Acetylcholine content and release in denervated or botulinum poisoned rat skeletal muscle

The acetylcholine (ACh) content and spontaneous and evoked release of ACh in rat extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles were determined by pyrolysis mass fragmentography. The determinations were made on muscles paralysed by local application of botulinum toxin (BoTx) type A, on unpoisoned muscles, surgically denervated or reinnervated muscles....

Evidence for linkage of 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, hypoxanthine-guanine-phosphoribosyl transferase, and glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase loci in Chinese hamster cells studied by using a relationship between gene multiplicity and enzyme activity

The PGK activity was assayed in diploid, hyperdiploid, tetraploid, and hybrid cells all originating from the same Chinese hamster cell line (DON line). A relationship between gene multiplicity and enzyme activity was observed. Selective pressure on the HGPRT locus by growth of hybrid cells in the presence of 8-azaguanine resulted in decreased...

The binding of sarin in the blood plasma of the rat

Sephadex filtration of serum from rats 10 min after injection of 50 μg/kg of 32P-sarin demonstrated that about 70 per cent of the radioactivity present in the serum was attached to molecules with a molecular weight above 10,000. Incubation of samples of this serum with oximes caused a decrease in the amounts of 32P attached to the large...

Repair of X-ray damage in DNA of cultivated cells from patients having xeroderma pigmentosum

Repair replication and rejoining of single-strand breaks after X-irradiation in human-skin fibroblasts from normal donors and several patients with xeroderma pigmentosum have been compared. The xeroderma strains showed different levels of repair replication following UV exposure. Repair replication and rejoining of breaks, which are considered...

The regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation in intestinal epithelium. II. A quantitative histochemical and autoradiographic study after low doses of X-irradiation

To investigate the biochemical mechanisms involved in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation the intestinal epithelium has been chosen because of the regular distribution of proliferative-, non-dividing maturing- and functional cells along the crypt and villus. The effect of low doses of irradiation (50-400 R) which selectively...

The influence of triorthocresylphosphate on the distribution of 32P in the body of the rat after the injection of 32P-sarin

The ChE- and AE- activities and the 32P-concentration of the plasma from rats 1 and 24 hr after s.c. injection of 32P-sarin (200 μg kg) were measured. One hr after the injection the ChE was inhibited to approx. 10 per cent and the AE to 40-50 per cent; 23 hr later 50 per cent of the ChE activity was found to be restored and the AE had recovered...

Synchronization of mammalian cells in vitro by inhibition of the DNA synthesis. II. Population dynamics

Some aspects of the population dynamics before, during and after the double thymidine treatment synchronization procedure were analysed. The mitotic index in the synchronized populations rose from 0.0 per cent at 1 hr after the end of the second treatment to 20.8 per cent at 9.7 hr, dropped to 0.1 per cent at about 22 hr and increased again to a...

Synchronization of mammalian cells in vitro by inhibition of the DNA synthesis. I. Optimal conditions

An optimal procedure to synchronize the life cycles of the individuals in a population of human cells, cultured in vitro, by repeated temporary inhibition of the DNA synthesis was elaborated. Cultures in the logarithmic growth phase were treated three times with 7.5 mM thymidine dissolved in medium. Each treatment was terminated after 24 hr by...

The influence of atropine on the release and uptake of acetylcholine by the isolated cerebral cortex of the rat

Changes induced in the first post-irradiation generation cycle of human cells studied by double labeling

Artificial beryllium 7 in the lower stratosphere

On the deposition of cosmic-ray-produced beryllium 7

De radioactiviteit ten gevolge van de proeven met kernwapens