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EB Adamah-Biassi Y Zhang H Jung S Vissapragada RJ Miller ML Dubocovich 《The journal of histochemistry and cytochemistry》2014,62(1):70-84
The pineal hormone melatonin activates two G-protein coupled receptors (MT1 and MT2) to regulate in part biological functions. The MT1 and MT2 melatonin receptors are heterogeneously distributed in the mammalian brain including humans. In the mouse, only a few reports have assessed the expression of the MT1 melatonin receptor expression using 2-iodomelatonin binding, in situ hybridization and/or polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Here, we described a transgenic mouse in which red fluorescence protein (RFP) is expressed under the control of the endogenous MT1 promoter, by inserting RFP cDNA at the start codon of MTNR1a gene within a bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) and expressing this construct as a transgene. The expression of RFP in the brain of this mouse was examined either directly under a fluorescent microscope or immunohistochemically using an antibody against RFP (RFP-MT1). RFP-MT1 expression was observed in many brain regions including the subcommissural organ, parts of the ependyma lining the lateral and third ventricles, the aqueduct, the hippocampus, the cerebellum, the pars tuberalis, the habenula and the habenula commissure. This RFP-MT1 transgenic model provides a unique tool for studying the distribution of the MT1 receptor in the brain of mice, its cell-specific expression and its function in vivo. 相似文献
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Pregnancy block in mice requires exposure of recently mated females to
urinary pheromones of a strange male, and when working with inbred strains
this invariably requires urine from an outbred line. The pheromones which
induce oestrus and early puberty in mice have been identified as the
brevicomins and dihydrothiazoles. Since the same vomeronasal, neural and
neuroendocrine pathways are also activated in pregnancy block, these
compounds are likely candidates for pregnancy blocking pheromones. However,
these relatively simple chemicals lack the capacity to code for differing
mouse strains. Since large quantities of the polymorphic major urinary
proteins from the lipocalin family found in urine serve as transporters for
the dihydrothiazoles and brevicomins, and differ across strains, then these
proteins must participate in pheromone recognition in the context of
pregnancy block.
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Using the result of long-term monitoring (over 30 years) of the main population parameters of cyclomorphic mammals (genera
Clethrionomys, Microtus, and Sylvaemus) in the Il’men Reserve (Chelyabinsk oblast, the Southern Urals), the phenomenology of the sex ratio and its dynamics in their
natural populations are analyzed. The main factors potentially influencing the sex structure of rodents are considered, including
isolation of settlements, relative abundance, population density, species-specific features, alternative types of ontogeny,
exposure to extreme factors, sex-dependent asynchronous mortality, and age cross. It is shown that the analysis of sex structure
in rodents should be performed taking into account the type of their ontogeny, with the CMR method (capture-marking-recapture)
giving the most objective estimate of the sex ratio. An alternative approach is to analyze samples taken in autumn to winter,
after the end of breeding and elimination of reproductive individuals from the population. It is concluded that the dynamics
of the sex structure in murine rodents are conditioned ecologically and that no selective elimination of individuals depending
on sex takes place upon overwintering. The sex ratio in cyclomorphic mammals is a variable parameter that fluctuates about
the average value depending on both regular and random factors. Methodological recommendations are given for the assessment
of sex structure in cyclomorphic mammals. 相似文献
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Chromosome instability in bone-marrow cells and 90Sr accumulation in the bone tissue are studied in rodents (Apodemus (Sylvaemus) uralensis Pall., 1811 and Apodemus agrarius Pall., 1771)* inhabiting the Eastern Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT) zone (Kyshtym radiation accident 1957) and adjacent areas
of the Urals. Intensive mutagenic process in both species from impact plots (soil pollution by 90Sr, 2322–16690 kBq/m2) is found. Significant positive correlation of the frequency of aberrant cells and the concentration of 90Sr is shown. Possible causes of the lack of resistance to long-term mutagenic factors (over 100 generations in the 50 years
since the accident), such as migration of animals and the specific configuration of the EURT zone (an extended narrow territory
with a sharply falling gradient of radionuclide pollution), which considerably decrease the probability that certain changes
will be fixed and inherited in a series of generations of rodents, are discussed. 相似文献
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Migrations of rodents in the zone of local radioactive contamination (East Urals Radioactive Trace, Southern Urals) at different phases of population dynamics are analyzed for the first time. The absence of any isolation of the rodents in the zone of this radioactive trace is convincingly demonstrated and the migration distances are estimated. As is shown, migration decreases the probability for transfer and fixation of adaptations in the chain of generations in vagile rodent species and increases the within-population genetic diversity of animals in adjacent regions. The need to consider the migration factor in a wide range of studies on assessment of biological effects in the zones of local technogenic contamination is confirmed. 相似文献
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