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- Garcia, A.J.V., Morad, S. and De Ros, L.F.
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Paleoclimatic, paleogeographic and burial-history controls on the diagenetic evolution of reservoir sandstones: evidence from the Early Cretaceous Serraria Sandstones in the Sergipe-Alagoas Basin, NE Brazil
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Ingår i: Morad, S. (ed), Carbonate Cementation of Sandstones. (International Association of Sediemnetologists, IAS, Special Publication, 26). ; , s. 107-140
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- Garcia-Guzman, M, et al.
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Characterization of recombinant human P2X4 receptor reveals pharmacological differences to the rat homologue.
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Ingår i: Molecular Pharmacology. - 0026-895X .- 1521-0111. ; 51:1, s. 109-18
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- We isolated a cDNA from human brain encoding a purinergic receptor that shows a high degree of homology to the rat P2X4 receptor (87% identity). By fluorescence in situ hybridization, the human P2X4 gene has been mapped to region q24.32 of chromosome 12. Tissue distribution analysis of human P2X4 transcripts demonstrates a broad expression pattern in that the mRNA was detected not only in brain but also in all tissues tested. Heterologous expression of the human P2X4 receptor in Xenopus laevis oocytes and human embryonic kidney 293 cells evoked an ATP-activated channel. Simultaneous whole-cell current and Fura-2 fluorescence measurements in human embronic kidney 293 cells transfected with human P2X4 cDNA allowed us to determine the fraction of the current carried by Ca2: this was approximately 8%, demonstrating a high Ca2+ permeability. Low extracellular Zn2+ concentrations (5-10 microM) increase the apparent gating efficiency of human P2X4 by ATP without affecting the maximal response. However, raising the concentration of the divalent cation (> 100 microM) inhibits the ATP-evoked current in a non-voltage-dependent manner. The human P2X4 receptor displays a very similar agonist potency profile to that of rat P2X4 (ATP > > 2-methylthio-ATP > or = CTP > alpha, beta-methylene-ATP > dATP) but has a notably higher sensitivity for the antagonists suramin, pyridoxal-phosphate-6-azophenyl-2',4'-disulfonic acid, and bromphenol blue. Chimeric constructs between human and rat isoforms as well as single-point mutations were engineered to map the regions responsible for the different sensitivity to suramin and pyridoxal-phosphate-6-azophenyl-2'4'-disulfonic acid.
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- Rubio, F. T., et al.
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BDNF gene transfer to the mammalian brain using CNS-derived neural precursors
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Ingår i: Gene Therapy. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0969-7128 .- 1476-5462. ; 6:11, s. 1851-1866
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- Neural stem cell lines represent a homogeneous source of cells for genetic, developmental, and gene transfer and repair studies in the nervous system. Since both gene transfer of neurotrophic factors and cell replacement strategies are of immediate interest for therapeutical purposes, we have generated BDNF-secreting neural stem cell lines and investigated to what extent different endogenous levels of BDNF expression affect in vitro survival, proliferation and differentiation of these cells. Also we have investigated the in vivo effects of such BDNF gene transfer procedure in the rat neostriatum. Hippocampus- and cerebellum-derived cell lines reacted differently to manipulations aimed at varying their levels of BDNF production. Overexpression of BDNF enhanced survival of both cell types, in a serum-deprivation assay. Conversely, and ruling out unspecific effects, expression of an antisense version of BDNF resulted in compromised survival of cerebellum-derived cells, and in a lethal phenotype in hippocampal progenitors. These data indicate that endogenous BDNF level strongly influences the in vitro survival of these cells. These effects are more pronounced for hippocampus- than for cerebellum-derived progenitors. Hippocampus-derived BDNF overproducers showed no major change in their capacity to differentiate towards a neuronal phenotype in vitro. In contrast cerebellar progenitors overproducing BDNF did not differentiate into neurons, whereas cells expressing the antisense BDNF construct generated cells with morphological features of neurons and expressing immunological neuronal markers. Taken together these results provide evidence that BDNF controls both the in vitro survival and differentiation of neural stem cells. After in vivo transplantation of BDNF-overproducing cells to the rat neostriatum, these survived better than the control ones, and induced the expected neurotrophic effects on cholinergic neurons. However, long-term (3 months) administration of BDNF resulted in detrimental effects, at this location. These findings may be of importance for the understanding of brain development, for the design of therapeutic neuro-regenerative strategies, and for cell replacement and gene therapy studies.
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