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Simonyi A, Serfozo P, Parker KE, Ramsey AK, Schachtman TR. Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 in conditioned taste aversion learning. Neurobiol Learn Mem 2009; 92:460-3. [PMID: 19439188 PMCID: PMC2770935 DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2009.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2008] [Revised: 04/20/2009] [Accepted: 05/05/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
In conditioned taste aversion (CTA), animals learn to avoid a flavored solution (conditioned stimulus, CS) previously paired with internal malaise (unconditioned stimulus, US). Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGlu5) has been implicated in learning and memory processes and is necessary for CTA. In the present study, local microinjections of a mGlu5-selective antagonist, 3-[2-methyl-1,3-thiazol-4yl)ethynyl]pyridine (MTEP, 0, 1 or 5 microg) into the insular cortex and basolateral amygdala were used in male, Sprague-Dawley rats to examine the role of mGlu5 receptors in the encoding of taste memory. MTEP was infused 20 min before saccharin intake during CTA conditioning. MTEP injection into the basolateral amygdala resulted in robust CTA, similar to the vehicle-treated animals but slowed extinction; that is, MTEP enhanced CTA. MTEP injection into the insular cortex resulted in an increased saccharin intake on the conditioning trial, which potentially influenced the performance on the test trials; MTEP had no effect on CTA learning when controlled access to saccharin was used on the conditioning trial. These results indicate that mGlu5 receptors are involved in taste memories in a region-specific manner.
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- A Simonyi
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA
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Mattigod SV, Fryxell GE, Serne RJ, Parker KE. Evaluation of novel getters for adsorption of radioiodine from groundwater and waste glass leachates. RADIOCHIM ACTA 2009. [DOI: 10.1524/ract.91.9.539.20001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Performance tests were conducted using novel getter materials that can immobilize or delay the transport of radioiodine that would be released during physical and chemical degradation of solidified low-level waste packages. The results showed that metal-capped novel getters such as Hg-thiol and Ag-thiol Self-Assembled Monolayers on Mesoporous Silica (SAMMS), designed specifically to adsorb soft anions such as I-, had very high affinities for adsorption of radioiodine (K
d ∼ 1×104 – 4×105 ml/g). The iodide adsorption performance of these novel getters was from one to two orders of magnitude better than many natural mineral and modified mineral getters. These data indicate that the novel getter materials are capable of significantly retarding the mobility of radioiodine leaching from physically and chemically weathered low-level waste glass packages during various physical and chemical weathering reactions expected during long-term disposal in the vadose zone.
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Garland LL, Pegram M, Song S, Mendelson D, Parker KE, Martell RE, Gordon MS. Phase I study of BMS-599626, an oral pan-HER tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in patients with advanced solid tumors. J Clin Oncol 2005. [DOI: 10.1200/jco.2005.23.16_suppl.3152] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- L. L. Garland
- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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- Arizona Cancer Ctr, Tucson, AZ; UCLA/David Geffen Sch of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA; Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wallingford, CT; Arizona Cancer Ctr, Scottsdale, AZ
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Riley RG, Thompson CJ, Huesemann MH, Wang Z, Peyton B, Fortman T, Truex MJ, Parker KE. Artificial aging of phenanthrene in porous silicas using supercritical carbon dioxide. Environ Sci Technol 2001; 35:3707-3712. [PMID: 11783649 DOI: 10.1021/es0020613] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Expedited artificial aging is described and demonstrated using a novel system that circulates a solution of supercritical carbon dioxide and a hydrophobic organic sorbate (phenanthrene) through a closed loop containing a porous substrate. Unlike traditional methods used to simulate the natural aging process, our approach allows for real-time monitoring of sorption equilibria, and the process is highly accelerated due to the unique physical properties of supercritcal carbon dioxide. The effectiveness of the system to simulate aging was demonstrated with a series of experiments in which three silicas with varying particle and pore sizes were loaded with phenanthrene. Batch aqueous desorption experiments were used to evaluate the extent of the aging process. For the two types of particles containing the largest pores (i.e., mean diameters of 202 and 66 A), 95% and 86%, respectively, of the phenanthrene was released to the aqueous fraction within 3 h. In contrast, only 16% of the phenanthrene was released from particles having a mean pore diameter of 21 A after 24 h. These results were confirmed by the results from an aqueous column desorption experiment. Confounding factors that might contribute to slow aqueous desorption such as the hydration state of the particles' surfaces, the chemical form of the loaded phenanthrene, and the organic carbon content were investigated and/or normalized for all three particle types. Consequently, we were able to attribute the slow desorption behavior and the presence of the resistant fraction in the 21 A silica to pore effects. With properly designed experiments, the results of this study suggest that the supercritical fluid system could be extended to the study of contaminant aging and bioavailability in natural soils and sediments.
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- R G Riley
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
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1. ATP-gated non-selective cation channels from the rat vas deferens (P2X1 receptors) were stably expressed in HEK 293 cells, assayed by patch clamp on the first day after passage of the culture, and found to have whole-cell current kinetics markedly faster in both activation and desensitization than those found in the native vas deferens tissue, in agreement with previous reports. 2. By the second day after passage of the culture, however, the whole-cell current kinetics of the expressed receptors shifted, slowing in both activation and desensitization. The kinetic change correlated with a change in phenotype of the host cells from round to flat, and the slower kinetics were similar to native P2X1 currents recorded from dissociated rat vas deferens smooth muscle cells. Two point mutations in a pore-like domain near or within the second transmembrane domain of the P2X1 receptor appeared to confer on the receptor the inability to effect this change in kinetics over time. 3. Treatment of cells on day 3 after passage with cytochalasins B or D caused a reversion to the rapid kinetics phenotype, implicating the actin cytoskeleton in the development of the native kinetics. P2X1 receptors may therefore require interaction with an intact actin cytoskeleton for native kinetics, and the mutants may be defective either in interaction with the actin skeleton or in coupling the interaction to gating.
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- K E Parker
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA.
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Extracellular ATP released from nerves onto vascular smooth muscle or released from damaged tissues during traumatic injury, shock, or ischemia profoundly alters cardiovascular physiology. We have used patch-clamp methods to investigate the effects of extracellular ATP on guinea pig ventricular myocytes because guinea pigs are a commonly used model for the study of cardiac electrophysiology. We have found that ATP activates a rapid, desensitizing, inward current. This inward current is activated by a P2 receptor that does not conform to published receptor subclasses. A concentration of 100 microM ATP activates more current than 100 microM alpha, beta-methyleneadenosine 5'-triphosphate, which in turn activates more current than 100 microM ADP. 2-Methylthioadenosine 5'-triphosphate (2-MeS-ATP) and adenosine 5'-O-(3-thiotriphosphate) are also effective agonists. Adenosine, AMP, guanosine 5'-triphosphate, and uridine 5'-triphosphate are ineffective at 100 microM. The inward conductance has a reversal potential near 0 mV and in ion-substitution experiments was found to be carried through nonselective cation channels rather than chloride channels. The conductance has inwardly rectifying current-voltage (I-V) relations. When ATP is used as the agonist, fluctuation analysis yields an apparent unitary conductance of 0.08 pA at a holding potential of -120 mV with sodium as the main charge-carrying ion. The combination of inwardly rectifying I-V relations, the efficacy of 2-MeS-ATP, and the very low conductance distinguish this conductance from other ATP-activated nonselective channels, including those recently cloned from rat vas deferens and PC-12 cells.
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- K E Parker
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio 44106-4970, USA
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Bogers WM, Lang F, Parker KE, Le Mauff B, Anegon I, Jacques Y, Soulillou JP. Rat interleukin-2 immunoglobulin M fusion proteins are cytotoxic in vitro for cells expressing the IL-2 receptor and can abolish cell-mediated immunity in vivo. Transplantation 1994; 58:932-9. [PMID: 7940738 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199410270-00013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A hybrid cDNA coding for a fusion protein between rat interleukin 2 (IL-2) and a truncated heavy chain from rat immunoglobulin M (IgM) was constructed. The rat IL-2 and rat IgM CH2-3-4 hybrid gene was subcloned into a vector (PKCR6) for expression of the fusion molecule in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Cells transfected with the hybrid cDNA secrete multimeric forms of the fusion protein (IL-2-Mu). Size analysis of the construct revealed that the majority (95%) of the secreted proteins have a high mw (> 500 kDa). The IL-2-Mu construct bind specifically to cells bearing the IL-2 receptors (IL-2R) with a binding affinity around 5 nM. The specific binding to IL-2R leads to T cell proliferation or, if rabbit complement is added, to T cell lysis. Multimeric forms (> 500 kDa) of the fusion protein mediate complement-dependent lysis but trigger only weak proliferation when compared with the low-mw forms (< 500 kDa). In contrast, the latter only efficiently mediate T cell proliferation without inducing complement-dependent lysis. After intravenous administration of CHO supernatant containing IL-2-Mu, or purified IL-2-Mu proteins into rats, the fusion proteins disappeared from the circulation with a t1/2 of 1 hr. The circulating IL-2-Mu constructs in the rat serum retained their capacity to induce complement-dependent lysis of IL-2R-bearing T cells in vitro. Furthermore, the IL-2-Mu construct was able to suppress the delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction (an IL-2R, T helper cell-dependent event) in mice. A weak immune response (antirat IL-2-Mu antibodies) was observed when rats received multiple daily injections of the construct.
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- W M Bogers
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM U211), Institut de Biologie, Nantes, France
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The allo-antibody response of several rat strains to an unconjugated synthetic 20 amino acid peptide derived from the alpha helical region of the RT1-Du beta chain was tested. The LEW (RT1l) and WAG (RT1u) strains produced little or no antibody; the PVG (RT1c) and DA (RT1av1) strains produced moderate amounts of antibody; while the BN (RT1n) strain produced strong primary and secondary antibody responses. This suggested that the BN strain was able to process and present the RT1-Dbu peptide on its class II molecules. In vitro proliferation studies demonstrated that LEW T cells did not respond to the peptide, whereas BN T cells responded strongly, and that the response in the BN strain was found only in the CD4+ T-cell subset. However, immunisation of BN rats with the RT1-Dbu peptide failed to cause any acceleration of rejection of WAG skin or kidney grafts. Moreover, BN rats primed with WAG skin and kidney grafts did not produce T cells reactive to the RT1-Dbu synthetic peptide. This suggests that the T-cell response of the BN strain to the synthetic major histocompatibility complex peptide was not relevant to the indirect T-cell allo-recognition response to naturally processed RT1-Du beta chains.
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- G Murphy
- Division of Cell and Molecular Biology, Institute of Child Health, University of London, UK
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Chapman CG, Clinkenbeard HE, Parker KE, Spackman VM, Dobbelaere DA, Robinson JH, Browne MJ. Structure/function analysis of interleukin 4: interspecies comparison and site-directed mutagenesis. Biochem Soc Trans 1994; 22:234S. [PMID: 7958295 DOI: 10.1042/bst022234s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- C G Chapman
- Dept of Biotechnology, SmithKline Beecham, Harlow, Essex, U.K
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Parker KE, Bugeon L, Cuturi MC, Soulillou JP. Cloning of cDNA coding for the rat mu heavy chain constant region: differences between rat allotypes. Immunogenetics 1994; 39:159. [PMID: 8276460 DOI: 10.1007/bf00188621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- K E Parker
- Institut National pour la Santé et la Recherche Médicale (INSERM U211), Unité de Recherche sur les effecteurs lymphocytaires T, Nantes, France
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Aker JG, Parker KE. Anesthetic management for emergent cesarean section in a patient with penetrating head injury. Nurse Anesth 1993; 4:125-9. [PMID: 8218446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Anesthetic intervention in the parturient is challenging as a consequence of the anatomic and physiological changes of pregnancy. The added encumbrance of central nervous system injury requires careful consideration for the selection of anesthetic agents and the management of anesthetic technique, with emphasis on the maintenance of maternal neurological function and fetal well-being. The authors discuss the selection of anesthetic agents and management of anesthesia in an acute head-injured parturient who required emergent intervention for the delivery of a premature infant.
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Parker KE, Cuturi MC, Soulillou JP. Generation of a potentially immunosuppressive rat interleukin-2 immunoglobulin M fusion molecule. Transplant Proc 1993; 25:774-5. [PMID: 8438476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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- K E Parker
- INSERM U211 (Unité de Recherche sur les effecteurs lymphocytaires T), Centre Hospitalo Universitaire, Nantes, France
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Parker KE, Giral M, Soulillou JP. Fusion proteins in immunointervention. Transplant Proc 1992; 24:2362-5. [PMID: 1465797] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- K E Parker
- INSERM (Unité de Recherche sur les effecteurs lymphocytaires T), Centre Hospitalo Universitaire, Nantes, France
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Parker KE, Dalchau R, Fowler VJ, Priestley CA, Carter CA, Fabre JW. Stimulation of CD4+ T lymphocytes by allogeneic MHC peptides presented on autologous antigen-presenting cells. Evidence of the indirect pathway of allorecognition in some strain combinations. Transplantation 1992; 53:918-24. [PMID: 1348884 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199204000-00038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A preliminary analysis of the alloantibody response to free, unconjugated class I and class II MHC peptides in several rat and mouse strains was performed, to screen for an effective interaction between the allogeneic MHC peptides and recipient MHC molecules. The PVG rat strain was noted to produce very strong, MHC-restricted, primary and secondary responses to a synthetic peptide derived from the alpha helical region of the alpha 2 domain of an RT1.C/E class I MHC molecule of the DA strain. In vitro proliferation studies demonstrated that CD4+ but not CD8+ T cells of the PVG strain responded in a recipient APC-dependent manner to the peptide, whereas the BN strain (which showed no antibody response to this peptide) gave no T cell proliferation. Immunization of PVG rats with the peptide did not influence the rejection of DA skin allografts. The relevance of these studies to the possible mechanisms of allograft rejection by an indirect pathway are discussed.
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- K E Parker
- Blond McIndoe Centre, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex, England
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Parker KE, Carter CA, Murphy G, Fabre JW. The rat RT.BM1 MHC class I cDNA shows a high level of sequence similarity to the mouse H-2T23d gene. Immunogenetics 1991; 34:211-3. [PMID: 1894314 DOI: 10.1007/bf00205827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- K E Parker
- Blond McIndoe Centre, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex, England
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We have investigated the transport of tritiated indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) in intact, red light-grown maize (Zea mays) coleoptiles during gravitropic induction and the subsequent development of curvature. This auxin is transported down the length of gravistimulated coleoptiles at a rate comparable to that in normal, upright plants. Transport is initially symmetrical across the coleoptile, but between 30 and 40 minutes after plants are turned horizontal a lateral redistribution of the IAA already present in the transport stream occurs. By 60 minutes after the beginning of the gravitropic stimulus, the ratio of tritiated tracer auxin in the lower half with respect to the upper half is approximately 2:1. The redistribution of growth that causes gravitropic curvature follows the IAA redistribution by 5 or 10 minutes at the minimum in most regions of the coleoptile. Immobilization of tracer auxin from the transport stream during gravitropism was not detectable in the most apical 10 millimeters. Previous reports have shown that in intact, red light-grown maize coleoptiles, endogenous auxin is limiting for growth, the tissue is linearly responsive to linearly increasing concentrations of small amounts of added auxin, and the lag time for the stimulation of straight growth by added IAA is approximately 8 or 9 minutes (TI Baskin, M Iino, PB Green, WR Briggs [1985] Plant Cell Environ 8: 595-603; TI Baskin, WR Briggs, M Iino [1986] Plant Physiol 81: 306-309). We conclude that redistribution of IAA in the transport stream occurs in maize coleoptiles during gravitropism, and is sufficient in degree and timing to be the immediate cause of gravitropic curvature.
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- K E Parker
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California 94305
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We have characterized the transport of [(3)H]indoleacetic acid (IAA) in intact corn (Zea mays L.) coleoptiles. We have used a wide range of concentrations of added IAA (28 femtomoles to 100 picomoles taken up over 60 minutes). The shape of the transport curve varies with the concentration of added IAA, although the rate of movement of the observed front of tracer is invariant with concentration. At the lowest concentration of tracer used, the labeled IAA in the transport stream is not detectably metabolized or immobilized, curvature does not develop as a result of tracer application, and normal phototropic and gravitropic responsiveness are not affected. Therefore we believe we are observing the transport of true tracer quantities of labeled auxin at this lowest concentration.
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- K E Parker
- Department of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Stanford, California 94305
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- K E Parker
- Blond McIndoe Centre, Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, Sussex, England
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Drugs which induce systemic lupus erythematosus as a toxic side effect have been shown to inhibit the covalent binding of C4, which is an important event in immune complex clearance in normal individuals. Human C4 is encoded at two polymorphic loci, C4A and C4B within the Major Histocompatibility Complex and patients with idiopathic SLE are more likely to have a non-functional (null) C4A gene. The C4A and C4B gene products differ in reactivity with C4A being more reactive with nitrogen nucleophiles, including hydralazine and isoniazid (drugs which induce SLE), than with oxygen nucleophiles. We have established an assay system which allows the effect of nucleophiles on C4 in animal sera to be investigated. It has been found that in comparing reactivity of guinea-pig C4 with human C4A and human C4B that guinea-pig C4 is like human C4A and shows greater reactivity towards nitrogen nucleophiles than towards oxygen nucleophiles. This suggests that the guinea-pig should be a good animal model for drug-induced SLE.
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- E Sim
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, England
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