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    Corticosteroid response to stress depends upon increased tryptophan availability (1983)
    Springer
    Psychopharmacology 79 (1983), S. 79-81 
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    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Corticosteroid response to stress ; Tryptophan availability ; Amino acids ; 5HT synthesis ; Tryptophan ; Tyrosine ; Valine ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Prior administration of valine to rats has been shown previously to prevent restraint stress-induced increases in brain tryptophan and 5HT turnover. The present study demonstrates that the accompanying attenuation of the corticosteroid response to this stress is substantially reversed by administration of tryptophan with the valine. Tyrosine is not effective in reversing this attenuation, and in fact itself attenuates the corticosteroid response to the stress when given alone. It is concluded that at least part of the corticosteroid response to restraint stress is mediated by an increase in serotonergic activity that is dependent on increased supply of the precursor, tryptophan, and that this can be antagonised by either of two amino acids which compete with tryptophan for access to the brain. Implications for stress-associated human disorders are discussed.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00433020
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    β-Ether cleavage of the lignin model compound 4-ethoxy-3-methoxyphenylglycerol-β-guaiacyl ether and derivatives by Phanerochaete chrysosporium (1981)
    Springer
    Archives of microbiology 129 (1981), S. 141-145 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Phanerochaete chrysosporium ; Lignin model compounds ; Lignin metabolism ; β-aryl ether dimers ; β-ether cleavage
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The white rot basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium metabolized 4-ethoxy-3-methoxyphenyl-glycerol-β-guaiacyl ether (V) in low nitrogen, stationary cultures under which conditions the ligninolytic enzyme system is expressed. 4-Ethoxy-3-methoxyphenylglycerol XIII, guaicol and 4-ethoxy-3-methoxybenzyl alcohol (II) were isolated as metabolic products. Exogenously added XIII was rapidly converted to 4-ethoxy-3-methoxybenzyl alcohol indicating that it is an intermediate in the metabolism of V. P. chrysosporium also metabolized 1-(4′-ethoxy-3′-methoxyphenyl)-2-(2″-methoxyphenoxy)-3-hydroxypropane VI. The degradation pathway for this dimer also included initial β-ether cleavage and α-hydroxylation of the diol product 1-(4′-ethoxy-3′-methoxyphenyl) 2,3 dihydroxypropane (XI) to yield the triol XIII which was cleaved at the α, β bond to yield 4-ethoxy-3-methoxybenzyl alcohol. Finally P. chrysosporium also cleaved the dimer 1-(4′-ethoxy-3′-methoxyphenyl)-2-(2″-methoxyphenoxy)-1-hydroxypropane (VIII) at the β-ether linkage yielding 1-(4′-ethoxy-3′-methoxyphenyl) 1,2 dihydroxypropane (IX) which was subsequently cleaved at the α, β bond to yield II. All of the results indicate that oxidative β-ether cleavage is an important initial reaction in the metabolism of β-aryl ether lignin substructure dimeric compounds. Metabolities were identified after comparison with chemically synthesized standards by gas liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00455350
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    Metabolism of the lignin model compounds veratrylglycerol-β-guaiacyl ether and 4-ethoxy-3-methoxyphenylglycerol-β-guaiacyl ether by Phanerochaete chrysosporium (1980)
    Springer
    Archives of microbiology 125 (1980), S. 227-231 
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    ISSN: 1432-072X
    Keywords: Phanerochaete chrysosporium ; Lignin model compounds ; β-aryl ether dimers ; Metabolism αβ cleavage ; Veratryl alcohol ; 4-ethoxy-3-methoxybenzyl alcohol ; Alkyl-phenyl cleavage
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The white rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium metabolized the lignin model compounds veratylglycerol-β-guaiacyl ether I and 4-ethoxy-3-methoxy-phenylglycerol-β-guaiacyl ether V in stationary culture under an atmosphere of 100% oxygen and under nitrogen limiting conditions. 2-(o-methoxyphenoxy)-ethanol VII was identified as a product of the metabolism of both substrates. Veratryl alcohol and 4-ethoxy-3-methoxybenzyl alcohol IV were identified as metabolites of I and V respectively. Metabolites were identified after comparison with chemically synthesized standards by mass spectrometry. These results indicate the existence of an enzyme system capable of directly cleaving the etherated dimers I and V at the α, β bond. The additional identification of 2-(o-methoxyphenoxy)-1,3 propanediol IX as a metabolic product indicates that cleavage of the alkyl-phenyl bond of these dimers or their metabolites also occurs.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00446881
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    Hormonal regulation of the adrenocortical cell (1980)
    New York, N.Y. : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Supramolecular Structure 14 (1980), S. 353-369 
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    ISSN: 0091-7419
    Keywords: adrenocortical ; ACTH ; FGF ; cAMP ; fetal zone ; replication ; regulation ; steroidogenesis ; antioxidant ; Life Sciences ; Molecular Cell Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Monolayer cultures of bovine and human adrenocortical cells have been used to study regulation of growth and function. Homogeneous bovine adrenocortical cells exhibit a finite life span of ∼60 generations in culture. Full maintenance of differentiated function (steroid hormone synthesis) requires an inducer such as ACTH and antioxidizing conditions. Full induction of differentiated function occurs only when cellular hypertrophy is stimulated by growth factors such as fibroblast growth factor and serum. ACTH and other agents that increase cellular cAMP inhibit replication but do not block growth factor-induced cellular hypertrophy. ACTH and growth factors together result in a hypertrophied, hyperfunctional cell. Replication ensues only when desensitization to the growth inhibitory effects of ACTH occurs.Cultures of the definitive and fetal zones of the human fetal adrenal cortex synthesize the steroids characteristic of the two zones in vivo. ACTH stimulates production of dehydroepiandrosterone (DHA), the major steroid product of the fetal zone, and of cortisol, the characteristic steroid product of the definitive zone. Prolonged ACTH treatment of fetal zone cultures results in a preferential increase in cortisol production so that the pattern of steroid synthesis becomes that of the definitive zone. The preferential increase in cortisol production by fetal zone cultures results from induction of 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase, Δ4,5 isomerase activity, which is limiting in fetal zone cells. ACTH thus causes a phenotypic change in fetal zone cells to that of definitive zone cells.In both bovine and human adrenocortical cells, the principal effect of ACTH is to induce full expression of differentiated function. This occurs only under conditions where growth substances and nutrients permit full amplication.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jss.400140309
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