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- Dircksen, Heinrich, 1954-, et al.
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Structure, distribution, and biological activity of novel members of the allatostatin family in the crayfish Orconectes limosus.
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Ingår i: Peptides. - 0196-9781 .- 1873-5169. ; 20:6, s. 695-712
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the central and peripheral nervous system of the crayfish, Orconectes limosus, neuropeptides immunoreactive to an antiserum against allatostatin I (= Dipstatin 7) of the cockroach Diploptera punctata have been detected by immunocytochemistry and a sensitive enzyme immunoassay. Abundant immunoreactivity occurs throughout the central nervous system in distinct interneurons and neurosecretory cells. The latter have terminals in well-known neurohemal organs, such as the sinus gland, the pericardial organs, and the perineural sheath of the ventral nerve cord. Nervous tissue extracts were separated by reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography and fractions were monitored in the enzyme immunoassay. Three of several immunopositive fractions have been purified and identified by mass spectroscopy and microsequencing as AGPYAFGL-NH2, SAGPYAFGL-NH2, and PRVYGFGL-NH2. The first peptide is identical to carcinustatin 8 previously identified in the crab Carcinus maenas. The others are novel and are designated orcostatin I and orcostatin II, respectively. All three peptides exert dramatic inhibitory effects on contractions of the crayfish hindgut. Carcinustatin 8 also inhibits induced contractions of the cockroach hindgut. Furthermore, this peptide reduces the cycle frequency of the pyloric rhythms generated by the stomatogastric nervous system of two decapod species in vitro. These crayfish allatostatin-like peptides are the first native crustacean peptides with demonstrated inhibitory actions on hindgut muscles and the pyloric rhythm of the stomatogastric ganglion.
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- Nilsson, A. M. K., et al.
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Near infrared diffuse reflection and laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy for myocardial tissue characterisation
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Ingår i: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. - 1386-1425. ; 53:11, s. 1901-1912
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to evaluate the potential of cardiovascular tissue characterisation using near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, spectra in a previously unexplored wavelength region 0.8-2.3 mu m were recorded from various pig heart tissue samples in vitro: normal myocardium (with and without endo/epicardium), aorta; fatty and fibrous heart tissue. The spectra were analysed with principal component analysis (PCA), revealing several spectroscopically characteristic features enabling tissue classification. Several of the identified spectral features could be attributed to specific tissue constituents by comparing the tissue signals with spectra obtained from water, elastin, collagen and cholesterol as well as with published data. The results obtained with the NIR spectroscopy technique in terms of its potential to classify different tissue types were compared with those from laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) using 337 nm excitation. LIF and NIR spectroscopy can in combination with PCA be used to discriminate between all previously mentioned tissue groups, apart from fatty versus fibrous tissue (LIF) and aorta versus fibrous tissue (NIR), respectively. The NIR analysis was improved by focusing the PCA to the wavelength segment 2.0-2.3 mu m, resulting in successful spectral characterisation of all cardiovascular tissue groups.
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