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The aim of this experiment was to evaluate the effects of an intracerebroventricular (icv) injection of prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) on the sympathetic activation and the thermogenic changes in rats with acute lesions of the ventromedial hypothalamus (VMH). Four groups of six Sprague-Dawley male rats were anesthetized with ethyl-urethane. The firing rate of the sympathetic nerves innervating the interscapular brown adipose tissue (IBAT) and the colonic and IBAT temperatures were monitored both before and after one of the following treatments: 1) VMH lesion plus icv injection of PGE1 (500 ng); 2) VMH lesion plus icv injection of saline; 3) sham lesion plus icv injection of PGE1; and 4) sham lesion plus icv injection of saline. PGE1 induced an increase in the firing rate of IBAT nerves and the colonic and IBAT temperatures. These effects were reduced by VMH lesion. The findings indicate that acute lesions of the VMH reduce the effects of PGE1 and seem to suggest a possible role played by the VMH in the control of the sympathetic activation and the thermogenic changes during PGE1 hyperthermia. 相似文献
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Multiple haplotypes from each of three nuclear loci were isolated and
sequenced from geographic populations of the American oyster, Crassostrea
virginica. In tests of alternative phylogeographic hypotheses for this
species, nuclear gene genealogies constructed for these haplotypes were
compared to one another, to a mitochondrial gene tree, and to patterns of
allele frequency variation in nuclear restriction site polymorphisms
(RFLPs) and allozymes. Oyster populations from the Atlantic versus the Gulf
of Mexico are not reciprocally monophyletic in any of the nuclear gene
trees, despite considerable genetic variation and despite large allele
frequency differences previously reported in several other genetic assays.
If these populations were separated vicariantly in the past, either
insufficient time has elapsed for neutral lineage sorting to have achieved
monophyly at most nuclear loci, or balancing selection may have inhibited
lineage extinction, or secondary gene flow may have moved haplotypes
between regions. These and other possibilities are examined in light of
available genetic evidence, and it is concluded that no simple explanation
can account for the great variety of population genetic patterns across
loci displayed by American oysters. Regardless of the source of this
heterogeneity, this study provides an empirical demonstration that
different sequences of DNA within the same organismal pedigree can have
quite different phylogeographic histories.
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Crustacean and cheliceratan hemocyanins (oxygen-transport proteins) and
insect hexamerins (storage proteins) are homologous gene products, although
the latter do not bind oxygen and do not possess the copper- binding
histidines present in the hemocyanins. An alignment of 19 amino acid
sequences of hemocyanin subunits and insect hexamerins was made, based on
the conservation of elements of secondary structure observed in X-ray
structures of two hemocyanin subunits. The alignment was analyzed using
parsimony and neighbor-joining methods. Results provide strong indications
for grouping together the sequences of the 2 crustacean hemocyanin
subunits, the 5 cheliceratan hemocyanin subunits, and the 12 insect
hexamerins. Within the insect clade, four methionine- rich proteins, four
arylphorins, and two juvenile hormone-suppressible proteins from
Lepidoptera, as well as two dipteran proteins, form four separate groups.
In the absence of an outgroup sequence, it is not possible to present
information about the ancestral state from which these proteins are
derived. Although this family of proteins clearly consists of homologous
gene products, there remain striking differences in gene organization and
site of biosynthesis of the proteins within the cell. Because studies on
18S and 12S rRNA sequences indicate a rather close relationship between
insects and crustaceans, we propose that hemocyanin is the ancestral
arthropod protein and that insect hexamerins lost their copper-binding
capability after divergence of the insects from the crustaceans.
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This paper looked at the leaf architecture characteristics of Vachellia tortilis to determine if either there is or not an effect of the tropic line on plants. Vachellia tortilis leaves were sampled along a national road (N1) in Limpopo province. Sampling points were set 10 km apart away from the Tropic of Capricon in opposite directions. Leaf morphology revealed that leaves of V. tortilis are bipinnately compound with alternate arrangement. The venation pattern of the pinnules was eucamptodromus and brochidodromous with imperfect reticulation. Areoles were imperfect and pentagonal or irregular in shape. 相似文献
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Julieta Ramos-Elorduy José MP Moreno Adolfo I Vázquez Ivonne Landero Héctor Oliva-Rivera Víctor HM Camacho 《Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine》2011,7(1):1-22
In this paper, we reported the butterflies and moths that are consumed in Mexico. We identified 67 species of Lepidoptera that are eaten principally in their larval stage in 17 states of Mexico. These species belong to 16 families: Arctiidae, Bombycidae, Castniidae, Cossidae, Geometridae, Hepialidae, Hesperiidae, Lasiocampidae, Noctuidae, Nymphalidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Pyralidae, Saturniidae, Sesiidae, and Sphingidae. Saturniidae, Pieridae, Noctuidae and Nymphalidae were the more species consumed with 16, 11, 9, and 8 species, respectively. The genera with the largest numbers of species were: Phassus, Phoebis, Hylesia and Spodoptera, with three species. Their local distribution, corresponding to each state of Mexico, is also presented. 相似文献
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Jasmin Ana Luiza M Torres Henrique MP Nunes Juliana A Passipieri Linda A Jelicks Emerson L Gasparetto David C Spray Antonio C Campos de Carvalho Rosalia Mendez-Otero 《Journal of nanobiotechnology》2011,9(1):4
Background
Stem cell therapy has emerged as a promising addition to traditional treatments for a number of diseases. However, harnessing the therapeutic potential of stem cells requires an understanding of their fate in vivo. Non-invasive cell tracking can provide knowledge about mechanisms responsible for functional improvement of host tissue. Superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) have been used to label and visualize various cell types with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In this study we performed experiments designed to investigate the biological properties, including proliferation, viability and differentiation capacity of mesenchymal cells (MSCs) labeled with clinically approved SPIONs. 相似文献48.
Although cellular damage during cryopreservation of freshwater fish spermatozoa has been reported in several studies, there is a lack of correlation between this damage and the fertility rates of eggs using postthawed milt. The apparent lack of such correlation may be due to other undetected sublethal cryodamage, which could affect the cell functionality and viability. This may be extremely important for freshwater fish spermatozoa whose ability to fertilize the egg requires dilution in water or hypoosmotic solutions, an hazardous environment for the cells. This study tested the change in cell permeability during cryopreservation, using Hoechst 33258 to assess cell permeability. The permeability of spermatozoa at different times after dilution in several hypoosmotic media were investigated. In the first trial, fresh semen, sperm diluted in freezing media (CPT), and freeze/thawed semen were studied. Three CPT were tested (Me2SO, DMA, and methanol). In the second trial, the addition of egg yolk as a membrane stabilizer was investigated. Samples were frozen at -20 degreesC/min in a programmable cooler and thawed in a 25 degreesC water bath. Dilution in the CPTs slightly increased the susceptibility of cells to damage but freezing/thawing caused a dramatic increase in the fragility of cells, which were killed in a few seconds after their contact with the hypoosmotic solutions. Egg yolk provided a significant protection to the membrane, allowing the cells a greater and more prolonged survival in the fertilization media. Samples frozen with Me2SO displayed the best results. These results are consistent with the achieved fertility rates that demonstrated sublethal cryodamage in the function of the sperm membrane that was not detected by standard procedures. Copyright 1998 Academic Press. 相似文献
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An exception to the generally conservative nature of plastid gene evolution
is the gene coding for the beta" subunit of RNA polymerase, rpoC2. Previous
work by others has shown that maize and rice have an insertion in the
coding region of rpoC2, relative to spinach and tobacco. To assess the
distribution of this extra coding sequence, we surveyed a broad
phylogenetic sample comprising 55 species from 17 angiosperm families by
using Southern hybridization. The extra coding sequence is restricted to
the grasses (Poaceae). DNA sequence analysis of 11 species from all five
subfamilies within the grass family demonstrates that the extra sequence in
the coding region of rpoC2 is a repetitive array that exhibits more than a
twofold increase in nucleotide substitution, as well as a large number of
insertion/deletion events, relative to the adjacent flanking sequences. The
structure of the array suggests that slipped-strand mispairing causes the
repeated motifs and adds to the mechanisms through which the coding
sequence of plastid genes are known to evolve. Phylogenetic analyses based
on the sequence data from grass species support several relationships
previously suggested by morphological work, but they are ambiguous about
broad relationships within the family.
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Nucleolar organizer regions are nucleolar components that contain proteins that are stained selectively by silver methods; they can be identified as black dots throughout the nucleolus and are known as silver binding nucleolar organizer regions (AgNOR). The number of AgNOR is related to the cell cycle and the proliferative activity of the cells. We investigated AgNOR using exfoliative cytology smears of potentially malignant oral lesions. Eighty individuals were divided into four equal groups: healthy controls, oral leukoplakia, oral submucous fibrosis and oral squamous cell carcinoma. The mean number of AgNOR in each study group gradually increased from control to oral leukoplakia to oral submucous fibrosis to oral squamous cell carcinoma. The proliferative index was increased in the oral premalignant and malignant patients compared to normal subjects. The mean AgNOR size gradually increased from control to oral leukoplakia to oral submucous fibrosis to oral squamous cell carcinoma. Spherical shaped AgNOR were most common in controls, whereas large, clustered and kidney shapes were most common in oral squamous cell carcinoma. Multiparameter analysis of AgNOR in oral exfoliative smears is a simple, sensitive and cost-effective method for differentiating premalignant from malignant lesions and can be used in conjunction with routine cytomorphological evaluation. 相似文献