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BS Sabna Thankappan Bency Mahendran Ramasamy Muthusamy Gayathri Femil selta Daniel Raja Angayarkanni Jayaraman 《Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins》2021,13(4):993-1004
Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins - Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is a principal inhibitory neurotransmitter in the central nervous system and is produced by irreversible decarboxylation of... 相似文献
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The BDNF val66met polymorphism affects activity-dependent secretion of BDNF and human memory and hippocampal function 总被引:54,自引:0,他引:54
Egan MF Kojima M Callicott JH Goldberg TE Kolachana BS Bertolino A Zaitsev E Gold B Goldman D Dean M Lu B Weinberger DR 《Cell》2003,112(2):257-269
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) modulates hippocampal plasticity and hippocampal-dependent memory in cell models and in animals. We examined the effects of a valine (val) to methionine (met) substitution in the 5' pro-region of the human BDNF protein. In human subjects, the met allele was associated with poorer episodic memory, abnormal hippocampal activation assayed with fMRI, and lower hippocampal n-acetyl aspartate (NAA), assayed with MRI spectroscopy. Neurons transfected with met-BDNF-GFP showed lower depolarization-induced secretion, while constitutive secretion was unchanged. Furthermore, met-BDNF-GFP failed to localize to secretory granules or synapses. These results demonstrate a role for BDNF and its val/met polymorphism in human memory and hippocampal function and suggest val/met exerts these effects by impacting intracellular trafficking and activity-dependent secretion of BDNF. 相似文献
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Anderson O. Lobo Erica F. Antunes Mariana BS Palma Cristina Pacheco‐Soares Vladimir J. Trava‐Airoldi Evaldo J. Corat 《Cell biology international》2010,34(4):393-398
Monolayer formation of SaOS‐2 (human osteoblast‐like cells) was observed on VACNT (vertically aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes) scaffolds without purification or functionalization. The VACNT were produced by a microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition on titanium surfaces with nickel or iron as catalyst. Cell viability and morphology studies were evaluated by LDH (lactate dehydrogenase) release assay and SEM (scanning electron microscopy), respectively. The non‐toxicity and the flat spreading with monolayer formation of the SaOs‐2 on VACNT scaffolds surface indicate that they can be used for biomedical applications. 相似文献
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The immunophenotype of HT29 human colon cancer cells implanted into severe combined immunodeficient mice was assessed in primary
tumours and their metastases in the lungs using an indirect immunohistochemical method. After primary tumours were surgically
removed, the metastases were given time to develop, thus paralleling the clinical situation. While vimentin was negative in
both primary and secondary tumours, E-cadherin was present as membrane-bound labelling in the primary tumours only. Whereas
the markers p53, MIB1, PCNA and CEA were consistently positive in both primary and metastatic tumours, CD44 variant 6 and
CA125 were negative in metastases but positive in the primary tumours. There was a significant increase in the percentage
of cells labelled for p53 in the primary tumours compared with the metastases. For the proliferation markers, there was no
significant difference in labelling between primary tumours and metastases for MIB1. Of the cytokeratins examined, CK 20 gave
the strongest and most consistent reaction in both primary and secondary tumours. The results indicate that, for certain immunohistochemical
markers, results are the same in both primary tumours and metastases. Hence, in these cases, antigens that are expressed on
the primary tumour as well as on the metastases can serve as target molecules for immunologically based forms of treatment
of metastases.
This revised version was published online in November 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Nicodemus KK Kolachana BS Vakkalanka R Straub RE Giegling I Egan MF Rujescu D Weinberger DR 《Human genetics》2007,120(6):889-906
Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) regulates dopamine degradation and is located in a genomic region that is deleted in a syndrome
associated with psychosis, making it a promising candidate gene for schizophrenia. COMT also has been shown to influence prefrontal
cortex processing efficiency. Prefrontal processing dysfunction is a common finding in schizophrenia, and a background of
inefficient processing may modulate the effect of other candidate genes. Using the NIMH sibling study (SS), a non-independent
case-control set, and an independent German (G) case-control set, we performed conditional/unconditional logistic regression
to test for epistasis between SNPs in COMT (rs2097603, Val158Met (rs4680), rs165599) and polymorphisms in other schizophrenia
susceptibility genes. Evidence for interaction was evaluated using a likelihood ratio test (LRT) between nested models. SNPs
in RGS4, G72, GRM3, and DISC1 showed evidence for significant statistical epistasis with COMT. A striking result was found
in RGS4: three of five SNPs showed a significant increase in risk [LRT P-values: 90387 = 0.05 (SS); SNP4 = 0.02 (SS), 0.02 (G); SNP18 = 0.04 (SS), 0.008 (G)] in interaction with COMT; main effects
for RGS4 SNPs were null. Significant results for SNP4 and SNP18 were also found in the German study. We were able to detect
statistical interaction between COMT and polymorphisms in candidate genes for schizophrenia, many of which had no significant
main effect. In addition, we were able to replicate other studies, including allelic directionality. The use of epistatic
models may improve replication of psychiatric candidate gene studies. 相似文献
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Comparisons of the molecular evolutionary process at rbcL and ndhF in the grass family (Poaceae) 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
We examine rate heterogeneity among evolutionary lineages of the grass
family at two plasmid loci, ndhF and rbcL, and we introduce a method to
determine whether patterns of rate heterogeneity are correlated between
loci. We show both that rates of synonymous evolution are heterogeneous
among grass lineages and that are heterogeneity is correlated between loci
at synonymous sites. At nonsynonymous sites, the pattern of rate
heterogeneity is not correlated between loci, primarily due to an aberrant
pattern of rate heterogeneity at nonsynonymous sites of rbcL. We compare
patterns of synonymous rate heterogeneity to predictors based on the
generation time effect and the speciation rate hypotheses. Although there
is some evidence for generation time effects, neither generation time
effects nor speciation rates appear to be sufficient to explain patterns of
rate heterogeneity in the grass plastid sequences.
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Climate change poses an unprecedented threat to biodiversity worldwide. Consequently, unrecognised taxa may not receive adequate conservation attention to survive. We used molecular and morphological data to address the challenge of species delimitation within the genus Schilbe. The presence or absence of an adipose fin and distribution based on east-flowing, conceivably faster-flowing, or west-flowing, probably more slow-flowing, river systems were considered. Distinctive geographic patterns in genetic variation within southern, eastern, and western African populations were revealed. Particularly, the South African population is distinct from those of Namibia, Botswana and Nigeria. No individuals with rudimentary adipose fins were found at any locality, but specimens from three localities either had or did not have adipose fins. These mixed occurrences are suspected to be a result of human interventions, and that the presence of rudimentary adipose fins in the east African species could be an adaptive feature that serves to stabilise these fish in faster currents. In addition, the genetic divergence observed among African silver catfish from geographically isolated river systems is conceivably the result of micro-evolutionary adaptive responses to different environmental conditions. Collectively, these results distinguish S. depressirostris from S. intermedius. 相似文献
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We used simulated data to investigate a number of properties of maximum-
likelihood (ML) phylogenetic tree estimation for the case of four taxa.
Simulated data were generated under a broad range of conditions, including
wide variation in branch lengths, differences in the ratio of transition
and transversion substitutions, and the absence of presence of
gamma-distributed site-to-site rate variation. Data were analyzed in the ML
framework with two different substitution models, and we compared the
ability of the two models to reconstruct the correct topology. Although
both models were inconsistent for some branch-length combinations in the
presence of site-to-site variation, the models were efficient predictors of
topology under most simulation conditions. We also examined the performance
of the likelihood ratio (LR) test for significant positive interior branch
length. This test was found to be misleading under many simulation
conditions, rejecting too often under some simulation conditions. Under the
null hypothesis of zero length internal branch, LR statistics are assumed
to be asymptotically distributed chi 2(1); with limited data, the
distribution of LR statistics under the null hypothesis varies from chi
2(1).
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