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Artur Pawlowicz 《Behavioural processes》2010,83(3):242-370
Stereotyped motor behaviors are a common consequence of environmental restriction in a wide variety of species. Although environmental enrichment has been shown to substantially reduce stereotypy levels, the various components of enrichment have not been evaluated independently to determine which is responsible for this effect. Exercise, particularly voluntary wheel running, is a promising candidate based on several lines of behavioral and neurobiological evidence. To test the hypothesis that access to wheel running will reduce stereotyped motor behavior, we reared deer mice from weaning with continuous access to either a functional running wheel or a locked wheel. We assessed running behavior throughout this time period and stereotypy levels in a test context at 30 and 45 days post-weaning. We found that exercise did not significantly affect stereotypy level nor was there an association between wheel running and stereotypy. Thus, exercise alone, unlike environmental enrichment, does not prevent the development of stereotypy. These results have important implications for animal welfare. 相似文献
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Sebastian Haas Dhwani K. Desai Julie LaRoche Rich Pawlowicz Douglas W. R. Wallace 《Environmental microbiology》2019,21(10):3927-3952
We present the first geomicrobiological characterization of the meromictic water column of Powell Lake (British Columbia, Canada), a former fjord, which has been stably stratified since the last glacial period. Its deepest layers (300–350 m) retain isolated, relict seawater from that period. Fine-scale vertical profiling of the water chemistry and microbial communities allowed subdivision of the water column into distinct geomicrobiological zones. These zones were further characterized by phylogenetic and functional marker genes from amplicon and shotgun metagenome sequencing. Binning of metagenomic reads allowed the linkage of function to specific taxonomic groups. Statistical analyses (analysis of similarities, Bray–Curtis similarity) confirmed that the microbial community structure followed closely the geochemical zonation. Yet, our characterization of the genetic potential relevant to carbon, nitrogen and sulphur cycling of each zone revealed unexpected features, including potential for facultative anaerobic methylotrophy, nitrogen fixation despite high ammonium concentrations and potential micro-aerobic nitrifiers within the chemocline. At the oxic–suboxic interface, facultative anaerobic potential was found in the widespread freshwater lineage acI (Actinobacteria), suggesting intriguing ecophysiological similarities to the marine SAR11. Evolutionary divergent lineages among diverse phyla were identified in the ancient seawater zone and may indicate novel adaptations to this unusual environment. 相似文献
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Carbohydrates have been suggested to account for some IgE cross- reactions
between various plant, insect, and mollusk extracts, while some IgG
antibodies have been successfully raised against plant glycoproteins. A rat
monoclonal antibody raised against elderberry abscission tissue (YZ1/2.23)
and rabbit polyclonal antiserum against horseradish peroxidase were
screened for reactivity in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay against a
range of plant glycoproteins and extracts as well as neoglycoproteins, bee
venom phospholipase, and several animal glycoproteins. Of the
oligosaccharides tested, Man3XylFucGlcNAc2(MMXF3) derived from horseradish
peroxidase was the most potent inhibitor of the reactivity of both YZ1/2.23
and anti- horseradish peroxidase to native horseradish peroxidase
glycoprotein. The reactivity of YZ1/2. 23 and anti-horseradish peroxidase
against Sophora japonica lectin was most inhibited by a neoglycoconjugate
of bromelain glycopeptide cross-linked to bovine serum albumin, while the
defucosylated form of this conjugate was inactive as an inhibitor. A wide
range of plant extracts was found to react against YZ1/2.23 and
anti-horseradish peroxidase, with particularly high reactivities recorded
for grass pollen and nut extracts. All these reactivities were inhibitable
with the bromelain glycopeptide/bovine serum albumin conjugate. Bee venom
phospholipase and whole bee venom reacted weakly with YZ1/2.23 but more
strongly with anti-horseradish peroxidase in a manner inhibitable with the
bromelain glycopeptide/bovine serum albumin conjugate, while hemocyanin
from Helix pomatia reacted poorly with YZ1/2.23 but did react with
anti-horseradish peroxidase. It is concluded that the alpha1, 3-fucose
residue linked to the chitobiose core of plant glycoproteins is the most
important residue in the epitope recognized by the two antibodies studied,
but that the polyclonal anti-horseradish peroxidase antiserum also contains
antibody populations that recognize the xylose linked to the core mannose
of many plant and gastropod N-linked oligosaccharides.
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Journal of Applied Phycology - The effect of solar UV radiation exposure and NO3– supply on mycosporine-like amino acids (MAAs) accumulation in the carrageenan-producing red macroalga... 相似文献
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Pluskota-Karwatka D Pawlowicz AJ Kronberg L 《Nucleosides, nucleotides & nucleic acids》2007,26(6-7):567-571
Our previous work has shown that treatment of nucleosides with malonaldehyde simultaneously with acetaldehyde affords stable conjugate adducts. In the present study we demonstrate that conjugate adducts are also formed in calf thymus DNA when incubated with the aldehydes. The adducts were identified in the DNA hydrolysates by their positive ion electrospray MS/MS spectra, by coelution with the 2'-deoxynucleoside standards, and, in the case of adducts exhibiting fluorescent properties, also by LC using a fluorescence detector. In the hydrolysates of double-stranded DNA (ds DNA), two deoxyguanosine and two deoxyadenosine conjugate adducts were detected and in single-stranded DNA (ss DNA) also, the deoxycytidine conjugate adduct was observed. The guanine base was the major target for the malonaldehyde-acetaldehyde conjugates and 2'-deoxyguanosine adducts were produced in ds DNA at levels of 100-500 adducts/10(5) nucleotides (0.7-3 nmol/mg DNA). 相似文献
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Jerzy M. Pawlowicz 《Polar Biology》1989,9(5):295-298
Summary The amount and types of prostaglandins present in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana.) were estimated. Samples of fresh krill were collected during III Antarctic Cruise of RV Polarstern in November 1984. Prostaglandins were extracted, separated by column and thin-layer chromatography and identified as PGA2, PGB2, PGE2, PGF2. Quantitative measurements were made by a biological method (Vane cascade), concentrations of the most abundant prostaglandins PGE2 and PGF2 being 1.6 and 4 ng/1 g of fresh tissue, respectively. Such low level of prostaglandin would not be harmful when using krill as a food supplement. 相似文献
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Hypothesis: For any one time and place a ‘functional signature’ can be derived for a sample of herbaceous vegetation in a way that concisely represents the balance between the different clusters of functional attributes that are present among component species. Methods: We developed a spreadsheet‐based tool for calculating functional signatures within the context of the C‐S‐R system of plant functional types. We used the tool to calculate and compare signatures for specimen British vegetation samples which differed in management regime and location in time. Conclusion: The integrative power of the ‘C‐S‐R signature’ is useful in comparative studies involving widely differing samples. Movements in the signature can be used to indicate degree of resistance, resilience, eutrophication and dereliction. Systems of plant functional types other than C‐S‐R might also be approached in this way. Availability: The tool can be downloaded free of charge from the first author's web pages or from the journal's electronic archive. 相似文献
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Diana Florea‐Wang Agnieszka J. Pawlowicz Jari Sinkkonen Leif Kronberg Juhani Vilpo Jari Hovinen 《化学与生物多样性》2009,6(7):1002-1013
4‐[Bis(2‐chloroethyl)amino]benzenebutanoic acid (=chlorambucil, 1 ; 2.5 mM ) was allowed to react with single‐ and double‐stranded calf thymus DNA at physiological pH (cacodylic acid, 50% base) at 37°. The DNA–chlorambucil adducts were identified by analyzing the DNA hydrolysates by NMR, UV, HPLC, LC/ESI‐MS/MS techniques as well as by spiking with authentic materials. ssDNA was more reactive than dsDNA, and the order of reactivity in ssDNA was Ade‐N1>Gua‐N7>Cyt‐N3>Ade‐N3. The most reactive site in dsDNA was Ade‐N3. The Gua‐N7 and Ade‐N3 adducts were hydrolytically labile. Ade‐N7 adduct could not be identified in the hydrolysates of ssDNA or dsDNA. The adduct Gua‐N7,N7, which consists of two units of Gua bound together with a unit derived from chlorambucil, is a cross‐linking adduct, and it was detected in the hydrolysates of ssDNA and dsDNA. Also several other adducts were detected which could be characterized by spiking with previously isolated authentic adducts or tentatively by MS. The role of chlorambucil–DNA adducts on the cytotoxicity and mutagenity of 1 is also discussed. 相似文献
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Natalia P. Pawlowicz Ivo H.M. van Stokkum Rienk van Grondelle 《Biophysical journal》2009,96(12):4956-4965
Energy and electron transfer in a Leu M214 to His (LM214H) mutant of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides reaction center (RC) were investigated by applying time-resolved visible pump/midinfrared probe spectroscopy at room temperature. This mutant replacement of the Leu at position M214 resulted in the incorporation of a bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) in place of the native bacteriopheophytin in the L-branch of cofactors (denoted βL). Purified LM214H RCs were excited at 600 nm (unselective excitation), at 800 nm (direct excitation of the monomeric BChl cofactors BL and BM), and at 860 nm (direct excitation of the primary donor (P) BChl pair (PL/PM)). Absorption changes associated with carbonyl (C=O) stretch vibrational modes (9-keto, 10a-ester, and 2a-acetyl) of the cofactors and of the protein were recorded in the region between 1600 cm−1 and 1770 cm−1, and the data were subjected to both a sequential analysis and a simultaneous target analysis. After photoexcitation of the LM214H RC, P∗ decayed on a timescale of ∼6.3 ps to P+BL−. The decay of P+BL− occurred with a lifetime of ∼2 ps, ∼3 times slower than that observed in wild-type and R-26 RCs (∼0.7 ps). Further electron transfer to the βL BChl resulted in formation of the P+βL− state, and its infrared absorbance difference spectrum is reported for the first time, to our knowledge. The fs midinfrared spectra of P+BL− and P+βL− showed clear differences related to the different environments of the two BChls in the mutant RC. 相似文献