scholarly journals Isolation and structure of a new active peptide xenopsin on rat stomach strip and some biogenic amines in the skin of Xenopus laevis.

1975 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 3132-3140 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENGO ARAKI ◽  
SHINRO TACHIBANA ◽  
MIKIO UCHIYAMA ◽  
TERUMI NAKAJIMA ◽  
TADASHI YASUHARA
Keyword(s):  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Biogenic Amines ◽  
Rat Stomach ◽  
Active Peptide

scholarly journals Isolation and Structure of a New Active Peptide "Xenopsin"on the Smooth Muscle, especially on a Strip of Fundus from a Rat Stomach, from the Skin of Xenopus laevis

1973 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 2801-2804 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENGO ARAKI ◽  
SHINRO TACHIBANA ◽  
MIKIO UCHIYAMA ◽  
TERUMI NAKAJIMA ◽  
TADASHI YASUHARA
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Rat Stomach ◽  
Active Peptide

Androgen-induced plasticity at a “vocal” neuromuscular synapse

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 32-33
Author(s):  
Darcy B. Kelley ◽  
Martha L. Tobias ◽  
Mark Ellisman
Keyword(s):  
Xenopus Laevis ◽  
Motor Neurons ◽  
Sexual Differentiation ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Neuromuscular Synapse ◽  
Sexually Dimorphic ◽  
Intracellular Protein ◽  
Developmental Program ◽  
Androgen Action ◽  
Clawed Frog

Brain and muscle are sexually differentiated tissues in which masculinization is controlled by the secretion of androgens from the testes. Sensitivity to androgen is conferred by the expression of an intracellular protein, the androgen receptor. A central problem of sexual differentiation is thus to understand the cellular and molecular basis of androgen action. We do not understand how hormone occupancy of a receptor translates into an alteration in the developmental program of the target cell. Our studies on sexual differentiation of brain and muscle in Xenopus laevis are designed to explore the molecular basis of androgen induced sexual differentiation by examining how this hormone controls the masculinization of brain and muscle targets.Our approach to this problem has focused on a highly androgen sensitive, sexually dimorphic neuromuscular system: laryngeal muscles and motor neurons of the clawed frog, Xenopus laevis. We have been studying sex differences at a synapse, the laryngeal neuromuscular junction, which mediates sexually dimorphic vocal behavior in Xenopus laevis frogs.

Electron-Microscopic localization of biotinylated gastrin bound to eosinophils in the rat stomach

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 300-301
Author(s):  
Caroline A. Miller ◽  
David H. Nichols ◽  
Richard F. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscope ◽  
Phosphate Buffer ◽  
Uranyl Acetate ◽  
List Type ◽  
Cerium Chloride ◽  
Rat Stomach ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Human Sequence ◽  
Acetate Lead ◽  
Microscope Slides

Gastrin is a small peptide capable of both stimulating gastric acid secretion and acting as an enteric growth factor. Known functions of eosinophils in the rat stomach are related to immunological defense. Here we demonstrate the binding of biotinylated gastrin to rat stomach eosinophils in the electron microscope. Small pieces of stomach were fixed by immersion in 4% paraformaldehyde/0.1% glutaraldehyde in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, pH 7.4 for 1 hour. The tissue was then cryoprotected in 30% sucrose/0.1 M phosphate buffer, transferred to Tissue Tek OCT compound and frozen in isopentane cooled with liquid nitrogen. Transverse cryostat sections were cut at 25 μm, thawed in PBS and free floating sections exposed to 10−5 M biotinylated 1-17 gastrin (human sequence; Peninsula Labs) for 1 hour. Controls omitted the biotinylated gastrin from this step. Sections were then rinsed 3X in PBS and exposed to either:1).a 1:50 dilution of 10 nm Extravidin colloidal gold (Sigma) for 2 hours, or2).an avidin-biotin-alkaline phosphatase complex (ABC-AP;Vector) for 1 hour. A substrate solution containing cerium chloride was used to generate an electron dense reaction product.Sections from both procedures were postfixed in 1% OsO4 in 0.1 M phosphate buffer, rinsed and dehydrated. These were then flat embedded in EMbed 812 between two microscope slides coated with Liquid Release (both from Electron Microscopy Sciences).Polymerized sections were adhered to resin blocks using super glue, cut at 70-90 nm, stained with uranyl acetate/lead citrate and observed in a Philips CM-10 electron microscope.

Effect of Interleukin-8 on histamine release from isolated rat stomach

2001 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. A159-A159
Author(s):  
S RO ◽  
K YAKABI ◽  
T NAKAMURA
Keyword(s):  
Histamine Release ◽  
Interleukin 8 ◽  
Rat Stomach ◽  
Isolated Rat

Effect of Shock on Motor Activity and Biogenic Amines in Two Strains of Rats

1973 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Barrett ◽  
Elaine Sanders Bush ◽  
Gerald J. Schaefer ◽  
Michael Germain
Keyword(s):  
Motor Activity ◽  
Biogenic Amines
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