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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: Drug uptake ; Brain capillary endothelial cells ; Tumor cell membrane ; 9L glioma ; P-glyco-protein ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Two weeks after the inoculation of 1.5 × 105 9L glioma cells into the rat brain, the uptake of radiolabelled drugs into the brain and the experimental 9L glioma during the first cerebral circulation was measured with a liquid scintillation counter and analyzed by the method of Oldendorf (1970). The expression of P-glycoprotein, which is known to be associated with the efflux of drugs, was also studied, using anti-P-glycoprotein monoclonal antibody, C-219. Furthermore, the ultrastructure of brain capillaries, tumor vessels, and glioma cells was studied by conventional and immunoelectron microscopy. Sucrose (control), the transport of which through the blood-brain barrier is known to be negligible, accumulated to fivefold higher levels in the tumor than in normal brain. Ranimustine (MCNU), 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), and doxorubicin showed little accumulation in the normal brain, whereas nimustine (ACNU) showed an increased accumulation. MCNU and doxorubicin showed negligible accumulation in the glioma cells despite diffusion into the tumor interstitial space. In contrast, ACNU and 5-FU showed an increased accumulation in tumor cells. The accumulation of 5-FU in the cultured 9L glioma cells was decreased by ATP inhibitors or by low temperature. Although both brain capillary endothelial cells and glioma cell membrane were immunohisto-chemically positive for P-glycoprotein, the tumor vasculature showed low expression of P-glycoprotein. The endothelial cells of tumor vessels ultrastructurally showed increased fenestrations, swelling, and disrupted junctions. Accordingly, it is suggested that hydrophobic drugs such as doxorubicin, being pumped out by P-glycoprotein, do not accumulate in 9L glioma cells as do other lipophilic drugs such as ACNU, or drugs such as 5-FU, which accumulate by a carrier-mediated mechanism.
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  • 2
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    European archives of oto-rhino-laryngology and head & neck 247 (1990), S. 119-121 
    ISSN: 1434-4726
    Keywords: Immunohistochemistry ; Aspartate aminotransferase ; Vestibular end-organ ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The localization of mitochondrial (m-) and cytosolic (c-) aspartate aminotransferase (AAT) was examined in the vestibular ganglion neurons and sensory cells in the vestibular end-organs of rats by an indirect immunohistochemical method using antibodies specific for m- and c-AAT. Neurons in the vestibular ganglion were stained by both m- and c-AAT antibodies, but the vestibular sensory cells exhibited only m-AAT-like immunoreactivity and were not labeled by c-AAT. These findings suggested that aspartate is a neurotransmitter in the hair cells of the vestibular end-organs.
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  • 3
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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Applied Polymer Science 40 (1990), S. 929-941 
    ISSN: 0021-8995
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, Production Engineering, Mining and Metallurgy, Traffic Engineering, Precision Mechanics , Physics
    Notes: Polyethylene and polystyrene composites filled with high-volume content of filler particles (quartz or Al2O3) were prepared by ordinary melt-casting method to effectively increase the thermal conductivity. The result, however, suggested that fractional void volume cssentially occupied by filler particles is left unfilled when high or super-high content of filler is used. After investigating the relation between the mixing ratio of different sized filler particles and the fractional voidage under various compression intensities, a mixture of filler was found to give minimum fractional voidage. Polymers filled with such an optimum mixture of fillers for minimum fractional voidage were then prepared under compression. Thus, expected monotonous increases in thermal conductivity in the wide range from low to super-high filler content were obtained. Further, it was confirmed that a predictive model proposed by us agreed quite satisfactorily with the experimental data in comparison with many other models.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 0025-116X
    Keywords: Chemistry ; Polymer and Materials Science
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Description / Table of Contents: To interpret the terminal group effect of chain polymers, a model substance was prepared. As the starting material commercial samples of polyoxyethylene glycol were used and each terminal group attached to the chain, the hydroxyl group, was esterfied with pyromellitic anhydride. Thus the polyoxyethylene glycol may have one tri-valent ionizable residue at each end of the chain. The expansion factor α of chain dimension for these samples was estimated by comparing intrinsic viscosities of their aqueous solutions at ionized state (—COO- + Na+) with those at non-ionized state.According to the statistical theory, on the other hand, an equation for α was derived, which is given by \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$$\rm {\alpha}^3 - \rm {\alpha = C}_{\rm K} \sqrt {\rm M} + {\rm A}/\sqrt {\rm M},$$\end{document} where CK is a constant which depends upon the solvent and temperature only, being related to the excluded volume effect between segments, and A is also a constant described solely by the electrolytic nature of terminal group. It was thus found that the experimental results can be explained in terms of the established theory and that the terminal group effect tends to vanish rather rapidly with increasing the molecular weight of polymer. It was also experimentally found that the unperturbed dimension of chain might be influenced considerably by introducing some terminal groups to chain.
    Notes: Um den Endgruppeneffekt von Knäuelmolekülen aufzuklären, wurde eine Modellsubstanz hergestellt. Als Ausgangsmaterial verwendeten wir Polyäthylenglykole mit verschiedenen Molekulargewichten und veresterten das Hydroxyl an jedem Ende der Kette mit Pyromellithsäure-Anhydrid. Damit besitzt das Polyäthylenglykol an jedem Ende einen dreiwertigen, ionisierbaren Rest. Durch Vergleich des STAUDINGERindex der wäßrigen Lösung der nicht dissoziierten Probe mit demjenigen der dissoziierten (—COO- + Na+) wurde ein Expansion sfaktor der Knäueldimension α ausgerechnet.Andererseits leiteten wir eine Gleichung für α auf Grund der statistischen Theorie ab, die durch \documentclass{article}\pagestyle{empty}\begin{document}$$\rm {\alpha}^3 - \rm {\alpha = C}_{\rm K} \sqrt {\rm M} + {\rm A}/\sqrt {\rm M}$$\end{document} ausgedrückt wird. Hierbei ist CK eine nur vom Lösungsmittel und der Meßtemperatur abhängige Konstante, die sich auf den Volumeneffekt zwischen den Segmenten bezieht, während A eine rein mit der elektrolytischen Eigenschaft der Endgruppe verbundene Konstante ist. Es wurde festgestellt, daß die Meßdaten auf Grund der hier entwickelten Theorie sehr gut gedeutet werden können und daß die Wirkung des Endgruppeneffektes auf die Knäueldimension mit Zunahme des Molekulargewichtes erwartungsgemäß ziemlich schnell verschwindet. Außerdem zeigte das Experiment, daß die Einführung der Endgruppe die ungestörte Knäueldimension stark beeinflußt.
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