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Alsahaf M, Mehta N, Satouf A, Elliott S, Christian K. Increasing attendance of patient support groups. Physiotherapy 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.physio.2021.10.280] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Rose A, Padovan A, Christian K, van de Kamp J, Kaestli M, Tsoukalis S, Bodrossy L, Gibb K. The Diversity of Nitrogen-Cycling Microbial Genes in a Waste Stabilization Pond Reveals Changes over Space and Time that Is Uncoupled to Changing Nitrogen Chemistry. Microb Ecol 2021; 81:1029-1041. [PMID: 33170351 PMCID: PMC8062326 DOI: 10.1007/s00248-020-01639-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Nitrogen removal is an important process for wastewater ponds prior to effluent release. Bacteria and archaea can drive nitrogen removal if they possess the genes required to metabolize nitrogen. In the tropical savanna of northern Australia, we identified the previously unresolved microbial communities responsible for nitrogen cycling in a multi-pond wastewater stabilization system by measuring genomic DNA and cDNA for the following: nifH (nitrogen fixation); nosZ (denitrification); hzsA (anammox); archaeal AamoA and bacterial BamoA (ammonia oxidation); nxrB (nitrite oxidation); and nrfA (dissimilatory NO3 reduction to NH3). By collecting 160 DNA and 40 cDNA wastewater samples and measuring nitrogen (N)-cycling genes using a functional gene array, we found that genes from all steps of the N cycle were present and, except for nxrB, were also expressed. As expected, N-cycling communities showed daily, seasonal, and yearly shifts. However, contrary to our prediction, probes from most functional groups, excluding nosZ and AamoA, were different between ponds. Further, different genes that perform the same N-cycling role sometimes had different trends over space and time, resulting in only weak correlations between the different functional communities. Although N-cycling communities were correlated with wastewater nitrogen levels and physico-chemistry, the relationship was not strong enough to reliably predict the presence or diversity of N-cycling microbes. The complex and dynamic response of these genes to other functional groups and the changing physico-chemical environment provides insight into why altering wastewater pond conditions can result an abundance of some gene variants while others are lost.
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- A Rose
- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia.
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, 7004, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
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- PowerWater Corporation, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0820, Australia
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- CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, 7004, Australia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, Darwin, Northern Territory, 0909, Australia
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Natarelli L, De Gonzalo Calvo D, Leblanc AJ, Lunella FF, Saxton S, Hartmann P, Wei Y, Geissler C, Csaba G, Zimmer R, Schober A, Schottmer F, Bang C, Toro R, Van Der Meer RW, Rijzewijk LJ, Smit JWA, Lamb HJ, Llorente-Cortes V, Thum T, Nevitt CD, Mckenzie G, Christian K, Austin J, Hencke S, Gatsiou A, Grote P, Amrhein C, Doddaballapur A, Braun T, Zeiher A, Dimmeler S, Stellos K, Withers SB, Ohanian J, Heagerty AM. Young Investigator Abstract Session - Vascular258Pro-atherogenic miR-103 inhibits endothelial proliferation by targeting lncWDR59259Circulating long-non coding RNA LIPCAR and left ventricular diastolic function in patients with uncomplicated type 2 diabetes mellitus260Circulating thrombospondin-1 inhibits coronary blood flow reserve in aging hearts through a CD-47-dependent decrease in NO in coronary arterioles261Endothelial cell adenosine deaminase acting on RNA-1 is critically involved in vascular development and homeostasis in vivo262Sympathetic transmission in perivascular adipose tissue function in health and obesity. Cardiovasc Res 2016. [DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvw155] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Jang MH, Kitabatake Y, Kang E, Jun H, Pletnikov MV, Christian KM, Hen R, Lucae S, Binder EB, Song H, Ming GI. Secreted frizzled-related protein 3 (sFRP3) regulates antidepressant responses in mice and humans. Mol Psychiatry 2013; 18. [PMID: 23207650 PMCID: PMC3970729 DOI: 10.1038/mp.2012.158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- M-H Jang
- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurologic Surgery, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Mayo College of Medicine, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Pediatrics, Osaka University School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Pre-doctoral Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA,The New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY, USA
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Pre-doctoral Program in Human Genetics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA,The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Kalapi P, Manish P, Namrata S, Christian K, Gupta S. P02.87. Ayurvedic management of Ulcerative Colitis: a non-randomized, observational cinical study. BMC Complement Altern Med 2012. [PMCID: PMC3373764 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-s1-p143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Christian KM, Miracle AD, Wellman CL, Nakazawa K. Chronic stress-induced hippocampal dendritic retraction requires CA3 NMDA receptors. Neuroscience 2010; 174:26-36. [PMID: 21108993 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.11.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2010] [Revised: 11/12/2010] [Accepted: 11/15/2010] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Chronic stress induces dendritic retraction in the hippocampal CA3 subregion, but the mechanisms responsible for this retraction and its impact on neural circuitry are not well understood. To determine the role of NMDA (N-methyl-d-aspartic acid) receptor (NMDAR)-mediated signaling in this process, we compared the effects of chronic immobilization stress (CIS) on hippocampal dendritic morphology, hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis activation, and anxiety-related and hippocampus-dependent behaviors, in transgenic male mice in which the NMDAR had been selectively deleted in CA3 pyramidal cells and in non-mutant littermates. We found that CIS exposure for 10 consecutive days in non-mutant mice effectively induces HPA axis activation and dendritic retraction of CA3 short-shaft pyramidal neurons, but not CA3 long-shaft pyramidal neurons, suggesting a differential cellular stress response in this region. Dendritic reorganization of short-shaft neurons occurred throughout the longitudinal axis of the hippocampus and, in particular, in the ventral pole of this structure. We also observed a robust retraction of dendrites in dorsal CA1 pyramidal neurons in the non-mutant C57BL/6 mouse strain. Strikingly, chronic stress-induced dendritic retraction was not evident in any of the neurons in either CA3 or CA1 in the mutant mice that had a functional lack of NMDARs restricted to CA3 pyramidal neurons. Interestingly, the prevention of dendritic retraction in the mutant mice had a minimal effect on HPA axis activation and behavioral alterations that were induced by chronic stress. These data support a role for NMDAR-dependent glutamatergic signaling in CA3 in the cell-type specific induction of dendritic retraction in two hippocampal subregions following chronic stress.
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- K M Christian
- Unit on Genetics of Cognition and Behavior, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Clark TD, Seymour RS, Christian K, Wells RMG, Baldwin J, Farrell AP. Changes in cardiac output during swimming and aquatic hypoxia in the air-breathing Pacific tarpon. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2007; 148:562-71. [PMID: 17869150 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpa.2007.07.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2007] [Revised: 07/17/2007] [Accepted: 07/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Pacific tarpon (Megalops cyprinoides) use a modified gas bladder as an air-breathing organ (ABO). We examined changes in cardiac output (V(b)) associated with increases in air-breathing that accompany exercise and aquatic hypoxia. Juvenile (0.49 kg) and adult (1.21 kg) tarpon were allowed to recover in a swim flume at 27 degrees C after being instrumented with a Doppler flow probe around the ventral aorta to monitor V(b) and with a fibre-optic oxygen sensor in the ABO to monitor air-breathing frequency. Under normoxic conditions and in both juveniles and adults, routine air-breathing frequency was 0.03 breaths min(-1) and V(b) was about 15 mL min(-1) kg(-1). Normoxic exercise (swimming at about 1.1 body lengths s(-1)) increased air-breathing frequency by 8-fold in both groups (reaching 0.23 breaths min(-1)) and increased V(b) by 3-fold for juveniles and 2-fold for adults. Hypoxic exposure (2 kPa O2) at rest increased air-breathing frequency 19-fold (to around 0.53 breaths min(-1)) in both groups, and while V(b) again increased 3-fold in resting juvenile fish, V(b) was unchanged in resting adult fish. Exercise in hypoxia increased air-breathing frequency 35-fold (to 0.95 breaths min(-1)) in comparison with resting normoxic fish. While juvenile fish increased V(b) nearly 2-fold with exercise in hypoxia, adult fish maintained the same V(b) irrespective of exercise state and became agitated in comparison. These results imply that air-breathing during exercise and hypoxia can benefit oxygen delivery, but to differing degrees in juvenile and adult tarpon. We discuss this difference in the context of myocardial oxygen supply.
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- T D Clark
- Environmental Biology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia.
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Wells RMG, Baldwin J, Seymour RS, Christian K, Brittain T. Red blood cell function and haematology in two tropical freshwater fishes from Australia. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2005; 141:87-93. [PMID: 15893948 DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2005.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2005] [Revised: 04/07/2005] [Accepted: 04/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Salmon catfish and tarpon occur in habitats that periodically become deficient in oxygen resulting in high mortalities of other fish species. The water-breathing catfish, Arius leptaspis, and the facultative air-breathing tarpon, Megalops cyprinoides, both have high haemoglobin and haematocrit, and the oxygen carrying capacity in the air-breather is exceptionally high (15.6+/-1.2 vol%). Iso-pH oxygen equilibria of the red blood cells at 25 degrees C revealed high affinity (P(50)=9 mmHg, pH 7.4) and co-operativity (n(50)>2.2, pH 7.4) in the catfish, and contrasted with low affinity (P(50)=32 mmHg, pH 7.4) and co-operativity (n(50) approximately 1) in the air-breathing tarpon. Oxygen binding was further distinguished by relative pH insensitivity (Bohr factor, Ø=Deltalog P(50)/Deltalog pH=-0.22) in the catfish, compared with a significant Bohr effect in the tarpon (Ø=-0.96). The potential for modulation of haemoglobin-oxygen affinity was indicated by a high ratio of GTP to ATP in the erythrocytes of the catfish, whereas regulation in the tarpon appeared due to ATP alone. Differences in blood respiratory functions between the two species are likely to reflect reduced opportunity for activity under extreme hypoxia in the catfish.
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- R M G Wells
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Seymour RS, Christian K, Bennett MB, Baldwin J, Wells RMG, Baudinette RV. Partitioning of Respiration between the Gills and Air‐Breathing Organ in Response to Aquatic Hypoxia and Exercise in the Pacific Tarpon,Megalops cyprinoides. Physiol Biochem Zool 2004; 77:760-7. [PMID: 15547794 DOI: 10.1086/422056] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/02/2003] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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The evolution of air-breathing organs (ABOs) is associated not only with hypoxic environments but also with activity. This investigation examines the effects of hypoxia and exercise on the partitioning of aquatic and aerial oxygen uptake in the Pacific tarpon. The two-species cosmopolitan genus Megalops is unique among teleosts in using swim bladder ABOs in the pelagic marine environment. Small fish (58-620 g) were swum at two sustainable speeds in a circulating flume respirometer in which dissolved oxygen was controlled. For fish swimming at 0.11 m s(-1) in normoxia (Po2 = 21 kPa), there was practically no air breathing, and gill oxygen uptake was 1.53 mL kg(-0.67) min(-1). Air breathing occurred at 0.5 breaths min(-1) in hypoxia (8 kPa) at this speed, when the gills and ABOs accounted for 0.71 and 0.57 mL kg(-0.67) min(-1), respectively. At 0.22 m s(-1) in normoxia, breathing occurred at 0.1 breaths min(-1), and gill and ABO oxygen uptake were 2.08 and 0.08 mL kg(-0.67) min(-1), respectively. In hypoxia and 0.22 m s(-1), breathing increased to 0.6 breaths min(-1), and gill and ABO oxygen uptake were 1.39 and 1.28 mL kg(-0.67) min(-1), respectively. Aquatic hypoxia was therefore the primary stimulus for air breathing under the limited conditions of this study, but exercise augmented oxygen uptake by the ABOs, particularly in hypoxic water.
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- R S Seymour
- Environmental Biology, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia
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Wells RMG, Baldwin J, Seymour RS, Baudinette RV, Christian K, Bennett MB. Oxygen transport capacity in the air-breathing fish, Megalops cyprinoides: compensations for strenuous exercise. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 2003; 134:45-53. [PMID: 12507606 DOI: 10.1016/s1095-6433(02)00179-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [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: 10/27/2022]
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Tarpon have high resting or routine hematocrits (Hct) (37.6+/-3.4%) and hemoglobin concentrations (120.6+/-7.3 gl(-1)) that increased significantly following bouts of angling-induced exercise (51.9+/-3.7% and 142.8+/-13.5 gl(-1), respectively). Strenuous exercise was accompanied by an approximately tenfold increase in blood lactate and a muscle metabolite profile indicative of a high energy demand teleost. Routine blood values were quickly restored only when this facultative air-breathing fish was given access to atmospheric air. In vitro studies of oxygen transport capacity, a function of carrying capacity and viscosity, revealed that the optimal Hct range corresponded to that observed in fish under routine behaviour. During strenuous exercise however, further increase in viscosity was largely offset by a pronounced reduction in the shear-dependence of blood which conformed closely to an ideal Newtonian fluid. The mechanism for this behaviour of the erythrocytes appears to involve the activation of surface adrenergic receptors because pre-treatment with propranolol abolished the response. High levels of activity in tarpon living in hypoxic habitats are therefore supported by an elevated Hct with adrenergically mediated viscosity reduction, and air-breathing behaviour that enables rapid metabolic recovery.
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- R M G Wells
- School of Biological Sciences, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Seymour RS, Kennett R, Christian K. Osmotic balance in the eggs of the turtle Chelodina rugosa during developmental arrest under water. Physiol Zool 1997; 70:301-6. [PMID: 9231404 DOI: 10.1086/639604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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The tropical Australian turtle Chelodina rugosa normally lays its hard-shelled eggs in mud, under shallow freshwater, during the monsoon season. The eggs undergo developmental arrest until the water recedes and oxygen is able to diffuse into the embryo. This period of arrest can exceed 12 wk without embryonic mortality. To understand how the eggs avoid osmotic absorption of water leading to shell rupture and embryonic death, this study investigates the solute concentrations and volumes of the albumen and yolk compartments during submergence in distilled water. The albumen loses considerable sodium through the shell, particularly during the first week, and its osmotic concentration drops from 234 mmol/kg at laying to about 23 mmol/kg. Meanwhile, water from the albumen slowly moves through the vitelline membrane into the yolk compartment, which enlarges at a constant rate until it approaches the inside of the shell at about 22 wk. Osmotic uptake dilutes yolk solutes, decreasing the osmotic concentration from 281 mmol/kg at laying to 132 mmol/kg at 157 d. Loss of embryonic viability is associated with contact of the vitelline membrane with the inside of the shell. The principal adaptation of this species for protracted developmental arrest under water is a vitelline membrane of such low permeability to water that the expansion of the yolk compartment occurs about 10 times more slowly than in other chelonians.
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- R S Seymour
- Department of Zoology, University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Christian K, Green B, Bedford G, Newgrain K. Seasonal metabolism of a small, arboreal monitor lizard,Varanus scalaris, in tropical Australia. J Zool (1987) 1996. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1996.tb05293.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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McConville BJ, Minnery KL, Sorter MT, West SA, Friedman LM, Christian K. An open study of the effects of sertraline on adolescent major depression. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol 1996; 6:41-51. [PMID: 9231298 DOI: 10.1089/cap.1996.6.41] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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This open study investigated the effects of sertraline in treating 13 adolescents, ages 12 to 18, who were hospitalized for treatment of a major depressive episode. The sample included 7 adolescents with nonendogenous depression and 6 with endogenous depression, as diagnosed by both Research Diagnostic Criteria (RDC) and Kiddie-SADS-P DSM-III-R endogenous subtype criteria. These patients were followed for an inpatient length of stay ranging from 9 to 38 days (mean 19 days), with later outpatient follow-up for a total of 12 weeks. Measures of depression were found to improve significantly, including suicidal ideation and most of the DSM-III-R symptoms of major depression. Sertraline (mean 110 mg or 1.96 mg/kg daily) significantly decreased scores on the 24-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale and Montgomery-Asberg Depression Rating Scale from premedication baseline to treatment week 12, and also between weeks 1 (after a large week 1 improvement, presumably due to nondrug effects) and 12. There was a small but significant improvement on the Children's Global Assessment Scale between baseline and week 12, but the Family Global Assessment Scale showed no significant change; neither global assessment scale showed significant effects between weeks 1 and 12. Sleep disturbance was common (69%) after 12 weeks of treatment, but clinically significant improvements in sleep patterns were also observed. This open-label prospective study suggests that sertraline might be useful in treating adolescents with major depression. Adverse effects, mainly insomnia and drowsiness, were relatively common but usually manageable. One patient developed mania after 8 days of sertraline treatment at a dose of 100 mg daily.
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- B J McConville
- Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Ohio, USA
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Christian KM. "Twinning". Midwives Chron 1978; 91:59. [PMID: 246494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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