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Kühnlein RP 《Progress in lipid research》2011,50(4):348-356
Intracellular lipid droplets have long been misconceived as evolutionarily conserved but functionally frugal components of cellular metabolism. An ever-growing repertoire of functions has elevated lipid droplets to fully-fledged cellular organelles. Insights into the multifariousness of these organelles have been obtained from a range of model systems now employed for lipid droplet research including the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. This review summarizes the progress in fly lipid droplet research along four main avenues: the role of lipid droplets in fat storage homeostasis, the control of lipid droplet structure, the lipid droplet surface as a dynamic protein-association platform, and lipid droplets as mobile organelles. Moreover, the research potential of the fruit fly model is discussed with respect to the prevailing general questions in lipid droplet biology. 相似文献
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Cai Wang Xuan Chen Linda M. Hooper‐Bùi Rachel Strecker Yu‐Zhen Wen Wen‐Quan Qin Tao Ma Zhao‐Hui Sun Xiao‐Yang Chen Xiu‐Jun Wen 《Insect Science》2018,25(3):499-507
Many previous studies have focused on the foraging behaviors and strategies of the red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren on solid food or granular bait; little attention has been paid to how liquid sugar is fed upon. In the present study, behavioral responses of S. invicta to 25% sucrose water droplets were observed. Five foraging patterns were identified in S. invicta colonies under laboratory conditions: (i) no feeding, no sucrose water feeding was observed; (ii) surround feeding, ants surrounded and fed along the edge of the sucrose droplet; (iii) stacked feeding, ants stacked and fed along the edge of the sucrose droplet; (iv) droplet‐break feeding, ants broke the liquid droplet and sucked sucrose water that spread on surface of the substance or soil particles previously transported by ants; and (v) cover feeding, whole surface of the sucrose droplet was covered by layers of feeding ants. This is the first time cover feeding in S. invicta has been reported, which obviously requires more ants compared to the other patterns. In addition, individual ants were tracked in videos under laboratory conditions, and behavioral repertoires that led to stacking, covering and droplet‐breaking were identified and described. The field investigation showed that surround feeding was most frequently performed by S. invicta foragers; however, cover feeding was not observed under field conditions during this study. Both laboratory and field studies showed colony‐level variations in sugar‐water feeding. 相似文献
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F. L. Laksmana P. J. A. Hartman Kok H. Vromans H. W. Frijlink K. Van der Voort Maarschalk 《AAPS PharmSciTech》2009,10(3):732-742
Next to the coating formulation, process conditions play important roles in determining coating quality. This study aims to
develop an operational window that separates layering from agglomeration regimes and, furthermore, the one that leads to the
best coating quality in a fluidized bed coater. The bed relative humidity and the droplet size of the coating aerosol were
predicted using a set of engineering models. The coating quality was characterized using a quantitative image analysis method,
which measures the coating thickness distribution, the total porosity, and the pore size in the coating. The layering regime
can be achieved by performing the coating process at a certain excess of the viscous Stokes number (ΔSt
v). This excess is dependent on the given bed relative humidity and droplet size. The higher the bed relative humidity, the
higher is the ΔSt
v required to keep the process in the layering regime. Further, it is shown that using bed relative humidity and droplet size
alone is not enough to obtain constant coating quality. The changes in bed relative humidity and droplet size have been identified
to correlate to the fractional area of particles sprayed per unit of time. This parameter can effectively serve as an additional
parameter to be considered for a better control on the coating quality. High coating quality is shown to be achieved by performing
the process close to saturation and spraying droplets small enough to obtain high spraying rate, but not too small to cause
incomplete coverage of the core particles. 相似文献
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Few leafhopper species are known to be ant-attended. Evidence is presented that unequivocally demonstrates that Dalbulus quinquenotatusis a myrmecophile. In a greenhouse study, the behavior of D. quinquenotatusand four Dalbulusspecies not associated with ants was observed in the absence and presence of the pavement ant, Tetramorium caespitum. D. quinquenotatusis readily contacted by tending ants and responds to stroking on the abdomen from ants' antennae by excreting and holding honeydew droplets until droplets are removed by ants. Nonattended Dalbulusspecies avoid contact with ants by walking,jumping, or flying away when approached. D. quinquenotatusexcretes three to six times the volume of honeydew as do two nonattended species, D. maidisand D. gelbus.Droplets of D. quinquenotatusare about 23% larger in diameter and excreted two to four times more frequently than for the other species. D. quinquenotatustakes about 0.15 s to form honeydew droplets on the anal tube, then holds the droplet an average of 0.28 s before expelling it when ants are absent. In the presence of ants, D. quinquenotatusholds the droplet an average of 1.31 s, which gives ants time to harvest the droplet. Nonattended species, however, immediately expel droplets from the anal tube after droplet formation. This ant-leafhopper mutualism apparently has evolved due to the ability of D. quinquenotatusto have extensive physical contact with ants and excrete large amounts of honeydew. D. chiapensis,a possible descendent of D. quinquenotatus,may secondarily have lost its mutualistic relationship with ants. 相似文献
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M. H. Chestnut 《Protoplasma》1985,124(1-2):52-64
Summary Plasmodial strands of the myxomyceteBadhamia utricularis were injured and, after fixation and sectioning, examined using light and transmission electron microscopy. Injury results in the formation of a cytoplasmic droplet that rapidly regenerates a plasma membrane by the apparent fusion of vesicles at its surface. During the same time several structurally distinct layers form within the droplet. Some of these internal layers, which persist for several minutes after injury, may also arise from vesicle fusion. These results have differences from those reported for the relatedPhysarum polycephalum. 相似文献
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Anandwardhan A. Hardikar Makarand V. Risbud Ramesh R. Bhonde 《Journal of biosciences》1999,24(3):371-376
Techniques for immunoisolation and immobilization of viable cells within semipermeable microcapsules have been developed using
highly sophisticated droplet generator systems. We propose here an indigenously designed, simple and efficient droplet generator
system for encapsulation of the pancreatic islets employing chitosanalginate matrix. The droplet generator system comprises
of a needle assembly, a 3-way valve with extended rubber tubing and a filtration unit connected to a pressure pump. Microbeads
of the size of around 400 μm diameter or even lesser (minimun attainable size 20.2 μm) could be easily generated using the
droplet generator system proposed here. Islet microcapsules cultured in Roswell Park Memorial Institute (RPMI) 1640 with 10%
fetal calf serum showed around 98% viability, comparable to that of the non-encapsulated islets. Transplantation of microencapsulated
islets to streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mice, resulted in disappearance of hyperglycemia and restoration of normoglycaemia
during a 30-day follow-up suggesting graft functionality. No graft failures were observed in any of the transplanted mice
(n = 15) and none of them showed membrane associated fibrous overgrowth, which can be attributed to the fibroblast-growth inhibitory
properties of chitosan. The proposed design appears to be superior in its simplicity and cost effectiveness and comparable
in performance with the microcapsule generator designs proposed so far. The proposed system can be further exploited for encapsulation
and immunoisolation of various cell types in alginate based matrices. 相似文献
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Onanong Nuchuchua Usawadee Sakulku Napaporn Uawongyart Satit Puttipipatkhachorn Apinan Soottitantawat Uracha Ruktanonchai 《AAPS PharmSciTech》2009,10(4):1234-1242
The nanoemulsions composed of citronella oil, hairy basil oil, and vetiver oil with mean droplet sizes ranging from 150 to
220 nm were prepared and investigated both in vitro and in vivo. Larger emulsion droplets (195–220 nm) shifted toward a smaller size (150–160 nm) after high-pressure homogenization and
resulted in higher release rate. We proposed that thin films obtained from the nanoemulsions with smaller droplet size would
have higher integrity, thus increasing the vaporization of essential oils and subsequently prolonging the mosquito repellant
activity. The release rates were fitted with Avrami’s equations and n values were in the same range of 0.6 to 1.0, implying that the release of encapsulated limonene was controlled by the diffusion
mechanism from the emulsion droplet. By using high-pressure homogenization together with optimum concentrations of 5% (w/w) hairy basil oil, 5% (w/w) vetiver oil (5%), and 10% (w/w) citronella oil could improve physical stability and prolong mosquito protection time to 4.7 h due to the combination of
these three essential oils as well as small droplet size of nanoemulsion. 相似文献
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Li Chen Jing-Jing Zhang Xia Zhang Xiaoli Liu Shuhong Zhao Li-Jun Huo Jilong Zhou Yi-Liang Miao 《Journal of cellular physiology》2020,235(3):2836-2846
Malathion (MAL) is a common organophosphorus pesticide and affects both animal and human reproduction. However, the mechanisms regarding how MAL affects the mammalian oocyte quality and how to prevent it have not been fully investigated. In this study, we used porcine oocyte as a model and proved that MAL impaired porcine oocyte quality in a dose-dependent manner during maturation. MAL decreased the first polar body extrusion, disrupted spindle assembly and chromosome alignment, impaired cortical granules (CGs) distribution, and increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) level in oocytes. RNA-seq analysis showed that MAL exposure altered the expression of 2,917 genes in the porcine maturated oocytes and most genes were related to ROS, the lipid droplet process, and the energy supplement. Nevertheless, these defects could be remarkably ameliorated by adding melatonin (MLT) into the oocyte maturation medium. MLT increased oocyte maturation rate and decreased the abnormities of spindle assembly, CGs distribution and ROS accumulation in MAL-exposed porcine oocytes. More important, MLT upregulated the expression of genes related to lipid droplet metabolism (PPARγ and PLIN2), decreased lipid droplet size and lipid peroxidation in MAL-exposed porcine oocytes. Finally, we found that MLT increased the blastocysts formation and the cell numbers of blastocysts in MAL-exposed porcine oocytes after parthenogenetic activation, which was mediated by reduction of ROS levels and maintaining lipid droplet metabolism. Taken together, our results revealed that MLT had a protective action against MAL-induced deterioration of porcine oocyte quality. 相似文献
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Nanoscale droplet vaporisation was studied by molecular dynamics, which allows the calculation of properties for droplets statistically without considering the discontinuous interface between a liquid droplet and surrounding gas. An argon droplet was created and immersed inside its vapour. After equilibration, the periphery of the system was heated by a carrier gas to vaporise the droplet. Replications were conducted to check the variation in the phenomenon. Thermodynamic properties such as the density, pressure and temperature profiles were sampled for each interval. The evolution of the surface tension of the droplet undergoing vaporisation was investigated. Moreover, the vaporisation rate of nanodroplets was compared with the kinetic theory-based Hertz–Knudsen–Langmuir equation and two diffusion-based models, which are the D2 evaporation law and Kincaid and Longley model [Kincaid DC, Longley TS. A water droplet evaporation and temperature model. Trans ASAE. 1989; 32(2):457–463]. The kinetic model underestimates the vaporisation rate by one order of magnitude whereas the two diffusion-based models overestimate the rate by one order of magnitude. 相似文献
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Chrysanthemum species are grown both as ornamentals and for the production of pyrethrum. Recent increased production and breeding efforts have raised the need for the conservation of valuable germplasm. Chrysanthemum has been cryopreserved by controlled-rate-freezing as early as 1990. We report here deep-freezing of shoot tips of C. morifolium var. Escort by different technical procedures: controlled-rate-freezing, encapsulation/dehydration, ultra-rapid-freezing by the droplet method and vitrification. While vitrification yielded the highest shoot regeneration rates, the very simple droplet method was also successful in this respect. Droplet freezing was successfully performed with nine cultivars. Our results open the door to the successful use of alternative methods if one method fails to cryopreserve a variety. Furthermore, it enables comparative investigations of genetic stability and cyro-injury to be carried out.Abbreviations BA 6-Benzylaminopurine - NAA -Naphthaleneacetic acidCommunicated by H. Lörz 相似文献
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Paleorhodococcus dominicanus n. gen., n sp. (Actinobacteria) is described from a faecal droplet of Triatoma dominicana (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) in Dominican amber. The fossil can be distinguished from the species of the closely related extant genus Rhodococcus Zopf 1891 by its spherical–ellipsoidal cocci forming substrate filaments with elementary branching, the clustering of coccoidal elements, the short filaments bearing reduced side branches and its occurrence in a faecal droplet of the extinct triatomine bug, P. dominicanus. This is the first fossil record of an Actinobacter, which shows that these organisms formed symbiotic associations with insects by the mid-Tertiary. 相似文献
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Visual pigments, oil droplets and photoreceptor types in the retinas of four species of true chameleons have been examined
by microspectrophotometry. The species occupy different photic environments: two species of Chamaeleo are from Madagascar and two species of Furcifer are from Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. In addition to double cones, four spectrally distinct classes of single cone were
identified. No rod photoreceptors were observed. The visual pigments appear to be mixtures of rhodopsins and porphyropsins.
Double cones contained a pale oil droplet in the principle member and both outer segments contained a long-wave-sensitive
visual pigment with a spectral maximum between about 555 nm and 610 nm, depending on the rhodopsin/porphyropsin mixture. Long-wave-sensitive
single cones contained a visual pigment spectrally identical to the double cones, but combined with a yellow oil droplet.
The other three classes of single cone contained visual pigments with maxima at about 480–505, 440–450 and 375–385 nm, combined
with yellow, clear and transparent oil droplets respectively. The latter two classes were sparsely distributed. The transmission
of the lens and cornea of C. dilepis was measured and found to be transparent throughout the visible and near ultraviolet, with a cut off at about 350 nm. 相似文献
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Summary UV-microscopic and chromatographic studies have been performed on the variation in contents and configuration of the flavones present in epidermal cells of the petals, stem leaves, rosette leaves and cotyledons ofSilene pratensis plants. Most of the flavone contents is located in the vacuole of the upper epidermis cells, the concentration depending on the light intensity at which the plants were grown. In plants able to glycosylate isovitexin in the petals (genotypegG/. gl/gl fg/fg, accumulating isovitexin 7-O-glucoside) the vacuole is completely filled with the UV absorbing flavone. In plants which are unable to glycosylate isovitexin in their petals (genotypeg/g gl/gl fg/fg, accumulating only isovitexin) the upper epidermal cells of stem leaves and petals contain droplet like structures in their vacuoles. At high light intensities these structures increase in mass and become detectable in the visible light. These denser structures often condense to structures with radiating threads.As compared with the accumulation of isovitexin in upper epidermal cells of stem leaves and petals in genotypeg/g gl/gl fg/fg, the cotyledons and the rosette leaves contain two isovitexin glycosides. In the latter organs the upper epidermal cells are very similar to the upper epidermal cells fromgG/. gl/gl fg/fg plants, having a vacuole filled with UV absorbing material. It appears therefore that isovitexin itself causes the formation of the structurés in the cells. It was shown by varying the light intensity that a relative high concentration of isovitexin is necessary for the droplet like structures to appear. Still higher concentrations are needed for the formation of the structures with radiating threads. It is hypothesized that isovitexin interferes with the energy supply of the cells, which therefore are not able to maintain their turgor. 相似文献
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Epididymal sperm from the painted turtle (Chrysemys picta) possess a cytoplasmic droplet which is located eccentrically on the sperm midpiece. The droplet contains a large quantity of lipid droplets in addition to hollow vesicles and degenerate mitochondrial fragments. Lipid droplets are closely associated with mitochondrial membranes and may function in the formation or degradation of mitochondria. Cytoplasmic droplets become detached from the sperm midpiece in a coordinated manner shortly before the commencement of fall mating and are not observed on sperm recovered from the oviduct of females. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc. 相似文献
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Binh-Nguyen Truong Koei Okazaki Toshimitsu Fukiharu Yuko Takeuchi Kazuyoshi Futai Xuan-Tham Le Akira Suzuki 《Mycoscience》2007,48(4):222-230
Toxocysts of the genus Pleurotus are blastoconidia-like ovoid structures surrounded by a liquid droplet containing a toxin that paralyzes nematodes. This
study investigated toxocyst development using a strain S396 of Pleurotus cystidiosus subsp. abalonus (subgen. Coremiopleurotus). The surface of the liquid droplet was found to be an elastic envelope. When a nematode touches the toxocyst, the envelope
adheres to the worm and bursts. Toxocysts are induced simultaneously with coremia formation in the absence of nematodes and
developed only from aerial hyphae in which nuclear division had ceased. In the early stage of toxocyst development, liquid
springs repeatedly from the tip of the sterigma-like stipe before ovoid (blastoconidium-like structure) formation. A certain
substance in the liquid might polymerize to form the envelope while the ovoid simultaneously budded in the droplet. The nucleus
tends to locate near the toxocyst, especially in early stage of toxocyst development. Each dikaryotic cell predominantly formed
one or two toxocyst(s) while each monokaryotic cell predominantly formed one. In rare cases, a nucleus existed in the toxocyst,
suggesting the possibility that the toxocyst is a vestigial blastoconidium. 相似文献
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Endoscopic imaging of the stomach is improving. In addition to narrow band imaging, other methods, for example, blue light imaging and linked color imaging, are now available and can be combined with artificial intelligence systems to obtain information on the gastric mucosa and detect early gastric cancer. Immunohistochemistry is only recommended as an ancillary stain in case of chronic active gastritis without Helicobacter pylori detection by standard staining, and recommendations to exclude false negative H. pylori results have been made. Molecular methods using real‐time PCR, droplet digital PCR, or amplification refractory mutation system PCR have shown a high accuracy, both for detecting H. pylori and for clarithromycin susceptibility testing, and can now be used in clinical practice for targeted therapy. The most reliable non‐invasive test remains the 13C‐urea breath test. Large data sets show that DOB values are higher in women and that the cut‐off for positivity could be decreased to 2.74 DOB. Stool antigen tests using monoclonal antibodies are widely used and may be a good alternative to UBT, particularly in countries with a high prevalence of H. pylori infection. Attempts to improve serology by looking at specific immunodominant antigens to distinguish current and past infection have been made. The interest of Gastropanel® which also tests pepsinogen levels was confirmed. 相似文献
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Sergio L. S. Freire Nathaniel Thorne Michael Wutkowski Selina Dao 《Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE》2014,(93)
Digital microfluidics (DMF), a technique for manipulation of droplets, is a promising alternative for the development of “lab-on-a-chip” platforms. Often, droplet motion relies on the wetting of a surface, directly associated with the application of an electric field; surface interactions, however, make motion dependent on droplet contents, limiting the breadth of applications of the technique.Some alternatives have been presented to minimize this dependence. However, they rely on the addition of extra chemical species to the droplet or its surroundings, which could potentially interact with droplet moieties. Addressing this challenge, our group recently developed Field-DW devices to allow the transport of cells and proteins in DMF, without extra additives.Here, the protocol for device fabrication and operation is provided, including the electronic interface for motion control. We also continue the studies with the devices, showing that multicellular, relatively large, model organisms can also be transported, arguably unaffected by the electric fields required for device operation. 相似文献
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The rates of fungal development and lesion formation in leaves of Vicia faba during infection by Botrytis cinerea and Botrytis fabae 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Loss of the water droplet above inoculation sites during the first day after inoculation inhibited lesion formation by Botrytis cinerea and prevented the development of spreading lesions of B. fabae. With droplets present two general patterns of infection by B. cinerea were determined; in one, few or no symptoms were produced and in the other, limited lesions developed with marked browning of the inoculation site. Where few or no symptoms were produced, germination and germ-tube growth were inhibited on the leaf surface. B. cinerea was inhibited within the leaf at sites bearing limited lesions; invading hyphae were restricted to brown epidermal cells. Fungal growth on the leaf surface was greatest at sites with most browning beneath the droplet area. Variation in lesion development by B. cinerea could not be related to droplet position or leaf damage during normal preparation for inoculation. Plants differed in their susceptibility to lesion formation by B. cinerea. B. fabae, with droplet present, was not inhibited on the leaf surface and spread inter- and intra-cellularly beneath the inoculum drop and then into surrounding tissues. Delay in spread until the inoculation site was completely necrotic and colonized suggested that B. fabae is partially inhibited during the initial phase of infection. The rate of lesion spread varied in different plants and was most rapid in the youngest leaves. 相似文献
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S. D. Jane J. K. Bowmaker 《Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology》1988,162(2):225-235
Summary Microspectrophotometric examination of the visual receptors of the duck,Anas platyrhynchos, revealed four types of single cone containing visual pigments absorbing maximally at about 420 nm, 452 nm, 502 nm and 570 nm. A single population of double cones contained the P570 in both members. Rods absorbed maximally at 505 nm.Within the single cones, three types of oil droplet, acting as cut-off filters, were identified by the wavelength at which 50% transmission occurred, approximately 580, 515 and 450 nm. A further droplet, transparent throughout the visible spectrum, was also found in a small population of single cones. A fifth droplet type with a variable cutoff between 475–500 nm was located in the principal member of the double cones.The optical density of the anterior half of the eye, established by spectrophotometry, was used, in conjunction with the visual pigment and oil droplet combinations found within intact cones, to estimate the relative spectral sensitivities of the major cone types within the retina. 相似文献
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The chick retina has four morphological cone types that differ not only in shape, but also in the visual pigment in the outer
segment, in the colour of the oil droplet in the inner segment and in synaptic connectivity. Neither the type of droplet nor
the visual pigment has been definitively established for the four cone types. The main aim of the present work has been the
isolation of entire live photoreceptors in order to study the oil droplet colour in each cone type and to quantify each type.
We have improved an earlier retinal cell isolation method and obtained large numbers of entire cones. Principal cones (27%
of the cones) possess a yellow or colourless droplet. Accessory cones (27% of the cones) all contain a small pale green droplet.
Straight cones (44% of the cones) have a red, orange, yellow, or colourless droplet. Oblique cones (1.66% of the cones) all
have a colourless droplet. We have found that straight cones with a red, orange, or yellow droplet differ in terms of the
position of the nucleus and their percentage and conclude that they are distributed in three rows in the outer nuclear layer
(ONL) of the central retina. Our study of 4,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole-stained retinal sections has revealed three rows of
nuclei instead of the two currently thought to form the ONL. Together, our results show a larger cone diversity than previously
known, suggest a larger functional diversity and provide an efficient method for isolating entire chick photoreceptors.
This work was supported by grants from the Dirección General de Investigación, Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia of Spain
(no. BFU2005-08786-C02-01) and from the Comunidad de Madrid, Spain (no. 920648/2006). 相似文献