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  • 1
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Neuropeptides (pancreatic polypeptide, peptide YY, neuropeptide Y) ; Immunocytochemistry ; Confocal scanning laser microscopy ; Schistosoma mansoni (Scolecida, Trematoda)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The presence and distribution of neuropeptides belonging to the pancreatic polypeptide family have been demonstrated by an indirect immunofluorescence technique in the nervous systems of adult male and female Schistosoma mansoni. Seven antisera of differing regional specificity to pancreatic polypeptide (PP), peptide YY (PYY) and neuropeptide Y (NPY) were employed on both whole-mount and cryostat-sectioned material. Positive immunoreactivity (IR) was obtained with all antisera except an N-terminally-directed antiserum to NPY. In the CNS, immunoreactivity was restricted to cell bodies and nerve fibres in the anterior ganglia, central commissure and dorsal and ventral nerve cords of both sexes, whereas, in the PNS, positive-IR was present in the plexuses innervating the subtegumental musculature and the oral and ventral suckers. Intense immunoreactivity was observed in a plexus of nerve fibres and cell bodies in the lining of the gynaecophoric canal and in fine nerve fibres innervating the dorsal tubercles of the male. In contrast, in the female, strong immunoreactivity was evident in nerve plexuses innervating the lining of the ovovitelline duct and in the wall of the ootype, but most notably in a cluster of cells in the region of Mehlis' gland. Results suggest that molecules with C-terminal homology to the PP-family are present in S. mansoni. These peptides would appear to be important regulatory molecules in the parasite's nervous system and may play a role in the control of egg production.
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  • 2
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 177-190 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: FMRFamide ; Neuropeptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; Nervous system, central ; Neurohormones ; Helix pomatia (Mollusca)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary The distribution of FMRFamide-like immunoreactive (FLI) neurons and their morphological characteristics have been investigated in the central nervous system of the snail, Helix pomatia L. Approximately phageal ganglion complex. More than 50% of the FLI neurons were located in the cerebral ganglia. The FLI neurons could be divided into four groups according to size: (i) giant neurons (over 100 μm); (ii) large neurons (80–100 μm); (iii) medium-sized neurons (40–70 μm); (iv) small neurons (12–30 μm). They were distributed i) in groups or clusters, typical of small neurons and ii) in solitary form or in groups comprising 2–3 cells, typical of large and giant neurons. Giant and large neurons revealed only limited arborizations in the neuropil, but rich branching towards and in the peripheral nerves. Some of the small neurons had extensive arborizations of varicose fibers in the neuropil. They may therefore play some role in integratory processes. Varicose FLI fibers were visualized in the cell body layer of the different ganglia, and in the neural sheath of both the ganglia and the peripheral nerves. We propose a multifunctional involvement of FLI neurons and FMRFamide-like neuropeptides in the Helix nervous system: (i) a synaptic or modulatory role in axo-axonic interactions in the neuropil; (ii) a direct influence on neuronal cell bodies in the cortical layer, (iii) innervation of different peripheral organs; and (iv) remote neurohormonal control of peripheral events through the neural sheath.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Oxytocin ; Corpus luteum ; Luteinized cyst ; Immunocytochemistry ; Ewe (Romney Marsh)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Anoestrous Romney Marsh ewes with or without progesterone pretreatment were injected with multiple low-doses of gonadotrophin-releasing hormone followed by a single, larger bolus. Blood samples were taken at twelve-hourly intervals for progesterone radioimmunoassay. Ewes were slaughtered on day 3 or 5 after the bolus injection, and the ovaries were collected for histology and immunocytochemical examination for oxytocin-immunocreactivity. The corpora lutea of all ewes killed on day 3 had similar weights and morphology. The ovaries of those ewes which were not pretreated with progesterone also contained some luteinized cysts. Ewes slaughtered on day 5 were separated into 2 groups according to plasma progesterone profiles, which were either rising (‘normal’), or falling after a transitory rise (‘abnormal’). Those ewes pretreated with progesterone all had a ‘normal’ progesterone profile whereas, of 14 ewes not pretreated with progesterone, 6 were ‘normal’ and 8 ‘abnormal’. Corpora lutea were significantly lighter in the ‘abnormal’ group and the ovaries of most of these ewes also contained luteinized cysts. All corpora lutea and luteinised cysts showed staining for oxytocin-immunoreactivity although the staining intensity was variable. In corpora lutea from ‘normal’ ewes oxytocin was restricted to large luteal cells. In addition tissues from ‘abnormal’ ewes also contained many cells with an atypical elongated shape which stained for oxytocin-immunoreactivity. These results show that progesterone pretreatment is needed for both normal morphological and endocrine development of corpora lutea in anoestrous ewes stimulated with gonadotrophin-releasing hormone.
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  • 4
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    Cell & tissue research 262 (1990), S. 569-577 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Blastocyst ; Uterine proteins ; Uteroglobin ; Endocytosis ; Autoradiography ; Immunocytochemistry ; Acid phosphatase ; Rabbit
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Uptake of uteroglobin (UGL) by day-6 rabbit blastocysts and the intracellular fate of this protein were studied by light- and electron-microscopic autoradiography, immunocytochemistry and acid-phosphatase cytochemistry. UGL, labelled with N-succinimidyl-(2-3-3H)-propionate, was administered to embryos in vitro for 15 min to 4 h. The kinetics, determined from light-microscopic autoradiographs, showed a continuous uptake of the labeled protein over a 4-h period of incubation. At the ultrastructural level, increasing numbers of silver grains and an intense UGL immunoreaction in protein vacuoles and crystalloid bodies of trophoblast cells indicated that 3H-UGL had accumulated in these organelles. The presence of crystalloid inclusions in protein vacuoles suggests their origin by a condensation of the protein content, including UGL. Lysosomes containing radioactivity were rarely found, suggesting a very low degradation rate of the 3H-UGL. Protein vacuoles and crystalloid bodies exhibited no acid phosphatase reaction. The enzyme was mainly found outside the basal and lateral cell membranes of trophoblast cells, and on the rough endoplasmic reticulum of endoderm cells.
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  • 5
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    Cell & tissue research 260 (1990), S. 381-386 
    ISSN: 1432-0878
    Keywords: Molluscan insulin-related peptide ; Neuropeptide ; Immunocytochemistry ; In situ hybridization ; Lymnaea stagnalis (Mollusca) ; Aplysia californica (Mollusca)
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary the occurrence of insulin-related substances in the central nervous system of pulmonates and Aplysia californica was investigated by means of immunocytochemistry and in situ hybridization. Previous experiments have shown that, in Lymnaea stagnalis, the growth hormone-producing neurons in the cerebral ganglia (the so-called light green cells) express at least 5 genes that are related to the vertebrate insulin genes, i.e., they encode prohormones that are composed of a B- and A-chain and a connecting C peptide. These insulin related molecules also have the amino acids essential for their tertiary structure (viz. cysteines) at identical positions to those of the vertebrate insulins. In the investigated basommatophoran and stylommatophoran snails and slugs, neurons reacted with an antiserum raised against the C peptide of one of the molluscan insulin-related peptides. These neurons can be considered to be, based on morphological and endocrinological criteria, homologous to the light green cells of L. stagnalis. In A. californica, all central ganglia contain immunoreactive neurons. The highest number (about 50) was observed in the abdominal ganglion. The present results indicate that insulin-related substances are generally occurring neuropeptides in the central nervous system of molluscs.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 1615-6102
    Keywords: α-Amylase isozymes ; Barley aleurone ; Endoplasmic reticulum ; Golgi apparatus ; Immunocytochemistry ; Intracellular transport
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Summary The localization of α-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) in barley (Hordeum vulgare L. cv Himalaya) aleurone protoplasts was studied using electron microscope immunocytochemistry. Antibodies were raised against total barley α-amylase, i.e., α-amylase containing both highisoelectric point (high-pI) and low-pI isoforms, as well as against purified high- and low-pI isoforms. All antibodies localized α-amylase to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi apparatus (GApp) of the aleurone cell, and various controls showed that the labeling was specific for α-amylase. Labeling of protein bodies and spherosomes, which are the most abundant organelles in this cell, was very low. There was no evidence that α-amylase isoforms were differentially distributed within different compartments of the endomembrane system. Rather, both high- and low-pI isoforms showed the same pattern of distribution in ER and in the cis, medial, and transregions of the GApp. We conclude that in the Himalaya cultivar of barley, all isoforms of α-amylase are transported to the plasma membrane via the GApp.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1573-5176
    Keywords: seaweed ; Agardhiella ; carrageenan ; phosphorus ; cultivation ; growth
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract Gas liquid chromatography, chemical analyses, and infrared and13C-NMR spectroscopies indicated that phycocolloids extracted fromAgardhiella subulata had a dominant ι-carrageenan feature with less deviant ι-carrageenan and υ-carrageenan. The presence of methylated galactose and a small contamination by xylose were registered. Unattached plants were cultivated for 4 weeks in tanks receiving seawater enriched with 53.5 µM nitrate and 0 to 20 µM phosphate (Pi) week−1. The growth was phosphorus (P)-limited up to a tissue P content of 0.14 ± 0.03% dry weight. Maximal specific growth rate and carrageenan content were observed with enrichments of 6 µM Pi and 3 µM Pi, respectively. Hence carrageenan production was promoted in the range of 3–6 µM Pi. Further Pi enrichment was useless. This phenomenon, observed with P nutrition, is comparable to the ‘Neish effect’ in nitrogen nutrition studies.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1573-5117
    Keywords: phosphorus ; sediments ; eutrophication
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract The results of a survey of the sediment chemistry of 7 East Anglian reservoirs are presented as part of a regional study on the assessment and control of eutrophication. The influence of water quality (dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature) on phosphate (PO4) adsorption by sediment from hypertrophic Ardleigh Reservoir is also examined. Extractable phosphate-P (extr.-P) varied between 92 and 383 mg kg−1 dry matter. Extractable P varied between 5.3 and 16.6% of the total phosphate-P (Tot. P) content and increased with the concentration of dissolved reactive phosphate-P (DRP) in the overlying water column. Organically complexed iron (organic Fe) was the determinand which correlated most closely with phosphate adsorption capacity, PAC (r = 0.8). Organic Fe was also related inversely to Extr. P. The rate and extent of PO4 adsorption by Ardleigh Reservoir sediment increased with the initial concentration of DRP and adsorption equilibria were reached after 24 h. The equilibrium DRP concentration, [DRP], was 0.7 mg P 1−1 under aerobic conditions indicative of a high potential for PO4 exchange. The rate and extent of PO4 adsorption was greater at 7 °C than at 22 °C PO4 adsorption increased markedly with dissolved oxygen status. Ardleigh sediment exhibited a marked buffering capacity to a change in pH; however, PO4 adsorption was greatest at an equilibrium pH of 5.6 and decreased progressively either side of this pH value. Options for the artificial control of sediment PO4 release are discussed in relation to the seasonal variation in sediment PO4 exchange observed for Ardleigh Reservoir.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1432-136X
    Keywords: Neurospora ; Calcium ; cAMP ; Protein phosphorylation ; Circadian rhythm
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary Pulses of some Ca2+ channel blockers (dantrolene, Co2+, nifedipine) and calmodulin inhibitors (chlorpromazine) lead to medium (maximally 5–9 h) phase shifts of the circadian conidiation rhythm ofNeurospora crassa. Pulses of high Ca2+, or of low Ca2+, a Ca2+ ionophore (A23187) together with Ca2+, and other Ca2+ channel blockers (La3+, diltiazem), however, caused only minor phase shifts. The effect of these substances (A 23187) and of different temperatures on the Ca2+ release from isolated vacuoles was analyzed by using the fluorescent dye Fura-2. A 23187 and higher temperatures increased the release drastically, whereas dantrolene decreased the permeation of Ca2+ (Cornelius et al., 1989). Pulses of 8-PCTP-cAMP, IBMX and of the cAMP antagonist RP-cAMPS, also caused medium (maximally 6–9 h) phase shifts of the conidiation rhythm. The phase response curve of the agonist was almost 180° out of phase with the antagonist PRC. In spite of some variability in the PRCs of these series of experiments all showed maximal shifts during ct 0–12. The variability of the response may be due to circadian changes in the activity of phosphodiesterases: After adding cAMP to mycelial extracts HPLC analysis of cAMP metabolites showed significant differences during a circadian period with a maximum at ct 0. Protein phosphorylation was tested mainly in an in vitro phosphorylation system (with35S-thio γ-ATP). The results showed circadian rhythmic changes predominantly in proteins of 47/48 kDa. Substances and treatments causing phase-shifts of the conidiation rhythm also caused changes in the phosphorylation of these proteins: an increase was observed when Ca2+ or cAMP were added, whereas a decrease occurred upon addition of a calmodulin inhibitor (TFP) or pretreatment of the mycelia with higher (42° C) temperatures. Altogether, the results indicate that Ca2+-calmodulin-dependent and cAMP-dependent processes play an important, but perhaps not essential, role in the clock mechanism ofNeurospora. Ca2+ calmodulin and the phosphorylation state of the 47/48-kDa proteins may have controlling or essential functions for this mechanism.
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