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R Podstawski DJ Choszcz S Konopka J Klimczak M Starczewski 《Biology of sport / Institute of Sport》2014,31(4):315-321
The aim of the study was to evaluate anthropometric characteristics as determinants of 500 m rowing ergometer performance in physically inactive collegiate females. In this cross-sectional study, which included 196 collegiate females aged 19-23 years not participating in regular physical activities, body mass (BM), body height (BH), length of upper limbs (LA), length of lower limbs (LL), body mass index (BMI), slenderness index (SI), and the Choszcz-Podstawski index (CPI) were measured and a stepwise multiple regression analysis was performed. Participants performed 500 m maximal effort on a Concept II rowing ergometer. BM, BH, LA, LL, and the BMI, SI and CPI indices were found to be statistically significant determinants of 500 m performance. The best results (T) were achieved by females whose BH ranged from 170 to 180 cm, with LA and LL ranging from 75 to 80 cm and 85 to 90 cm, respectively. The best fitting statistical model was identified as: T = 11.6793 LR – 0.1130 LR2 – 0.0589 LN2 + 29.2157 CPI2 + 0.1370 LR·LN - 2.6926 LR·CPI – 211.7796. This study supports a need for additional studies focusing on understanding the importance of anthropometric differences in rowing ergometer performance, which could lead to establishing a better quality reference for evaluation of cardiorespiratory fitness tested using a rowing ergometer in collegiate females. 相似文献
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R Jalleh DJ Torpy 《The Clinical biochemist. Reviews / Australian Association of Clinical Biochemists》2021,42(1):17
Direct measurement of the nonapeptide vasopressin has been limited by analyte instability ex vivo and in vivo rapid degradation, low serum concentrations requiring a sensitive assay and inherent secretory pulsatility. Copeptin is a 39 amino acid glycopeptide cleavage product of vasopressin synthesis with high stability, providing a marker of vasopressin secretion. Copeptin measurement has applications in diagnosis of diabetes insipidus and other diseases with altered vasopressin secretion. This review summarises our current understanding of serum copeptin measurement in diabetes insipidus and possible future applications of copeptin assays. As vasopressin is a stress hormone, there is emerging evidence on the use of copeptin for diagnosis and prognostication of disorders such as syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone secretion, diabetes mellitus, critical illness, stroke, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, renal disease and thermal stress. Copeptin concentration measurement is likely to improve the diagnostic reliability of diabetes insipidus and, as a marker of stress, may have diagnostic or prognostic utility in specific clinical circumstances. Further studies are needed to determine if goal-directed therapy using plasma copeptin concentrations may improve patient outcomes. 相似文献
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Function of calmodulin in postsynaptic densities. II. Presence of a calmodulin- activatable protein kinase activity 下载免费PDF全文
Because the calmodulin in postsynaptic densities (PSDs) activates a cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase, we decided to explore the possibility that the PSD also contains a calmodulin-activatable protein kinase activity. As seen by autoradiographic analysis of coomassie blue-stained SDS polyacrylamide gels, many proteins in a native PSD preparation were phosphorylated in the presence of [γ-(32)P]ATP and Mg(2+) alone. Addition of Ca(2+) alone to the native PSD preparation had little or no effect on phosphorylation. However, upon addition of exogenous calmodulin there was a general increase in background phosphorylation with a statistically significant increase in the phosphorylation of two protein regions: 51,000 and 62,000 M(r). Similar results were also obtained in sonicated or freeze thawed native PSD preparations by addition of Ca(2+) alone without exogenous calmodulin, indicating that the calmodulin in the PSD can activate the kinase present under certain conditions. The calmodulin dependency of the reaction was further strengthened by the observed inhibition of the calmodulin-activatable phosphorylation, but not of the Mg(2+)-dependent activity, by the Ca(2+) chelator, EGTA, which also removes the calmodulin from the structure (26), and by the binding to calmodulin of the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine in the presence of Ca(2+). In addition, when a calmodulin-deficient PSD preparation was prepared (26), sonicated, and incubated with [γ-(32)P]ATP, Mg(2+) and Ca(2+), one could not induce a Ca(2+)-stimulation of protein kinase activity unless exogenous calmodulin was added back to the system, indicating a reconstitution of calmodulin into the PSD. We have also attempted to identify the two major phosphorylated proteins. Based on SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, it appears that the major 51,000 M(r) PSD protein is the one that is phosphorylated and not the 51,000 M(r) component of brain intermediate filaments, which is a known PSD contaminant. In addition, papain digestion of the 51,000 M(r) protein revealed multiple phosphorylation sites different from those phosphorylated by the Mg(2+)-dependent kinase(s). Finally, although the calmodulin-activatable protein kinase may phosphorylate proteins I(a) and I(b), the cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase, which definitely does phosphorylate protein I(a) and I(b) and is present in the PSD, does not phosphorylate the 51,000 and 62,000 M(r) proteins, because specific inhibition of this kinase has no effect on the levels of the phosphorylation of these latter two proteins. 相似文献
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Evolution at the tip and base of the X chromosome in an African population of Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Hitchhiking effects of advantageous mutations have been invoked to explain
reduced polymorphism in regions of low crossing-over in Drosophila. Besides
reducing DNA heterozygosity, hitchhiking effects should produce strong
linkage disequilibrium and a frequency spectrum skewed toward an excess of
rare polymorphisms (compared to the neutral expectation). We measured DNA
polymorphism in a Zimbabwe population of D. melanogaster at three loci,
yellow, achaete, and suppressor of forked, located in regions of reduced
crossing-over. Similar to previously published surveys of these genomic
regions in other populations, we observed low levels of nucleotide
variability. However, the frequency spectrum was compatible with a neutral
model, and there was abundant evidence for recombination in the history of
the yellow and ac genes. Thus, some aspects of the data cannot be accounted
for by a simple hitchhiking model. An alternative hypothesis, background
selection, might be compatible with the observed patterns of linkage
disequilibrium and the frequency spectrum. However, this model cannot
account for the observed reduction in nucleotide heterozygosity. Thus,
there is currently no satisfactory theoretical model for the data from the
tip and base of the X chromosome in D. melanogaster.
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Oligogalacturonic acids (OGAs), derived from plant cell wall pectin, have
been implicated in a number of signal transduction pathways involved in
growth, development and defense responses of higher plants. This study
investigates the size range of OGAs capable of inducing ethylene synthesis
in tomato plants, and demonstrates that in contrast with many other
effects, only short chain OGAs are active. Oligomers across a range of DP
from 2-15 were separated and purified to homogeneity by QAE-Sephadex anion
exchange chromatography using a novel elution system. The OGAs were applied
to tomato plants and assayed for their ability to induce ethylene gas
release and changes in steady state levels of mRNA encoding the ethylene
forming enzyme aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase (ACO). The study
demonstrated that only OGAs in the size range of DP4-6 were active both in
eliciting ACO expression and in the production of ethylene.
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A change in twist of actin provides the force for the extension of the acrosomal process in limulus sperm: the false-discharge reaction 总被引:1,自引:5,他引:1 下载免费PDF全文
One of the most spectacular motions is the generation of the acrosomal process in the limulus sperm. On contact with the egg, the sperm generates a 60-mum-long process that literally drills its way through the jelly surrounding the egg. This irresversible reaction takes only a few seconds. We suggested earlier that this motion is driven by a change in twist of the actin filaments comprising the acrosomal process. In this paper we analyze the so-called false discharge, a reversible reaction, in which the acrosomal filament bundle extends laterally from the base of the sperm and not anteriorly from the apex. Unlike the true discharge, which is straight, the false discharge is helical. Before extension, the filament bundle is coiled about the base of the sperm. In the coil, the bundle is not smoothly bent but consists of arms (straight segments) and elbows (corners) so that the coil looks like a 14-sided polygon. The extension of the false discharge works as follows: starting at the base of the bundle, the filaments change their twist which concomitantly changes the orientations of the elbows relative to each other; that is, in the coil, the elbows all like in a common plane, but after the change in twist, the plane of each elbow is rotated to be perpendicular to that of its neighbors. This change transforms the bundle from a compact coil into an extended left- handed helix. Because the basal end of the bundle is unconstrained, the extension is lateral. The true discharge works the same way but starts at the apical end of the bundle. The apical end, however, is constrained by its passage through the nuclear canal, which directs the extention anteriorly. Unlike the false discharge, during the true discharge the elbows are melted out, making the reaction irreversible. This study shows that rapid movement can be regenerated by actin without myosin and gives us insight into the molecular mechanism. 相似文献
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