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Exposure of the outside of the isolated frog skin to a Ringer's solution, made hypertonic by the addition of mannitol, causes a rapid and sustained increase in transepithelial permeability through a structural distortion-a focal blistering-of the "tight" junctions of the outermost living cell layer. [(3)H]ouabain, used as an autoradiographic marker for the Na+-pump (Na+-K+-adenosine triphosphatase), is usually unable to penetrate the frog skin from the outside solution, but when added to a hypertonic mannitol- Ringer's solution in the outside bath it readily penetrates the epithelium, presumably through the opened shunt pathway. Radioautographic analysis of [(3)H]ouabain binding sites revealed that most of ouabain enters from the outside solution binds to the sites on the cell membranes of the stratum spinosum, as was the case when it was applied from the inside bath in an earlier study. The outer living cell layer, the first to be exposed to ouabain, does not appear to be the major site for the Na+-pump, and therefore, is not likely to be responsible for most of the active pumping of Na+. This result demonstrates that previous failure to show a high density of Na+-pump sites on the cells of the outermost layer, when [(3)H]ouabain was applied from the inside solution, was not due to the inability of the marker to reach these cells at a sufficient concentration to reveal all pump sites. These results provide further support for a model of Na+-transport across the frog skin which distributes the active pump step on the inward facing membranes of all living cells. 相似文献
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An extensive comparison of deacylation rates of mono- and disubstituted benzoyl-α-chymotrypsins indicates that no steric effects on rate or apparent pKa of deacylation are detectable within this series. Some anomalous effects on deacylation rate appear to be associated with fluoro- and nitro-substituents in particular positions on the ring and may be attributable to specific interactions at the enzyme active site. The extensive series of structurally similar acyl-enzymes prepared has allowed a thorough analysis of the effect of acyl group pKa on the apparent pKa of deacylation. The data indicates that polar effects on the apparent pKa are probably negligible. Rho for the deacylation reaction is in good agreement with model reactions for an imidazole general base-catalyzed model reaction. 相似文献
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Molecular phylogeny of the major arthropod groups indicates polyphyly of crustaceans and a new hypothesis for the origin of hexapods 总被引:18,自引:6,他引:12
A phylogeny of the arthropods was inferred from analyses of amino acid
sequences derived from the nuclear genes encoding elongation factor-1 alpha
and the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II using maximum- parsimony,
neighbor-joining, and maximum-likelihood methods. Analyses of elongation
factor-1 alpha from 17 arthropods and 4 outgroup taxa recovered many
arthropod clades supported by previous morphological studies, including
Diplopoda, Myriapoda, Insecta, Hexapoda, Branchiopoda (Crustacea), Araneae,
Tetrapulmonata, Arachnida, Chelicerata, and Malacostraca (Crustacea).
However, counter to previous studies, elongation factor-1 alpha placed
Malacostraca as sister group to the other arthropods. Branchiopod
crustaceans were found to be more closely related to hexapods and myriapods
than to malacostracan crustaceans. Sequences for RNA polymerase II were
obtained from 11 arthropod taxa and were analyzed separately and in
combination with elongation factor-1 alpha. Results from these analyses
were concordant with those derived from elongation factor-1 alpha alone and
provided support for a Hexapoda/Branchiopoda clade, thus arguing against
the monophyly of the traditionally defined Atelocerata (Hexapoda +
Myriapoda).
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The origins of clot rheological behavior associated with network morphology and factor XIIIa-induced cross-linking were studied in fibrin clots. Network morphology was manipulated by varying the concentrations of fibrinogen, thrombin, and calcium ion, and cross-linking was controlled by a synthetic, active-center inhibitor of FXIIIa. Quantitative measurements of network features (fiber lengths, fiber diameters, and fiber and branching densities) were made by analyzing computerized three-dimensional models constructed from stereo pairs of scanning electron micrographs. Large fiber diameters and lengths were established only when branching was minimal, and increases in fiber length were generally associated with increases in fiber diameter. Junctions at which three fibers joined were the dominant branchpoint type. Viscoelastic properties of the clots were measured with a rheometer and were correlated with structural features of the networks. At constant fibrinogen but varying thrombin and calcium concentrations, maximal rigidities were established in samples (both cross-linked and noncross-linked) which displayed a balance between large fiber sizes and great branching. Clot rigidity was also enhanced by increasing fiber and branchpoint densities at greater fibrinogen concentrations. Network morphology is only minimally altered by the FXIIIa-catalyzed cross-linking reaction, which seems to augment clot rigidity most likely by the stiffening of existing fibers. 相似文献
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Nagesh Ragavendra JW Ju James W Sayre Sharon Hirschowitz Inder Chopra Michael W Yeh 《Journal of biological engineering》2008,2(1):1-4
Background
Human solid tumors that are hard or firm on physical palpation are likely to be cancerous, a clinical maxim that has been successfully applied to cancer screening programs, such as breast self-examination. However, the biological relevance or prognostic significance of tumor hardness remains poorly understood. Here we present a fracture mechanics based in vivo approach for characterizing the fracture toughness of biological tissue of human thyroid gland tumors.Methods
In a prospective study, 609 solid thyroid gland tumors were percutaneously probed using standard 25 gauge fine needles, their tissue toughness ranked on the basis of the nature and strength of the haptic force feedback cues, and subjected to standard fine needle biopsy. The tumors' toughness rankings and final cytological diagnoses were combined and analyzed. The interpreting cytopathologist was blinded to the tumors' toughness rankings.Results
Our data showed that cancerous and noncancerous tumors displayed remarkable haptically distinguishable differences in their material toughness.Conclusion
The qualitative method described here, though subject to some operator bias, identifies a previously unreported in vivo approach to classify fracture toughness of a solid tumor that can be correlated with malignancy, and paves the way for the development of a mechanical device that can accurately quantify the tissue toughness of a human tumor. 相似文献47.
Chun-Chi Liu Chin-Chung Lin Ker-Chau Li Wen-Shyen E Chen Jiun-Ching Chen Ming-Te Yang Pan-Chyr Yang Pei-Chun Chang Jeremy JW Chen 《BMC bioinformatics》2007,8(1):164
Background
Genome-wide identification of specific oligonucleotides (oligos) is a computationally-intensive task and is a requirement for designing microarray probes, primers, and siRNAs. An artificial neural network (ANN) is a machine learning technique that can effectively process complex and high noise data. Here, ANNs are applied to process the unique subsequence distribution for prediction of specific oligos. 相似文献48.
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Basolateral K channels in an insect epithelium. Channel density, conductance, and block by barium
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K channels in the basolateral membrane of insect hindgut were studied using current fluctuation analysis and microelectrodes. Locust recta were mounted in Ussing-type chambers containing Cl-free saline and cyclic AMP (cAMP). A transepithelial K current was induced by raising serosal [K] under short-circuit conditions. Adding Ba to the mucosal (luminal) side under these conditions had no effect; however, serosal Ba reversibly inhibited the short-circuit current (Isc), increased transepithelial resistance (Rt), and added a Lorentzian component to power density spectra of the Isc. A nonlinear relationship between corner frequency and serosal [Ba] was observed, which suggests that the rate constant for Ba association with basolateral channels increased as [Ba] was elevated. Microelectrode experiments revealed that the basolateral membrane hyperpolarized when Ba was added: this change in membrane potential could explain the nonlinearity of the 2 pi fc vs. [Ba] relationship if external Ba sensed about three-quarters of the basolateral membrane field. Conventional microelectrodes were used to determine the correspondence between transepithelially measured current noise and basolateral membrane conductance fluctuations, and ion-sensitive microelectrodes were used to measure intracellular K activity (acK). From the relationship between the net electrochemical potential for K across the basolateral membrane and the single channel current calculated from noise analysis, we estimate that the conductance of basolateral K channels is approximately 60 pS, and that there are approximately 180 million channels per square centimeter of tissue area. 相似文献
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Restriction-map variation with the yellow-achaete-scute region in five populations of Drosophila melanogaster 总被引:9,自引:0,他引:9
It has been proposed that the degree of recombination for a genomic region
will affect the level of both nucleotide heterozygosity and the density of
transposable elements. Both features of genomic diversity have been
examined in a number of recent reports for regions undergoing relatively
normal levels of recombination in Drosophila melanogaster. In this study
the genomic variation associated with yellow-achaete- scute loci located at
the tip of the X chromosome is examined by six- cutter restriction mapping.
In this region, as usual for regions adjacent to telomeres, crossing-over
is dramatically reduced, and published studies of visible mutants indicate
extremely little restriction-map variation. Eight six-cutter restriction
endonucleases were used to locate sequence variation in 14- and 16.5-kb
regions in 109 lines sampled from North America, Africa, and Europe. The
overall level of heterozygosity is estimated as 0.29%. Nine large
insertions, all presumed to be transposable elements, were observed.
Base-pair heterozygosity appears to be reduced compared with regions having
normal levels of recombination. The estimated heterozygosity is much higher
than reported in earlier studies of restriction-map variation among visible
mutations in the complex. The incidence of large insertions is not elevated
compared with that in other regions of the genome. This suggests that
asymmetric synapsis and exchange is not an important mechanism for the
elimination of transposable elements.
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