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  • 1
    ISSN: 0003-276X
    Keywords: Respiratory Biology ; Pulmonary hypoplasia ; Lung pathology ; Chondrodystrophy ; Mouse ; Embryo/fetus ; Ultrastructure ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Background: Fetal mice homozygous for the Disproportionate micromelia (Dmm) gene were studied as a model for pulmonary hypoplasia in chondrodystrophy.Methods: Wet weight, dry weight, and biochemical content were determined in excised whole lungs, terminal sac morphology and presence of multilamellar bodies were determined by electron microscopy, and volume of the thoracic space was estimated from paraffin casts. Lung development of the mutant was further assessed in whole organ culture.Results. Compared with normal littermates, the mutant showed a significant decrease (28%) in lung wet weight without showing altered lung dry weight or tissue content of DNA and protein. The terminal sacs of lungs fixed by intratracheal instillation were significantly smaller than normal. However, the lungs appeared to have undergone maturation on schedule since the surfactant precursors, multilamellar bodies, were observed and normal tissue-levels of phospholipid were detected. The volume of the mutant's thorax was markedly reduced. Finally, the mutant's lungs when removed from the fetus prior to the onset of thoracic dystrophy (day 15) and cultured for three days demonstrated that, without the confining influence of a reduced thoracic space, they are capable of development comparable to normal.Conclusions: These findings support the hypothesis that the Dmm mutant can be further studied as a model for human pulmonary hypoplasia associated with chondrodystrophy, and that the relationship between the reduced thorax and the lung disorder is cause-and-effect. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 158 (1994), S. 408-416 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Insulin and vanadate selectively induce mitogenesis in quiescent SV40 large T antigen-transformed 3T3 T cells (CSV3-1) but not in quiescent nontransformed 3T3 T cells. Insulin and vanadate mediate this effect in CSV3-1 cells by distinct signal transduction mechanisms that involve protein tyrosine kinase activity. To further study these processes, changes in protein tyrosine phosphorylation induced by insulin and vanadate were investigated. Using immunoprecipitation and Western blotting techniques with antiphosphotyrosine antibodies, we report distinct protein phosphorylation characteristics in insulin- and vanadate-stimulated CSV3-1 cells. The insulin receptor β-subunit is phosphorylated within 2 min after insulin stimulation of transformed CSV3-1 cells. Insulin also stimulates a rapid increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of the 170 kDa insulin receptor substrate-1 and complex formation between the phosphorylated insulin receptor substrate-1 and the 85 kDa subunit of phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase. In contrast, vanadate does not initially increase detectable phosphorylation of any proteins, including neither the insulin receptor nor the insulin receptor substrate-1. After 60 min, however, a marked increase in tyrosine phosphorylation of 55 and 64 kDa proteins is observed in vanadate-treated CSV3-1 cells. Furthermore, treatment of CSV3-1 cells with genistein abolishes the effects of vanadate on protein tyrosine phosphorylation but only minimally inhibits the effects of insulin. Finally, insulin stimulates the phosphorytion of a 33 kDa protein, whereas vanadate does not. By comparison, in nontransformed 3T3 T cells, insulin induces a delayed and weaker tyrosine phosphorylation of the insulin receptor β-subunit and vanadate does not enhance the tyrosine phosphorylation of the 55 and 64 kDa proteins. These data together indicate that the mitogenic effects of insulin and vanadate are associated with distinct protein phosphorylation patterns that appear to be differentially regulated in SV40-transformed and nontransformed 3T3 T cells. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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