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  • Inferior olive  (4)
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  • CCAATT enhancer binding protein  (2)
  • 1
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    Journal of molecular medicine 74 (1996), S. 347-352 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Adipocytes ; CCAATT enhancer binding protein ; Gene expression ; Nuclear receptors ; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Differentiation of adipogenic precursor cells into mature adipocytes is a complex phenomenon, characterized by an ordered expression of adipocyte-specific genes, triggered by a set of interacting transcription factors. The most important transcription factors involved in this process are the γ form of peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARγ) and the various members of the CCAAT enhancer binding proteins (α, β, and δ). In addition to PPARγ and these enhancer binding proteins, several other transcription factors, including ADD-1 (SRE-BP), HMGI-C, are involved in regulating this process. Altered activity and/or expression of these transcription factors, will induce the expression of target genes in the differentiating cells, ultimately resulting in the phenotypical characteristics of the adipocytes. It is speculated that modulation of these transcription factors by either pharmacological or dietary manipulations might influence adipocyte differentiation and prove beneficial in the prevention and treatment of obesity.
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  • 2
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    Journal of molecular medicine 74 (1996), S. 347-352 
    ISSN: 1432-1440
    Keywords: Key words Adipocytes ; CCAATT enhancer binding protein ; Gene expression ; Nuclear receptors ; Peroxisome proliferator activated receptors
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract  Differentiation of adipogenic precursor cells into mature adipocytes is a complex phenomenon, characterized by an ordered expression of adipocyte-specific genes, triggered by a set of interacting transcription factors. The most important transcription factors involved in this process are the γ form of peroxisome proliferator activated receptors (PPARγ) and the various members of the CCAAT enhancer binding proteins (α, β, and δ). In addition to PPARγ and these enhancer binding proteins, several other transcription factors, including ADD-1 (SRE-BP), HMGI-C, are involved in regulating this process. Altered activity and/or expression of these transcription factors, will induce the expression of target genes in the differentiating cells, ultimately resulting in the phenotypical characteristics of the adipocytes. It is speculated that modulation of these transcription factors by either pharmacological or dietary manipulations might influence adipocyte differentiation and prove beneficial in the prevention and treatment of obesity.
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  • 3
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    Anatomy and embryology 166 (1983), S. 191-207 
    ISSN: 1432-0568
    Keywords: Development ; Spinal pathways ; Cerebellum ; Inferior olive ; Lateral reticular nucleus ; Reticular formation ; Thalamus
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary The development of ascending spinal pathways has been studied in the North American opossum using degeneration methods and the retrograde transport of horseradish peroxidase. Axons from caudal thoracic and/or lumbosacral levels of the spinal cord reach the lateral reticular nucleus, the inferior olivary complex, the reticular formation of the medulla and pons as well as the cerebellum very early in development. Innervation of the nucleus gracilis occurs somewhat later. Spinal axons grow into most of the caudal brain stem areas they occupy in the adult animal, including the nucleus gracilis, before there is convincing evidence that they reach the thalamus. Although spinal axons enter the cerebellum early in development their adult distribution with its characteristic discontinuities appears relatively late.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1420-908X
    Keywords: Histamine receptors ; Histamine ; Histidine decarboxylase ; Growth factors ; Tumor growth
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to determine the role of endogenous histamine in the regulation of cell growth, thein vitro action of fluoromethyl-histidine (MFMH) was studied in experimental mammary carcinomas induced in rats. Tumor cells were cultured in soft agar using the clonogenic agar technique. The MFMH was added in different concentrations (0.01–100 μM). The effect observed was a 60% inhibition on colony formation with a maximal effect at concentrations over 10 μM. This action was completely reverted by the H2 agonists dimaprit and arpromidine with an IC50 value of 1 μM. The action of the H2 agonists when added alone was a significant increase in cell proliferation (135%), while the H1 agonist produced a dose-dependent inhibition on cell growth. In these experimental carcinomas endogenous histamine is critical for cell proliferation and one of its major effects may be the stimulation of cell growth by acting on specific H2 membrane receptors.
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  • 5
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    Experimental brain research 22 (1975), S. 13-24 
    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: Inferior olive ; Spinal afferents ; Ultrastructure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Identification of the direct spinal areas (portions of the dorsal and medial accessory nuclei) within the opossum inferior olivary complex was accomplished by mapping the location of the terminal degeneration by the Fink-Heimer technique subsequent to cervical cord lesions. Following similar lesions, sampling of these same regions for electron microscopic study was assured by examination of transversely oriented, 1 μ plastic sections prior to thin sectioning. The first evidence of electron dense axon terminals was found at a survival time of 24 hours. At survival times of 36, 48 and 72 hours, degenerating presynaptic profiles shrink, become irregular in shape and are totally or partially surrounded by glial processes. Spinal terminals average 1–2 μ in their greatest dimension, contain round, clear synaptic vesicles and generally contact small diameter (0.4–1.8 μ) dendritic shafts or occasional spiny appendages. The spiny dendritic appendages make up the central core of the olivary glomeruli and these juxtaposed dendritic processes exhibit gap junctions. At longer survival times (5, 7 and 9 days) many presynaptic profiles with either round or pleomorphic synaptic vesicles remain normal in appearance and contact dendritic shafts or the spiny appendages within glomeruli. Afferents from other sources (possibly including intrinsic neurons) must terminate within the direct spinal portion of the nuclear complex to account for the numerous axon terminals which retain normal morphology after such long survival times.
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  • 6
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    Experimental brain research 24 (1976), S. 219-236 
    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: Inferior olive ; Cerebellum ; Opossum
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Although degeneration techniques suggest that cerebello-olivary fibers are limited in their origin and distribution, horseradish peroxidase and autoradiographic experiments make it clear that they arise within all cerebellar nuclei and project to most, if not all, areas of the contralateral inferior olive. Autoradiographic preparations show that cerebello-olivary fibers are highly ordered and suggest that the dentate nucleus projects primarily to the principal olive, the interpositus anterior relays particularly heavy to the dorsal accessory nucleus and the interpositus posterior distributes extensively to the medial accessory complex. Evidence for a small projection from the fastigial nucleus to the caudal medial accessory nucleus is also available. However, it appears clear that neither the dentate nor the interpositus nuclei project to just one subdivision of the olive. For example, although dentate fibers end extensively within the principal nucleus some of them also distribute to portions of the medial accessory nucleus and perhaps the dorsal accessory nucleus as well. The medial accessory olive is particularly complex and at rostral levels receives input from both interposed and dentate nuclei, whereas more caudally it receives a projection from the fastigial nucleus. Olivary fibers from both the interposed and dentate nuclei traverse the brachium conjunctivum descendons and distribute primarily to the rostral 2/3 to 3/4 of the olive, whereas those from fastigial neurons take a different route and end more caudally. Experiments utilizing horseradish peroxidase as a retrograde tracer suggest that cerebello-olivary fibers from both the interpositus anterior and dentate nuclei take origin from a population of generally small neurons.
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  • 7
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    Experimental brain research 26 (1976), S. 159-170 
    ISSN: 1432-1106
    Keywords: Inferior olive ; Cerebellum ; Deep cerebellar nuclei ; Ultra-structure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Section of the superior cerebellar peduncle just rostral to the deep cerebellar nuclei results in degenerating axon terminals within the contralateral inferior olive. The nuclear origin of this fiber system and its distribution within the subdivisions of the inferior olive were described in a companion study (Martin et al., 1976). Precise localization of these degenerating terminals within the nucleus was accomplished by the examination of 1 μ plastic sections cut from each tissue block prior to thin sectioning. Degenerating axon terminals are present in all the nuclear subdivisions and when seen with the electron microscope they frequently are localized in the previously described synaptic clusters (King, 1976). These terminals demonstrate an electron dense reaction at survival times of 2 and 3 days. By day 4, they are shrunken and irregular in shape, and typically are surrounded by astrocyte processes. Cerebello-olivary axon terminals measure 1–3 μ, contain spherical, clear synaptic vesicles and typically contact spiny appendages within the synaptic clusters (glomeruli). Thus, we have demonstrated that one of the primary axon systems which terminates within the synaptic clusters is from the cerebellar nuclei. We have yet to determine the origins of the remaining terminals within the synaptic clusters which include endings with either smaller spherical, pleomorphic or numerous dense core vesicles.
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  • 8
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    Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology 318 (1981), S. 88-93 
    ISSN: 1432-1912
    Keywords: Guinea-pig trachea ; Isoprenaline ; Extraneuronal uptake ; COMT ; Histamine
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary Tracheal rings isolated from male guinea-pigs and incubated in Krebs' solution at 37° C O-methylated 3H-(±)isoprenaline by a saturable, high affinity mechanism. 1. With 3H-isoprenaline at 1 μmol·l−1, O-methyl 3H-(±)isoprenaline (3H-OMI) appeared in the tissue with a half-time for approach to steady state of approximately 10 min and was measured in the incubation medium after about 5 min, its concentration increasing linearly thereafter. With 3H-isoprenaline concentrations ranging from 1 to 200 μmol·l−1, the total formation of 3H-OMI (estimated from that contained in the tissue and the medium) was maintained at steady state rates for up to 60 min, after initial lag times of between 1 and 3 min. O-methylation obeyed Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetics; K m=6.14±0.13 μmol·l−1, V max=0.31±0.01 nmol·g−1·min−1. 2. The catechol-O-methyl transferase (COMT) inhibitor U-O521 and the extraneuronal uptake inhibitor corticosterone both reduced O-methylation of 3H-isoprenaline (0.1 μmol·l−1) by tracheal rings. However, U-O521 was fully inhibitory (IC50=2.6 μmol·l−1), but corticosterone inhibited by only 46% at concentrations up to 1 mmol·l−1. 3. The O-methylating activity of the “smooth muscle-rich” component of the trachea was approximately three-times greater than for complete tracheal rings. However, considerable activity was also associated with “cartilage-rich”, “smooth muscle-poor” sections. This activity did not seem to be associated with endothelial cells. 4. Histamine strongly inhibited O-methylation (IC50=30 μmol·l−1), but two other contractile agonists, 5-hydroxytryptamine and bethanechol, were weakly active and inactive, respectively.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Insect neryous system ; Histamine ; Neurotransmitter ; Immunohistochemistry ; Mechanosensory receptors ; Drosophila melanogaster, Musca domestica (Insecta)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Histamine is known to be the neurotransmitter of insect photoreceptors. Histamine-like immunoreactivity is also found in a number of interneurons in the central nervous system of various insects. Here, we demonstrate by immunohistochemical techniques that, in Drosophila melanogaster (Acalypterae), most or all mechanosensory neurons of imaginal hair sensilla selectively bind antibodies directed against histamine. The histamine-like staining includes the cell bodies of these neurons as well as their axons, which form prominent fibre bundles in peripheral nerves, and their terminal projections in the central neuropil of head and thoracic ganglia. The specificity of the immunostaining is demonstrated by investigating a Drosophila mutant unable to synthesize histamine. Other mechanosensory organs, such as campaniform sensilla or scolopidial organs, do not stain. In the calypteran flies, Musca and Calliphora, we find no comparable immunoreactivity associated with either hair sensilla or the nerves entering the central nervous system, observations in agreement with earlier studies on Calliphora. Thus, histamine seems to be a major mechanosensory transmitter candidate of the adult nervous system of Drosophila, but apparently not of Musca or Calliphora.
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