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- Bridge, Eileen, et al.
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Dynamic organization of splicing factors in adenovirus-infected cells
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In: Journal of Virology. - 0022-538X .- 1098-5514. ; 69:1, s. 281-290
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- Adenovirus infection affects the nuclear distribution of host splicing factors. Late phase-infected cells contain discrete clusters of small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs) that are separate from centers containing the viral 72-kilodalton DNA-binding protein (72K protein). In the present study, we demonstrate that these snRNP clusters also contain splicing factors from the SR protein family. We show that a previously described monoclonal antibody, 3C5, detects SR proteins. Furthermore, we demonstrate that late region 3 transcription occurs at a maximal rate in infected cultures in which greater than 90% of the cells contain the snRNP clusters, indicating that such cells are actively transcribing their late genes. During the onset of the late phase, the intranuclear distribution of splicing factors is very different from that seen after the late phase is established. When late viral transcription commences, cells with snRNP clusters are less prevalent than in cultures that are maintaining maximum levels of late transcription. Instead, a cell type which shows snRNPs, concentrated in foci that also contain the viral 72K DNA-binding protein is detected. This cell type disappears from cultures by 18 to 20 h after a high-multiplicity infection. These results suggest a dynamic organization of splicing factors in infected cells that can be correlated to the status of viral gene expression. Our work also provides an explanation for the differing results that have been published concerning the organization of splicing factors in the adenovirus-infected cell nucleus (L. F. Jiménez-García and D. L. Spector, Cell 73:47-59, 1993). During the present study we observed that a monoclonal antibody against the SC-35 protein, which was used by Jiménez-García and Spector to study the localization of the SC-35 splicing factor in adenovirus-infected cells, cross-reacts with the adenovirus 72K DNA-binding protein and is thus unsuitable for this type of study.
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- Rasmussen, I, et al.
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Hepatic extraction of hyaluronic acid in porcine peritonitis
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In: European Surgical Research. - : S. Karger AG. - 0014-312X .- 1421-9921. ; 27:1, s. 1-10
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The hepatic extraction of hyaluronic acid (HA) was studied in porcine fecal peritonitis in two groups of animals given various amounts of volume substitution. There was a progressive decrease in hepatic blood flow (QH) and a corresponding increase in the plasma concentration of HA in arterial blood over a 5-hour observation period, less pronounced in animals given more volume substitution. While hepatic clearance of HA decreased, the extraction ratio over the liver was not altered. The extracted amount of HA, which at steady state reflects the turnover of HA, was also unchanged. There was a significant correlation between QH and arterial HA concentration (r = 0.57; p < 0.05). The data suggest that the arterial HA concentration in sepsis reflects QH rather than an altered ability of the liver to eliminate HA.
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- Antonsson, J B, et al.
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Changes in gut intramucosal pH and gut oxygen extraction ratio in a porcine model of peritonitis and hemorrhage.
- 1995
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In: Critical Care Medicine. - : Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health). - 0090-3493 .- 1530-0293. ; 23:11, s. 1872-81
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To establish the relationship between gut intramucosal pH and blood flow to the gut, gut oxygen delivery, and gut oxygen extraction ratio in a porcine model of peritonitis and hemorrhage.DESIGN: Prospective, controlled study.SETTING: Experimental laboratory in a university teaching hospital.SUBJECTS: Thirty pigs of both sexes, weighing 15 to 22 kg.INTERVENTIONS: Animals were anesthetized, intubated, and mechanically ventilated. A flow probe was placed around the superior mesenteric artery for registration of blood flow. A tonometer was placed in the lumen of midileum for calculation of gut intramucosal pH. Hourly, for 5 hrs, blood samples were taken from mixed venous, mesenteric venous, and arterial blood. Five animals served as controls, ten animals had peritonitis induced by fecal instillation in the abdominal cavity, five were bled stepwise, five were bled rapidly (to a mean arterial pressure of 30 mm Hg), and five were bled rapidly and reinfused after 3 hrs.MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Both peritonitis and hemorrhage caused decreases in gut blood flow and intramucosal pH. In mild peritonitis, the intramucosal pH decrease preceded that of blood flow. In all experimental groups, oxygen delivery decreased over time; in both mild and severe peritonitis, this decrease was preceded by a decrease of intramucosal pH. Intramucosal pH correlated well with gut oxygen extraction ratio in peritonitis (r2 = .86). In hemorrhage, there was a correlation of r2 = .66, but in intramucosal pH of < 7.12, a further decrease was accompanied only by minor changes in extraction ratio.CONCLUSIONS: Since a reduction in blood flow was preceded by a decrease in intramucosal pH, low intramucosal pH in peritonitis cannot be explained by low flow alone. Gut oxygen delivery proved to be a poor indicator of gut acidosis (i.e., low intramucosal pH). In peritonitis, a decreasing intramucosal pH was associated with an increasing oxygen extraction ratio. In hemorrhage, this association had a sharp deflection point below which a further decrease in intramucosal pH occurred concomitantly with an unchanged gut oxygen extraction ratio. Increased extraction ratio was not sufficient, not even initially, to maintain aerobic metabolism (i.e., unchanged intramucosal pH).
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- Sisask, Gregor, 1951-, et al.
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Ontogeny of sensory nerves in the developing skeleton
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In: Anatomical Record. - : Wiley. - 0003-276X .- 1097-0185. ; 243:2, s. 234-240
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- Background: Previous studies have shown that the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) have an influence on osteoclastic bone resorption and that CGRP and substance P (SP), both wellknown markers for sensory neurons, behave as growth factors.Materials and Methods: The ontogeny of the sensory nerves in the hindlimb skeleton of the rat was studied from gestational day (GD) 15 to neonatal day (ND) 24 by immunohistochemistry. Neurofilaments and nerve terminals were labelled with protein gene-product 9.5 (PGP 9.5) and synaptophycin (SYN) respectively.Results: PGP 9.5 appeared at GD 15 and SYN at GD 19, both in the perichondrial tissue of the long bones. One week later, at ND 4 nerve fibre, immunoreactive to PGP 9.5 and SYN were observed within the bone organ. Sensory nerves, indicated by CGRP and SP, were first discerned at GD 18-19 in the periosteal tissue of the diaphyseal and metaphseal regions and in the bone organ at ND 4. Approximately at ND 6, vascular as well as non-vascular nerves extended into the metaphyses and at ND 8 into the epiphyses, concomitant with the first signs of mineralization.Conclusions: The study shows that a functional sensory nerve supply of the developing bone organ occurs immediatly prior to partus, apparently parallel with an increasing mineralization. The combined findings may indicate a sensory influence on developmental processes in the skeleton
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