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Felde Vivian A. Flantua Suzette G. A. Jenks Cathy R. Benito Blas M. de Beaulieu Jacques-Louis Kuneš Petr Magri Donatella Nalepka Dorota Risebrobakken Bjørg ter Braak Cajo J. F. Allen Judy R. M. Granoszewski Wojciech Helmens Karin F. Huntley Brian Kondratienė Ona Kalniņa Laimdota Kupryjanowicz Mirosława Malkiewicz Małgorzata Milner Alice M. Nita Małgorzata Noryśkiewicz Bożena Pidek Irena A. Reille Maurice Salonen J. Sakari Šeirienė Vaida Winter Hanna Tzedakis Polychronis C. Birks H. John B. 《Vegetation History and Archaeobotany》2020,29(1):101-109
Vegetation History and Archaeobotany - The Eemian interglacial represents a natural experiment on how past vegetation with negligible human impact responded to amplified temperature changes... 相似文献
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Cappuyns AM Bernaerts K Smets IY Ona O Prinsen E Vanderleyden J Van Impe JF 《Biotechnology progress》2007,23(5):1074-1081
In this paper the problem of reliable and accurate parameter estimation for unstructured models is considered. It is illustrated how a theoretically optimal design can be successfully translated into a practically feasible, robust, and informative experiment. The well-known parameter estimation problem of Monod kinetic parameters is used as a vehicle to illustrate our approach. As known for a long time, noisy batch measurements do not allow for unique and accurate estimation of the kinetic parameters of the Monod model. Techniques of optimal experiment design are, therefore, exploited to design informative experiments and to improve the parameter estimation accuracy. During the design process, practical feasibility has to be kept in mind. The designed experiments are easy to implement in practice and do not require additional monitoring equipment. Both design and experimental validation of informative fed batch experiments are illustrated with a case study, namely, the growth of the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Azospirillum brasilense. 相似文献
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Bloom O Evergren E Tomilin N Kjaerulff O Löw P Brodin L Pieribone VA Greengard P Shupliakov O 《The Journal of cell biology》2003,161(4):737-747
It has been hypothesized that in the mature nerve terminal, interactions between synapsin and actin regulate the clustering of synaptic vesicles and the availability of vesicles for release during synaptic activity. Here, we have used immunogold electron microscopy to examine the subcellular localization of actin and synapsin in the giant synapse in lamprey at different states of synaptic activity. In agreement with earlier observations, in synapses at rest, synapsin immunoreactivity was preferentially localized to a portion of the vesicle cluster distal to the active zone. During synaptic activity, however, synapsin was detected in the pool of vesicles proximal to the active zone. In addition, actin and synapsin were found colocalized in a dynamic filamentous cytomatrix at the sites of synaptic vesicle recycling, endocytic zones. Synapsin immunolabeling was not associated with clathrin-coated intermediates but was found on vesicles that appeared to be recycling back to the cluster. Disruption of synapsin function by microinjection of antisynapsin antibodies resulted in a prominent reduction of the cytomatrix at endocytic zones of active synapses. Our data suggest that in addition to its known function in clustering of vesicles in the reserve pool, synapsin migrates from the synaptic vesicle cluster and participates in the organization of the actin-rich cytomatrix in the endocytic zone during synaptic activity. 相似文献
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Young-Seon Lee Ona?Z. Liu Hyun?Seok Hwang Bjorn?C. Knollmann Eric?A. Sobie 《Biophysical journal》2013,104(5):1142-1150
We present a parameter sensitivity analysis method that is appropriate for stochastic models, and we demonstrate how this analysis generates experimentally testable predictions about the factors that influence local Ca2+ release in heart cells. The method involves randomly varying all parameters, running a single simulation with each set of parameters, running simulations with hundreds of model variants, then statistically relating the parameters to the simulation results using regression methods. We tested this method on a stochastic model, containing 18 parameters, of the cardiac Ca2+ spark. Results show that multivariable linear regression can successfully relate parameters to continuous model outputs such as Ca2+ spark amplitude and duration, and multivariable logistic regression can provide insight into how parameters affect Ca2+ spark triggering (a probabilistic process that is all-or-none in a single simulation). Benchmark studies demonstrate that this method is less computationally intensive than standard methods by a factor of 16. Importantly, predictions were tested experimentally by measuring Ca2+ sparks in mice with knockout of the sarcoplasmic reticulum protein triadin. These mice exhibit multiple changes in Ca2+ release unit structures, and the regression model both accurately predicts changes in Ca2+ spark amplitude (30% decrease in model, 29% decrease in experiments) and provides an intuitive and quantitative understanding of how much each alteration contributes to the result. This approach is therefore an effective, efficient, and predictive method for analyzing stochastic mathematical models to gain biological insight. 相似文献
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The gamma-tubulin ring complex (gammaTuRC), consisting of multiple protein subunits, can nucleate microtubule assembly. Although many subunits of the gammaTuRC have been identified, a complete set remains to be defined in any organism. In addition, how the subunits interact with each other to assemble into gammaTuRC remains largely unknown. Here, we report the characterization of a novel gammaTuRC subunit, Drosophila gamma ring protein with WD repeats (Dgp71WD). With the exception of gamma-tubulin, Dgp71WD is the only gammaTuRC component identified to date that does not contain the grip motifs, which are signature sequences conserved in gammaTuRC components. By performing immunoprecipitations after pair-wise coexpression in Sf9 cells, we show that Dgp71WD directly interacts with the grip motif-containing gammaTuRC subunits, Dgrips84, 91, 128, and 163, suggesting that Dgp71WD may play a scaffolding role in gammaTuRC organization. We also show that Dgrips128 and 163, like Dgrips84 and 91, can interact directly with gamma-tubulin. Coexpression of any of these grip motif-containing proteins with gamma-tubulin promotes gamma-tubulin binding to guanine nucleotide. In contrast, in the same assay Dgp71WD interacts with gamma-tubulin but does not facilitate nucleotide binding. 相似文献
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Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani Kyrre E. Emblem Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer Atle Bj?rnerud Mark G. Vangel Elizabeth R. Gerstner Kathleen M. Schmainda Kamran Paynabar Ona Wu Patrick Y. Wen Tracy Batchelor Bruce Rosen Steven M. Stufflebeam 《Translational oncology》2015,8(3):137-146
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This study evaluates the repeatability of brain perfusion using dynamic susceptibility contrast magnetic resonance imaging (DSC-MRI) with a variety of post-processing methods.METHODS
Thirty-two patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma were recruited. On a 3-T MRI using a dual-echo, gradient-echo spin-echo DSC-MRI protocol, the patients were scanned twice 1 to 5 days apart. Perfusion maps including cerebral blood volume (CBV) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) were generated using two contrast agent leakage correction methods, along with testing normalization to reference tissue, and application of arterial input function (AIF). Repeatability of CBV and CBF within tumor regions and healthy tissues, identified by structural images, was assessed with intra-class correlation coefficients (ICCs) and repeatability coefficients (RCs). Coefficients of variation (CVs) were reported for selected methods.RESULTS
CBV and CBF were highly repeatable within tumor with ICC values up to 0.97. However, both CBV and CBF showed lower ICCs for healthy cortical tissues (up to 0.83), healthy gray matter (up to 0.95), and healthy white matter (WM; up to 0.93). The values of CV ranged from 6% to 10% in tumor and 3% to 11% in healthy tissues. The values of RC relative to the mean value of measurement within healthy WM ranged from 22% to 42% in tumor and 7% to 43% in healthy tissues. These percentages show how much variation in perfusion parameter, relative to that in healthy WM, we expect to observe to consider it statistically significant. We also found that normalization improved repeatability, but AIF deconvolution did not.CONCLUSIONS
DSC-MRI is highly repeatable in high-grade glioma patients. 相似文献7.
Elizabeth C. White Jean-Thoussaint Dikangadissi Edmond Dimoto William B. Karesh Michael D. Kock Nathacha Ona Abiaga Ruth Starkey Tharcisse Ukizintambara Lee J. T. White Katharine A. Abernethy 《International journal of primatology》2010,31(4):627-645
The predicted relationship between home-range size and group mass in primates developed by Clutton-Brock and Harvey (1977) has proved extremely robust in describing the use of space by most primate species. However, mandrills (Mandrillus sphinx) are now known to have an extreme group mass in the wild, far larger than that of the species used originally to generate
that relationship, and so it was unknown whether this relationship would be robust for this species. We investigated the home-range
size and use of a wild horde of ca. 700 mandrills in Lopé National Park, Gabon, using radiotelemetry. The total area the horde used over a 6-yr period [100%
minimum convex polygon (MCP)] was 182 km2, including 89 km2 of suitable forest habitat. Mandrills used gallery forests and isolated forest fragments with high botanical diversity far
more intensively that the continuous forest and completely avoided savanna and marsh. Peeled polygons and fixed kernel contours
revealed multiple centres of use, with the horde spending more than half its time in <10% of the total documented range, typical
of a frugivore using a patchy environment. Home-range size and internal structure varied considerably between years, but total
home range fitted the predicted relationship between group mass and home range size, despite being an outlier to the dataset.
We discuss the conservation implications of the species’ space requirements, in light of current pressures on land use in
their range. 相似文献
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Antioxidative Activity of 5,6,7,8-Tetrahydrobiopterin and its Inhibitory Effect on Paraquat-Induced Cell Toxicity in Cultured Rat Hepatocytes 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
The in vitro antioxidative activity of 5,6,7,8-tetrahydrobiopterin (BPH4) was measured and the ability of BPH4 to prevent paraquat-induced cell damage was examined in cultured hepatocytes. The scavenging activity of BPH4 against superoxide anion radicals was assayed in two systems, i.e., xanthine/xanthine oxidase (X/XOD) and rat macrophage/phorbol myristate acetate (MξPMA) radical-generating systems. BPH4 showed an extremely strong superoxide anion radical-scavenging activity in both assay systems. Biopterin (BP) itself did not show any activity in the X/XOD system, but was effective in the MξPMA system. The antioxidative activities of BPH4 against both superoxide anion and hydroxyl radicals were confirmed by spin trapping-ESR spectrometry. BPH4 also protected rat brain homogenate against auto-oxidation. We further examined the effect of BPH4 on paraquat-induced cell toxicity in cultured rat hepatocytes. The paraquat-induced elevation of the release of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), a marker enzyme for cytotoxicity from cultured hepatocytes was suppressed by BPH4 in a dose-dependent manner. The elevation of lipid peroxides simultaneously induced by paraquat was also inhibited by BPH4 in the same manner. These results suggest that BPH4 might be useful in the treatment of various diseases whose pathogenesis is active oxygen-related. 相似文献
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Gutiérrez-Abad R Carbajo D Nolis P Acosta-Silva C Cobos JA Illa O Royo M Ortuño RM 《Amino acids》2011,41(3):673-686
Two diastereomeric series of hybrid γ,γ-peptides derived from conveniently protected derivatives of (1R,2S)- and (1S,2R)-3-amino-2,2-dimethylcyclobutane-1-carboxylic acid and cis-4-amino-l-proline joined in alternation have efficiently been prepared through convergent synthesis. High-resolution NMR experiments
show that these compounds present defined conformations in solution affording very compact structures as the result of intra
and inter residue hydrogen-bonded ring formation. (R,S)-cyclobutane containing peptides adopt more twisted conformations than (S,R) diastereomers. In addition, all these γ-peptides have high tendency to aggregation providing vesicles of nanometric size,
which were stable when allowed to stand for several days, as verified by transmission electron microscopy. 相似文献
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Batch and fed batch cultures of Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 were conducted in a bioreactor. Growth response, IAA biosynthesis and the expression of the ipdC gene were monitored in relation to the environmental conditions (temperature, availability of a carbon source and aeration). A. brasilense can grow and produce IAA in batch cultures between 20 and 38 degrees C in a standard minimal medium (MMAB) containing 2.5 gl(-1)l-malate and 50 microgml(-1) tryptophan. IAA synthesis requires depletion of the carbon source from the growth medium in batch culture, causing growth arrest. No significant amount of IAA can be detected in a fed batch culture. Varying the concentration of tryptophan in batch experiments has an effect on both growth and IAA synthesis. Finally we confirmed that aerobic growth inhibits IAA synthesis. The obtained profile for IAA synthesis coincides with the expression of the indole-3-pyruvate decarboxylase gene (ipdC), encoding a key enzyme in the IAA biosynthesis of A. brasilense. 相似文献