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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2014-06-05
    Description: Article Fundamental theories do not predict a difference between the properties of matter and antimatter, but experimental tests of this are still in their infancy. To this end, this study analyses the effects of electric fields on antihydrogen atoms in the ALPHA trap to place a bound on the charge of antihydrogen. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms4955 Authors: C. Amole, M. D. Ashkezari, M. Baquero-Ruiz, W. Bertsche, E. Butler, A. Capra, C. L. Cesar, M. Charlton, S. Eriksson, J. Fajans, T. Friesen, M. C. Fujiwara, D. R. Gill, A. Gutierrez, J. S. Hangst, W. N. Hardy, M. E. Hayden, C. A. Isaac, S. Jonsell, L. Kurchaninov, A. Little, N. Madsen, J. T. K. McKenna, S. Menary, S. C. Napoli, P. Nolan, K. Olchanski, A. Olin, A. Povilus, P. Pusa, C.Ø. Rasmussen, F. Robicheaux, E. Sarid, D. M. Silveira, C. So, T. D. Tharp, R. I. Thompson, D. P. van der Werf, Z. Vendeiro, J. S. Wurtele, A. I. Zhmoginov, A. E. Charman
    Electronic ISSN: 2041-1723
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Publication Date: 2008-10-17
    Description: Diatoms are photosynthetic secondary endosymbionts found throughout marine and freshwater environments, and are believed to be responsible for around one-fifth of the primary productivity on Earth. The genome sequence of the marine centric diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana was recently reported, revealing a wealth of information about diatom biology. Here we report the complete genome sequence of the pennate diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum and compare it with that of T. pseudonana to clarify evolutionary origins, functional significance and ubiquity of these features throughout diatoms. In spite of the fact that the pennate and centric lineages have only been diverging for 90 million years, their genome structures are dramatically different and a substantial fraction of genes ( approximately 40%) are not shared by these representatives of the two lineages. Analysis of molecular divergence compared with yeasts and metazoans reveals rapid rates of gene diversification in diatoms. Contributing factors include selective gene family expansions, differential losses and gains of genes and introns, and differential mobilization of transposable elements. Most significantly, we document the presence of hundreds of genes from bacteria. More than 300 of these gene transfers are found in both diatoms, attesting to their ancient origins, and many are likely to provide novel possibilities for metabolite management and for perception of environmental signals. These findings go a long way towards explaining the incredible diversity and success of the diatoms in contemporary oceans.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bowler, Chris -- Allen, Andrew E -- Badger, Jonathan H -- Grimwood, Jane -- Jabbari, Kamel -- Kuo, Alan -- Maheswari, Uma -- Martens, Cindy -- Maumus, Florian -- Otillar, Robert P -- Rayko, Edda -- Salamov, Asaf -- Vandepoele, Klaas -- Beszteri, Bank -- Gruber, Ansgar -- Heijde, Marc -- Katinka, Michael -- Mock, Thomas -- Valentin, Klaus -- Verret, Frederic -- Berges, John A -- Brownlee, Colin -- Cadoret, Jean-Paul -- Chiovitti, Anthony -- Choi, Chang Jae -- Coesel, Sacha -- De Martino, Alessandra -- Detter, J Chris -- Durkin, Colleen -- Falciatore, Angela -- Fournet, Jerome -- Haruta, Miyoshi -- Huysman, Marie J J -- Jenkins, Bethany D -- Jiroutova, Katerina -- Jorgensen, Richard E -- Joubert, Yolaine -- Kaplan, Aaron -- Kroger, Nils -- Kroth, Peter G -- La Roche, Julie -- Lindquist, Erica -- Lommer, Markus -- Martin-Jezequel, Veronique -- Lopez, Pascal J -- Lucas, Susan -- Mangogna, Manuela -- McGinnis, Karen -- Medlin, Linda K -- Montsant, Anton -- Oudot-Le Secq, Marie-Pierre -- Napoli, Carolyn -- Obornik, Miroslav -- Parker, Micaela Schnitzler -- Petit, Jean-Louis -- Porcel, Betina M -- Poulsen, Nicole -- Robison, Matthew -- Rychlewski, Leszek -- Rynearson, Tatiana A -- Schmutz, Jeremy -- Shapiro, Harris -- Siaut, Magali -- Stanley, Michele -- Sussman, Michael R -- Taylor, Alison R -- Vardi, Assaf -- von Dassow, Peter -- Vyverman, Wim -- Willis, Anusuya -- Wyrwicz, Lucjan S -- Rokhsar, Daniel S -- Weissenbach, Jean -- Armbrust, E Virginia -- Green, Beverley R -- Van de Peer, Yves -- Grigoriev, Igor V -- England -- Nature. 2008 Nov 13;456(7219):239-44. doi: 10.1038/nature07410. Epub 2008 Oct 15.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉CNRS UMR8186, Department of Biology, Ecole Normale Superieure, 46 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France. cbowler@biologie.ens.fr〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18923393" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: DNA, Algal/analysis ; Diatoms/*genetics ; *Evolution, Molecular ; Genes, Bacterial/genetics ; Genome/*genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ; Signal Transduction
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    Publication Date: 2007-10-13
    Description: Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a unicellular green alga whose lineage diverged from land plants over 1 billion years ago. It is a model system for studying chloroplast-based photosynthesis, as well as the structure, assembly, and function of eukaryotic flagella (cilia), which were inherited from the common ancestor of plants and animals, but lost in land plants. We sequenced the approximately 120-megabase nuclear genome of Chlamydomonas and performed comparative phylogenomic analyses, identifying genes encoding uncharacterized proteins that are likely associated with the function and biogenesis of chloroplasts or eukaryotic flagella. Analyses of the Chlamydomonas genome advance our understanding of the ancestral eukaryotic cell, reveal previously unknown genes associated with photosynthetic and flagellar functions, and establish links between ciliopathy and the composition and function of flagella.〈br /〉〈br /〉〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875087/" target="_blank"〉〈img src="https://static.pubmed.gov/portal/portal3rc.fcgi/4089621/img/3977009" border="0"〉〈/a〉   〈a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875087/" target="_blank"〉This paper as free author manuscript - peer-reviewed and accepted for publication〈/a〉〈br /〉〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Merchant, Sabeeha S -- Prochnik, Simon E -- Vallon, Olivier -- Harris, Elizabeth H -- Karpowicz, Steven J -- Witman, George B -- Terry, Astrid -- Salamov, Asaf -- Fritz-Laylin, Lillian K -- Marechal-Drouard, Laurence -- Marshall, Wallace F -- Qu, Liang-Hu -- Nelson, David R -- Sanderfoot, Anton A -- Spalding, Martin H -- Kapitonov, Vladimir V -- Ren, Qinghu -- Ferris, Patrick -- Lindquist, Erika -- Shapiro, Harris -- Lucas, Susan M -- Grimwood, Jane -- Schmutz, Jeremy -- Cardol, Pierre -- Cerutti, Heriberto -- Chanfreau, Guillaume -- Chen, Chun-Long -- Cognat, Valerie -- Croft, Martin T -- Dent, Rachel -- Dutcher, Susan -- Fernandez, Emilio -- Fukuzawa, Hideya -- Gonzalez-Ballester, David -- Gonzalez-Halphen, Diego -- Hallmann, Armin -- Hanikenne, Marc -- Hippler, Michael -- Inwood, William -- Jabbari, Kamel -- Kalanon, Ming -- Kuras, Richard -- Lefebvre, Paul A -- Lemaire, Stephane D -- Lobanov, Alexey V -- Lohr, Martin -- Manuell, Andrea -- Meier, Iris -- Mets, Laurens -- Mittag, Maria -- Mittelmeier, Telsa -- Moroney, James V -- Moseley, Jeffrey -- Napoli, Carolyn -- Nedelcu, Aurora M -- Niyogi, Krishna -- Novoselov, Sergey V -- Paulsen, Ian T -- Pazour, Greg -- Purton, Saul -- Ral, Jean-Philippe -- Riano-Pachon, Diego Mauricio -- Riekhof, Wayne -- Rymarquis, Linda -- Schroda, Michael -- Stern, David -- Umen, James -- Willows, Robert -- Wilson, Nedra -- Zimmer, Sara Lana -- Allmer, Jens -- Balk, Janneke -- Bisova, Katerina -- Chen, Chong-Jian -- Elias, Marek -- Gendler, Karla -- Hauser, Charles -- Lamb, Mary Rose -- Ledford, Heidi -- Long, Joanne C -- Minagawa, Jun -- Page, M Dudley -- Pan, Junmin -- Pootakham, Wirulda -- Roje, Sanja -- Rose, Annkatrin -- Stahlberg, Eric -- Terauchi, Aimee M -- Yang, Pinfen -- Ball, Steven -- Bowler, Chris -- Dieckmann, Carol L -- Gladyshev, Vadim N -- Green, Pamela -- Jorgensen, Richard -- Mayfield, Stephen -- Mueller-Roeber, Bernd -- Rajamani, Sathish -- Sayre, Richard T -- Brokstein, Peter -- Dubchak, Inna -- Goodstein, David -- Hornick, Leila -- Huang, Y Wayne -- Jhaveri, Jinal -- Luo, Yigong -- Martinez, Diego -- Ngau, Wing Chi Abby -- Otillar, Bobby -- Poliakov, Alexander -- Porter, Aaron -- Szajkowski, Lukasz -- Werner, Gregory -- Zhou, Kemin -- Grigoriev, Igor V -- Rokhsar, Daniel S -- Grossman, Arthur R -- GM07185/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- GM42143/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM032843/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042143/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM042143-09/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM060992/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R01 GM062915-06/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM030626/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- R37 GM042143/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Oct 12;318(5848):245-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17932292" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algal Proteins/*genetics/*physiology ; Animals ; *Biological Evolution ; Chlamydomonas reinhardtii/*genetics/physiology ; Chloroplasts/metabolism ; Computational Biology ; DNA, Algal/genetics ; Flagella/metabolism ; Genes ; *Genome ; Genomics ; Membrane Transport Proteins/genetics/physiology ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Multigene Family ; Photosynthesis/genetics ; Phylogeny ; Plants/genetics ; Proteome ; Sequence Analysis, DNA
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    Publication Date: 2009-04-11
    Description: Picoeukaryotes are a taxonomically diverse group of organisms less than 2 micrometers in diameter. Photosynthetic marine picoeukaryotes in the genus Micromonas thrive in ecosystems ranging from tropical to polar and could serve as sentinel organisms for biogeochemical fluxes of modern oceans during climate change. These broadly distributed primary producers belong to an anciently diverged sister clade to land plants. Although Micromonas isolates have high 18S ribosomal RNA gene identity, we found that genomes from two isolates shared only 90% of their predicted genes. Their independent evolutionary paths were emphasized by distinct riboswitch arrangements as well as the discovery of intronic repeat elements in one isolate, and in metagenomic data, but not in other genomes. Divergence appears to have been facilitated by selection and acquisition processes that actively shape the repertoire of genes that are mutually exclusive between the two isolates differently than the core genes. Analyses of the Micromonas genomes offer valuable insights into ecological differentiation and the dynamic nature of early plant evolution.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Worden, Alexandra Z -- Lee, Jae-Hyeok -- Mock, Thomas -- Rouze, Pierre -- Simmons, Melinda P -- Aerts, Andrea L -- Allen, Andrew E -- Cuvelier, Marie L -- Derelle, Evelyne -- Everett, Meredith V -- Foulon, Elodie -- Grimwood, Jane -- Gundlach, Heidrun -- Henrissat, Bernard -- Napoli, Carolyn -- McDonald, Sarah M -- Parker, Micaela S -- Rombauts, Stephane -- Salamov, Aasf -- Von Dassow, Peter -- Badger, Jonathan H -- Coutinho, Pedro M -- Demir, Elif -- Dubchak, Inna -- Gentemann, Chelle -- Eikrem, Wenche -- Gready, Jill E -- John, Uwe -- Lanier, William -- Lindquist, Erika A -- Lucas, Susan -- Mayer, Klaus F X -- Moreau, Herve -- Not, Fabrice -- Otillar, Robert -- Panaud, Olivier -- Pangilinan, Jasmyn -- Paulsen, Ian -- Piegu, Benoit -- Poliakov, Aaron -- Robbens, Steven -- Schmutz, Jeremy -- Toulza, Eve -- Wyss, Tania -- Zelensky, Alexander -- Zhou, Kemin -- Armbrust, E Virginia -- Bhattacharya, Debashish -- Goodenough, Ursula W -- Van de Peer, Yves -- Grigoriev, Igor V -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Apr 10;324(5924):268-72. doi: 10.1126/science.1167222.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA 95039 USA. azworden@mbari.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19359590" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adaptation, Physiological ; *Biological Evolution ; Chlorophyta/classification/cytology/*genetics/physiology ; DNA Transposable Elements ; Ecosystem ; Gene Expression Regulation ; Genes ; Genetic Variation ; *Genome ; Introns ; Meiosis/genetics ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Oceans and Seas ; Photosynthesis/genetics ; Phylogeny ; Phytoplankton/classification/genetics ; Plants/*genetics ; RNA, Untranslated ; Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid ; Sequence Analysis, DNA ; Transcription Factors/genetics
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    Publication Date: 2012-03-09
    Description: The hydrogen atom is one of the most important and influential model systems in modern physics. Attempts to understand its spectrum are inextricably linked to the early history and development of quantum mechanics. The hydrogen atom's stature lies in its simplicity and in the accuracy with which its spectrum can be measured and compared to theory. Today its spectrum remains a valuable tool for determining the values of fundamental constants and for challenging the limits of modern physics, including the validity of quantum electrodynamics and--by comparison with measurements on its antimatter counterpart, antihydrogen--the validity of CPT (charge conjugation, parity and time reversal) symmetry. Here we report spectroscopy of a pure antimatter atom, demonstrating resonant quantum transitions in antihydrogen. We have manipulated the internal spin state of antihydrogen atoms so as to induce magnetic resonance transitions between hyperfine levels of the positronic ground state. We used resonant microwave radiation to flip the spin of the positron in antihydrogen atoms that were magnetically trapped in the ALPHA apparatus. The spin flip causes trapped anti-atoms to be ejected from the trap. We look for evidence of resonant interaction by comparing the survival rate of trapped atoms irradiated with microwaves on-resonance to that of atoms subjected to microwaves that are off-resonance. In one variant of the experiment, we detect 23 atoms that survive in 110 trapping attempts with microwaves off-resonance (0.21 per attempt), and only two atoms that survive in 103 attempts with microwaves on-resonance (0.02 per attempt). We also describe the direct detection of the annihilation of antihydrogen atoms ejected by the microwaves.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Amole, C -- Ashkezari, M D -- Baquero-Ruiz, M -- Bertsche, W -- Bowe, P D -- Butler, E -- Capra, A -- Cesar, C L -- Charlton, M -- Deller, A -- Donnan, P H -- Eriksson, S -- Fajans, J -- Friesen, T -- Fujiwara, M C -- Gill, D R -- Gutierrez, A -- Hangst, J S -- Hardy, W N -- Hayden, M E -- Humphries, A J -- Isaac, C A -- Jonsell, S -- Kurchaninov, L -- Little, A -- Madsen, N -- McKenna, J T K -- Menary, S -- Napoli, S C -- Nolan, P -- Olchanski, K -- Olin, A -- Pusa, P -- Rasmussen, C O -- Robicheaux, F -- Sarid, E -- Shields, C R -- Silveira, D M -- Stracka, S -- So, C -- Thompson, R I -- van der Werf, D P -- Wurtele, J S -- England -- Nature. 2012 Mar 7;483(7390):439-43. doi: 10.1038/nature10942.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Physics and Astronomy, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22398451" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
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    Publication Date: 2006-09-16
    Description: We report the draft genome of the black cottonwood tree, Populus trichocarpa. Integration of shotgun sequence assembly with genetic mapping enabled chromosome-scale reconstruction of the genome. More than 45,000 putative protein-coding genes were identified. Analysis of the assembled genome revealed a whole-genome duplication event; about 8000 pairs of duplicated genes from that event survived in the Populus genome. A second, older duplication event is indistinguishably coincident with the divergence of the Populus and Arabidopsis lineages. Nucleotide substitution, tandem gene duplication, and gross chromosomal rearrangement appear to proceed substantially more slowly in Populus than in Arabidopsis. Populus has more protein-coding genes than Arabidopsis, ranging on average from 1.4 to 1.6 putative Populus homologs for each Arabidopsis gene. However, the relative frequency of protein domains in the two genomes is similar. Overrepresented exceptions in Populus include genes associated with lignocellulosic wall biosynthesis, meristem development, disease resistance, and metabolite transport.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Tuskan, G A -- Difazio, S -- Jansson, S -- Bohlmann, J -- Grigoriev, I -- Hellsten, U -- Putnam, N -- Ralph, S -- Rombauts, S -- Salamov, A -- Schein, J -- Sterck, L -- Aerts, A -- Bhalerao, R R -- Bhalerao, R P -- Blaudez, D -- Boerjan, W -- Brun, A -- Brunner, A -- Busov, V -- Campbell, M -- Carlson, J -- Chalot, M -- Chapman, J -- Chen, G-L -- Cooper, D -- Coutinho, P M -- Couturier, J -- Covert, S -- Cronk, Q -- Cunningham, R -- Davis, J -- Degroeve, S -- Dejardin, A -- Depamphilis, C -- Detter, J -- Dirks, B -- Dubchak, I -- Duplessis, S -- Ehlting, J -- Ellis, B -- Gendler, K -- Goodstein, D -- Gribskov, M -- Grimwood, J -- Groover, A -- Gunter, L -- Hamberger, B -- Heinze, B -- Helariutta, Y -- Henrissat, B -- Holligan, D -- Holt, R -- Huang, W -- Islam-Faridi, N -- Jones, S -- Jones-Rhoades, M -- Jorgensen, R -- Joshi, C -- Kangasjarvi, J -- Karlsson, J -- Kelleher, C -- Kirkpatrick, R -- Kirst, M -- Kohler, A -- Kalluri, U -- Larimer, F -- Leebens-Mack, J -- Leple, J-C -- Locascio, P -- Lou, Y -- Lucas, S -- Martin, F -- Montanini, B -- Napoli, C -- Nelson, D R -- Nelson, C -- Nieminen, K -- Nilsson, O -- Pereda, V -- Peter, G -- Philippe, R -- Pilate, G -- Poliakov, A -- Razumovskaya, J -- Richardson, P -- Rinaldi, C -- Ritland, K -- Rouze, P -- Ryaboy, D -- Schmutz, J -- Schrader, J -- Segerman, B -- Shin, H -- Siddiqui, A -- Sterky, F -- Terry, A -- Tsai, C-J -- Uberbacher, E -- Unneberg, P -- Vahala, J -- Wall, K -- Wessler, S -- Yang, G -- Yin, T -- Douglas, C -- Marra, M -- Sandberg, G -- Van de Peer, Y -- Rokhsar, D -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Sep 15;313(5793):1596-604.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA. gtk@ornl.gov〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16973872" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Arabidopsis/genetics ; Chromosome Mapping ; Computational Biology ; Evolution, Molecular ; Expressed Sequence Tags ; *Gene Duplication ; Gene Expression ; Genes, Plant ; *Genome, Plant ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; Phylogeny ; Plant Proteins/chemistry/genetics ; Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide ; Populus/*genetics/growth & development/metabolism ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; RNA, Plant/analysis ; RNA, Untranslated/analysis ; *Sequence Analysis, DNA
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Scientia Horticulturae 55 (1993), S. 161-175 
    ISSN: 0304-4238
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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    Amsterdam : Elsevier
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods 59 (1968), S. 117-119 
    ISSN: 0029-554X
    Source: Elsevier Journal Backfiles on ScienceDirect 1907 - 2002
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Physics
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    ISSN: 1432-1041
    Keywords: Key words Prostacyclin ; Loop diuretics ; Congestive heart failure
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract Background: Previous studies suggest that the acute haemodynamic effects of loop diuretics are due to a direct dilation of blood vessels and are not related to diuretic properties, but possibly to prostaglandin secretion. Objectives: We investigated whether in vitro human endothelial and renal epithelial cells responded to torasemide or furosemide with enhanced secretion of the vasodilator prostaglandin prostacyclin (PGI2). We also investigated the effects of loop diuretics on plasma concentrations of PGI2 and its physiological antagonist thromboxane after 25 min of administration of drugs in 44 patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) and 44 healthy volunteers. Methods: The PGI2 levels were measured after extraction in ethyl acetate by RIA as levels of 6-KetoPGF1α, a stable metabolite from a non-enzymatic degradation. TxB2 concentration, the stable hydrolysis product of TxA2, was also measured by RIA. Results: In human endothelial and renal epithelial cells, both loop diuretics induced an increase of 6-KetoPGF1α secretion that reached a peak after about 5 min and remained stable for 30 min of exposure to the drugs. The magnitude of the phenomenon was lesser in epithelial than in endothelial cells. Moreover, in both cell lines, there was a significantly higher secretion of 6-KetoPGF1α to torasemide than furosemide (P 〈 0.05). Concentrations of 6-KetoPGF1α at baseline were similar between the groups of CHF patients receiving the two different drugs. After 25 min of both drugs, 6-Keto-PGF1α significantly increased (P 〈 0.01), and this was significantly higher in patients treated with 10 mg of torasemide (P 〈 0.05 vs furosemide). Levels of PGI2 at baseline were lower in healthy controls than those reached by CHF patients and similar between groups. After 25 min of both drugs, PGI2 plasma levels were significantly increased (P 〈 0.01). Baseline values of TxB2 were significantly higher in CHF patients compared with controls (P 〈 0.01 vs respective groups), and, more importantly, furosemide but not torasemide increased TxB2 levels in patients and controls (P 〈 0.05 vs baseline). Conclusions: Our study is the first demonstration in human tissue of increased secretion of PGI2 both in vitro and in vivo, after torasemide or furosemide administration. This phenomenon, which may explain in part the vasodilatory effects of these drugs, was more evident with torasemide and was reached at lower concentrations of the drug. Accordingly, we also found that furosemide but not torasemide stimulated the release of the PGI2 physiological antagonist thromboxane in CHF patients and healthy controls.
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