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  • 1
    ISSN: 0008-6215
    Keywords: Coagulant properties ; Galactan ; Galactomannan ; Polysaccharides ; Strychnos potatorum
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: We have studied the expression of a-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate (AMPA) receptor subunits in cultured cerebellar granule cells [7 days in vitro (DIV)] grown in medium containing different concentrations of K± (10, 25, or 40 mM) with or without 100 μM N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA; added once after 2 DIV). All these conditions are known to influence maturation and survival of granule cells, as well as the functional expression of NMDA receptors during development in culture. The expression of both glutamate receptor (GluR) subunit 1 mRNA and receptor protein was low in cultures grown in 10 mM K± (K10) and increased dramatically in cultures grown in 25 mM K± (K25), with intermediate levels found in cultures grown in K10 and chronically exposed to NMDA (K10 ± NMDA). In cultures grown in 40 mM K± (K40), the expression of GluR1 mRNA and receptor protein was lower than in K25 but still higher than in K10. GluR2 and -3 subunits were differently regulated by growth conditions, with their expression being higher in K10 and progressively reduced to the lowest levels in K40 (both mRNA and receptor proteins). GluR4 mRNA levels did not differ between K10 and K25, although they were reduced by chronic exposure to NMDA. To test how the differential expression of the various subunits affects the functional activity of AMPA receptors, we have measured AMPA-stimulated 4SCa2± influx and 40-[3H]phorbol 12, 13-dibutyrate binding in intact cells. Both functional parameters increased along with the K± concentration and were maximal in K40, in coincidence with the lowest expression of the GluR2 subunits. These results indicate that functional diversity of AMPA receptors can be generated by the degree of chronic depolarization and/or exposure to NMDA in neurons developing in primary culture.
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  • 3
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    Electronic Resource
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Phytochemistry 37 (1994), S. 515-519 
    ISSN: 0031-9422
    Keywords: 3β,22S-dihydroxycycloart-24E-en-26-oic acid ; Juncus effusus ; Juneaceae ; juncosides.
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
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  • 4
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    Electronic Resource
    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Tetrahedron 46 (1990), S. 1287-1294 
    ISSN: 0040-4020
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1573-6903
    Keywords: Metabotropic glutamate receptor ; astrocytes ; gliomas ; mRNA
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract In order to confirm the existence of metabotropic glutamate receptors in astroglial cultures and to provide information on different receptor subtypes, the expression of different mOIuRs was analysed in cultures highly enriched in rat astroglial cells. mRNA levels for mGluR1, 2, 3, 4, 7 were undetectable by Northern blot analysis in primary type-1 astroglial cultures derived from total cerebral hemispheres, cerebral cortex and striatum. Interestingly, these cultures expressed a low, but detectable, level of mGluR5 mRNA. The more sensitive technique Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed the presence of mGluR5 transcript in cultured astrocytes and, in addition, revealed the presence of mGluR3 mRNA. The lack of expression of mGluR5 in CG-4 cells, a rat cell line able to differentiate in type-2 astrocytes or oligodendrocytes depending on the culture conditions, suggested that the presence of mGluR5 was not a general feature of cells of glial origin. Moreover, all the examined mGluR transcripts were undetectable by RT-PCR in CG4 cells. In order to confirm the possible expression of mGluR5 in cell of glial origin we examined the mRNA levels for this receptor in tissue samples from human gliomas obtained after surgical resection of the tumors: only 1 sample (grade II astrocytoma), out of 8 examined, showed the presence of mGluR5 mRNA. In conclusion our data show that the only cloned metabotropic receptor linked to phosphoinositide hydrolysis, whose expression is detectable in cultured type-1 astrocytes, is mGluR5. It remains to be established if the low level of expression of mGluR3 could be responsible for the group II metabotropic glutamate receptor activity previously observed in cultured astroglial cells.
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  • 6
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    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Sexual plant reproduction 8 (1995), S. 91-94 
    ISSN: 1432-2145
    Keywords: Hemagglutination ; Lectin ; Pollen Proteoglycan ; Glycoproteins
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract We purified a hemagglutinating substance from pollen extracts to electrophoretic homogeneity. The hemagglutinating activity of this substance was inhibited by positively charged substances but not by the monosaccharides known as inhibitors of the lectin activity. The hemagglutinating substance appeared to be negatively charged in the pH conditions of the hemagglutinating assay, suggesting that hemagglutination was due to an electrostatic interaction with positively charged components of the erythrocytes. Preliminary chemical analysis suggests that the hemagglutinating substance is a proteoglycan.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Key words Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor ; GDNF ; Ret ; GDNFR-α ; Brain-derived neurotrophic factor ; BDNF ; NT-3 ; NT-4 ; trk receptors ; Thyroid tissue ; Rat
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Levels of mRNA for neurotrophins (brain-derived neurotrophic factor, BDNF; neurotrophin 3, NT-3; neurotrophin 4, NT-4) and their receptors (trkA, trkB, trkC) and for glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and its receptors (ret, GDNFR-α) were measured in rat thyroid tissue by ribonuclease protection assays. In thyroid tissue the NT-3 mRNA level was threefold lower and the NT-4 mRNA level sixfold higher than those detected in adult rat hippocampus, while BDNF mRNA was undetectable. Very low levels of mRNA for truncated trkB and trkC receptors and no catalytic trkA, trkB or trkC were found. In conclusion NT-3 and NT-4, but not the corresponding functional receptors, are expressed in the thyroid tissue. Therefore, it is unlikely that these factors serve a direct local autocrine or paracrine function in thyroid cell types, and a target-derived mode of action on neurons innervating the thyroid tissue is suggested. An opposite result has been found for the neurotrophic factor GDNF: thyroid tissue showed a high level of transcripts for the GDNF receptor subunits (GDNFR-α and Ret), while GDNF mRNA was undetectable. The in situ hybridization analysis of GDNFR-α and ret mRNA revealed an interesting difference in the cell distribution of these transcripts: ret mRNA is selectively expressed in a subpopulation of cells scattered in the follicular epithelium and in the interfollicular spaces, while GDNFR-α expression is more homogeneous and widespread, including the more abundant cell type of the thyroid gland: the follicular cell. Double-labeling in situ hybridization/immunocytochemistry experiments, with a specific marker (calcitonin), showed that parafollicular cells express ret but not GDNFR-α. This differential distribution of the GDNF receptor components (GDNFR-α and ret) may reflect a peculiar biological role in intercellular communication in the thyroid gland.
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