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  • 1
    ISSN: 1420-9071
    Keywords: Stress-response proteins ; heat shock proteins ; hyperosmolality ; human tumor cells ; MCF-7 ; HeLa S3 ; immunocytochemistry
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Exposing cells to adverse conditions usually elicits expression of stress-response (heat shock) proteins (srp). Here we show that hyperosmolar growth conditions do not uniformly affect srp expression in MCF-7 and HeLa S3 cells, derived from carcinoma of the breast and cervix, respectively. Thus, whereas srp 27 expression was increased in MCF-7, but not in HeLa S3, the opposite was the case with srp 72. On the other hand, hyperosmolality did not induce αB-crystallin or ubiquitin in either cell line. These findings show that srp expression by the human tumor cells studied is non-coordinate, suggesting that each srp is independently modulated.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1432-2307
    Keywords: Pressure ; Human aortic endothelial cells Matrix metalloproteinase 1 ; Angiogenesis Atherosclerosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In the present study, we investigated the effect of ambient pressure on [3H]-thymidine incorporation and on the production of matrix metalloproteinase 1 (tissue collagenase/proMMP-1) using human aortic endothelial cells immortalized with simian virus 40 (SE-1). Incubation of cells at ambient pressures of 50 and 100 mmHg for 24 h slightly increased [3H]-thymidine incorporation when directly compared with normal culture conditions. The amount of [3H]-thymidine incorporated in SE-1 reached a maximum at 150 mmHg, while a further increase in pressure to 200 mmHg decreased incorporation. The same ambient pressure slightly stimulated human aortic intimal smooth muscle cells (SMC) to increase [3H]-thymidine incorporation but not medial SMC. Immunoblot analysis also showed that ambient pressure, ranging from 50 to 200 mmHg, like 12-O-tetradecanoyl-phorbol-13-acetate stimulated SE-1 to produce proMMP-1, an effect not seen with either intimal or medial SMC. The amount of proMMP-1 produced also reached a maximum level at 150 mmHg. We postulate that human endothelial cells are ambient pressure sensitive and that relatively lower ambient pressures play an important role in the growth of endothelial cells, while higher pressures injure endothelial cells, resulting in the initiation of atherosclerosis. This cell line may prove useful in the investigation of both the physiological and pathological roles of blood pressure on endothelial cell function.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0533
    Keywords: Neurofibrillary tangle ; Neuropil thread ; Spinal cord white matter ; Parkinsonism-dementia complex on Guam ; Guamanian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract This report concerns the demonstration and distribution of neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs), immunoreactive neuropil thread-like structures and dots in the spinal cord gray and white matter of six patients with parkinsonism-dementia complex on Guam and five patients with Guamanian amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). A monoclonal antibody to Alzheimer NFTs was used. NFTs were found in the spinal cord gray matter and white matter and all patients had immunoreactive neuropil thread-like structures and dots in the gray matter as well as in the white matter. They were particularly numerous in the lateral funiculus of patients with Guamanian ALS.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Dihydroxyacetone ; ATP-sensitive K+ channels ; GK rat ; glycerol phosphate shuttle ; pancreatic beta cell
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary In the GK (Goto-Kakizaki) rat, a genetic model of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, glucose-induced insulin secretion is selectively impaired. In addition, it has been suggested by previous studies that impaired glucose metabolism in beta cells of the GK rat results in insufficient closure of ATP-sensitive K+ channels (KATP channels) and a consequent decrease in depolarization, leading to a decreased insulin release. We have recently reported that the site of disturbed glucose metabolism is probably located in the early stages of glycolysis or in the glycerol phosphate shuttle. In the present study, in order to identify the impaired metabolic step in diabetic beta cells, we have investigated insulin secretory capacity by stimulation with dihydroxyacetone (DHA), which is known to be directly converted to DHA-phosphate and to preferentially enter the glycerol phosphate shuttle. In addition, using the patch-clamp technique, we also have studied the sensitivity of DHA on the KATP channels of beta cells in GK rats. The insulin secretion in response to 5 mmol/l DHA with 2.8 mmol/l glucose was impaired, and DHA sensitivity of the KATP channels was reduced in beta cells of GK rats. From these results, we suggest that the intracellular site responsible for impaired glucose metabolism in pancreatic beta cells of GK rats is located in the glycerol phosphate shuttle.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1432-0428
    Keywords: Key words Dihydroxyacetone ; ATP-sensitive K+ channels ; GK rat ; glycerol phosphate shuttle ; pancreatic beta cell.
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary In the GK (Goto-Kakizaki) rat, a genetic model of non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, glucose-induced insulin secretion is selectively impaired. In addition, it has been suggested by previous studies that impaired glucose metabolism in beta cells of the GK rat results in insufficient closure of ATP-sensitive K+ channels (KATP channels) and a consequent decrease in depolarization, leading to a decreased insulin release. We have recently reported that the site of disturbed glucose metabolism is probably located in the early stages of glycolysis or in the glycerol phosphate shuttle. In the present study, in order to identify the impaired metabolic step in diabetic beta cells, we have investigated insulin secretory capacity by stimulation with dihydroxyacetone (DHA), which is known to be directly converted to DHA-phosphate and to preferentially enter the glycerol phosphate shuttle. In addition, using the patch-clamp technique, we also have studied the sensitivity of DHA on the KATP channels of beta cells in GK rats. The insulin secretion in response to 5 mmol/l DHA with 2.8 mmol/l glucose was impaired, and DHA sensitivity of the KATP channels was reduced in beta cells of GK rats. From these results, we suggest that the intracellular site responsible for impaired glucose metabolism in pancreatic beta cells of GK rats is located in the glycerol phosphate shuttle. [Diabetologia (1994) 37: 1082–1087]
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  • 6
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    European journal of pediatrics 153 (1994), S. 873-875 
    ISSN: 1432-1076
    Keywords: Key words     Ethanol ; Haemostasis ; Helicobacter pylori ; Peptic ulcer ; Visible vessels
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract      We treated three children aged 10, 11 and 13 years with actively bleeding ulcers using local endoscopic injection of pure ethanol. Ethanol was injected into several sites around a visible vessel with or without bleeding. Haemostasis following ethanol injection therapy was confirmed by endoscopy performed the day after treatment. No rebleeding was observed. There were no complications related to the procedure. Injection therapy is technically simple and inexpensive. Conclusion     Our results suggest that endoscopic ethanol injection is safe and may be the treatment of choice for control of bleeding from peptic ulcers in children.
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  • 7
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    Electronic Resource
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Molecular Reproduction and Development 37 (1994), S. 436-445 
    ISSN: 1040-452X
    Keywords: Boar ; Spermatozoa ; Anti-agglutinin ; Epididymal protein ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: The present report identifies epididymal boar anti-agglutinin and examines its effect on sperm motility. Boar spermatozoa from the cauda epididymidis were washed and incubated in modified Krebs-Ringer bicarbonate at 37°C (5% CO2 in air). In the samples washed three or five times and then incubated for 3-5 h, higher rates (72-79%) of spermatozoa were associated with one another at the acrosomal region, mainly in groups of 2-5 cells (head-to-head agglutination), and many cells exhibited intensively flagellant and/or circular types of movement but rarely progressive motility. The addition of epididymal plasma or 25 kDa protein purified from it markedly inhibited the occurrence of head-to-head agglutination in washed spermatozoa, whereas heat treatment and subsequent removal of insoluble materials reduced the anti-agglutination activity of epididymal plasma. The percentages of progressively motile cells in the samples incubated with epididymal plasma or 25 kDa epididymal protein rose coincident with the reduction of sperm agglutination. These findings demonstrate that the 25 kDa epididymal protein is an anti-agglutinin for the cauda spermatozoa and that it effectively functions to maintain progressive motility of the cells in vitro. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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