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  • 1
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: We have examined the catecholamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase in the retina of the white perch (Roccus americanus). Both dopamine and the β-adrenergic agonist isoproterenol stimulate cyclic AMP accumulation in this retina, but serotonin, an indoleamine, and phenylephrine, an α-adrenergic agonist, had no effect. The stimulation of adenylate cyclase by isoproterenol is more potent and effective than that of dopamine. The effects of dopamine and isoproterenol are mediated via independent dopamine and β-adrenergic receptors. Haloperidol, a dopamine antagonist, blocks the stimulatory effect of dopamine but not of isoproterenol. Conversely, propranolol, a β-adrenergic antagonist, blocks the stimulatory effect of isoproterenol but not of dopamine. The effects of dopamine and isoproterenol are not additive. In fractions of purified horizontal cells we found evidence for dopamine receptors linked to adenylate cyclase but did not find evidence for the presence of cyclase coupled β-adrenergic receptors. The cellular location of the β-adren-ergic receptors is unknown. Our findings demonstrate the existence of both β-adrenergic and dopamine receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase in the white perch retina. However, we did not find either epinephrine or norepinephrine, endogenous ligands of the β-receptor, to be present in retinal extracts subjected to HPLC.
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  • 2
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of neurochemistry 49 (1987), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: The 7-aminobutyric acid (GABA) antagonists bicuculline and picrotoxin stimulate a four- to fivefold increase in endogenous dopamine release from isolated intact carp retina. The release evoked by these agents is Ca2+ dependent, a finding suggesting a vesicular release. Using light microscopic autoradiography, we have localized the sites of dopamine release to the dopaminergic interplexiform cell processes of the outer plexiform layer, which synapse onto horizontal cells. Our findings support previous suggestions that the dopaminergic interplexiform cells receive GABAergic inhibitory input and that the effects of GABA antagonists on horizontal cells are mediated by dopamine release from the interplexiform cells.
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  • 3
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 74 (1958), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1749-6632
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Natural Sciences in General
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  • 4
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    Journal of neurochemistry 41 (1983), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: The effects of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) and several other peptides have been examined on cyclic AMP accumulation in intact pieces and isolated horizontal cells of the teleost (carp) retina. VIP was the most effective peptide examined, inducing a dose-related response, and an approximately fivefold increase in cyclic AMP production when used at a concentration of 10 μM. Porcine histidine isoleucine-containing peptide and secretin, peptides structurally related to VIP, also stimulated cyclic AMP accumulation, but at concentrations of 10 μM induced responses which were only approximately 40% and 10%, respectively, of the response observed with 10 μM VIP. In contrast, several other peptides, including glucagon, neurotensin, somatostatin, luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone, α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone, cholecystokinin octapeptide26–33, gastrin-releasing peptide, thyrotropin-releasing hormone, and VIP10–28 were totally inactive. The response to 10 μM VIP was not antagonized by several dopamine antagonists, indicating the presence of a population of specific VIP receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase, distinct from the population of dopamine receptors coupled to adenylate cyclase also known to be present in this tissue. Finally, experiments involving the use of fractions of isolated horizontal cells indicate that these neurons possess a population of VIP receptors coupled to cyclic AMP production which would appear to share a common pool of adenylate cyclase with a population of similarly coupled dopamine receptors. These data are discussed in terms of the presence, localization, and possible function of a putative VIP-ergic innervation in the carp retina.
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    Journal of neurochemistry 36 (1981), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: The ability of dopamine, dopamine agonists, other proposed retinal neurotransmitters, depolarizing agents and light to stimulate adenylate cyclase activity in pieces of intact carp retina has been examined. The evidence indicates that a dopamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase is the only neurotransmitter activated adenylate cyclase in the carp retina. That is, only dopamine, or agents that activate dopamine receptors, appear to stimulate cyclic AMP synthesis in the retina. Depolarizing agents such as K+ or veratridine also increase retinal cyclic AMP levels, but apparently by releasing endogenous stores of dopamine. For example, the increase of retinal cyclic AMP levels induced by 45 mM-K+ is blocked by 5 mM-Co2+ or 100 μM-haloperidol, a dopamine antagonist. Flashing lights slightly increase cyclic AMP levels in the retina, an effect that is likewise abolished by haloperidol.
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of neurochemistry 36 (1981), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract: A specific dopamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase has been identified in homogenates of the teleost (carp) retina. Maximal stimulation by 100 μM-dopamine resulted in a 5-10-fold increase in adenylate cyclase activity with half-maximal stimulation occurring at a concentration of 1 μM. l-Noradrenaline and l-adrenaline were some 10 times less potent than dopamine whilst the α-and β-adrenoreceptor agonists, l-phenylephrine and dl-isoprenaline were inactive. Apomorphine elicited a partial stimulation of adenylate cyclase activity whilst various ergot alkaloids produced mixed agonist/antagonist responses. Dopamine-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was potently antagonised by various neuroleptic drugs including fluphenazine, α-flupenthixol and α-piflutixol, and to a lesser extent by the butyrophenone derivatives haloperidol and spiperone. The benzamide derivatives, metoclopramide and sulpiride. together with the α- and β-adrenoreceptor blocking agents, phentolamine and propranolol respectively, were essentially inactive at blocking dopamine-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity. These data suggest the presence of a highly specific dopamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase in homogenates of teleost retina possessing similar pharmacological properties to the dopamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase observed in the mammalian central nervous system.
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  • 7
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    Melbourne, Australia : Blackwell Science Pty
    Nephrology 9 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1440-1797
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: SUMMARY:  Glomerulosclerosis is not classically considered a paraneoplastic glomerular lesion. Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) has rarely been reported in association with solid tumours. We report three cases of FSGS and an additional case of collapsing glomerulosclerosis in patients presenting with nephrotic syndrome and malignancy.
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  • 8
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Ltd
    Nephrology 4 (1998), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1440-1797
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1440-1797
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Summary: Post-transplant lymphoproliferative disorder was diagnosed in six renal transplant recipients at the Royal Melbourne Hospital over a 5 year period to December 1994. This constituted a detection rate of 2.2%. All patients were treated with cyclosporine, azathioprine, prednisolone and orthoclone (OKT3). the median time of onset was 2 months (range 0.3 months-3 years) after transplant. Two patients who ultimately died presented with the diffuse form of the disease where immunoblasts massively infiltrated all organs. These tumours were monoclonal B cell lymphomas and Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) reactivation could be demonstrated. One patient developed a polyclonal B cell tumour with primary EBV infection and the remaining 3 patients tresented with T cell polyclonal proliferations and were EBV negative. No cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections, primary or reactionary were observed. Therapy in all cases consisted of reducing or ceasing immunosuppressive treatment and in three patients ganciclovir was used. Four polyclonal tumours responded to the treatment measures.
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    ISSN: 1440-1797
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
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