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K Boda

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PubMed1981

Antitumor activity of flavonoids on NK/Ly ascites tumor cells.

Among the various flavonoids, rutin and quercetin increased the survival time of mice inoculated with NK/Ly ascites tumor cells. The best results were obtained when the mice were given 2.0 mg rutin twice daily for 8 days. The O-silyl-substituted rutin and quercetin were less effective than rutin or quercetin themselves. Besides rutin, quercetin and morin two other flavonoids, luteolin and pelargonidin also exerted growth inhibitory effects on NK/Ly ascites tumor cells cultures in vitro.

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PubMed1981

[Electron microscopic studies of striated muscles of the Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) obtained from eggs centrifuged during incubation].

Reported in this paper are results obtained from investigations into the effect of hypergravitation on embryogenesis of striped muscles in Japanese quail. Specimens of striped muscles were excised from the birds after hatching and used in the study. The eggs had been centrifuged on zero day as well as on the first and 15th days of incubation. The muscle fibrils were found to proliferate in all groups, that is the control group, the group with centrifugation on zero day, and that with centrifugation on the first and 15th days. The process thus is characterised as physiological, known to occur prenatally and postnatally in developing individuals.

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PubMed1980

Spatial interactions of opposite vasomotor reflexes.

The simultaneous interactions of pressor and depressor reflexes evoked by stimulation of the central ends of the vagal, tibial and median nerves were studied in urethan and chloralose-urethan anaesthetized cats. The responses obtained to simultaneous activations of opposite reflexes differed from the algebraic sum of the separately evoked ones. The direction and the extent of the differences were determined by the type of the prevailing neural process and by the size of the individual reflex responses. The relations between the responses evoked simultaneously and separately may be characterized by multiple linear regression.

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PubMed1979

[Motility of the rumen after feeding sheep pelleted rations].

In an experiment with wethers the effect of the feeding with pelleted feed rations and the partial replacement of coarse fodder by non-treated beech sawdust on the motorial activity of the rumen was observed. The rumen motility was measured through a rumen fistula by means of the balloon method with the help of a capacitator primary unit, an electric manometer and a recording instrument. Over a period of 24 weeks the animals consumed 1.3 kg dry matter per day. It consisted of 41.8% meadow hay, 25.3% barley, 15.4% sawdust, 15.0% molasses, 1.3% urea, 0.76% mixed minerals and 0.48% hexametaphosphate in the form of pellets (test group) or the traditional classical form (control group). The feeding of pellets diminished the frequency (P less than 0.001) and the intensity of rumen contractions before and 1, 3 and 5 hours after feeding. Maximal frequency values were registered one hour after the food intake. During this time the number of secondary contractions of the rumen increased; differences of the frequency were, however, not registered, which means that the different physical form of the diet had no influence on the motorial activity of the rumen and that the food intake as such is the decisive factor. The diminished rumen motility in further hours after feeding was effected by treating the feed (grinding and pelleting).

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PubMed1979

Urease activity in the contents and tissues of the sheep, pig and chicken gastrointestinal apparatus.

Urease activity, expressed as mg N-NH3/g dry weight per 30 min at 25 degrees C, was determined in the various parts of the sheep, chicken and pig digestive apparatus. The results were as follows. Sheep: contents--rumen 1.25"/-0.09, reticulum 0.78+/-0.02, omasum 0.44+/-0.02, abomasum 0.002+/-0.001, duodenum 0.003+/-0.001, jejunum 0.18+/-0.03, ileum 0.42+/-0.03, caecum 1.34+/-0.11, colon 0.76+/-0.08, walls-rumen 0.88+/-0.16, reticulum 0.38+/-0.04, omasum 0.11+/-0.02, abomasum 0.01+/-0.002, ileum 0.092+/-0.01, caecum 0.14+/-0.03, colon 0.16+/-0.02. Chicken: contents--jejunum 0.028+/-0.009, ileum 0.043+/-0.013, caecum 0.17+/-0.03, colon and cloaca 0.04+/-0.013. Pigs: contents--jejunum 0.02+/-0.01, ileum 0.14+/-0.08, caecum 0.62+-0.12, colon 0.43+/-0.06. No urease activity was found in the walls of the digestive apparatus or the contents of the duodenum in chickens, or in the walls of the stomach and intestine and the contents of the duodenum in pigs. The results show that urease activity in the digestive apparatus of pigs and poultry is lower than in sheep. Inadequate urease activity in the digestive apparatus explains why chickens and pigs are significantly less capable than ruminants of utilizing urea nitrogen as a substitute for some of the protein in the diet.

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PubMed1979

Endogenous urea secretion into the sheep gastrointestinal tract.

Urea turnover and the proportion of endogenous urea secreted and excreted in the saliva, the bile, the pancreatic juice and the urine and directly across the wall of the digestive tract was studied in 6 experiments, after a single i.v. dose of labelled 15N, in two adult sheep weighing 49 and 50 kg, with permanent biliary and pancreatic fistulus and with an exteriorized right parotid duct. It was found that, of the total amount of endogenous urea secreted into the animals' digestive tract (0.2694+/-0.0138 mg/min/kg b.w.), 10.27+/-0.94% reached the contents in the saliva, 2.12+/-0.28% in the bile and 0.66+/-0.08% in the pancreatic juice, and that 86.95+/-2.1% was secreted into the gastrointestinal tract, across its wall, from the blood capillaries. Exogenous turnover amounted to 0.3228+/-0.192 mg/min/kg. Of the total amount of 476.6 mg i.v. injected 15N urea, 274.1+/-8.86 mg was excreted in the urine 5.1+/-0.9 mg in the bile, 3.19+/-0.06 mg in the pancreatic juice, 4.96+/-0.76 mg via the right parotid gland and 9.34+/-1.09 mg in the faeces. The results show that the quantitatively most important part of the recirculation of endogenous urea is its passage from the blood across the wall of the gastrointestinal tract into its contents.

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PubMed1977

Hypoglycaemia and food intake in rats given graduated doses of insulin.

Hypoglycaemia of varying duration was induced with graduated doses of long-acting insulin (10, 40 and 160 U/kg b.w.) in young, growing (8- to 10-week-old) male Wistar rats fed ad libitum on two different diets. In all, 6 doses of insulin were administered, at 48-hour intervals. The blood glucose level and food consumption were determined 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours after injecting the insulin. Both the hypoglycaemic effect and elevated food intake during hypoglycaemia depended on the dose of insulin and not on the type of diet. Total food consumption during the experiment (12 days) was markedly raised only in the groups given the maximum dose of insulin (160 U/kg b.w.). The weight gain in all the experimental groups was lower than in the control groups and food consumption per weight gain unit was higher.

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PubMed1977

Utilization of 15N-urea administered into the sheep small intestine.

The retention and excretion of intrajejunally administered 15N-urea was studied in four experiments on two sheep with a permanently fistulated small intestine. In the first 7 days after the administration of 2 g 15N-urea, 18.26% was excreted in the faeces and 19% in the urine; 62.74% was retained in the organism. Urinary excretion took place mainly on the first day and from the 3rd to the 7th day no 15N was present in the urine. The rate of 15N excretion in the faeces was roughly the same for the first 4 days and then fell; on the 7th day there was no 15N in the faeces. The proportion of 15N-urea retained in the organism and excreted in the urine was 81% showing that urea in the ruminant gastrointestinal tract is largely linked up into metabolic circulation as part of the general exchange of nitrogenous compounds.

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