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Nora Fischer

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PubMed2005

[The cookery book of the monastery library of Michaelbeuern (Man.of cart. 81). Edition and commentary].

We present the edition of 12 cookery recipes which are found in the manuscript Man. cart. 81 of the monastery of Michaelbeuern near Salzburg (Austria). The manuscript dates from the middle of the 15th century and contains mostly religious texts; some medical texts as well as texts belonging to the liberal arts indicate that it may have been used as a school book for the monks. The dialect of the recipes shows upper German and Bavarian peculiarities, according to the place the manuscript is preserved. The edition of the recipes is followed by a commentary and a glossary. Eight of the recipes concern lenten meals, which means that they were probably collected especially for the religious community of the monks.

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PubMed2002

Brevican isoforms associate with neural membranes.

Brevican is a neural-specific proteoglycan of the brain extracellular matrix, which is particularly abundant in the terminally differentiated CNS. It is expressed by neuronal and glial cells, and as a component of the perineuronal nets it decorates the surface of large neuronal somata and primary dendrites. One brevican isoform harbors a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor attachment site and, as shown by ethanolamine incorporation studies, is indeed glypiated in stably transfected HEK293 cells as well as in oligodendrocyte precursor Oli-neu cells. The major isoform is secreted into the extracellular space, although a significant amount appears to be tightly attached to the cell membrane, as it floats up in sucrose gradients. Flotation is sensitive to detergent treatment. Brevican is most prominent in the microsomal, light membrane and synaptosomal fractions of rat brain membrane preparations. The association with the particulate fraction is in part sensitive to chondroitinase ABC and phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C treatment. Furthermore, brevican staining on the surface of hippocampal neurons in culture is diminished after hyaluronidase or chondroitinase ABC treatment. Taken together, this could provide a mechanism by which perineuronal nets are anchored on neuronal surfaces.

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