Published in Acta biologica et medica Germanica
Antibodies against rat islet cells were produced by immunisation of rabbits with neonatal rat islet cells. In the presence of complement the rabbit anti-rat islet cell surface sera were strongly cytotoxic for both, neonatal rat islet cells and spleen lymphocytes as revealed by the high percentage of 51Cr release from these cells. However, after abs...
Published in Acta biologica et medica Germanica
Published in Acta biologica et medica Germanica
In accordance with earlier results the electrophoretic mobility of lymphocytes is decreased by horse anti-human lymphocyte globulin (AHLG), which correlates with the results of the rosette inhibition test. Under the influence of AHLG, the distribution of the electrophoretic mobilities of lymphocytes shows a characteristic change. In some of the AHL...
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The rate constant of the Na+ efflux of human erythrocytes in isotonic solutions of various ionic strength varied over NaCl concentration was measured. The Na+ efflux remained constant over a wide range of ionic strength. Only under conditions where the transmembrane potential was near O mV, a local minimum could be detected. The rate constant of th...
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In experiments on narcotized rats it has been demonstrated that not only isoprenaline and orciprenaline but terbutaline, salbutamol and clenbuterol as well have calorigenic effects. The effectiveness is regressing considerably from isoprenaline over orciprenaline, salbutamol and terbutaline. Clenbuterol, too, has essentially weaker calorigenic effe...
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The interaction of highly purified cytochrome P-450 from bovine adrenal cortex mitochondria (cytochrome P-450scc) with N,N-dimethylaniline (DMA), aniline, N-dimethylcyclohexylamine and cumene hydroperoxide (CHP) has been investigated. The formation of complexes between cytochrome P-450scc and the above listed compounds could be demonstrated. The re...
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The channel-forming antibiotic gramicidin A increases the K+ conductance of frog skeletal muscle fibres in isotonic K2SO4 solution. The conductance of the gramicidin channel is not affected by Rb+ or Cs+, but is reduced by T1+. In contrast, the conductance of the normal K+ channel is decreased by Rb+ and Cs+ but is nearly unaffected by 5 and 10 mM ...
Published in Acta biologica et medica Germanica
Published in Acta biologica et medica Germanica
Rat islets, rat insulinoma cells and islets from three different mouse strains were labelled with 35S-cysteine and/or 35S-methionine. Detergent lysates of the cells were subjected to immunoprecipitation with sera from 5 newly diagnosed diabetic children and 5 control sera. The immunoprecipitates were analysed by sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS)-polyac...
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Isolated pancreatic islets from male hyperglycemic C57BL/KsJ-db/db mice were used to study (pro)insulin biosynthesis, insulin release and insulin content. A diminution of the insulin content to about 36% and of the insulin release (20 mmol/l glucose) to nearly one half was observed, whereas [3H]leucine incorporation into (pro)insulin was increased....
