In the isolated and perfused rat heart, the addition of morphine, methionine-enkephalin or leucine-enkephalin to the coronary perfusate, significantly reduces the mechanical activity by negatively affecting both the heart rate and the developed tension. These effects are dose dependent and maximally evident with leucine-enkephalin. Furthermore all the opioids strongly reduce the activity of isoproterenol-stimulated hearts. The suggestion is made that opioid peptides directly influence the cardiac mechanical activity possibly by interacting with membrane-receptor systems. 相似文献
Previous studies from this laboratory have shown that the thermolysin fragment 121–316, comprising entirely the“all-α” COOH-terminal
structural domain 158–316, as well as fragment 206–316 (fragment FII) are able to refold into a native-like, stable structure
independently from the rest of the protein molecule. The present report describes conformational properties of fragments 228–316
and 255–316 obtained by chemical and enzymatic cleavage of fragment FII, respectively. These subfragments are able to acquire
a stable conformation of native-like characteristics, as judged by quantitative analysis of secondary structure from far-ultra-violet
circular dichroism spectra and immunochemical properties using rabbit anti-thermolysin antibodies. Melting curves of the secondary
structure of the fragments show cooperativity with a temperature of half-denaturationTmof 65–66°C. The results of this study provide evidence that it is possible to isolate stable supersecondary structures (folding
units) of globular proteins and correlate well with predictions of subdomains of the COOH-terminal structural domain 158–316
of thermolysin. 相似文献
Some a priori and a posteriori aspects of the identifiability problem for unidentifiable models are discussed. It is argued that the nation of identifiability from parameter bounds has a minor a priori structural relevance. The parameter bounds rationale may prove a useful a posteriori numerical notion. However, its practical potentiality needs careful evaluation, as the use of point estimates automatically builds into the model some hidden structural constraints. Examples are given. 相似文献
Activity levels of 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase (ED), aminopyrine N-demethylase (APD), p-nitroanisoleO-demethylase (p-NAD) and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) were determined in incubation mixtures for the liver-microsomal assay (LMA) at time 0 and after 1 and 2 h incubation under conditions for mutagenic assay. The experiments were performed with S9 liver fractions from mice (induced with Na-phenobarbital and β-naphthoflavone) and rats (induced with Aroclor 1254) with and without G-6-PDH in the incubation mixtures.
In the absence of G-6-PDH the activities were significantly lower at time 0 in the mouse. The pattern of stability, however, was similar for the activities, with an increase of stability after 1 and 2 h of pre-incubation (an exception for p-NAD).
Only ED activity showed a similar behaviour in the rat. No differences were present for APD and p-NAD activities at time 0 in the rat, but the enzyme stabilities were significantly decreased after 2 h of incubation (about 15% and 10% for APD and p-NAD respectively) in the absence of G-6-PDH.
At time 0, the amounts of G-6-PDH differed between mouse and rat fractions; however, during the incubations for LMA they decreased by about 57% and 53% for the two species, respectively. In addition to the above biochemical results, the presence of exogenous G-6-PDH in the incubations for the mutagenic assay, significantly increased the mitotic gene conversion and mitotic crossing-over of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) and AR2MNFN (a nitroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole) in the D7 strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 相似文献
Cells of the 3T3 mouse line efficiently supported the multiplication of polyoma virus, and the infectious process was accompanied by a marked increase in thymidine kinase (TK) activity. Two lines of 5-bromodeoxyuridine-resistant 3T3 cells have been isolated. As expected, these cells incorporated practically no exogenous thymidine into their deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and contained negligible TK activity. Like the parental 3T3 cells, TK(-) lines were susceptible to productive infection by polyoma virus, but infection did not lead to an increase in TK activity. Since kinase activity did appear after infection with another virus (vaccinia) known to contain the gene(s) for that enzyme, it is concluded that TK is not one of the gene products of polyoma virus. As induction of cellular DNA synthesis by polyoma virus occurs normally when the TK(-) cells are infected in the stationary phase, TK cannot play a role in the determination of this phenomenon. 相似文献
The examination of the state of conservation of works of art in stone includes the assessment of the presence of microbiological agents on the surface of the decayed monuments. These microorganisms can accelerate, via their metabolic activity, the decay process of the stone surface. At present this assessment is made with the traditional techniques for the microbiological examination of the soil, provides results only after a delay of 30 days. A bioluminescent ATP assay should provide rapid quantitation of actively growing organisms on the surface of a stone monument, and the applicability of this technique was verified on some samples of sandstone (Pietraforte) collected from a historic building (the Strozzi Palace) in Florence. These samples were evaluated for the amount of the ATP and the total number of microorganisms. The results obtained suggest that the bioluminescent assay could be suitable for detecting and quantitating the presence of microorganisms in a sample of stone. 相似文献
Cotyledons were excised from imbibed watermelon seeds, grown for 4 days in darkness on water or 10 M benzyladenine (BA) and then tested for the presence of the light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b protein (LHCP) and its mRNA. LHCP was assayed immunologically by western blotting of SDS gels: the protein was present in plastids, but it was not recovered with the thylakoid fraction. Antibodies directed against LHCP precipitated a 32 kDa polypeptide from translation products of poly(A) RNA of cotyledons only if these had been grown on BA. Taken together the data suggest that in absence of light cytokinins are necessary for the maintenance of a detectable level of LHCP-mRNA as well as for synthesis of the protein. 相似文献
In this article, a neural model for generating and learning a rapid ballistic movement sequence in two-dimensional (2D) space
is presented and evaluated in the light of some considerations about handwriting generation. The model is based on a central
nucleus (called a planning space) consisting of a fully connected grid of leaky integrators simulating neurons, and reading
an input vector Ξ (t) which represents the external movement of the end effector. The movement sequencing results in a succession of motor strokes
whose instantiation is controlled by the global activation of the planning space as defined by a competitive interaction between
the neurons of the grid. Constraints such as spatial accuracy and movement time are exploited for the correct synchronization
of the impulse commands. These commands are then fed into a neuromuscular synergy whose output is governed by a delta lognormal
equation. Each movement sequence is memorized originally as a symbolic engram representing the sequence of the principal reference
points of the 2D movement. These points, called virtual targets, correspond to the targets of each single rapid motor stroke
composing the movement sequence. The task during the learning phase is to detect the engram corresponding to a new observed
movement; the process is controlled by the dynamics of the neural grid.
Received: 16 March 1995/Accepted in revised form: 25 July 1995 相似文献