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Background
Metoclopramide is a dopamine D2-receptor antagonist used as an antiemetic and gastroprokinetic agent in man and animals. The drug causes sedation as a side effect in man. Such a sedative action of metoclopramide has not been documented in the chicken as the drug is not used clinically in this species. The present study examines the central nervous system depressant effects of metoclopramide in 7–14 days old broiler chicks.Results
Injection of metoclopramide at 50, 100 and 200 mg/kg, subcutaneously (s.c.) induced sedation in the chicks in a dose dependent manner. The chicks manifested, within 3.6–19 minutes of metoclopramide injection, signs of sedation characterized by drooping of the head and wings, closed eyelids, reduced motility and decreased distress calls. The duration of sedation ranged between 37.2 to 163.4 minutes. Metoclopramide at 100 and 200 mg/kg induced, within 12.2 and 6.2 minutes, sleep (loss of righting reflex) for 43.8 and 158.6 minutes, respectively. The median effective doses of metoclopramide for induction of sedation and sleep in the chicks were 11 and 53 mg/kg, s.c., respectively. Lower doses of metoclopramide (5 and 10 mg/kg, s.c.) significantly decreased the open-field activity of the chicks and increased the durations of their tonic immobility. All treated-chicks recovered from the central nervous system depressant effect of metoclopramide without any observable adverse effects.Conclusion
The data suggest that metoclopramide induces central nervous system depression in chicks, and the drug could have potential clinical applications as a sedative-hypnotic agent in avian species not intended for human consumptions. 相似文献12.
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Terry D. Oberley Douglas B. Coursin Herbert P. Cihla Larry W. Oberley Nagy El-Sayyad Ye-Shih Ho 《The Histochemical journal》1993,25(4):267-279
Summary The localization of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) was determined using immunohistochemistry of various tissues of normal and transgenic mice which express the human enzyme, with emphasis on studies of mouse kidney and lung. Mouse kidney and lung were studied using both frozen section analysis and paraffin sections following fixation in a variety of fixatives. Formalin fixation resulted in a loss of antigenicity, while fixation in zinc formalin or B5 fixative gave results similar to those from frozen sections. Immunoperoxidase studies using antibodies to MnSOD showed greater staining in transgenic kidney or lung than in identical tissues in normal mice when appropriate fixation was used. In contrast, equal immunostaining was obtained in kidney or lung from normal and transgenic mice when antibodies to catalase or copper zinc superoxide dismutase were utilized. Immunogold ultrastructural analysis of MnSOD localization for lung and kidney was also performed. As compared to normal mice, transgenic mice exhibited greater staining of the mitochondria of kidney interstitial fibroblasts and glomerular, endothelial, and smooth muscle cells. In the lungs of transgenic animals, all cells showed increased staining; smooth muscle cells demonstrated the most marked increase in immunolabelling. The results indicate that these transgenic mice overexpress MnSOD in their mitochondria, and that this occurs selectively in at least some mesenchymal tissues.This study was supported by the Medical Research Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs (TDO), by National Institutes of Health grants No. CA-41267 (LWO), No. HL-39585 and No. HL-44571 (Y-SH), and by the Department of Anesthesiology Research and Development Funds (DBC, HPC). 相似文献
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El-Sayyad HI El-Sherbiny MA Sobh MA Abou-El-Naga AM Ibrahim MA Mousa SA 《International journal of biological sciences》2011,7(6):715-728
Phytotherapy is frequently considered to be less toxic and free from side effects than synthetic drugs. Hence, the present study was designed to investigate the protective use of crude water extract of Morus alba leaves on ocular functions including cataractogenesis, biochemical diabetic and hypercholesterolemic markers, retinal neurotransmitters and retinopathy of rat pups maternally subjected to either diabetes and/or hypercholesterolemia. Application of crude water extract of Morus alba resulted in amelioration of the alterations of maternal serum glucose, LDL, HDL, total cholesterol and creatine phosphokinase activity as well as retinal neurotransmitters including acetylcholine (ACE), adrenaline (AD), nor-adrenaline (NAD), serotonin (5-HT), histamine (HS), dopamine (DA) and gamma amino butyric acid (GABA). The retina of pups of either diabetic and/or hypercholesterolemia mothers exhibited massive alterations of retinal neurotransmitters. The alterations of retinal neurotransmitters were correlated with the observed pathological alterations of retinal pigmented epithelium, photoreceptor inner segment and ganglion cells and increased incidence of DNA fragmentation and apoptosis cell death. However, protection with Morus alba extract led to amelioration of the pathological alterations of retinal neurons and estimated neurotransmitters. Furthermore, a striking incidence of cataract was detected in pups of either diabetic and/or hypercholesterolemic mothers. Highest cataractogenesis was observed in pups of combined -treated groups. Our data indicate that experimental maternal diabetes alone or in combination with hypercholesterolemia led to alteration in the ocular structures of their pups, with an increasing incidence of cataract and retinopathy, and the effects of the extract might be attributed to the hypoglycaemic, antihypercholesterolemic and anti-oxidative potential of flavonoids, the major components of the plant extract. 相似文献
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Assessing horizontal transfer of nifHDK genes in eubacteria: nucleotide sequence of nifK from Frankia strain HFPCcI3 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Hirsch AM; McKhann HI; Reddy A; Liao J; Fang Y; Marshall CR 《Molecular biology and evolution》1995,12(1):16-27
The structural genes for nitrogenase, nifK, nifD, and nifH, are crucial for
nitrogen fixation. Previous phylogenetic analysis of the amino acid
sequence of nifH suggested that this gene had been horizontally transferred
from a proteobacterium to the gram-positive/cyanobacterial clade, although
the confounding effects of paralogous comparisons made interpretation of
the data difficult. An additional test of nif gene horizontal transfer
using nifD was made, but the NifD phylogeny lacked resolution. Here nif
gene phylogeny is addressed with a phylogenetic analysis of a third and
longer nif gene, nifK. As part of the study, the nifK gene of the key taxon
Frankia was sequenced. Parsimony and some distance analyses of the nifK
amino acid sequences provide support for vertical descent of nifK, but
other distance trees provide support for the lateral transfer of the gene.
Bootstrap support was found for both hypotheses in all trees; the nifK data
do not definitively favor one or the other hypothesis. A parsimony analysis
of NifH provides support for horizontal transfer in accord with previous
reports, although bootstrap analysis also shows some support for vertical
descent of the orthologous nifH genes. A wider sampling of taxa and more
sophisticated methods of phylogenetic inference are needed to understand
the evolution of nif genes. The nif genes may also be powerful phylogenetic
tools. If nifK evolved by vertical descent, it provides strong evidence
that the cyanobacteria and proteobacteria are sister groups to the
exclusion of the firmicutes, whereas 16S rRNA sequences are unable to
resolve the relationships of these three major eubacterial lineages.
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Shahid M Khan Chris J Janse Stefan HI Kappe Sebastian A Mikolajczak 《Current opinion in biotechnology》2012,23(6):908-916
Highlights? Genetically attenuated parasites (GAPs) as potential vaccines against malaria. ? Attenuated Plasmodium sporozoites confer sustained sterile immunity against malaria. ? Rodent malaria models are an important in vivo platform to delineate GAP safety and potency. ? Late liver-arresting GAPs elicit superior protective immunity than early arresting parasites. ? P. falciparum GAP vaccine candidates need ultimately to be validated in clinical studies. 相似文献
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El-Sayyad Gharieb S. El-Bastawisy Hanan S. Gobara Mohamed El-Batal Ahmed I. 《Biological trace element research》2020,195(1):323-342
Biological Trace Element Research - The purpose of this research is to compare and enhance the antimicrobial and antibiofilm potentials of the biogenic selenium nanoparticles (Se NPs) produced by... 相似文献