H2, both dependent on adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP). The enzymes have similar molecular weights (230000) and substrate specificities but differ in their cyclic-AMP-dependency and stimulation by cyclic AMP. The differences have been explained by the presence in PK-H1 of a unique cyclic-AMP-binding protein which has little catalytic activity associated with it. The cyclic-AMP-binding protein has a high affinity for cyclic AMP and in addition is able to inhibit the activity of the isolated catalytic subunit. The ovarian cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinases have properties similar to those found in other tissues. They can be dissociated into catalytic and regulatory subunits and are inhibited by a heat-stable protein inhibitor isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle. Preincubation of the cytosol with high levels of cyclic AMP resulted in additional cyclic-AMP-dependent protein kinases and cyclic-AMP-binding proteins which include protein kinases and binding proteins of greater than 400 000 molecular weight. | 173,547 | [
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Depression of humoral and cell-mediated immune responses by coxsackieviruses in mice. | Adult mice infected with coxsackieviruses A-15, B-1, B-2, B-4 and B-6 showed depressed antibody responses to unrelated antigens; mice infected with coxsackievirus B-3 developed reduced humoral and cell-mediated immune responses. These findings might have clinical and epidemiological implications. | 173,571 | [
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Specific and non-specific phosphatases in the miracidium of Fasciola hepatica L. | Localization and activities of alkaline phosphatase, ATPase, 5-nucleotidase, glucose-6-phosphatase, thiamine pyrophosphatase and nucleoside diphosphatase were studied in the miracidium of Fasciola hepatica L. Except for nucleoside diphosphatase whose activity in the miracidium was not observed, all the enzymes were most active in the archenteron, protonephridia and nerve ganglion. This localization of the reaction intensity allows the inference that the three organs mentioned are sites of both intense carbohydrate metabolism and lively active transport. The role of phosphatases in carbohydrate metabolism is discussed. | 173,637 | [
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Epithelial basement membrane of bovine renal tubuli. Isolation and analysis of the carbohydrate chains. | The carbohydrate chains present in the tubular basement membrane of bovine kidney were studied. Digestion with collagenase followed with pronase resulted in a complete solubilization of the basement membrane. The different glycopeptides were purified by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography. Two kinds of carbohydrate chains could be characterized: oligosaccharides composed of glucosamine, mannose, galactose, fucose and sialic acid, and glucosylgalactose disaccharides. A very small portion of the oligosaccharide chains (ca. 4%) appeared to be free of sialic acid. The bulk of these chains contained sialic acid and fucose, although in small amounts. Only traces of galactosamine were found. | 173,641 | [
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Effect of desdanine on nucleoside diphosphate kinase and pyruvate kinase of Escherichia coli. | Kinetic analysis demonstrated that the irreversible inhibition of nucleoside diphosphate kinase of Escherichia coli by desdanine proceeds via a reversible Enzyme-Inhibitor complex. It is known that pyruvate kinase of E. coli becomes inactive upon prolonged dialysis in the absence of a reducing reagent, such as dithiothreitol and that the inactive enzyme is reactivated if dithiothretiol is added. Desdanine inhibits this reactivation process. The effect is discussed in relation to inhibition in relation to the inhibition of growth of E. coli by desdanine under anaerobic conditions. Pyruvate kinase of E. coli changes not only in intracellular quantity but in its kinetic characteristics depending on growth conditions, aerobic or anaerobic. The enzyme shows a broad specificity for nucleside diphosphates, especially in the presence of AMP, and thus resembles closely nucleoside diphosphate kinase. The in vivo role of pyruvate kinase in supplying nucleoside triphosphates under anaerobic conditions is discussed. | 173,700 | [
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An application of neuroendocrinological studies in autistic children and Heller's syndrome. | The response of plasma 11-hydroxycorticosteroids (11-OHCS) to intravenous pyrogen as well as the circadian rhythm of plasma 11-OHCS levels were investigated in seven autistic children and in two children with Heller's syndrome. In autistic children, the stress response, which is acquired in an earlier stage of development, was adequately sustained. However, the circadian rhythm, which seems to appear at a later stage with the maturity of the CNS, frequently revealed abnormal patterns. Similar findings were obtained in the Heller's syndrome cases, indicating organic changes in the brain. On the basis of these results, it is postulated that in early infantile autism there exist some functional changes in the CNS that show a close correlation to the regulatory mechanism of ACTH secretion. | 173,703 | [
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Mutants of Aspergillus nidulans lacking nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-specific glutamate dehydrogenase. | Ten mutants of Aspergillus nidulans lacking nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-specific glutamate dehydrogenase (NAD-GDH) have been isolated, and their mutations (gdhB1 through gdhB10) have been shown to lie in the gdhB gene. In addition, a temperature-sensitive gdhB mutant (gdhB11) has been isolated. A revertant (designated R-5) of the mutant gdhB1 bears an additional lesion in the gdhB gene and has altered NAD-GDH activity with altered Km values for ammonia or ammonium ions and for alpha-ketoglutarate. These results suggest that gdhB specifies a structural component for NAD-GDH. The growth characteristics of gdhB mutants indicate the routes by which amino acids are utilized as nitrogen and carbon energy sources. The properties are described of the double mutants bearing the mutations gdhB1 and gdhA1 or tamA119, which have low NADP-GDH activity. | 173,707 | [
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Suppressor-induced structural changes in a missense L-ribulokinase of Escherichia coli. | A suppressor mutation specific for a missense codon in the L-ribulokinase structural gene of the L-arabinose operon of Escherichia coli B/r enhanced L-arabinose utilization by the strain containing the missense codon. Electrophoretic comparisons of the wild-type, missense, and suppressed missense L-ribulokinases indicated that the suppressor changed the structure of the missense kinase, thereby increasing its catalytic activity. Hyperinducibility imposed on an operator-distal gene by the missense codon was not affected by the suppressor mutation. | 173,711 | [
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High-speed liquid chromatography of polychlorinated biphenyls and related compounds. | High-speed liquid chromatography in the system silica gel-dry n-hexane has been used to characterize the behaviour of a series of commercially available mixtures of chlorinated biphenyls, viz., Aroclor 1221-1268. An attempt has been made to assign a large number of peaks in the chromatograms of the Aroclors to the individual constituents. To this end, retention times and UV spectra were recorded for 47 polychlorinated biphenyls. The dependence of retention and spectral characteristics on the chlorine content of the substituted biphenyls is discussed | 173,733 | [
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Mechanism of immunologic resistance to herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) infection. | Susceptibility of adult mice to i.p. infection with HSV-1 was greatly increased by administration of a single dose of cyclophosphamide. Mortality of cyclophosphamide-treated virus-infected mice was associated with increased virus replication and pathologic changes in brain and liver. The development of a fatal infection in immunosuppressed mice could be curtailed after transfer of specifically immune spleen cells. Passively transferred antibody had no such effect. Protective activity of spleen cells was significantly reduced after pretreatment with anti-theta serum. Significant protection was also achieved when normal spleen cells plus immune serum were administered simultaneously. Our results indicate that protection against this virus infection is predominantly T cell dependent, and suggests that antibody-dependent cell-mediated protection may also be operative in vivo. | 173,758 | [
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Cytoplasmic oestrogen receptor complex of female ovine pituitary: changes associated with the reproductive state and oestradiol treatment. | Binding of oestrone and oestradiol to a pituitary cytosol receptor was studied in ovariectomized sheep during the breeding season, during anoestrus and after oestradiol treatment during anoestrus. All sheep were ovariectomized 2 weeks before removal of the anterior pituitary. Oestrogen treatment consisted of the subcutaneous implantation of Silastic capsules containing oestradiol-17beta 3 weeks before ovariectomy. Association constants (KA) for oestrone and oestradiol and the concentration of binding sites for oestradiol varied with changes in reproductive state. Oestradiol bound more tightly and the concentration of available binding sites was lower during the breeding season than during anoestrus. The affinity of oestrone binding was less during the breeding season than during anoestrus, whilst the concentration of binding sites for this steroid did not change with changes in reproductive state. Treatment of anoestrous sheeep with oestradiol increased the KA for oestradiol and decreased the concentration of binding sites. However, no effect of oestradiol treatment was observed with regard to the KA or concentration of binding sites for oestrone. The results suggest that either the pituitary oestrogen cytoplasmic receptor undergoes a conformational change during the breeding season causing oestradiol to be more tightly bound or the onset of the breeding season is accompanied by the appearance of a new receptor which binds to oestradiol with greater affinity. Oestradiol treatment of anoestrous sheep mimics this change. | 173,786 | [
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Poliovirus proteins associated with the replication complex in infected cells. | Viral polypeptides associated with the membrane-free replication complex of poliovirus RNA were multiple in nature. The structural protein precursors [VP0, VP1, VP3] predominated, and because they were found in a cytoplasmic component with the same S value and density as the replication complex are likely to be attached to it in vivo. They were not present in the form of empty capsids. The electrophoretic polypeptide pattern of the membrane-bound replication complex was similar but showed a predominance of NCVPX or VP1, unless the cells were slightly depleted in amino acids when the non-structural polypeptide NCVP2 became important. Cystine was the only amino acid capable of reversing this depletion effect on its own. | 173,800 | [
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Comparison of the intermediary metabolism of fatty acids in denervated and dystrophic murine skeletal muscle. | Certain aspects of lipid metabolism have been examined in denervated muscle from normal mice and in dystrophic muscle from mice of the Bar Harbor strain 129. A number of parameters show no change or similar changes. For example, the utilization of palmitate-[1-14C] and palmitylcarnitine by mitochondria from denervated and dystrophic hind leg skeletal muscle showed parallel decreased in the oxidation of palmitate (30-42%) and palmitylcarnite (37-66%). A comparable study with acetylcarnitine showed a striking difference with no change evident in mitochondria from denervated muscle and 80-85% decrease in dystrophic muscle. The study of succinate dehydrogenase and the enzymes of beta-oxidation in the above mitochondrial preparation showed similar findings except for acyl CoA dehydrogenase activity (an enzyme with a regulatory role in beta-oxidation) which was significantly diminished (29%) in denervated muscle, whereas no change was observed in dystrophic muscle. The findings show a close parallel in a number of parameters but distinct differences were observed in denervated as compared with dystrophic muscle. It is unlikely that the muscular disorder in murine muscular dystrophy can be explained solely on the basis of denervation or the loss of a neural trophic factor. | 173,805 | [
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Retroperitoneal ganglioneuroblastoma: a kaleidoscope of neuronal degeneration. A light and electron microscopic study. | The light and electron microscopic features of an unique retroperitoneal ganglioneuroblastoma in a four-year-old female are described. The unprecedented concurrence of Hirano, zebra, membranous cytoplasmic (MCB), and Pick bodies in the same population of neoplastic, sympathetic ganglion cells provides further evidence for their non-specificity. Although the pathogenesis of the membranous cytoplasmic bodies in this tumor is unclear, they ostensibly arise within endoplasmic cisterns, similar to the proposed origin of membranous cytoplasmic bodies in Tay-Sachs disease. Both the apparent continuum between argyrophilic bodies and central chromatolysis, and the incorporation of various cytoplasmic constituents within neurofilamentous proliferations reflect some of the dynamic factors involved in the formation of Pick bodies. | 173,810 | [
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Light-cored dense particles in mitochondria of a patient with skeletal muscle and myocardial disease. | A 15-year-old boy with skeletal muscle and myocardial disease was found to have large numbers of abnormal muscle mitochondria, the distinguishing feature of which was the presence of many light-cored dense particles. These particles bore a marked resemblance to those seen in situations where mitochondria accumulate calcium. If that is what they were, it remains to be determined whether such an accumulation of calcium, or other mitochondrial abnormality, played a role in the patient's muscle weakness. Alternatively, the granules might have represented evidence of virus involvement of the mitochondria, but this seems less likely. | 173,811 | [
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Gluconeogenic response to mannoheptulose in the rat. | Since administration of mannoheptulose induces temporary hyperglycemia, the present study was conducted to elucidate this phenomenon. The results indicate that mannoheptulose stimulates the activity of hepatic fructose-1,6-diphosphatase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and enhances incorporation of alanine into blood glucose and hepatic glycogen. In addition, mannoheptulose increases plasma levels of glucagon and hepatic cyclic AMP concentration. Gluconeogenic effects of mannoheptulose appear to be mediated by glucagon. | 173,818 | [
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Morphology and histochemistry of the endometrial cup. | The luminal and cut surface of endometrial cups were examined by scanning electron microscopy. The distribution of PAS-positive and lipid materials in cup tissue was studied and most of the lipid material was localized in the large polyhedral cup cells. The lipid droplets gave positive reactions for DNPH in the cholesterol test of Schultz. They also exhibited autofluorescence and were therefore considered to be steroidal in nature. The significance of this possibility, particularly with regard to maintenance of early pregnancy in the mare, is discussed. | 173,848 | [
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5' nucleotide sequence of sindbis viral RNA. | The 5' sequence of Sindbis viral RNA is m (7)G(5') pppApUpGp... | 173,879 | [
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Comparison of an avian osteopetrosis virus with an avian lymphomatosis virus by RNA-DNA hybridization. | Myeloblastosis-associated virus (MAV)-2(0), a virus which was derived from avian myeloblastosis virus and induced a high incidence of osteopetrosis, was compared with avian lymphomatosis virus 5938, a recent field isolate which induced a high incidence of lymphomatosis. The following information was obtained. (i) MAV-2(0) induced osteopetrosis, nephroblastoma, and a very low incidence of hepatocellular carcinoma. No difference was seen in the oncogenic spectrum of end point and plaque-purified MAV-2(0). (ii) 125I-labeled RNA sequences from MAV-2(0) formed hybrids with DNA extracted from osteopetrotic bone at a rate suggesting five proviral copies per haploid cell genome. The extent of hybridization of MAV-2(0) RNA with DNA from osteopetrotic tissue was more extensive (87%) than was observed in reactions with DNA from uninfected chicken embryos (52%). (iii) Competition of unlabeled viral RNA in hybridization reactions between the radioactive RNA from the two viruses and their respective proviral sequences present in tumor tissues showed that 15 to 20% of the viral sequences detected in these reactions were unshared. In contrast, no differences were detected in competition analyses of RNA sequences from the two viruses detected in DNA of normal chicken cells. (iv) MAV-2(0) 35S RNA was indistinguishable in size from avian lymphomatosis virus 5938 35S RNA by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. | 173,880 | [
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Tick-borne viruses in Finland. | Ixodes ricinus is the only one of six tick species reported from Finland found to carry viruses. It transmits tick-borne encephalitis and Uukuniemi viruses, and transmission of a Kemerovo group virus is suggested by antibody findings. Tick-borne encephalitis is common only in the SW-archipelago; it is also found near the SE-boarder but is very rare elsewhere. In contrast, Uukuniemi virus is common throughout the distribution area of I. ricinus, being commoner on the mainland than in the archipelago. Medium, large and small mammals participate in the cycle of tick-borne encephalitis virus, though birds are not excluded and apparently they act as host to the Uukuniemi virus. The encephalitis virus causes clinical illness in man, with cases limited mostly to the SW-archipelago; the disease is a relatively mild form of tick-borne encephalitis, with biphasic and meningeal symptoms dominating. | 173,939 | [
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Effect of diet on fatty acids in the lipoprotein cholesteryl esters of type IIa and normal individuals. | Four normal and two individuals with type IIa hyperlipoproteinemia were placed on the National Heart and Lung Institute Type IIa Diet (less than 300 mg of cholesterol per day, high polyunsaturated, low saturated fat diet) for 1 week and on a normal diet the following week. Plasma samples were obtained and the cholesterol contents of plasma and of very low density, low density and high density lipoproteins determined. The cholesteryl esters in one type IIa and two normal individuals were identified. The cholesteryl esters in type IIa very low density lipoproteins from blood drawn 45 min after the last meal in each dietary period, contained less 18:2 than from the normal. After the first dietary period, the very low density lipoprotein cholesteryl ester 18:2 content for the type IIa was 37.2M% and for the normals, 54.7M%. After the second dietary period, the corresponding values were 49.7M% and 56.7M%. Fasting samples had lower 18:2 contents in the low density lipoproteins from the Type IIa subject following both dietary periods and in the high density lipoproteins following the Type II diet. | 173,967 | [
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Effect of breast-feeding on seroresponse of infants to oral poliovirus vaccination. | Three hundred Indian infants between 6 and 51 weeks of age were divided into six groups and given three doses of trivalent oral polio vaccine (OPV) of known adequate potency. One group was on unrestricted breast-feeding with mandatory breast-feed during the interval between 30 minutes before and 15 minutes after each dose of OPV. In four groups of infants breast-feeding was withheld for three, four, five, and six hours both before and after each dose of OPV. The sixth group was bottle-fed. Samples of blood were collected from all infants before vaccination and from 227 infants further samples were collected four weeks after the first and/or third doses of OPV. Antibody responses to poliovirus types 1, 2, and 3 were determined following one dose and three doses of OPV, and the rates of response were found to be approximately equal in all groups of breast-fed infants irrespective of their feeding schedules, as well as in bottle-fed infants. Thus breast-feeding is shown to have no inhibitory effect on antibody response of infants beyond the newborn period to OPV. | 174,056 | [
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Pediatric familial type II hyperlipoproteinemia: therapy with diet and colestipol resin. | Effects of a low-cholesterol, polyunsaturate-rich diet and a synthetic organic bile sequestrant polymer (U26,597A, colestipol) were studied in 21 children, heterozygous for familial hypercholesterolemia. Total cholesterol, beta-lipoprotein cholesterol, and triglyceride were measured twice on habitual diet, monthly for six months on a low-cholesterol diet, and monthly for six months on low-cholesterol diet plus 10 gm of colestipol per day. Total cholesterol (mean +/- 1 SD) was 295 +/- 37 on habitual diet, 278 +/- 29 on low-cholesterol diet, and fell significantly to 242 +/- 29 mg/100 ml on diet plus colestipol. Low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol was 234 +/- 37 on habitual diet, 220 +/- 28 on low-cholesterol diet, and fell significantly to 179 +/- 26 mg/100 ml on diet plus drug. Plasma triglyceride levels on habitual diet were 79 +/- 31, remained unchanged on low-cholesterol diet, 86 +/- 22, and were unaffected by low-cholesterol diet plus drug, 85 +/- 17 mg/100 ml. On diet alone, plasma LDL was not normalized (less than 170 mg/100 ml) in any of the 21 children, and cholesterol fell to within normal limits (less than 230 mg/100 ml) in only one child. The combination of diet plus colestipol resin normalized total and LDL cholesterol in 52% of the children. Cholesterol was lowered to a "moderately elevated" range of 230 to 250 mg/100 ml in an additional 14% of the children and LDL was lowered to a range of 170 to 190 mg/100 ml in an additional 29%. In 33% of the children, cholesterol remained greater than 250 mg/100 ml despite diet plus colestipol, while LDL was greater than 190 mg/100 ml in 19%. Colestipol is an effective and well-tolerated cholesterol lowering compound which, in conjunction with diet, may prove to be very useful in the treatment of children heterozygous for familial hypercholesterolemia. | 174,057 | [
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Mapping of biological functions on RNA of avian tumor viruses: location of regions required for transformation and determination of host range. | A map of the large T1 oligonucleotides of the RNA of Prague Rous sarcoma virus, strain B (Pr RSVb) has recently been established (Coffin and Billeter, submitted for publication). Since the RNA of Rous associated virus, type 1 (RAV-1) lacks many of the large 1 oligonucleotides of Pr RSV-B and contains others not present in the latter, the RNA of recombinants between RAV-1 and Pr RSV-B could be analyzed with regard to the origin of its sequences. Recombinants were selected for transforming capacity (characteristic for Pr RSV-B) and ability to grow on C/B chicken fibroblasts (characteristic for RAV-1). Four out of five recombinants examined had undergone at least two crossovers. The set of Pr RSV-B-specific oligonucleotides present in all recombinants defined an RNA region near the poly(A) segment; this must contain genetic information required for transformation required for transformation (the onc function). All recombinants lost a set of contiguous Pr RSV-B-specific oligonucleotides and concomitantly acquired a set of RAV-1-specific oligonucleotides. These define a region in the middle section of the oligonucleotide map, all or some of which must be required for determining growth capacity on C/B cells (the env function). | 174,075 | [
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Human papillomavirus DNA: physical map. | Human papillomavirus (HPV) DNA form I (supercoiled) was prepared from plantar warts. HPV DNA was cleaved with restriction enzymes obtained from the following sources: escherichia coli (EcoRI), Hemophilus influenzae strain Rd (both unfractionated Hind and aeparated HindII and HindIII enzymes) and Hemophilus parainfluenzae (HpaI). The cleavage products were analyzed by polyacrylamide gradient slab gel electrophoresis and electron microscopy. HPV DNA was cleaved into two fragments by EcoRI (87% and 13% of the genome) and into six fragments, ranging in size from 33.5 to 1.2% of the genome, by Hind endonucleases. The six Hind fragments result from the cleavage of three sequences recognized by HindII, two of which are also cleaved by HpaI, and of three sequence recognized by HindIII. The order of these fragments was determined by comparing their size with that of the fragments obtained with HindII, HindIII, HpaI, and the mixture of HindIII + Hpal. The two EcoRI cleavage sites were located on two adjacent Hind fragments and one of these sites has been taken for the zero point to construct a physical map. The treatment of superhelical HPV DNA with bacteriophage T4 gene 32 protein yields circular structures with a denaturation loop. The cleavage of these complexes with EcoRI and HindIII has shown two easily denatured regions which were located on the cleavage map. | 174,077 | [
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Signal input for a chemotactic response in the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. | Drops with different concentrations of 3':5'-cyclic AMP were deposited at various distances from small populations of Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, and the distances over which 50% of the amoebae drops reacted positively were determined. The linear regression analysis of a bouble logarithmic plot of distance against concentration gives a straight line with a slope of 1/4.25, which value suggests that the amoebae respond to a spatial gradient of cyclic AMP concentration. The threshold value for the signal is 3.6 X 10(-9) M/mm with a sensitivity of measurement of about 1%. These findings are discussed in relation to our present knowledge of cyclic AMP receptors. | 174,088 | [
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Binding, internalization, and degradation of low density lipoprotein by normal human fibroblasts and by fibroblasts from a case of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. | Skin fibroblasts from a patient with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HFH) were compared with normal skin fibroblasts with regard to binding, internalization, and degradation of iodinated human low density lipoprotein (LDL). Like other cell lines from HFH patients, the mutant cells showed no suppression of sterol synthesis by LDL. Surface binding, measured at 0 degrees to eliminate the appreciable internalization that was shown to occur at 37 degrees, was on the average slightly less for HFH cells than normal cells at low LDL concentrations but comparable or even greater at high LDL concentrations (greater than 60 mug of LDL protein per ml). A major defect observed was in the rate of internalization of LDL at 37 degrees, which was only 1-10% of that in normal cells. LDL degradation was also markedly reduced but not to the same extent. Thus, a larger fraction of the LDL taken up appeared to be degraded by the mutant cells. The most striking defect observed, then, was not in surface binding of LDL but in rate of LDL internalization. While this might be secondary to a defect in specific binding sites of LDL, the magnitude of the observed differences in binding at low temperature seems too small to account for the huge differences in internalization (13- to 115-fold). | 174,096 | [
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Characteristics common to choleretic increments of bile induced by theophylline, glucagon and SQ-20009 in the dog. | Theophylline, glucagon, and SQ-20009 induce a choleresis in the dog characterized by a proportionate increase in erythritol clearance and bile flow, no increase in bile salt excretion, and by an isosmotic solution of similar electrolyte composition. The increment in bile appears to originate at the canaliculus in response to increased cyclic-AMP. | 174,139 | [
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Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide degradation in infarcted cardiac muscle. | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides (NAD, NADH2, NADP, and NADPH2) levels decrease in myocardial dog tissue after the ligature of the coronary artery branch. The activity of a glycohydrolytic enzyme acting on NAD and releasing nicotinamide in an equivalent amount was of the same order of magnitude in infarcted tissue, irrespective of the time elapsed after the coronary artery occlusion, as it was in normal tissue. Most of the NAD contained in normal heart muscle was hydrolyzed as soon as the tissue was disrupted in a homogenizer, whereas no hydrolysis occurred when the whole fragment was incubated for 1 hour. The enzymatic activity was found mainly in a membranous fraction seperated at 17,000 x g by differential centrifugation. Acid phosphatase, K+ -activated phosphatase, and NA+-K+-ATPase specific activities were greater in this fraction. It is suggested that the structural disorganization of the heart elicited either in vitro or during the infarction process determines the conditions for a reaction between the enzyme which is localized in the membranes and the NAD which is mainly in the cytosol. | 174,168 | [
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[Effects of ACTH on plasma insulin and glucose]. | The authors studied the effects of intramuscular and intravenous administration of ACTH on plasma glucose and insulin in rabbits. They found well marked differences --specially in insulin behavior-- between the effects of ACTH in rabbits and in humans. In rabbits, the investigators observed hyperinsulinism unable to decrease glycemia levels. These data are discussed. | 174,173 | [
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[Supravalvular ring type aortic stenosis with hypoplasia of the ascending aorta and stenosis of the origin of the innominate artery. Surgical correction]. | The authors report the case of a 19 year old woman with supravalvar aortic stenosis and hypoplasia of the ascending aorta with stenosis at the origin of the innominate artery. This was a sporadic form, without mental deficiency nor facial dysmorphia. No similar case was found in the family. The patient had three attacks of bacterial endocarditis over a period of 3 years and became cured without any cardiac sequelae. In view of the onset of left ventricular failure and sequelae. In view of the onset of left ventricular failure and syncope, operation was decided. A lozange-shaped patch was placed on the aorta from the narrowed supravalvar part to the origin of the innominate artery and prolonged on the latter vessel after relief of the stenosis. This gave an excellent result. | 174,197 | [
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[Istope examinations in coronary intensive care units]. | Radio-isotopes may be of use in investigation of patients with heart disease on an intensive care unit. These investigations are not traumatic. The radio-isotopes are innocuous and reliable, the examinations may be easily repeated and are therefore of great interest in diagnosis and prognosis of cardiovascular disease. | 174,198 | [
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[4 cases of osteomalacia during anticonvulsant or sedative treatment]. | The authors report osteomalacia in 3 cases of epilepsy and one case of coronary heart disease treated with phenobarbitone, either alone or associated with other anticonvulsants. There were clinical signs in all cases and typical radiological signs in 3 cases, a characteristic laboratory syndrome in 4 cases. In the 3 cases where it was estimated, serum levels of parathormone were high. Finally, in 3 cases where it was measured, daily urinary excretion of glucaric D acid was increased. The bony histological signs studied in 3 cases, were similar to those in deficiency osteomalacia. A study of Ca45 metabolism in one case, showed the characteristic changes found in osteomalacia. Finally, a study of the metabolism of tritiated vitamin D, or tritiated 25 OH CC, carried out in 3 cases, gave 3 different patterns; only one of them was characteristic of enzyme induction under the dependency of anticonvulsant. Started in 2 cases, treatment with 125 OH2CC, brought about a rapid fall in blood PTH levels which then rose again before falling progressively in one case, under treatment with 25 OH CC. The bony histological signs of hyperparathyroidism then regressed whilst serum PTH levels remained high. Phosphorous and calcium balance improved in only one case. Treatment with 25 OH CC in high dosage brought about clinical, radiological and laboratory cure of osteomalacia in both cases, reducing the frequency of fits in the epileptic patient. | 174,222 | [
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The compound eye in the opaque-eye phenotype of Drosophilia melanogaster. | The compound eye of the opaque-eye mutant of Drosophila melanogaster was investigated by means of electron microscopy to determine the morphological and physical properties of ommatidial elements. These elements in the mutant were found to differ from those of the wild-type flies in the following ways: (1) The cuticular lens was thinner than that of the control and lacked the typical lamellar construction. (2) The Semper cells were irregular in shape and contained many membranous inclusions similar to those found in degenerating cells; also their nuclei contained virus-like particles. (3) The primary pigment cells contained an abundance of drosopterin-containing granules which were lacking in those of wild-type flies. (4) The superior and inferior central photoreceptor cells were misplaced and their rhabdomeres evidenced some degeneration. (5) The secondary pigment cells had only one type of pigment granules instead of the three types found in the control. These morphological changes in ommatidial elements induced physical abnormalities such as the apparent opaqueness of the eye, the lack of a pseudopupil, the probable disability of the photoreceptor cells to respond to light and the inability of the dioptric system to produce utilizable geometric images. | 174,240 | [
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[Xeroradiographic field control in telecobalt therapy of the cranial and ear-nose-throat regions]. | The possibility of direct field verification by xeroradiography in Co-60-teletherapy of the head- and ENT-regions is described. By the effect of intensified contours, anatomical details may present themselves sufficiently as to make possible an objective verification of the irradiation. The particular advantages of this method consist in the simple handling and in the acceleration of the therapy preparations as well as in the possibility of documentation of the radiotherapeutic treatment. It has to be examined if the xeroradiographical procedure can be utilized for direct verification of the fields in other regions of the body too. | 174,255 | [
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[Effect of ACTH on glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and transketolase activity in mitochondria and hyaloplasm of rabbit liver]. | The glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase and transketolase activities in mitochondria and hyaloplasm of the rabbit liver were studied as affected by ACTH injected daily in a dose of 10 u/kg of weight for two weeks. It was shown that the activity of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase was unchanged neither in mitochondria nor in hyaloplasm. The transketolase activity in hyaloplasm was not changed as well. But in mitochondria it decreases by 47% (by an increase of sedoheptulose-7-phosphate S-7-P) simultaneously the ribose-5-phosphate (R-5-P) conversion is inhibited by 35%. The ratio of converted R-5-P and formed S-7-P became 2:0.68 (instead of theoretical 2:1). Administration of ACTH has no effect on the total concentration of acid-soluble ribose-containing compounds in both mitochondria and hyaloplasm. | 174,259 | [
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[Determination of the subtype membership of the epizootic foot-and-mouth disease virus by means of the agar gel diffusion test]. | Comparative studies were carried out by means of the agar gel-diffusion technique (AGDT) to establish the antigenic identity between the epizootic foot-and-mouth disease strain (the Nch/73 representative strain) and the standard viruses of type A. The epizootic strain was found to belong to the subtype group A5. Discussed is the usefulness of AGDT in determining the antigenic relations between the foot-and-mouth disease viruses. | 174,281 | [
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[Ultrastructure and morphogenesis of ceroid pigment. II. Late changes of lysosomes in Kupffer cells of rat liver after phagocytosis of unsaturated lipids (author's transl)]. | Wistar rats were injected intravenously with cod liver oil emulsion. The lipid droplets ere phagocytized by Kupffer cells and stored in lysosomes. The transformation of these lipid-containing lysosomes into ceroid pigment granules was studied electron-microscopically and cytochemically for a period of 12 weeks after the injection. The lipid droplets enclosed in lysosomes show an increasing and continous condensation from the periphery towards the center due to oxidation and polymerization of unsaturated fatty acids. During the first week almost the total amount of the stored lipids is transformed into an amorphous, highly electron-dense material which disintegrates into cloddy and globular fragments during the following time. The fragments are embedded in a fine granular, slightly electron-dense matrix showing a marked activity of acid phosphatase. The lysosomal structures which contain remnants of condensed oxidized and polymerized lipids are the electron-microscopic equivalent of the granules as seen by light microscopy. These lipids, which have been changed in their molecular structure, cannot be hydrolized by lysosomal enzymes. They remain as an indigestible material, as a waste product in lysosomal residual bodies. Both lipofuscin and ceroid are lysosomal structures containing oxidized and polymerized lipids. The differences between these lipogenous pigments are due to their different formal and causal genesis. Lipofuscin develops in parenchymal and muscle cells by autophagocytosis and by subsequent oxidation and polymerization of segregated membrane lipids. Ceroid is formed in macrophages by heterophagocytosis of unsaturated lipid material which is also oxidized and polymerized. | 174,283 | [
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Intraalveolar foam cells associated with lipidosis-like alterations in lung and liver of rats treated with tricyclic psychotropic drugs. | Histological, histochemical, and ultrastructural examinations were performed on pulmonary and hepatic tissues of rats after prolonged oral treatment with several tricyclic antidepressants and two neuroleptics, which are all of amphiphilic character. The antidepressants ipindole, imipramine, clomipramine, 1-chloro-amitriptyline, and 1-chloro-10,11-dehydro-amitriptyline were found to cause an accumulation of intraalveolar foam cells accompanied by the formation of abnormal lamellated and crystalloid cytoplasmic inclusions in most pulmonary and hepatic cell types. The ultrastructural and histochemical findings in both tissues point to generalized, abnormal intracellular storage of polar lipids, i.e. to drug-induced lipidosis. The foam cells are not regarded as an isolated pulmonary alteration but rather as an easily obtainable indication of generalized lipidosis, under the present conditions. They are thought to represent alveolar macrophages stuffed with non-digestible phospholipids. On the other hand, the tricyclic antidepressants noxiptiline and amitriptyline, and the neuroleptics chlorpromazine and thioridazine caused neither formation of foam cells nor of any lipidosis-like ultrastructural alterations. These negative results are tentatively ascribed to a more rapid biotransformation of the amphiphilic drug molecules into more hydrophilic metabolites which no longer have a high affinity to polar lipids. Two main conclusions can be drawn from the present ovservations: (1) Intraalveolar foam cells must not be regarded as a fortuitous alteration but rather as a first indication of generalized phospholipidosis, when they are found in animals treated with an amphiphilic drug. (2) Closely related compounds of amphiphilic character do not necessarily have the same potency to induce a phospholipidosis under in vivo conditions. | 174,284 | [
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[Comparative light and electron microscopic study on liver cell inclusions in chronic alcoholic liver damage (author's transl)]. | Liver cell inclusions in chronic alcoholic liver damage observed by means of the ligth microscope proved by correlated electron microscopy to be bile depositions, autophagic vacuoles, megamitochondria, alcoholic hyalin or accumulation of ribosomes. These liver cell inclusions are usually identifiable at the light microscopical level. The bile depositions undergo a lysosomal degradation. Thereby, they are converted into a pale brownish pigment and lose the property of reacting with histochemical bile tests. Owing to this brownish pigmentation bile depositions are distinguishable from the other mentioned liver cell inclusions under the light microscope. Autophagic vacuoles appear as eosinophilic inclusions and are PAS positive before as well as after the diastase treatment. On the contrary to these, the likewise eosinophilic megamitochondria are PAS negative, in the same way as alcoholic hyaline. With the procedure according to Goldner megamitochondria mostly strain red, whereas alcoholic hyalin lacks this property. Moreover, alcoholic hyalin is usually distinguishable from megamitochondria by its shape. Accumulations of ribosomes represent basophilic cytoplasm areas in light microscopy and are frequently located in he pericanalicular regions of liver epithelium. | 174,340 | [
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[Nervous system lesions in juvenile angiofibromas of the base of the skull with intracranial spread]. | The authors examined the nervous system in 12 patients with intracranial dissemination of an adolescent angiofibroma of the brain basis. It was possible to depict signs of a lesion of some cranial nerves and the brain stem as well as x-ray confirmation of a bone destruction in the brain basis. The found changes were connected with the direct influence of the angiofibroma on the above mentioned structures. | 174,348 | [
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[Antimycin A-resistant oxygen consumption in rabbit reticulocytes]. | In rabbit reticulocytes there exists an Antimycin A-resistent oxygen consumption. It amounts to about 20% of the total oxygen consumption, independently of the degree of maturation of the cells and of the presence of external substrates. The main substrate of the Antimycin A-resistent oxygen consumption is glucose, which is metabolized by the pentose phosphate pathway. NADP-dependent substrates provide more CO2 in the presence of Antimycin A. The 14CO2-formation from metabolites of the citric acid cycle and of metabolites directly connected with this cycle is decreased in the presence of Antimycin A, whereas no 14CO2 is formed from long-chain fatty acids. A H2O2-formation by a NADPH-oxygenase is postulated. The mitochondria contribute reducing equivalents to the cytosolic oxygen consumption. The postulated interactions include hydrogen transfer and the malate-shuttle. | 174,350 | [
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Determination of plasma aldosterone in children by thin layer chromatography and radioimmunoassay. | An accurate and relatively simple radioimmunoassay for the determination of aldosterone concentration in peripheral plasma has been developed, 0.5-2.0 ml plasma with added [1,2-3H]aldosterone is extracted with dichloromethane. Purification of the extract is achieved by thin later chromatography in the system benzene-acetone 1:1. Recovery of [1,2-3H] aldosterone is 58 +/- 6 (SD)%. Bound and free fractions are separated by dextran-coated charcoal. The intra-assay reproducibility is 8.8% and the inter-assay reproducibility varies from 11.4-16.1%. The sensitivity of the assay for a 5 ml plasma sample can be put at 0.2 ng/100 ml. Normal values determined in 52 healthy children of different age groups are presented. Furthermore the aldosterone stimulating effect of low sodium diet (17 children), severe and prolonged vomiting (19 children) and synthetic ACTH (10 children) has been studied by our modified method. | 174,368 | [
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Hepatic prolyl hydroxylase activity in experimental cirrhosis. | Hepatic collagen synthesis was studied during progressive fibrosis induced by carbon tetrachloride in male Sprague-Dawley rats by determination of prolyl hydroxylase activity and hydrocyproline levels along with morphological assessment of fibrosis. Cirrhosis was present after approximately 4 weeks treatment. Prolyl hydroxylase activity was increased significantly before fibrosis was apparent histologically or by hydroxyproline levels. The significance of this finding is discussed. | 174,370 | [
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Diagnostic applications of the fluorescent antibody method. | Reagents and equipment are now readily available to make fluorescent antibody techniques routine diagnostic procedures. Antinuclear antibodies are detectable by such methods and are useful in the diagnosis of autoimmune disease. By defining not only the site of tissue damage but also the specific components deposted at that site, immunofluorescence applied to renal biopsies has helped to elucidate the nature of otherwise similar appearing processes. Fluorescent techniques also facilitate diagnosis of such skin diseases as lupus, bullous pemphigoid and pemphigus. | 174,415 | [
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Multilocular cyst of the kidney. Report of three cases with review of the literature. | Multilocular cyst of the kidney is an uncommon lesion. Approximately 70 cases are reported in the literature, with more than half occurring in children. The etiology and pathogenesis are not known, although the microscopic appearance in certain cases resembles that of Wilms' tumor. Three additional cases are presented and the literature is reviewed. | 174,421 | [
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A case of watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and hypercalcemia associated with nonulcerogenic islet cell tumor of the pancreas. | A case of watery diarrhea, hypokalemia and hypercalcemia associated with an islet cell tumor was described. A 62-year old man exhibited frequent watery diarrhea and hypokalemia for two years. He had no peptic ulcer and serum gastrin level was normal. His serum calcium was abnormally high and serum phosphate was lowered. He had secretin-like activity in his plasma. Autopsy revealed a small islet cell tumor in the pancreas and several metastatic masses in the liver. Microscopic examination revealed the tumor cell was not beta, alpha nor D cells. By electron microscopy the secretion granules of the tumor cell resembled those of S, M and T cells. It was not possible to decide which of the tree cell types was responsible for the pancreatic cholera. | 174,423 | [
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On the skeletal maturation of Japanese-American White hybrids. | The skeletal maturation of Japanese-American White hybrids is discussed in relation to that of Japanese and Whites. Assessment of skeletal maturation was made on 323 radiographs of 57 boys and 151 of 33 girls studied semi-longitudinally from 3 to 18 years on the basis of the Tanner-Whitehouse method (62). The skeletal maturity scores show a tendency for a greater advance in childhood for the Whites than for the hybrids and the Japanese. However, the preadolescent spurt of skeletal maturity occurs earlier in the Japanese and the hybrids than in the Whites, and the hybrids show the intermediate skeletal maturity scores between those of the Japanese and the Whites at and after adolescence. | 174,438 | [
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Effect of glucagon on secretin-stimulated bile flow. | The effect of glucagon on secretin-stimulated bile flow was evaluated in dogs with chronic biliary and gastric fistulas. Evaluation of the effects of secretin and glucagon alone on hepatic bile flow indicated that the calculated maximal response (CMR) values of the two agents were similar. Secretin increased the bicarbonate concentration in hepatic bile whereas glucagon did not, suggesting basic differences in mechanism of action. Administration of glucagon to secretin-stimulated bile flow produced an increase in bile flow while decreasing the bicarbonate concentration in secretin-stimulated bile. Since the maximal response for bile flow to glucagon and secretin was significantly greater than the maximal response to either agent alone, glucagon produced potentiation of secretin-stimulated bile. Glucagon increased the CMR value of secretin-stimulated bile from 513 mul/min for secretin alone to 692 mul/min for secretin and glucagon. This was associated with no significant change in the values of the respective D50S. These data suggest that glucagon produced a noncompetitive augmentation of secretin-stimulated bile flow and suggest that the two agents do not utilize the same receptor to stimulate bile flow. | 174,445 | [
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Hepatic metabolism of genetically diabetic (db/db) mice. I. Carbohydrate metabolism. | Hepatic carbohydrate metabolism in genetically diabetic mice (db/db) and their normal littermates has been studied. In db/db mice, body water was below normal and declined with age. The liver of db/db mice was abnormally large in relation to the metabolic mass of the body at all ages studied. In db/db mice, hepatic glycogenolysis, glycogen synthesis, glycogen synthetase, and phosphorylase were markedly increased. Gluconeogenesis from alanine or lactate in perfused livers of db/db mice was greater than normal per 100 g body water. Activities of fructose-1, 6-biophosphatase, glucose-6-phosphatase, glucokinase + hexokinase, and pyruvate kinase were elevated in livers of db/db mice. Diabetic mouse livers perfused with lactate showed a markedly reduced concentration of P-enolpyruvate and clear "forward crossover" between fructose-1, 6-P2 and fructose-6-P. In vivo glucose clearance, measured with [3-3H]glucose, in db/db mice was 170% that of normal mice. Data presented indicate that in livers of db/db mice: 1) glucose production is elevated prior to hyperglycemia, 2) glycogen turns over more rapidly, and 3) glycolytic and gluconeogenic enzymes are elevated paradoxically. These abnormalities are discussed from the viewpoint of their etiology. | 174,448 | [
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A comparative appraisal of emphysematous cholecystitis. | There is ample evidence from this retrospective comparison to indicate that emphysematous cholecystitis does merit clinical distinction apart from acute cholecystitis. It is an acute infection of the gallbladder caused by a specific group of bacteria that may be aided by some aspect of local ischemia. Cholelithiasis does not seem to be a major factor in the pathogenesis of emphysematous cholecystitis, and this, in association with some dependence upon ischemia, may account for the predominance of this disease in males rather than females. Gangrene is a common feature of the pathologic process, and thus it is not surprising that the diagnosis of emphysematous cholecystitis implies a risk of gallbladder perforation that is five times that expected from ordinary acute cholecystitis. The key to identifying this disease is the plain abdominal roentgenogram which in most instances will make the diagnosis and provide an impetus for early operative intervention. | 174,453 | [
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Malignant hepatoma associated with acquired hepatic cutaneous porphyria. | A 60-year-old woman with a three-year history of an acquired hepatic cutaneous porphyria was discovered to have a porphyrin-producing malignant hepatoma. An attempt was made to treat her with fluorouracil perfused through a hepatic artery catheter. It did not produce shrinkage of the tumor, but the patient remains alive and ambulant a year after the infusion, although her skin lesions (scarring, bulla formation, and hyperpigmentation) on the fingers, back of hands, and face persist and she continues to excrete abnormally high quantities of porphyrin in her feces. | 174,497 | [
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Histophysiology of the vegetative peripheral nervous system of skin. | Preterminal nerve fibers of the peripheral vegetative nervous system make inmediate contact (neuro-effector-areas) to interstitial cells (I.C.). This connection is characterized through a common glycocalyx with the nerve fiber. The I.C. are specific innervated cells and differ morphologically from Schwann-cells, fibrocytes, and histiocytes. The I.C. are able to come into morphologically different contacts with neighbouring cells by microvilli-like cell protrusions. These neighbouring cells then are able to contact other cells by themselves. The results are interpreted in the sense of electro-mechanical feed-back system of information processing in the vegetative periphery. | 174,499 | [
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Acute idiopathic polyneuritis caused by cytomegalovirus. | Cytomegalovirus was isolated from the PBBC from a patient with acute idiopathic polyneuritis. Viremia occurred during the early phase of the neurologic disease, preceding viruria, and was accompanied by specific CMV-IgM antibodies, which indicates a recently acquired infection. Complement fixing antibodies to CMV remained stable throughout the illness at a relatively low titer. Previously, CMV has been associated with acute idiopathic polyneuritis on the indirect evidence of rising or elevated titers of complement fixing antibodies or isolation of virus from urine or saliva or both. Our findings provide direct evidence for the causative role of CMV in acute idiopathic polyneuritis. | 174,502 | [
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Swinepox. Virus isolation, experimental infections and the differentiation from vaccinia virus infections. | The isolation of swinepox virus in primary pig kidney cell cultures is reported. The differentiation from vaccinia virus was possible with challenge infections of convalescent pigs and the use of the agar gel diffusion precipitation (AGDP) test and immuno-electroosmophoresis (IEOP). Using both immune precipitation tests reactions of identity were obtained between the heterologous antigens of swinepox and vaccinia viruses. A total of 829 pig sera from the field were tested for precipitating antibodies with the IEOP. Antibodies were detected in 65 (=7.8 per cent) of these serum samples. | 174,522 | [
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Ultrastructural aspects of experimental swinepox with special reference to inclusion bodies. | A light and electron microscopic study was performed on pox-like epidermal lesions in an experimentally infected pig. Light microscopical investigation of semithin sections revealed the presence of nuclear vacuoles and of different types of cytoplasmic inclusions. In electron microscopical studies large numbers of both immature and mature virus particles and the cytological changes indicative of pox virus infection were observed. Various types of intra-cytoplasmic inclusions -- i.e. fibrillar inclusions, crystalloid-containing dense inclusions, complex membraneous inclusions and dense homogeneous inclusions -- were encountered in addition to viroplasms and nuclear vacuoles. Because of the presence of vacuoles in nuclei of stratum spinosum cells the diagnosis swine pox by swinepox virus was most probable. These nuclear vacuoles have not been described in swine pox caused by vaccinia virus, the only other known cause of pox in swine. | 174,523 | [
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Immunoglobulins, antibodies and inhibitors of parainfluenza 3 virus in respiratory secretions of sheep. | Virus neutralising and haemagglutination inhibiting (HI) activities were monitored in the serum, nasal secretions and tracheo-bronchial secretions of lambs infected with Parainfluenza virus type 3 (PI3). HI activity was found in the secretions of both control and infected lambs, whereas neutralising antibody was found only in nasal secretions from infected lambs. Fractionation revealed that most of the HI activity in the secretions was due to a large molecular weight protein which also inhibited the haemagglutination (HA) of Parainfluenza virus type 1 (PI1) and type 2 (PI2) and Newcastle disease virus (NDV). This inhibitory activity was partially sensitive to receptor destroying enzyme (RDE). IgA antibodies specific for PI3 were also found in the respiratory secretions. However no increase in IgA levels was detected in the nasal secretions of the infected lambs. It is suggested that in certain reports non-specific inhibitors present in the nasal secretions of calves, may have been confused with PI3 specific IgA antibody. | 174,528 | [
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[Problems of the electric response audiometry (ERA) during the natural and artificial sleep (author's transl)]. | The investigators carried out threshold determinations on 16 children and 6 adults in wakefulness, under general anaesthesia (we used chloral hydrate anaesthesia) and in sleep (stage II-III and stage REM). Falling asleep (stage I and initial stage of anaesthesia respectively) the latencies of the individual components of the acoustically evoked potentials are prolonged in mean of 30 msec. Simultaneously the amplitude of N1 significantly decreases and N2 becomes a prominent point (Fig. 1). The generation mechanisms of wave N2 are obviously different from those of wave N1. Its input-output curve takes a very steep course (Fig. 5) and the shortening of latencies increases with growing intensity of stimulus too (Fig. 4). Amplitude histogrammes demonstrated the dependency of the form of the acoustically evoked potential on the degree of synchronisation of EEG activity. While in the case of desynchronisation N1 appears more markedly, N2 does in the case of synchronisation. The mean deviation of the ERA threshold totals plus 3.8 +/- 6.9 dB (n = 41) under chloral hydrate anaesthesia, plus 4.9 +/- 6.7 dB (n = 37) in natural sleep in contrast to the wakefulness. With a 99% confidence there occur confidence intervals ranging from + 1 to + 7 dB and from +2 to +8 dB respectively. In identifying the threshold potentials error I (existing potential not recognized) occurred in 15-20%, error II (random wave seen as potential) in 20% of these studies. All these experiments showed significant lower variances for the latencies compared with variancies of amplitudes. The variance of amplitudes is smallest in children (Table 1) under general anaesthesia as well as in adults in wakefulness (Table 2). For the practical performance of ERA chloral hydrate is recommended for studies on children. A uniform EEG-state as well as a uniform depth of sleep are basic conditions for ERA during sleep, sedation or under anaesthesia. These conditions must constantly be controlled by EEG, EOG and EMG. | 174,537 | [
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A comparison of the regulation of pyruvate dehydrogenase in mitochondria from rat brain and liver. | The total activity of pyruvate dehydrogenase in mitochondria isolated from rat brain and liver was 53.5 and 14.2nmol/min per mg of protein respectively. Pyruvate dehydrogenase in liver mitochondria incubated for 4 min at 37 degrees C with no additions was 30% in the active form and this activity increased with longer incubations until it was completely in the active form after 20 min. Brain mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase activity was initially high and did not increase with addition of Mg2+ plus Ca2+ or partially purified pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase or with longer incubations. The proportion of pyruvate dehydrogenase in the active form in both brain and liver mitochondria changed inversely with changes in mitochondrial energy charge, whereas total pyruvate dehydrogenase did not change. The chelators citrate, isocitrate, EDTA, ethanedioxybis(ethylamine)tetra-acetic acid and Ruthenium Red each lowered pyruvate dehydrogenase activity in brain mitochondria, but only citrate and isocitrate did so in liver mitochondria. These chelators did not affect the energy charge of the mitochondria. Mg2+ plus Ca2+ reversed the pyruvate dehydrogenase inactivation in liver, but not brain, mitochondria. The regulation of the activation-inactivation of pyruvate dehydrogenase in mitochondria from rat brain and liver with respect to energy charge is similar and may be at least partially regulated by this parameter, and the effects of chelators differ in the two types of mitochondria. | 174,544 | [
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Conversion of thyroxine into tri-iodothyronine by rat liver homogenate. | By using a highly specific radioimmunoassay the formation of tri-iodothyronine by the deiodination of thyroxine was studied in rat liver homogenate. Several observations suggest that the reaction observed is enzymic in nature. Pre-heating the homogenate for 30 min at 56 degrees C completely abolished conversion of thyroxine into tri-iodothyronine; the component of rat liver homogenate responsible could be saturated with substrate; iodotyrosines displayed competitive activity. Between 0 degrees and 37 degrees C, the tri-iodothyronine-production rate was positively correlated with incubation temperature. The addition of NAD+ enhanced conversion into tri-iodothyronine, which suggests that an oxidative mechanism is involved. 5-Propyl-2-thiouracil and 6-propyl-2-thiouracil, both known to prevent deiodination in vivo, greatly decreased the deiodiantion activity of rat liver homogenate. | 174,547 | [
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Proteoglycans of hyaline cartilage: Electron-microscopic studies on isolated molecules. | Proteoglycan monomers from guinea-pig costal cartilage, bovine nasal and bovine tracheal cartilage were observed in the electron microscope after being spread in a monomolecular layer with cytochrome c. The proteoglycan molecule appeared as an extended central core filament to which side-chain filaments were attached at various intervals. The molecules from the three sources displayed great ultrastructural similarities. On average, the core filament was about 290 nm long, there were about 25 side-chain filaments per core filament, the side-chain filaments were about 45 nm long, and the distance between the attachment points of the side-chain filaments to the core filament was about 11 nm. With regard to the overall size of the molecules, no evidence of distinct subpopulations was obtained. Good correlation was found between ultrastructural data for the proteoglycan molecules and chemical data obtained by enzyme digestions and gel chromatography. Together these data strongly support the interpretation of the electron-microscopic pictures as indicating a central filament corresponding to the protein core and side-chain filaments corresponding to the chondroitin sulphate chain clusters of the proteoglycan monomers. | 174,551 | [
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Physicochemical characterization of the four-iron-four-sulphide ferredoxin from Bacillus stearothermophilus. | 1. A stable ferredoxin was prepared from Bacillus stearothermophilus and purified by chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and by electrophoresis. 2. The minimum molecular weight determined from the amino acid composition was about 7900 and this was in reasonable agreement with a value of 8500 determined by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. The ferredoxin contained four iron atoms and four labile sulphide groups per molecule. 3. The optical absorption, optical-rotatory-dispersion and circular-dichroism spectra are typical of ferredoxins containing 4Fe-4S clusters. 4. Oxidation-reduction titrations, combined with electron-paramagnetic-resonance (e.p.r.) spectroscopy, showed that the protein has a mid-point potential, at pH8, of -280 +/- 10mV, and that only one electron-accepting paramagnetic species is present. 5. The e.p.r. spectrum of the reduced ferredoxin is more readily saturated with microwave power at low temperatures than those of the eight-iron ferredoxins, indicating that there is another mechanism of electron-spin relaxation in the latter. 6. Mossbauer spectra of both redox states were observed over a range of temperatures and in magnetic fields. At high temperatures (77 degrees K and above) both redox states appear as quadrupole-split doublets; in the reduced state two resolved doublets are seen, suggesting appreciable localization of the additional reducing electron. 7. The average chemical shift indicates formal valences of two Fe3+ and two Fe2+ in the oxidized state and three Fe2+ and one Fe3+ in the reduced state. However, the spectra indicate that there are differing degrees of electron delocalization over the iron atoms. 8. At low temperatures (4.2 degrees K) the oxidized form shows no hyperfine magnetic interaction, even in an applied magnetic field, evidence that the oxidized ferredoxin is in a non-magnetic state as a result of antiferromagnetic coupling between the iron atoms. 9. At 4.2 degrees K the reduced form shows a broad asymmetric pattern resulting from magnetic hyperfine interaction. This contrasts with the reduced ferredoxin of Clostridium pasteurianum, which shows a doublet, suggesting that in the latter there may be interaction between the two 4Fe-4S centres. 10. In large applied magnetic fields, positive and negative hyperfine fields are seen in the Mossbauer spectra of the reduced ferredoxin, evidence for antiferromagnetic coupling between the iron atoms in the 4Fe-4S centre. The high-field spectra of the reduced ferredoxin of B. stearothermophilus are similar to those of the reduced ferredoxin of C. pasteurianum. | 174,558 | [
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Synchronous digestion of SV40 DNA by exonuclease III. | We have established an optimal condition for the synchronous digestion of SV40 DNA with Escherichia coli exonuclease III. Electron microscopy and polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis were used to obtain accurate measurements on the lengths of DNA before and after exonuclease III digestion. Based on this finding, a new method for determining the sequence of long duplex DNA can be realized. It involves (a) the synchronous digestion of the DNA from the 3' ends with exonuclease III, followed by (b) repair synthesis with labeled nucleotides and DNA polymerase, and (c) sequence analysis of the repaired DNA. | 174,717 | [
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Partial purification and properties of a DNA-binding protein from nuclei of cells infected with polyoma virus. | A DNA-binding protein has been purified from nuclei of 3T3 cells infected with polyoma virus. The assay used to detect this activity measures the amount of double-stranded DNA retained on a nitrocellulose membrane filter in the presence of binding protein. The interaction between DNA and protein is salt dependent and occurs optimally at 0.8 M NaCl. The isolated protein can bind to both circular and linear duplex DNA. Incubation of the binding protein with PM2 or polyoma DNA results in the formation of a fast sedimenting DNA structure in neutral sucrose gradients. The isolated binding protein is also capable of producing a considerable stimulation of both Escherichia coli (Pol I) and T4 DNA polymerase activities when either single-stranded or intact, native T7 DNA is used as the template. The binding protein itself is free of detectable DNA polymerase or nuclease activity. | 174,725 | [
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Early androgen action in kidney of normal and androgen-insensitive (tfm/y) mice. Changes in RNA polymerase and chromatin template activities. | Intranuclear accumulation of testosterone was compared with early changes in transcriptional events in kidneys from normal female and androgen-insensitive (tfm/y) mice. Following a subcutaneous injection of [3H] testosterone, total nuclear uptake of the steroid was maximal at 30 min and declined to about 40% of the peak value by 4 h after hormone administration. After a single subcutaneous dose of testosterone, RNA polymerase activity assayed in intact nuclei in the presence of Mg2+ and alpha-amanitin (nucleolar RNA polymerase I), as well as the enzyme activity sensitive to low concentration of the toxin (nucleoplasmic RNA polymerase II), increased within 15 min and attained peak values at 2 and 1 h, respectively. The activity of both polymerases declined almost to the control level by 4 h and then increased again with a second peak at 20 and 12 h for RNA polymerase I and II, respectively. Similarly, the template capacity of mouse kidney chromatin, as measured with mammalian RNA polymerase II, increased by 15 min, reached a peak at 1 h and returned to control level by 4 h following hormone treatment. A second dose of testosterone given at the nadir (4 h) was not capable of stimulating renal chromatin template activity significantly as compared to the effect observed after the initial hormone treatment. Contrary to the testosterone-stimulated changes in transcriptional events observed in normal female mice, androgens elicited no response in androgen-insensitive tfm/y mice, animals lacking cytosol androgen receptors. These results strongly support the contention that hormone-specific receptors are obligatory to steroid-mediated modifications in gene transcription. | 174,726 | [
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Inpatients in an accident unit. | A one-year prospective study was undertaken in the 79-bed accident unit of the Bristol Royal Infirmary to define reasons for continuing inpatient care. This showed that, of a consecutive series of 466 patients staying in hospital for over two weeks, 35% lengthened their stay beyond that needed for acute nursing or continued medical care. A combination of factors usually led to total social dependence, the major problem being the absence of a caring relative. Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation. If the pattern of management of elderly patients after injury is not changed and beds are to be kept available for the newly injured the unit will need about 50 new long-stay beds each year. | 174,774 | [
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Elastogenesis in adenomatoid tumor: histochemical and ultrastructural observations. | An adenomatoid tumor from the round ligament of a 50-year-old woman was studied by light and electron microscopy. Ultrastructurally the tumor was remarkably similar to normal as well as neoplastic mesothelium, thus lending further support to the concept of a mesothelial origin of adenomatoid tumors. Comparative histochemical and ultrastructural studies revealed presence of acid mucopolysaccharides mainly along the luminal borders of the tumor cells, thus indicating likely production of this material by the tumor cells as opposed to the stromal cells. The stroma was rich in elastic fibers and there was evidence of active elastogenesis. This paper represents the first unequivocal demonstration of elastogenesis in an adenomatoid tumor. | 174,801 | [
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Induction of liver tumors by aflatoxin B1 in the tree shrew (Tupaia glis), a nonhuman primate. | The epidemiological studies suggest that aflatoxins, the toxic metabolites of the ubiquitous mold Aspergillus flavus, may play a significant role in the evolution of hepatocellular carcinoma in man in certain geographic areas of the world. To ascertain their carcinogenicity in nonhuman primates, we have administered highly purified aflatoxin B1, intermittently in the diet at 2 ppm, to 10 female and 8 male tree shrews. The tree shrew (Tupaia glis) is a nonhuman primate occurring throughout Southeast Asia which can be reared easily in captivity. Of 12 animals that survived, 6 of 6 female (100%) and 3 of 6 male (50%) tree shrews developed hepatocellular carcinomas between 74 and 172 weeks after the beginning of the experiment. None of the 8 control animals developed liver cancers. The estimated total amount of aflatoxin B1 consumed by these animals ranged from 24 to 66 mg. The development of liver tumors did not follow a specific pattern; considerable variation in hepatocellular responses to aflatoxin B1 was noted in these animals. In 2 tree shrews, the liver tumors were associated with severe post necrotic scarring; in the other 7 tumor-bearing livers, only mild to moderate portal fibrosis was encountered. This individual variation in hepatocellular response and in the amount of aflatoxin B1 required to induce hepatocellular carcinomas is attributed to inherent differences in the susceptibility within a given species of outbred animals and suggests extreme caution in proposing the "permissible" or "safe" levels of contamination of carcinogens in the food-stuffs. | 174,805 | [
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Distribution of viral glycoprotein gp 69/71 on cell surfaces of producer and nonproducer cells. | The distribution of the viral glycoprotein, gp 69/71, was studied on the cell surfaces of virus-producing and nonproducing cells. gp 69/71 was distributed evenly on cell membranes and on viral membranes of cells producing murine leukemia virus. gp 69/71 was distributed uniformly on cell membranes of thymocytes from NZB and strain 129 mice but was not detected on cell membranes of BALB/c thymocytes. Viral particles were associated with NZB and BALB/c thymocytes but were not in or on 129 thymocytes. We conclude that the presence of gp 69/71 on thymocyte membranes is not related to virus production. In the strains showing gp 69/71 on their thymocyte surfaces (NZB and 129), a large percentage of the thymocytes are positively labeled, all more or less equally. Immunochemical analysis of cell surface proteins labeled with 125I corroborated the ultrastructural observations. Thus, gp 69/71 can be expressed on the surface of thymocytes independently of virus particle production. | 174,807 | [
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Effect of neuraminidase and papain treatment on lectin-induced agglutination of Novikoff tumor cells and assay of lectin receptor activity of the glycopeptides released from the cell surface by papain. | Lectins, plant proteins that bind specific saccharide determinants, have been utilized to examine the effect of neuraminidase digestion on the structure and/or expression of oligosaccharide moieties present at the periphery of Novikoff ascites hepatoma cells. Five lectins were utilized: concanavalin A (Con A), specific for alpha-D-manno- or alpha-D-glucopyranosyl residues; wheat germ agglutinin, specific for 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-glucopyranosyl residues; Ricinus communis agglutinin I (RCAI), specific for D-glucopyranosyl residues; R. communis agglutinin II (RCAII), specific for D-galacto- or 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyranosyl residues; and soybean agglutinin, specific for 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyranosyl residues. Neuraminidase treatment of Novikoff cells did not alter their agglutination by Con A or wheat germ agglutinin. Similar treatment produced only a 2-fold increase in their agglutination by RCAI but a 12-fold increase in their agglutination by RCAII, indicating that 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-galactopyranosyl residues become expressed upon neuraminidase treatment. This conclusion was confirmed by the observation that neuraminidase-treated Novikoff cells acquired agglutinability by soybean agglutinin. Binding studies using ferritin-conjugated RCAII indicated that neuraminidase treatment exposed cryptic cell surface receptors for RCAII. To ascertain the role of cell surface glycoproteins in lectin-induced agglutination of Novikoff cells, glycopeptides cleaved from the cell surface by papain were assayed for lectin receptor activity. The cell surface glycopeptides exhibited receptor activity for Con A, wheat germ agglutinin and RCAI but not for RCAII and soybean agglutinin. A cell surface macrosialoglycopeptide fraction, resolved by gel filtration and ion-exchange chromatography, possessed a major portion of the Con A and RCAI receptor activity. | 174,811 | [
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Croton oil- and benzo(a)pyrene-induced changes in cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate and cyclic guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate phosphodiesterase activities in mouse epidermis. | The topical application of croton oil, benzo(a)pyrene, acetic acid, and 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate to mouse skin caused an increase in the activity of epidermal low-affinity cyclic adenosine 3':5'-monophosphate (cyclic AMP) phosphodiesterase. The increase was most pronounced with croton oil, began between 4 and 6 hr after application of this material, and was maintained for at least 48 hr. The activity of cyclic guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate phosphodiesterase was also increased by treatment with croton oil or 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate, but detailed time courses were not obtained. Increased activity was observed in both the soluble fractions and the washed particulate fractions of epidermis. Fractionation of soluble extracts from acetone-treated epidermis on DEAE-cellulose columns showed the presence of enzymes with specificity for both cyclic AMP and cyclic guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate, together with a peak catalyzing the hydrolysis of both cyclic AMP and cyclic guanosine 3':5'-monophosphate. The activity of this latter nonspecific activity was selectively increased following treatment with croton oil. The increase in cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity was partially abolished by multiple injections of cycloheximide, suggesting that new protein synthesis was involved. Injection of the alpha-receptor antagonist phentolamine abolished a croton oil-induced rise in epidermal cyclic AMP levels and decreased the induction of cyclic AMP phosphodiesterase activity. From these results it was concluded that the increase in enzyme activity was induced by cyclic AMP. | 174,815 | [
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Brain tissue transplanted to the anterior chamber of the eye. 4. Drug-modulated transmitter release in central monoamine nerve terminals lacking normal postsynaptic receptors. | Small pieces of fetal rat brain selected to contain a high number of noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA), or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neuroblasts were transplanted to the anterior chamber of the eye of adult rats. The sympathetic ground plexus of the host iris was removed by superior cervical ganglionectomy so that transmitter mechanisms of the different central monoamine fibers innervating the iris could be selectively studied after intraocular maturation. Such irides, containing NA, DA, or 5-HT nerve terminals were incubated with radiolabelled transmitters and then stimulated by an electrical field while superfused, to investigate the spontaneous and stimulation-induced release of amine, both in drug-free buffer and buffer containing drugs acting on monoamine receptors. The central monoamine neurons of all three types were able to take up exogenous amines and release them upon stimulation by an electrical field, in much the same way as corresponding nerves in situ in slices of cerebral cortex (NA, 5-HT) or olfactory tubercle (DA). The alpha-adrenergic receptor blocking agent phentolamine increased the stimulation-induced release of 3H-NA from central NA fibers on the iris significantly. The dopamine receptor stimulating agent apomorphine decreased the stimulation-induced release of 3H-DA from central DA fibers on the iris. Pimozide, a DA receptor blocking drug tended to increase the 3H-DA release. The 5-HT receptor stimulating agent ergocornine tended to reduce the stimulation-induced release of 3H-5-HT from central 5-HT fibers on the iris. It was concluded that all three types of central monoamine nerve fibers develop essentially normal transmitter storage and release mechanisms also in an environment completely devoid of normal postsynaptic receptors. The drug experiments add strong support to the view that there are presynaptic monoamine receptors ("autoreceptors") able to modulate transmitter release present on the monoamine nerve terminals. | 174,817 | [
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[The peroxisomes of Triturus cristatus (amphibian, urodele) adrenal cortex cells: peroxisome number as a function of steroidogenic activity]. | Peroxisomes are scarce in the poorly active interrenal cells of hypophysectomized animals; their number increases drastically in cells which are stimulated by corticotrophic factors. A precise correlation appears thus to exist between the steroidogenic activity of the interrenal cells and the number of peroxisomes in these cells. | 174,829 | [
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