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  • 1
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: cation-sensing receptor ; BoPCaR ; diacyglycerol ; gadolinium ; fluoroaluminate ; de nove bone formation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Alumminium (Al3+) stimulates de novo bono formation in dogs and is a potent stimulate for DNA synthesis in non-transformed osteoblast in vitro. The recent identification of a G-protein couplked cation-sensing recepector(BoPCaR), which is activated by polycalant agonists [e.g., gadolinium (Gd3+) 〉 neomycin 〉 calcium(CA3+)], suggests that a similer physiologically inportant cation sensing receptor may be presant in obsoblasts and pharmacologically activated by Al3+. To evalute that possibility, we assessed whether known as BoPCaR agonists on DNA synthesis in a dose-dependent fashion, achiving 50% effective extracelluler concennetration (EC50) of 10 μM, 30 μM, 60 μM, and 2.5 mM, respectively. Al3+ displayed non-additive effect on DNA sunthesis with the BoPCAaR agonists as well as an unrelated G-porotien coupled receptor agonists, PGF2α, suggesting shared mechenisms of action. In contrast, the recepator tyrosine kinse agonist, IGF-1(10 ηg/ml), displayed additive proliferative effects when comboined with AlCl3, inducating distinct signalling pathways. AlCl3 (25 μM) induced DAG levels 2-fold and the phosphorylation of the myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase (MARKS) substrates 4-fold, but did not increase intracelluler calcium concenitrations. Doen-regardation of PKC by pre-treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate as well as PKC inhebitation by H-7 and staurosporine blocked Al3+ -inducing DNA synthesis. Finally, Al3+, Gd3+, nemomycin, and Ca2+ activated G-proteins inn osteoblast membrans as evidenced by increased colvant binding pf [32P]-GTP-azidoanilide to putaitve Gα subunits. Our findings suggests that Al3+ stimulates DNA synthesis in ostoblasts through a cation sansing mechnism coupled to G-protein activation and signalling cascades involvings DAG and PCK- dependent pathways.
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    Journal of Cellular Physiology 127 (1986), S. 223-228 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: All-trans-retinal stimulated the release of superoxide by human and guinea pig neutrophils 63 ± 14 SD and 53 ± 5 SD nmol of O2-/min/107 cells, respectively. Superoxide release by unstimulated cells was negligible. All-trans-retinal also induced morphological changes (i.e., evaginations) in these cells. Other retinoids were effective in instigating these phenomena. The similarities of these effects to those instigated by cis-unsaturated fatty acids (Badwey, J.A., et al., 1984, J. Biol. Chem., 259:7870-7877) are discussed in light of possible mechanisms.
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    Journal of Morphology 185 (1985), S. 131-142 
    ISSN: 0362-2525
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: In the four-eyed fish, Anableps (Atheriniformes, Anablepidae), eggs are fertilized and embryos develop to term within the ovarian follicles. Development is highly matrotrophic. During gestation, the largest term embryo of A. anableps examined had grown to a total length of 51 mm and attained a dry weight of 149 mg. The postfertilization weight increase is 298,000%. The largest term embryo of A. dowi examined had grown to a total length of 77 mm and attained a dry weight of 910 mg. The postfertilization weight increase is 843,000%. Embryonic weight increases result from nutrient transfer across the follicular placenta. This structure is formed by apposition of the maternal follicular epithelium to absorptive surface cells of the embryo's pericardial trophoderm. The latter, a ventral ramification of the pericardial somatopleure, replaces the yolk sac during early gestation. The external surface of the pericardial trophoderm develops hemispherical projections, termed vascular bulbs. Within each bulb, the vascular plexus of the trophoderm expands to form a blood sinus. Cells of the external surface of the bulbs possess microplicae. Microvilli are absent. During middle to late gestation, the juxtaembryonic follicular epithelium differentiates into two regions. One region consists of shallow, pitlike depressions within which vascular bulbs interdigitate in a “ball and socket” arrangement. Follicular pits are formed by the curvilinear distortion of the apical surfaces of follicle cells. The second region in contact with the dorsal and lateral surfaces of the embryo, is comprised of villous extensions of the hypertrophied follicular epithelium. In both regions, follicle cells appear to constitute a transporting rather than a secretory epithlium. In terms of percentage of weight increase, the follicular placenta of Anableps appears to be the most efficient adaptation for maternal-embryonic nutrient transfer in teleost fishes and closely approaches the efficiency (1.2 × 106%) of oophagy and embryonic cannibalism in lamnoid sharks.
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    Journal of Morphology 199 (1989), S. 165-174 
    ISSN: 0362-2525
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: During ontogeny, the apical and basal components of dicamptodontid teeth exhibit three major developmental stages: nonpedicellate, subpedicellate, and pedicellate. Premetamorphic larvae tend to have nonpedicellate teeth, incompletely or recently metamorphosed individuals tend to have subpedicellate teeth, and fully transformed adults usually have pedicellate teeth. In concert with this transition, cusp morphology is modified from a larval monocuspid, to an incipiently bicuspid, to definitive adult bicuspid, and finally to an adult monocuspid condition. Thus, the larval and adult monocuspid conditions are ontogenetically distinct. The morphology of the larval monocuspid, adult bicuspid, and adult monocuspid conditions differs between Dicamptodon and Rhyacotriton. However, the incipient bicuspid condition in these two genera is very similar in appearance, suggesting that Dicamptodon and Rhyacotriton may be more closely related to each other than to the family Ambystomatidae in which they both sometimes are placed. The method of establishing ontogenetic trajectories seems to be preferable to comparisons based on adult structure, since similarities in the morphology of adults often is owing to convergent or parallel evolution.
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    ISSN: 0362-2525
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: The muscles of the head, neck and thorax of the adult cabbage looper Trichoplusia ni are described for the first time. They are compared to those of Choristoneura fumiferana, Manduca sexta, Smerinthus geminatus, Antheraea polyphemus, Sphinx convolvuli, Crymodes devastator, and Danaus plexippus.
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    Journal of Morphology 199 (1989), S. 53-69 
    ISSN: 0362-2525
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: As revealed by scanning electron microscopy, three basic cusp shapes are found on the premaxillary teeth of mole salamanders: disc, cone, and club. In fully metamorphosed adults, tooth crowns are subdivided into labial and lingual cusps. Except for species of Linguaelapsus, the labial cusps of all adult bifid teeth are disc shaped; lingual cusp shape is more variable, but the taxonomic distribution of the various configurations is generally consistent within the subgroups Rhycosiredon, Ambystoma, and Linguaelapsus. The club shape appears to be a derived character state, but the cone and disc shapes may be either primitive or derived. Prior to the start of metamorphosis, all larvae have conical, monocuspid teeth. During metamorphosis these salamanders develop incipient bifid teeth that have the same basic adult pattern of cusp shapes but in which the cusps are smaller and more generalized. Crown morphology in paedomorphic ambystomatids is similar to that of older larvae; as such, paedomorphosis seems to interrupt and retard the ontogenetic sequence of development rather than to introduce (or reintroduce) novel morphologies into the developmental program. In larvae the crown is firmly attached to the tooth base along the putative zone of weakness, but in transformed adults the crown is separated from a pedicel by a narrow zone of fibrous connective tissue. This latter structural arrangement allows unidirectional lingual flexing of the crowns relative to the pedicel and appears to facilitate the process of tooth replacement.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 22 (1992), S. 117-126 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: algae ; cell division ; cytokinesis ; mitosis ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: We have used two monoclonal antibodies to demonstrate the presence and localization of actin in interphase and mitotic vegetative cells of the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. Commercially available monoclonal antibodies raised against smooth muscle actin (Lessard: Cell Motil. Cytoskeleton 10:349-362, 1988; Lin: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78:2335-2339, 1981) identify Chlamydomonasactin as a ∼43,000-Mr protein by Western immunoblot procedures. In an earlier study, Detmers and coworkers (Cell Motil. 5:415-430, 1985) first identified Chlamydomonas actin using NBD-phallacidin and an antibody raised against Dictyostelium actin; they demonstrated that F-actin is localized in the fertilization tubule of mating gametes. Here, we show by immunofluorescence that vegetative Chlamydomonas cells have an array of actin that surrounds the nucleus in interphase cells and undergoes dramatic reorganization during mitosis and cytokinesis. This includes the following: reorganization of actin to the ante- rior of the cell during preprophase; the formation of a cruciate actin band in prophase; reorganization to a single anterior actin band in metaphase; rearrange- ment forming a focus of actin anterior to the metaphase plate; reextension of the actin band in anaphase; presence of actin in the forming cleavage furrow during telophase and cytokinesis; and finally reestablishment of the interphase actin array. The studies presented here do not allow us to discriminate between G and F-actin. None the less, our observations, demonstrating dynamic reorganization of actin during the cell cycle, suggest a role for actin that may include the movement of basal bodies toward the spindle poles in mitosis and the formation of the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 20 (1991), S. 301-315 
    ISSN: 0886-1544
    Keywords: DMIB- cells ; F-actin ; cAMP ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Cellular and intracellular motility are compared between normal Dictyostelium amoebae and amoebae lacking myosin IB (DMIB-). DMIB- cells generate elongated cell shapes, form particulate-free pseudopodia filled with F-actin, and exhibit an anterior bias in pseudopod extension in a fashion similar to normal amoebae. DMIB- cells also exhibit a normal response to the addition of the chemoattractant cAMP, including a depression in cellular and intracellular particle velocity, depolymerization of F-actin in pseudopodia, and a concomitant increase in cortical F-actin. DMIB- cells do, however, form lateral pseudopodia roughly three times as frequently as normal cells, turn more often, and exhibit depressed average instantaneous cell velocity. DMIB- cells also exhibit a decrease in the average instantaneous velocity of intracellular particle movement and an increase in the degree of randomness in particle direction. These findings indicate that if there is functional substitution for myosin IB by other myosin I isoforms, it is at best only partial, with myosin IB being necessary for maintenance of the normal rate and persistence of cellular translocation, suppression of lateral pseudopod formation and subsequent turning, rapid intracellular particle motility, and the normal anterograde bias of intracellular particle movement. Furthermore, it is likely that the behavioral abnormalities observed here for DMIB- cells underlie the delay in the onset of chemotactic aggregation, the increase in the time required to complete streaming, and the abnormalities in morphogenesis exhibited by DMIB- cells.
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    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: protein folding ; carbohydrate deglycosylation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: The folding of the bovine glycoprotein hormone α subunit, synthesized in bacteria following insertion of the nucleotide sequence coding for this polypeptide, has been studied to determine the effect that a complete lack of carbohydrate has on this process. The bacterially derived α polypeptide (bac-α), extracted from E. coli in the presence of reductant and denaturant, had an estimated 0.2% native structure as determined by a conformationally sensitive radioimmunoassay. Upon reduction of disulfide bonds and reoxidation in air, the amount of native structure increased about 18-fold. Approximately 2% of the refolded bac-α preparation combines with the β subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCGβ) to form a complex that binds to the gonadotropin receptor and elicits a biological response. Since the correct folding (by immunological criteria) of bac-α (ca 3%) is significantly greater than expected from a random formation of disulfide bonds (0.1 %), it appears that correct folding of α subunit can occur in the complete absence of carbohydrate, though in very low yield. Native bovine lutropin α subunit (LHα) and chemically deglycosylated LHα (which retains two asparagine-linked N-acetyl glucosamine residues per α oligosaccharide) were subjected to the same reduction/reoxidation regimen as the bacterially produced a subunit. As has been reported previously [Giudice LC, Pierce, JG, J Biol Chem 251: 6392, 1976] intact LHα fully regained its native structure. The partially deglycosylated LHα also refolds to a native-like structure in high yield as assessed by immunological assays and by its ability to combine with HGCβ to form a biologically active complex. The data show that carbohydrate, while not obligatory for correct folding, greatly facilitates the formation of functional α subunit.
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