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C Giunta

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Lysosomes in the cultivated mushroom (Psalliota bispora quel.).

Fungine lysosomes are difficult to identify because some vesicular structures are present in hyphae, such as provacuoles, lomasome precursor, peroxisomes and spherosomes. Moreover, many Hymenomycetes, as the common cultivated mushroom (Psalliota bispora Quel.), lack tipical Golgi apparatuses, making ontogenesis of lysosomes a matter of difficult interpretation. As shown before (Scannerini, 1969) the hyphae of this fungus contain vesicles that reveal acid glycerophosphatase activity, thus we studied these organelles with morphological, cytochemical and biochemical criteria.

Basidiomycota↗
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Biochemical data on subtotally hypophysectomized Xenopus laevis (Daudin) adult specimens treated or not with prolactin.

Xenopus laevis (Daudin) adult specimens were submitted to hypophysectomy. Although the operation resulted subtotal, it served the purpose of removing the prolactin-producing cells, whereby the involvement of endogenous prolactin in osmoregulation phenomena was excluded. In the operated animals treated with ovine prolactin the following metabolic parameters, which are closely dependent upon interrenal activity, were estimated: 1) intestine alkaline phosphomonoesterase activity (E.C. 3.1.3.1); 2) liver glycogen level; 3) glucose-6-phosphatase (E.C. 3.1.3.9.) and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (E.C. 4.1.1.32.) in the liver; 4) blood glucose level; 5) blood ammonia and urea levels; 6) carbamoylphosphate synthetase activity in the liver (E.C. 2.7.2.a); 7) muscle sodium and potassium levels. The above metabolic parameters were found to be pressed by subtotal hypophysectomy and after subsequent prolactin treatment showed the tendency to go back to values similar to those of control animals.

Adrenocorticotropic Hormone↗