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R.D. Randel 《Theriogenology》1984,21(1):170-185
Reproductive function is mediated by season in the Indian breeds of cattle (). The reproductive endocrinology of cattle differs from that of breeds; the estrus is shorter and less intense and occurs late in relation to an estrogen stimulus. Moreover, the female has a smaller preovulatory surge of luteinizing hormone (LH), which occurs earlier relative to the onset of estrus, and she ovulates sooner after the onset of estrus. The corpus luteum is smaller and contains less progesterone, and the serum progesterone concentration is lower in females. Furthermore, they have fewer preovulatory LH surges than females and their luteal cells are less responsive to LH in vitro during the winter. Their fertility is lower during the late fall and winter months. For cattle, recovery of transferable embryos and survival of embryos in the recipient are at their maximum from July through October. 相似文献
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This case report addresses the occurrence of Brucellosis and its effect on the cattle in developing countries. Three Zebu bulls () are presented and the clinical and pathologic signs are described. Conception rates declined following an abortion storm in one herd and without prior abortions in another herd. Semen collected by electro-ejaculation was found to be azoospermic or with very few spermatozoa. was isolated from seminal vesicles, testes and epididymides. Organs affected and showing microscopic lesions were testes, epididymides and seminal vesicles. The latter were not consistently affected. None of the bulls showed impairment of libido or breeding capacity. 相似文献
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The effect of on reproductive performance and milk production of dairy cattle was investigated using a prospective cohort study design. The following results were obtained: the calving to conception interval was 122 vs 104 days (P<0.05) for cows with lesions (cases) and those without lesions (non-cases), respectively; the 180-day pregnancy rate was 70.3% vs 84.3% (P<0.02) for cases and non-cases, respectively; the interval to first service was 69 days for cases and 64 days for non-cases (P<0.05) and the interval from first to second service was 32.7 days for cases and 49.4 days (P<0.01) for non-cases. The prevalence of cows with lesions was 33% (). Lesions were most commonly found on the skin covering the coccygeal and sacral vertebrae and the gluteal muscles. White skin had a greater prevalence of lesions than did black skin (P<0.05). 相似文献
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Six heifers were used in a series of experiments to study the effects of experimental infection on bovine reproduction. Four three-year-old Zebu heifers were intravenously inoculated with T. vivax-strain Y58 — on days 14 and 16 of their estrous cycle and two control heifers in the same phase of estrus were not infected. All the heifers were bred in the research pens with a proven bull. The four infected heifers were bred at the first wave of parasitemia and the onset of pyrexia which characterised the infection. All the heifers were examined rectally 40 days after breeding. The four infected heifers were not pregnant but the two controls were. The infected heifers later became anestrous during the experimental period of more than five months. It is concluded that trypanosomiasis may contribute to high infertility rates in cattle kept in endemic areas. 相似文献
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Werner Goebel 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1973,51(4):1000-1007
The dependence of the replication of several plasmids on the chromosome-determined initiation products, A and C, has been studied. The initiation of the replication of E1 DNA requires the chromosomal A product. In contrast two de-repressed transfer factors ( and 152) seem to determine a corresponding plasmid-specific factor. The C-product is necessary for the ordered initation of all plasmids studied. The addition of low concentrations of chloramphenicol leads to a relaxed replication of E1 DNA at the restrictive temperature in A-mutants, but not in C-mutants. 相似文献
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Isabel Mérida Margarita Menéndez José Laynez Francisco Garcia Blanco 《International journal of biological macromolecules》1984,6(2):58-64
The binding of inhibitors to site I of rabbit muscle phsphorylase has beenstudied kinetically and thermodynamically for caffeine, adenine and adenosine. The effect of ligands on the tertiary structure has been investigated by studying the protection against 5,5′-dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoic acid) (DTNB) titration of the slow-reacting sulphydryl groups of the enzyme. Calorimetric and cysteinyl protection data taken together suggest that these inhibitors bind to both sites N and I even under conditions of saturation by glucose. Calorimetric results show that inhibitor binding to sites I and N at 25°C is driven enthalpically, although both and of interaction are significant. We conclude that attractive dispersion forces ought to be the main ones responsible for inhibitor binding to site I. AMP-activated phosphorylase is inhibited by both caffeine and adenine by cooperative and exclusive binding to the inactive conformation. The binding of the substrate (phosphate) and AMP when adenine is present was found to be exlusive to the active conformation, whereas non-exclusive binding of the activator was observed when caffeine was added. 相似文献
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Evelyn A. Devine Mary C. Moran Peter J. Jederlinic Anthony J. Mazaitis Henry J. Vogel 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1975,67(4):1589-1593
The transducing phage λd, carrying a portion of the chromosome including , is derived from the heat-inducible, lysis-defective strain λy199, which has the and deletions. Cleavage of λy199 DNA by RI endonuclease, followed by agarose slab gel electrophoresis, results in bands corresponding to the known C, D, E, and F segments of λ, and a segment A′ (A plus B minus minus , the cleavage site between A and B being eliminated). Cleavage of λd DNA by RI yields the expected D, E, and F segments of λ and four other segments, termed 14-1 through 14-4, whose length is 17.5, 6.2, 3.0, and 2.0 kilobases, respectively, as determined by electron microscopy and corroborated by electrophoretic mobility. Heteroduplex analysis shows that the cluster is on the 14-1 segment. 相似文献
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Uterine stage embryos collected from the hamster (8-cell) and cow (morula, early blastocyst) were monitored for development (embryo culture) and (embryo transfer) following premature removal of the zona pellucida.Removal of the zona pellucida did not significantly affect development to the blastocyst stage of (1) 8-cell hamster embryos (zonae removed by a combined enzymic-mechanical procedure), (2) bovine morulae (zonae removed by mechanical means only) (3) early bovine blastocysts (zonae removed by the enzymic-mechanical technique).Zona-free hamster embryos formed significantly fewer viable fetuses than did zona-intact embryos. The lower incidence of fetal development observed following transfer of zona-free 8-cell hamster embryos may have resulted in part from the formation of chimeras by fusion of these embryos . Such fusion was observed to occur between zona-free embryos placed in close proximity. The proportion of pregnancies resulting from transfer of bovine blastocysts cultured from zona-free morulae was similar to that of zona-intact embryos.In this study we have demonstrated that (1) enzymic and mechanical procedures used to remove zonae pellucidae from uterine-stage hamster and bovine embryos do not adversely affect subsequent development of these embryos and and (2) zonae pellucidae are not required for normal development of these embryos. These findings have implications for microsurgery of mammalian embryos and for embryo transfer. 相似文献
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The effects of nonsaturating amounts (5–60 nmol/mg membrane protein) of on the stability of unsealed erythrocyte ghosts were studied by turbidimetric measurements and direct observation by phase contrast microscopy. The organic mercurial provokes drastic disorganization of the membrane involving vesicle formation by inter- and externalization of the bilayer. These effects are not associated with a release in solution of membrane proteins which was shown in previous studies to occur at higher concentration. Attempts have been made to identify the proteins involved in this phenomenon by the use of nonsaturating amounts of radioactively-labelled . Actin and band 3 protein which are the first to be labelled, represent plausible candidates as sensitive targets for the disrupting organic mercurial. Stroma obtained from spherocytes did not show significant differences with normocytes in their stability with regard to . Other reagents including , diamide and DNAase I were also studied. The results suggest strongly that the integrity of the sulfhydryl groups of actin, as well as those of band 3 protein, is essential for the stability of the erythrocyte membrane. 相似文献
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Joseph J. Defrank Douglas W. Ribbons 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1976,70(4):1129-1135
A mutant strain (PL pT ) of PL, has been isolated for its inability to growth with -cymene as carbon source. The mutant oxidizes (and -cumate) to a compound (λmax 293 nm) which is readily converted to 3-hydroxy--cumate by acid. 4-Trifluoromethylbenzoate is oxidized by the mutant to an acid-stable intermediate (λmax 277nm) that has been crystallized. The spectral properties (u.v., i.r., NMR and mass) of this metabolite are consistent with those expected for a 2,3-dihydro-2,3-dihydroxy derivative of 4-trifluoromethylbenzoate. Further support of this structure was provided by elemental analysis and the properties of two derivatives of the metabolite, 4-trifluoromethyl-3-hydroxybenzoate and an acetonide formed with 2,2-dimethoxypropane. The stability of a product obtained by treatment of the dihydrodiol metabolite with triacetylosmate indicates that it is the . 相似文献
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G.E. Breitwieser 《生物化学与生物物理学报:生物膜》1982,689(3):457-463
(1) A membrane fraction enriched in (EC 3.6.1.3) was obtained from optic ganglia of the squid (Loligo pealei) by density gradient fractionation of membranes followed by treatment with either SDS or Brij-58. The resulting membrane had an specific activity of approx. 2 units/mg and was ouabain-sensitive. (2) The had a for ATP of and a pH optimum of 7.0. It was inhibited by ouabain with a of . (3) Optimum monovalent cation concentrations were: 240 mM NaCl, 60 mM KCl, tested with . (4) The Mg2+ dependence of hydrolysis varied with the absolute ATP concentration. At 3 mM ATP, the for Mg2+ was , and at 6 mM ATP, the was . High levels of Mg2+ caused inhibition of hydrolysis. (5) The interactions of Na+ and K+ were examined over a range of conditions. K+ levels caused modulations in the Na+ dependence in the range of 1–150 mM. (6) The prepared from squid optic ganglion displays properties similar to those of the sodium pump in injected nerves. 相似文献
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A family of plasmid cloning vectors has been constructed that make use of the leftward promoter () of phage λ to provide for efficient expression of cloned genes in Escherichia coli. The promoter activity of is fully repressed at low temperature by a thermolabile repressor product of the gene, and can be activated by heat induction. Examples are given (β-lactamse, tryptophan synthetase A) where, under optimal conditions, between 30 and 40% of the total protein synthesis is directed by the cloned gene under control. 相似文献
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Quercetin inhibited a dog kidney ( preparation without affecting for ATP or for cation activators, attributable to the slowly-reversible nature of its inhibition. Dimethyl sulfoxide, a selector of E2 enzyme conformations, blocked this inhibition, while the K+-phosphatase activity was at least as sensitive to quercetin as the ( activity, all consistent with quercetin favoring E1 conformations of the enzyme. Oligomycin, a rapidly-reversible inhibitor, decreased the for ATP and the for cation activators, and its inhibition was also diminished by dimethyl sulfoxide. Although oligomycin did not inhibit the K+-phosphatase activity under standard assay conditions, a reaction presumably catalyzed by E2 conformations, its effects are nevertheless accommodated by a quantitative model for that reaction depicting oligomycin as favoring E1 conformations. The model also accounts quantitatively for effects of both dimethyl sulfoxide and oligomycin on , for substrate, and for K+, as well as for stimulation of phosphatase activity by both these reagents at low K+ but high Na+ concentrations. 相似文献
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OKY-1581 is an effective inhibitor of thromboxane synthesis and . The generation of thromboxane B2 (TxB2), prostaglandin E (PGE) and prostaglandin F (PGF) was measured following clotting and during platelet aggregation induced by collagen. The presence of OKY 1581 either or caused a reduction in TxB2 generation during clotting and platelet aggregation with a concomitant increase in PGE and PGF. The effect could be observed two hours after oral or subcutaneous administration of 5 to 100 mg per rabbit and lasted for 24 to 48 hours. The reduction in TxB2 was not accompanied by an inhibition of clotting or platelet aggregation. OKY-1581 appears to be a suitable agent for studying the role of TxB2 in atherosclerosis. 相似文献
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H. Engelberg-Kulka L. Dekel M. Israeli-Reches 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1981,98(4):1008-1015
The regulation of the synthesis of operon enzymes was studied in streptomycin-resistant mutants temperature-sensitive for UGA suppression by normal tRNATrp. Our mutants carry a allele that when transferred to a different genetic background causes repression of trp operon enzyme synthesis at both low (35°C) and high (42°C) temperatures; however, in our mutants with an excess of tryptophan and at increased temperatures enzyme synthesis is derepressed. Based on our results and the sequence data of the R gene [Singleton et al. (1980) Nucleic Acids Res., 8, 1551–1560], we offer a model for the involvement of the limited misreading of UGA codons by normal charged tRNATrp in the autogenous regulation of the R gene expression. The UGA readthrough process may be a regulatory amplifier of the effect of tryptophan starvation. 相似文献
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The Na+-independent leucine transport system is resolved into two components by their different affinity ( about 44 μM and 8.0 mM) for leucine in the Chang liver cell. Treatment of the cells with (1 mM) specifically stimulates the high-affinity component of the Na+-independent system by greatly increasing its value, whereas the value of the low-affinity component is markedly lowered. The stimulatory effect of on leucine transport is reduced by prior treatment of the cells with 2,4-dinitrophenol, but this phenomenon seems to be irrelevant to the ATP-depleting action of the uncoupler. The treatment with 2,4-dinitrophenol has been found not to be inhibitory on the subsequent Na+-independent leucine uptake itself. Treatment with dibucaine, a phospholipid-interacting drug, also reduces to varying degrees (depending on its concentration) the stimulatory effect of on the subsequent leucine uptake, although pretreatment with dibucaine can stimulate the Na+-independent leucine uptake itself. We conclude that the stimulatory effect of on leucine transport is not correlated with the energy level of cell, but involves the perturbation of the membrane bilayer structures. 相似文献
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Yuji Kamiya Akira Sakurai Nobutaka Takahashi 《Biochemical and biophysical research communications》1980,94(3):855-860
Rhodotorucine which induces mating tube formation of cells in is metabolized rapidly by cells. By use of labeled rhodotorucine , the degradation was found to be proteolytic. Two peptide fragments Tyr-Pro-Glu-Ile-Ser-Trp-Thr-Arg and Asn-Gly-Cys(S-farnesyl) were identified as the metabolites. Proteolysis of the pheromone mainly occurred on the cell surface. Culture filtrate of cells at log phase did not metabolize rhodotorucine . 相似文献