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Full-Text Articles in Molecular Biology
Laminin Potentiates Differentiation Of Pcc4uva Embryonal Carcinoma Into Neurons, T. M. Sweeney, Roy C. Ogle, C. D. Little
Laminin Potentiates Differentiation Of Pcc4uva Embryonal Carcinoma Into Neurons, T. M. Sweeney, Roy C. Ogle, C. D. Little
Medical Diagnostics & Translational Sciences Faculty Publications
The embryonal carcinoma PCC4uva differentiates into neurons in response to treatment with retinoic acid and dbcAMP. We used this in vitro model system to study the effects of laminin on early neural differentiation. Laminin substrata markedly potentiate neural differentiation of retinoic acid and dbcAMP-treated cultures. Only laminin induced more rapid neural cell body clustering, neurite growth and neurite fasciculation as compared to type IV collagen, type I collagen, and fibronectin substrata. Exogenous laminin substrata promoted greater cell attachment, cellular spreading and growth to confluence than type IV collagen, type I collagen, fibronectin and glass substrata. Laminin-induced effects were inhibited by …
Separation Of Transfer Rna Isoacceptors By Reversed Phase W-Porex C-4 High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Christine D. Witte
Separation Of Transfer Rna Isoacceptors By Reversed Phase W-Porex C-4 High Pressure Liquid Chromatography, Christine D. Witte
Chemistry & Biochemistry Theses & Dissertations
Transfer RNA (tRNA), is a complex class of small molecules which have been proven to play a major role in protein synthesis. Transfer RNA is composed of 20 families of isoacceptors which may recognize only one particular amino acid. This family of isoacceptors may differ from each other by primary sequence or modified nucleosides. Queuine is a modified nucleoside which is found in the anticodon regions of tRNA isoacceptors for asparagine, aspartic acid, tyrosine and histidine. Queuine has gained the interest of many researchers since queuine deficient tRNA was found in many neoplastic and undifferentiated cell-lines. It is often difficult …
Effects Of Chemical Aneuploidogens On Taxol Purified Drosophila And Mouse Brain Microtubules Polymerization And Depolymerization In Vitro, Anil Sehgal
Biological Sciences Theses & Dissertations
The effects of aneuploidogens (aneuploidy causing agents) on taxol-purified microtubules from Drosophila and mouse brain in vitro were studied by using a spectrophotometric assay and electron microscopy. Colchicine, acetonitrile, propionitrile, acrylonitrile, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), griseofulvin and cadmium chloride inhibited microtubule polymerization whereas methoxyethyl acetate (MEA) and methyl mercuric chloride (MMC) did not. All aneuploidogens tested (at 50mM) resulted in reduced rate of elongation of mouse brain microtubules. MMC, cadmium chloride and DMSO resulted in increased rates of Drosophila microtubule elongation whereas the rest of the drugs resulted in decreases. The in vitro results from Drosophila correlate well with the previously …
The Role Of The Voltage Gradient In The Agarose Gel Electrophoresis Of Dna, David Wheeler
The Role Of The Voltage Gradient In The Agarose Gel Electrophoresis Of Dna, David Wheeler
Theses and Dissertations in Biomedical Sciences
In Part I of this dissertation, empirical equations for predicting DNA mobility during agarose gel electrophoresis (AGE) from voltage gradient are developed from the data of McDonnel (36) for electrophoresis in a 1.6% agarose gel. These equations represented the data well for DNA between 2 and 10 kilobase pairs (KBp) in length. A computer program, called GELSIM, which incorporates these equations is described in Part II. GELSIM was designed to allow researchers to analyze electrophoresis data by predicting the effect on DNA migration of altering the voltage of electrophoresis. In this way, electrophoretic banding patterns produced using different voltages could …
Progesterone And 17 Α-Hydroxyprogesterone: Novel Stimulators Of Calcium Influx In Human Sperm, Peter F. Blackmore, Stephen J. Beebe, Douglas R. Danforth, Nancy Alexander
Progesterone And 17 Α-Hydroxyprogesterone: Novel Stimulators Of Calcium Influx In Human Sperm, Peter F. Blackmore, Stephen J. Beebe, Douglas R. Danforth, Nancy Alexander
Bioelectrics Publications
Progesterone and 17 alpha-hydroxyprogesterone (but not other steroids such as testosterone, corticosterone, beta-estradiol, estrone, dehydroepiandrosterone, 20 alpha-hydroxypregnen-3-one, androstenedione, and pregnenolone) were shown to cause an immediate increase, in free cytosolic calcium ([Ca2+]i) in both capacitated and noncapacitated human sperm, using the fluorescent indicator fura 2. Significant increases in [Ca2+]i were observed with 10 ng/ml progesterone, while maximum effects were seen with 1 microgram/ml progesterone. Two other steroids 11 beta-hydroxyprogesterone and 5 alpha-pregnane-3,20-dione exhibited significant activity to increase [Ca2+]i. This increase in [Ca2+]i elicited by progesterone was entirely due to Ca2+ influx from the extracellular medium since the increase in [Ca2+]i …