Lobigs, M Marshall, I D Weir, R C Dalgarno, L
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
The genetic relatedness of ten Murray Valley encephalitis virus (MVE) isolates from Australia has been examined by comparing HaeIII and TaqI restriction digest profiles of cDNA to virion RNA. The isolates were from the Murray Valley region of south-eastern Australia and from the Ord River region of Western Australia and spanned a period of 23 years...
Parker, I Parker, D A de la Lande, I S Thompson, J A Proctor, C Marino, V
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
Uptake and metabolism of 3H-noradrenaline 0.18 mumol/l was examined in rabbit gingival slices and ear artery segments. The tissues were incubated with the 3H-amine for 30 min. The artery accumulated approximately ten times more of the 3H-amine and generated four times more 3H-metabolites than the gingiva. In both tissues, chronic sympathetic denerv...
Wilson, J D Dhall, D P Simeonovic, C J Lafferty, K J
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus was induced in the pig by pancreatectomy or by administration of intravenous streptozotocin (150 mg/kg). High post-operative morbidity and mortality in the pancreatectomised animals made this method of inducing diabetes unsuitable for animals to be used in long term studies. By contrast, the good clinical state o...
Russell, R C
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
A population of Cx annulirostris in a state forest near Echuca, Vic., was sampled with a dry ice-baited encephalitis virus surveillance (EVS) trap from 1979 to 1985, generally on a fortnightly basis. These collections were combined for monthly samples which were dissected for parity and population age composition. The proportion parous varied betwe...
Parsons, P G Allen, B J
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
The uptake (total radioactivity in intact cells) and incorporation (radioactivity bound to acid-precipitable material) of 14C-chlorpromazine (CPZ) and 14C-thiouracil (TU) were studied using a library of 3 human fibroblast strains and 13 tumour cell lines. In contrast to previous studies using rodent melanomas in vivo, the melanoma lines, including ...
Bansal, N Majumdar, S Ganguly, N K Chakravarti, R N
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
Five groups of male rhesus monkeys, Gp. I--sham-vasectomized stock diet-fed (SVS), Gp. II--vasectomized stock diet-fed (VS), Gp. III--sham-vasectomized atherogenic diet-fed (SVA), Gp. IV--vasectomized atherogenic diet-fed (VA) and Gp. V--atherogenic diet-fed vasectomized monkeys (AV) were observed for a period of 1 1/2 years. Vasectomy per se had n...
Upcroft, P
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
In extending the scope of our previous analyses of the functions that mammalian cells engender to recombine elements of genetic information (Upcroft, Carter and Kidson, 1980a and b), I describe the capacity of cells to recognise differentially combinations of open-ended and closed molecules. The frequency of successful recombination, as assayed by ...
Read, R Sutherland, J Ghosh, P
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
As part of a project to study the effect of copper deficiency (CD) on bone development in young dogs, the composition and metabolism of proteoglycans (PGs) and extractability of collagens in the epiphyseal growth plate cartilage (EGPC) and articular cartilages (AC) were investigated. Copper deficiency was induced by feeding ammonium tetrathiomolybd...
Nicholls, N
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
Clinical cases of Murray Valley Encephalitis in southeast Australia have tended to occur in summer and autumn following extended periods of above average rainfall over most of eastern and northern Australia. The Southern Oscillation, an important mode of climatic fluctuations over the Indian and Pacific Oceans, is closely related to eastern and nor...
Burke, V Cooper, M Robinson, J
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The Australian journal of experimental biology and medical science
The study included 138 A. sobria and 182 A. hydrophila isolated in Perth from samples of diarrhoeal or non-diarrhoeal faeces or from domestic water. Strains were grouped in relation to agglutination of human, horse, rat and guinea pig erythrocytes and the effect of sugars on haemagglutination. Agglutination of red cells of all four species (primary...
