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L Rogac

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PubMed1978

Alterations of putative neurotransmitters and enzymes during ischemia in gerbil cerebral cortex.

Bilateral occlusion of common carotid arteries in Mongolian gerbils was produced for the periods (up to 15 min) which were shown to be totally reversible. There was an initial increase of cyclic AMP and GABA levels and enhanced activities of adenylate cyclase and glutamate decarboxylase, as well as the reduction of norepinephrine level and decreased activities of monoamine oxidase, GABA-transaminase and Na+-K+-ATPase. Following these changes, decreased concentration of dopamine, serotinin and glutamate were found. The activities of total protein kinase and acetylcholinesterase were found to be reduced after longer periods of short-term ischemia. The data are consistent with the concept of increased non-controled release of putative neurotransmitters in ischemia.

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[Characteristic reaction of early sea urchin embryos to cytostatic analogs of transmitter substances].

Early embryos of Arbacia lixula sea urchin, obtained from eggs pretreated with KYR-12 serotonin analog or A-83 dopamine analog, develop quite normally. At the same time they have a sharply decreased supersensitivity to cytostatic analogs of "prenervous" transmitters; usual sensitivity to this analogs does not change. Besides, both the supersensitivity and the usual sensitivity stop decreasing upon an increase in the density of density of experimental embryos in the incubation medium.

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[Reception and extrareceptor binding of cytostatic serotonin antagonists by early embryos of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula].

Unfertilized eggs and early embryos of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula incubated for 60 min in a medium containing the antagonists of prenervous serotonin, i.e. inmecarb (21 microM) or imipramine (40 microM), bind up to 5 microM of these drugs per 1 ml of cells. At high cell concentrations (more than 10,000 eggs or embryos per 1 ml), this binding is not followed by inhibition of cleavage divisions or by increase in the sensitivity to cytostatic effects of these drugs, which is taken as an indication that this binding is a nonreceptive one. The decrease in concentration of eggs or embryos does not affect total binding of the drugs, although their antiserotonin effects become evident indicating the existence of the receptor sites of binding. In experiments with 3H-imipramine, two binding pools were found (Bmax being correspondingly equal to about 20 and 0.75 microM/ml of embryos; the values of Kd amount to 200 and 15 microM). One of them is a nonreceptive pool, whereas the other presumably coincides with receptor binding sites of prenervous serotonin antagonists.

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[The action of tiazofurin on the development of sea urchin embryos and larvae].

The effects of the antitumor drug tiazofurin on development of sea urchins Sphaerechinus granularis, Paracentrotus lividus, Strongylocentrotus intermedius, and Arbacia lixula were studied. When 0.01-200 microM tiazofurin (TAF) was introduced in the incubation medium (artificial sea water) just after fertilization or at the midblastula stage, the development proceeded quite normally until the beginning of gastrulation. But later TAF blocked gastrulation and induced formation of mobile ball-shaped larvae with normal pigment cells but devoid of the nervous system, skeletal spicules and digestive tract. The threshold TAF concentrations varied from 0.05 microM (S. granularis) to 2-5 microM (all other species). When TAF was introduced during gastrulation and just after gastrulation, the larvae had defective nervous system and skeleton and suppressed expression of gangliosides. The nonhydrolyzable analog of GTP, GTP-gamma-S (5-20 microM), introduced in artificial sea water no later than at the midblastula stage prevented all above mentioned developmental defects.

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