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2013-01-18

Nature Publishing Group (NPG)

0028-0836

1476-4687

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

Aging/*metabolism/pathology ; Animals ; Humans ; Insulin/metabolism ; Insulin-Like Growth Factor I/metabolism ; Longevity/genetics ; Signal Transduction ; TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*metabolism

2013-11-16

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

0036-8075

1095-9203

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Computer Science

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

Animals ; Brain/drug effects/enzymology/pathology ; Disease Models, Animal ; Electron Transport Complex I/genetics/metabolism ; Glycolysis/drug effects ; Leigh Disease/*drug therapy/genetics/pathology ; Mice ; Mice, Knockout ; Mice, Mutant Strains ; Mitochondria/drug effects/enzymology ; Mitochondrial Diseases/*drug therapy/genetics/pathology ; *Molecular Targeted Therapy ; Multiprotein Complexes/*antagonists & inhibitors ; Neuroprotective Agents/*therapeutic use ; Sirolimus/*therapeutic use ; TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*antagonists & inhibitors

2014-12-06

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

0036-8075

1095-9203

Biology

Chemistry and Pharmacology

Computer Science

Medicine

Natural Sciences in General

Physics

Animals ; Caloric Restriction ; Disease Models, Animal ; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug ; Electron Transport Complex I/genetics ; Humans ; Leigh Disease/*drug therapy/genetics/metabolism ; Mice ; *Molecular Targeted Therapy ; Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics ; Sirolimus/*administration & dosage ; TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases/*antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism

1365-2109

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition

Viable interspecific hybrids between yellowtail flounder (Pleuronectes ferrugineus, Storer) and winter flounder (Pleuronectes americanus, Walbaum) were produced by artificial insemination of yellowtail flounder eggs with winter flounder sperm. However, mean fertilization rate, hatching success and early survival up to 3 weeks post hatch were significantly lower than those of parental pure cross controls (P 〈 0.01). Overall, cytogenetic traits (karyological analysis and estimation of cellular DNA contents using flow cytometry) of hybrid flounder were intermediate between the two parental species. Microsatellite assay was used to distinguish the parental genomes in the hybrids; in most cases, one allele was specific to each of the parents. Morphometrics assessed by body proportions indicated that hybrids generally displayed a morphology intermediate between the maternal and paternal species. Interspecific hybrids exhibited abnormal and retarded gonad development in both sexes based on histological analysis of gonads from adult fish. The sterility of the hybrids presents a significant advantage for their use in aquaculture, as potential escapees would not be capable of reproducing in the wild and contaminating natural stocks.

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1095-8649

Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Biology

The partial sequencing of two lipases from winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus, one most closely related to gastric, lingual and lysosomal acid lipase from other vertebrates and one most closely related to bile salt-activated lipase, is reported. Biochemical analyses of enzymatic activity demonstrated the greater contribution made by bile salt-activated lipase relative to neutral bile salt-independent lipase. Using molecular techniques, the tissue-specific expression of bile salt-activated lipase in pancreatic tissue and acid triacylglycerol lipase in a wide variety of organs was demonstrated. Furthermore, the developmental expression of these types of lipase in larval fish was established.

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1435-8921

Technical efficiency ; Health clinics ; Panel data

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Economics

Abstract By using a panel data on a number of freestanding health clinics in New York State over 1984–1987, we have estimated the production function for ambulatory care after controlling for unmeasured clinic-specific managerial efficiency. We found significant differences in management efficiency, which peaks around 50500 visits per year. The optimal staffing ratio between doctors, extenders and nurses was found to be around 1∶1/3∶1, in order for a clinic to be on the efficiency frontier.

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1432-0509

Key words: Endometriosis—Malignant transformation—Perihepatic.

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Medicine

Abstract. Endometriosis is a condition in which endometrial tissue becomes implanted on extrauterine sites, most commonly within the pelvis. Malignant transformation of endometriotic foci is rare, but has been frequently reported. We describe a patient with a CT scan demonstrating pathologically proven perihepatic endometriosis, including malignant transformation. Endometrioses should be considered in the differential diagnosis of perihepatic masses.

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1573-5044

acylated anthocyanins ; cinnamic acids ; daucus carota (wild carrot) ; flavonoid intermediates ; HPLC separations

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Biology

Abstract Anthocyanins isolated and characterized from the wild carrot suspension cultures used here were 3-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-[β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-]β-D〈-galactopyranosylcyanidin (1), 3-O-[β-D- xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-β-D-galactopyranosyl]cyanidin (2), 3-O-(6-O-sinapoyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-[β-D- xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-]β-D-galactopyranos ylcyanidin (3), 3-O-(6-O-feruoyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-[β- D-xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-]β-D-galactopyranosylcyanidin (4), 3-O-(6-O-coumaroyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)- [β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-]β-D-galactopyrano sylcyanidin (5), 3-O-[6-O-(3,4,5-trimethoxycinnamoyl)]-β- D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-[β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-]β-D-galactopyranosylcyanidin (6), 3-O-[6-O-(3,4-dime- thoxycinnamoyl)]-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-[β-D-xylopyranosyl-(1→2)-]β-D-galactopyranosylcyanidin (7), 3-O-[(6-O-sinapoyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl-(1→6)-β-D-galactopyranosyl]cyanidin (8), and 3-O-(β-D-galactopyranosyl)cyanidin (9). Except when cinnamic acids were provided in the culture medium, the major anthocyanin present in the two clones examined was 2. When the naturally occurring and some non-naturally occurring cinnamic acids were provided individually in the medium, 1 and 2 were minor components and the anthocyanin acylated with the supplied cinnamic acid, namely 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 was the major anthocyanin present in the tissue. When caffeic acid was provided the major anthocyanin in the tissue was 4, thereby suggesting that the caffeic acid was methylated before its use in anthocyanin biosynthesis. Other cinnamic acids supplied had limited effects on the anthocyanins accumulated and appeared not to result in the accumulation of new anthocyanins by the tissue. Thus the tissue can use some but not all analogues of sinapic acid to acylate anthocyanins. Additional anthocyanins were detected in extracts of the wild carrot tissue cultures using mass spectrometry (both MS/MS and HPLC/MS). The additional compounds detected have also been found in cultures of black carrot, an Afghan cultivar of Daucus carota ssp. sativa and the flowers of wild carrot giving no evidence for qualitative differences in the anthocyanins synthesized by subspecies, cell cultures from subspecies, or clones from cell cultures. There are major differences in the amounts of individual anthocyanins found in cultures from different subspecies and in different clones from cell cultures. Here anthocyanins without acyl groups were usually found in the tissues and their accumulation is discussed. On the basis of the structures of the isolated anthocyanins, a likely pathway from cyanidin to the accumulated anthocyanins is proposed and discussed.

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1432-1955

Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000

Biology

Medicine

Abstract To find direct evidence for the sites of death of newly transformed schistosomula ofSchistosoma mansoni in the skin of challenged immunized hosts, a histopathological study of the skin of chronically infected mice and of highly X-irradiated cercaria-immunized mice was made at different post-challenge times. Attrition of infecting organisms in naive mice was used as a control. In general, three main kinds of schistosomular attrition were observed: (1) in the granulocytic exudates in the epidermis, (2) in the granulocytic aggregates in the subcutaneous tissue, and (3) in the granuloma-like foci in the subcutaneous tissue. Schistosomula killed by the epidermal granulocytic exudates and by the subcutaneous granuloma-like foci occurred in all three groups of mice, but the schistosomula killed by the subcutaneous granulocytic aggregates were found only in the highly X-irradiated cercaria-immunized animals. Schistosomula killed by the epidermal granulocytic exudates were encountered occasionally in the challenged naive mice but more frequently in both the challenged chronically infected mice and the challenged highly X-irradiated cercaria-immunized mice. The number of subcutaneous granuloma-like foci was greater in the challenged mice immunized with highly X-irradiated cercariae than in the challenged naive mice or the challenged chronically infected mice. Another differentiating character among the three groups of mice was that in the highly X-irradiated cercaria-immunized group, the subcutaneous granuloma-like foci appeared on day 3 after the challenge, but on day 5 in the naive and chronically infected groups. The results clearly indicate that skin is an important site for the attrition of the challenged cercariae in the highly X-irradiated cercaria-immunized mice, and that immunity in the chronically infected and X-irradiated cercaria-immunized mice occurs by different mechanisms.

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