Summary An atmosphere containing 10% CO2 has been generally accepted as optimal for the growth of Syrian hamster embryo cells in a clonal transformation assay. Data
presented in this paper show that 10% CO2 may not be the optimum environment for this assay.
Using 10 or 20% (analytically measured) CO2 in air (1 atm pressure), hamster embryo cell pools were examined for clonal growth characteristics and transformability using
five known carcinogens and a single noncarcinogenic compound. At 10% CO2, only 2 of 11 pools weee transformed by the five carcinogens but not by the noncarcinogen. At 20% CO2, six of seven pools were transformed by the five carcinogens and not by the noncarcinogen. Further, the transformation frequencies
were found to be greater in cultures incubated in an atmosphere consisting of 20% CO2 in air. The data also show that 20% CO2 increased the cloning efficiency of these cells.
A comparison of the 10 and 20% CO2 data to results reported from other conflicting interlaboratory results with this assay system may be due, in part, to variations
of CO2 concentrations. In some instances, the CO2 levels indicated by incubator flow meters vary considerably from analytically determined CO2 values. To prevent these CO2 discrepancies and their resultant effects on transformation and cloning efficiency, methods for monitoring the CO2 environment other than flow meters are recommended.
The observation of increased cloning efficiencies and transformation rates strongly suggests that culture incubation at 20%
CO2 is a preferred environment for the conduct of this assay. 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
Recent field data indicate that MacKinnon’s model of the orang-utan’s sexual and agonistic activity needs to be revised. In
this model, male reproductive activity is concentrated in an extended phase of subadulthood and in early adulthood. According
to this model, the role of older adult males is primarily that of range guardian, and in that role they would ensure that
the offspring they had generated earlier would have safe access to food resources. This study presents cases suggesting that
subadult males, even though sexually active, may have low reproductive success. In previous studies adult males were shown
to display less sexual initiative than subadult males. In this study an adult male was at times involved infrequent mating
activity in response to proceptive activity of females in the course of consortship. This adult male proved to be a successful
breeder, thus refuting the hypothesis of adult male sterility. The female is most likely to conceive through cooperative mating
in lengthy consortships with the dominant resident adult male. We hypothesize that the extended subadult phase represents
a submissive strategy, allowing subadult males to remain in the home range of adult males but with minimal reproductive success. 相似文献
Immunoaffinity purified Sm/RNP antigens from buffalo and goat liver were studied to determine the role of RNA and proteins
towards the antigenicity of Sm and RNP antigens. A more direct approach using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay on nylon beads
has been utilized to look into the problem. The effect of enzyme treatment and the role of RNA and protein fractions in influencing
antigenicity have been described. RNA seems to be involved in the maintenance of RNP specific polypeptides in suitable conformation
so as to keep them in solution. Removal of RNA leads to insolubilization of RNP specific polypeptides. Antibodies to Sm and
RNP antigens have been shown to cross react with poly A containing heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein with no cross reactivity
with thymus RNA or DNA. 相似文献
The observations that liveMycobacterium leprae after entry into cultured peritoneal macrophages from mice, reduced the EA rosetting macrophages, have been exploited to
determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of diamino diphenyl sulphone and rifampicin. Diamino diphenyl sulphone showed
a minimum inhibitory concentration of 0.028 μg/ml and rifampicin 0.11μg/ml when given externally. However, there was accumulation of diamino diphenyl sulphone inside the macrophages. At an external
concentration of 0.028 μg/ml the concentration inside the macrophage was 0.5μg/ml. The minimum inhibitory concentration for diamino diphenyl sulphone in this assay system is higher by several folds and
that for rifampicin is slightly lower, than what is reported earlier with mice foot pad experiments. The minimum inhibitory
concentration reported in this assay system is quite close to what is observed forin vitro inhibition ofMycobacterium lufu with both the drugs 相似文献
Using a specific radioimmunoassay for gonadotropin releasing hormone, the presence of gonadotropin releasing hormone like
material in the first trimester human placenta has been demonstrated. The material has been partially characterized using
carboxy methyl cellulose chromatography, high pressure gel permeation chromatography and reverse phase C18 high pressure liquid
chromatographic analysis. Analysis for bioactivity revealed that placental gonadotropin releasing hormone is much more active
than synthetic gonadotropin releasing hormone inin vitro rat pituitary lutinising hormone release assay.In vitro biosynthetic studies using labelled precursors and immunoaffinity chromatography indicated that first trimester human placenta
synthesizes gonadotropin releasing hormone like material. 相似文献
Monoclonal antibodies were prepared against two species of Methanomicrobiaceae. Antibody 1A is specific for Methanospirillum hungatei strain JF1 and the determinant it recognizes is expressed on the surface of JF1 cells, where it is exposed and accessible to antibody. The determinant is found in a polypeptide (MW<12,000) in the sheath that covers the bacterial cell; it is not present in Methanospirillum hungatei strain GP1; and it is not expressed on the surface of whole cells of the other 24 methanogenic bacteria tested. It is therefore a marker of strain JF1, consequently, antibody 1A is potentially useful for tracking JF1 and fragments thereof in a variety of samples. Antibody 7A is specific for Methanogenium cariaci JR1c. It did not react with any other methanogen tested, not even with Mg. marisnigri or Ms. hungatei JF1, although these cross-react with Mg. cariaci if tested with polyclonal antisera. Therefore antibody 7A recognizes specifically a marker of Mg. cariaci JR1c.Abbreviations SIA
slide immunoenzymatic assay
- SDS-PAGE
sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis 相似文献
1 Hoplothrips pedicularius (Haliday) (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae), a tubuliferan thrips in which males possess greatly enlarged forelegs, lives in colonies on Stereum fungus.
2 Females oviposit onto communal egg masses, and males fight by grasping and stabbing with their forelegs in territorial defence of oviposition areas. Prolonged escalated fights occur between males who are of similar size.
3 Larger males usually win fights and become dominant at the oviposition area. Dominant males secure 80% of matings, and mate most frequently during oviposition periods, with an ovipositing female.
4 Smaller, subordinate males avoid fights and attempt to 'sneak’copulations. However, they occasionally challenge the dominant male. Challenges tend to follow copulations by the subordinate male and occur more frequently between males who are of similar size.
5 Subordinate males who eventually leave the oviposition area are larger than those who remain, have frequently challenged the dominant male, and have more frequently been stabbed.
6 Sexual dimorphism in thrips is associated with gregariousness, claustral habitats, female-biased sex ratios, and male winglessness. In thrips genera in which males exhibit foreleg armature, males are larger relative to females. The ecological circumstances promoting sexual dimorphism and male fighting in spatially-structured populations are discussed.