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Nishimune Y, Haneji T, Aizawa S. Differential effects of cyclic AMP on DNA synthesis by germ cells and non-germ cells in mouse testicular culture. J Endocrinol 1981; 89:257-62. [PMID: 6113264 DOI: 10.1677/joe.0.0890257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The effect of dibutyryl cyclic AMP (dbcAMP) on DNA synthesis in mouse cryptorchid explants with only type A spermatogonia was examined in vitro. Low concentration of dbcAMP (0.08 mmol/l) stimulated DNA synthesis by germ cells but inhibited that by non-germ cells.
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Nishimune Y, Haneji T, Aizawa S. Testicular DNA synthesis in vivo: changes in DNA synthetic activity following artificial cryptorchidism and its surgical reversal. Fertil Steril 1981; 35:359-62. [PMID: 6110567 DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)45387-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The kinetics of DNA synthesis of whole testis in mice was studied in artificial unilateral cryptorchidism and in its surgical reversal. Cryptorchidism impaired total testicular DNA synthesis. Approximately 1 month after the operation, activity of testicular DNA synthesis decreased to about 30% that of the contralateral intact testis. A complete recovery of DNA synthesis was observed within 1 month after the surgical reversal of cryptorchidism.
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Akasaka Y, Tanino M, Ohishi S, Miki M, Machida T, Fukunaga S, Aizawa S. [Carcinoma of the rete testis (author's transl)]. Nihon Hinyokika Gakkai Zasshi 1981; 72:237-44. [PMID: 7253356 DOI: 10.5980/jpnjurol1928.72.2_237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Aizawa S, Izumiyama N, Kaiho M. Role of cell surface morphology on age-related changes in concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption capacity of human diploid fibroblasts. Exp Gerontol 1981; 16:149-55. [PMID: 7286094 DOI: 10.1016/0531-5565(81)90039-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Aizawa S, Sado T, Kamisaku H, Kubo E. Cellular basis of the immunohematologic defects observed in short-term semiallogeneic B6C3F1 -- C3H chimeras: evidence for host-versus-graft reaction initiated by radioresistant T cells. Cell Immunol 1980; 56:47-57. [PMID: 6448700 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(80)90080-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Aizawa S, Mitsui Y, Kurimoto F, Matsuoka K. Cell-surface changes accompanying aging in human diploid fibroblasts: effects of tissue, donor age and genotype. Mech Ageing Dev 1980; 13:297-307. [PMID: 7421303 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(80)90042-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The generality of age-related changes in concanavalin A (Con A)-mediated red blood cell (RBC) adsorption to human diploid fibroblasts was investigated on fibroblast-like cells from fetal lung, heart, liver, skin and muscle tissues. All the cells examined showed the continuous increase from early passages in RBC adsorption with the RBC coating method (in which Con A-coated RBCs are adsorbed to fibroblasts) and the incraease only at phase III with the fibroblast coating method (in which RBCs are adsorbed to Con A-coated fibroblasts). All of the four strains of lung fibroblasts gave nearly the same extent of the age-related change in RBC adsorption, when expressed as a function of percentage life span consumed, indicating that the change in RBC adsorption is independent of genetic heterogeneity and conditions of primary culture. Liver and heart fibroblasts also gave results similar to those of lung fibroblasts. However, skin and muscle fibroblasts were lower in their RBC adsorption capacity throughout the life span. The continuous age-related increase in RBC adsorption to these cells could be sensitized by using glutaraldehyde-prefixed RBCs, trypsinized RBCs or phytohemagglutinin P in place of Con A. The relevance of the phenotype of in vitro aging revealed by RBC adsorption to in vivo aging was also demonstrated on skin fibroblasts from different ages of donors using glutaraldehyde-prefixed RBCs. In addition, fibroblasts from patients with Werner's syndrome, an hereditary disease manifested by early and widespread degenerative changes, showed senescent phenotype in RBC adsorption even at early passages.
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Aizawa S, Mitsui Y, Kurimoto F, Nomura K. Cell surface changes accompanying aging in human diploid fibroblasts. V. Role of large major cell surface protein and surface negative charge in aging- and transformation-associated changes in concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption. Exp Cell Res 1980; 127:143-57. [PMID: 6247171 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(80)90422-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Sasaki K, Aizawa S, Satomi T, Akutsu H, Kawabata S, Momoki Y, Douros JD. Synthesis and antitumor activity of N-nitrosoureido derivatives of kanosamine. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1980; 33:517-9. [PMID: 7429976 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.33.517] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Aizawa S, Maéda Y. A new method for determination of parity in optical diffraction patterns from the structures with helical symmetry. J Mol Biol 1980; 137:437-42. [PMID: 7021850 DOI: 10.1016/0022-2836(80)90168-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Aizawa S, Mitsui Y, Kurimoto F. Cell surface changes accompanying aging in human diploid fibroblasts. II. Two types of age-related changes revealed by concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption. Exp Cell Res 1980; 125:287-96. [PMID: 7353595 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(80)90124-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Aizawa S, Mitsui Y, Kurimoto F, Matsuoka K. Cell surface changes accompanying aging in human diploid fibroblasts. III. Division age and senescence revealed by concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption. Exp Cell Res 1980; 125:297-303. [PMID: 7353596 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(80)90125-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Mitsui Y, Matsuoka K, Aizawa S, Noda K. New approaches to characterization of aging human fibroblasts at individual cell level. ADVANCES IN EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY 1980; 129:5-23. [PMID: 7395636 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-3734-8_2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Sado T, Kamisaku H, Aizawa S. Nature of T-cells resident in spleens of thymectomized, lethally irradiated, bone marrow-reconstituted mice. Cell Immunol 1980; 49:51-63. [PMID: 6153157 DOI: 10.1016/0008-8749(80)90055-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Ohashi M, Aizawa S, Ooka H, Ohsawa T, Kaji K, Kondo H, Kobayashi T, Noumura T, Matsuo M, Mitsui Y, Murota S, Yamamoto K, Ito H, Shimada H, Utakoji T. A new human diploid cell strain, TIG-1, for the research on cellular aging. Exp Gerontol 1980; 15:121-33. [PMID: 7389832 DOI: 10.1016/0531-5565(80)90083-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 131] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Aizawa S, Kurimoto F. Effects of glutaraldehyde and other drugs on concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption to nonsenescent, senescent and transformed human fibroblasts. Mech Ageing Dev 1979; 11:237-43. [PMID: 118310 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(79)90003-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Concanavalin A (Con A)-mediated red blood cell (RBC) adsorption with the RBC coating method (in which Con A-coated RBC's are adsorbed to fibroblasts) was greatly increased by glutaraldehyde fixation of RBCs before Con A-coating and decreased by the fixation of fibroblasts. On the other hand, RBC adsorption with the fibroblast coating method (in which RBCs are adsorbed to Con A-coated fibroblasts) was decreased by the fixation of RBCs and increased by the fixation of fibroblasts before Con A coating. The fixation of RBCs or fibroblasts after Con A coating did not have these effects. In addition, the fixation of both RBCs and fibroblasts nearly completely abolished RBC adsorption with either method. However, the amount of [3H] Con A binding was not affected by the fixation. RBC adsorption with the fibroblast coating method was also affected by cytochalasin B, colchicine, NaN3 and dibucane treatments of fibroblasts. These drug treatments of fibroblasts, however, did not affect RBC adsorption with the RBC coating method, except cytochalasin B. In addition, the effects of drug treatments of fibroblasts examined occurred nearly to the same extent for nonsenescent, senescent, and transformed cells. Our results suggest that secondary processes after Con A binding, receptor mobility and receptor association with cytoskeletals, play important roles in RBC adsorption, but that the roles do not change with aging or transformation.
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Aizawa S, Kurimoto F. Age-related cell surface changes in human diploid fibroblasts revealed by lectin-mediated red blood cell adsorption assay: a lectin survey. Mech Ageing Dev 1979; 11:245-52. [PMID: 522510 DOI: 10.1016/0047-6374(79)90004-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Two types of age-related cell surface changes could be demonstrated in human diploid fibroblasts with the two methods of the lectin-mediated red blood cell (RBC) adsorption assay: the fibroblast coating method (in which RBCs are adsorbed to lectin-coated fibroblasts) and the RBC coating method (in which lectin-coated RBCs are adsorbed to fibroblasts). With the fibroblast coating method, concanavalin A and agglutinin L from Phaseolus vulgaris gave a change in RBC adsorption which did not occur throughout the phase II period, but increased with the advance of the phase III period (type I). With the RBC coating method, these lectins gave another type of change in RBC adsorption which increased continuously from early phases of cell passage up through cell senescence (type II). Ricinus communis agglutinin 120 also gave the type I change in RBC adsorption with the fibroblast coating method. On the other hand, even with the fibroblast coating method, Phaseolus vulgaris agglutinin E and wheat-germ agglutinin gave the type II change in RBC adsorption. Soy bean agglutinin and Bauhinia purpurea agglutinin gave only a restricted amount of RBC adsorption. Lens culinaris agglutin, pokeweed mitogen, Dolichos biflorus agglutinin, Lotus tetragonolobus agglutinin, Limulus polyhemus agglutinin and divalent succinylated concanavalin A did not give any RBC adsorption throughout the life span of human diploid fibroblasts.
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The relationship of cell surface changes to proliferative decline of human diploid fibroblasts was investigated using the concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption assay. The amount of the red blood cells adsorbed to human diploid fibroblasts via concanavalin A increased continuously from the early phases of cell passage up through cell senescence, while the amount of 3H-concanavalin A binding did not change to a significant extent. The red blood cell adsorption is not a function of cell cycle phase and time spent in culture. Cocultivation of young cells with old cells also did not affect the adsorption capacity of respective cells. Thus, the concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell adsorption can be expected to serve as a new cell surface marker for aging in vitro. Using this marker, it was revealed that transient cell size or 3H-thymidine incorporating capacity di not have a direct relationship with the division age of a cell. Small rapidly dividing cells in old populations resemble large slowly dividing or nondividing cells of the same populations and differ from small rapidly dividing cells in young populations, in terms of cell surface properties.
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Aizawa S, Nishimune Y. In-vitro differentiation of type A spermatogonia in mouse cryptorchid testis. Reproduction 1979; 56:99-104. [PMID: 38338 DOI: 10.1530/jrf.0.0560099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Cryptorchid testes from adult mice were incubated in calf serum-supplemented medium. There was an effective differentiation of adult type A spermatogonia up to the pachytene stage of meiotid division whcih resembled the process of spermatogenesis in vivo. In the absence of calf serum, type A spermatogonia did not differentiate at all. They differentiated when the serum was present for the first day, but was absent for the rest of cultivation. These results indicate that serum is necessary for only the early process of spermatogenesis from type A spermatogonia in vitro and not for the further processes of germ cell differentiation. Type A spermatogonia cultured in serum-free medium retained the ability to differentiate for at least 3 days.
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Aizawa S, Akutsu H, Satomi T, Nagatsu T, Taguchi R, Seino A. Capsimycin, a new antibiotic. I. Production, isolation and properties. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1979; 32:193-6. [PMID: 457581 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.32.193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Capsimycin is a new antifungal antibiotic produced by a strain of Streptomyces sp. C 49--87. The active substance in the fermented broth was isolated by solvent extraction followed by silica gel column chromatography. The antibiotic melts at 186 degrees C (decomp.) and has a molecular formula C30H40N2O6. It exhibits marked inhibitory activity against Phytophthora capsici (Leaf blight disease of cucumber) and Pythium debaryanum (Damping-off disease of cucumber).
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Aizawa S, Kurimoto F. Factors affecting concanavalin A-mediated red blood cell absorption to phase II and III human diploid fibroblasts. Exp Gerontol 1979; 14:311-21. [PMID: 535617 DOI: 10.1016/0531-5565(79)90043-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Aizawa S, Akutsu H, Satomi T, Kawabata S, Sasaki K. AA-57, a new antibiotic related to pentalenolactone. J Antibiot (Tokyo) 1978; 31:729-31. [PMID: 690006 DOI: 10.7164/antibiotics.31.729] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Nishimune Y, Aizawa S. Temperature sensitivity of DNA synthesis in mouse testicular germ cells in vitro. Exp Cell Res 1978; 113:403-8. [PMID: 45519 DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(78)90381-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The effect of temperature on testicular DNA synthesis in mice was studied in vitro. By using cultures of cryptorchid testis, DNA synthesis of differentiated germ cells, such as intermediate and type B spermatogonia and resting primary spermatocytes, was shown to be temperature-sensitive, while that of undifferentiated type A spermatogonia was not. DNA synthesis of non-germ cells was not temperature-sensitive. This temperature sensitivity of germ cells in DNA synthesis may be one cause of the thermal inhibition of germ cell differentiation.
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The effects of artificial cryptorchidism and surgical reversal on spermatogenesis were examined in mice. Only undifferentiated type A spermatogonia were present as germ cells in cryptorchid testes. The surgical reversal of cryptorchidism resulted in regenerative differentiation of mature germ cells as judged by testicular weight, histologic examination, and increase in the specific activity of lactate dehydrogenase-X. Leydig cell function was also examined by assessment of the weight of target tissues of androgen. They showed a unique change following the surgical reversal. Thirty days after surgical reversal, hyperfunction of the Leydig cells was observed, and the testes became normal after 60 days.
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Twelve cases of ovarian clear cell carcinoma were studied histologically. Four cases were examined electron microscopically and compared with other conditions. Five tumors were directly connected with ovarian endometriosis. They were histologically classified into a tubular type with hobnail cells and a solid type without tubular pattern or hobnail cells. Electron microscopic figures of the tumor cells are identical having large nuclei, abundant glycogen, lamellated RER, few lipid droplets, and sparse but well-developed microvilli. The basophilic dark cells frequently encountered in the tubular type are morphologically quite similar to clear cells excepting for sparsity of glycogen and lipid droplets. Alveolar arrangement of 6 to 10 tubular structures (honeycomb structure) resembling alveolate structure seen in late secretory endometrium was found in tumor cells of one case. Ultrastructural feature of clear cell carcinoma closely resemble those of Arias-Stella endometrium and clear cell carcinoma of endocervix suggesting their Muellerian origin.
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Aizawa S, Kurimoto F, Yokono O. Crosslinking studies with different length dithiobisalkylimidates. (I) Solubilized erythrocyte spectrin. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1977; 75:870-8. [PMID: 861031 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(77)91463-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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