The stimulation of rat brain monoamine oxidase by dietary lithium chloride.

Lithium chloride administered to rats in drinking water for 30 days caused an increase of whole brain monoamine oxidase specific activity to approximately 140% of control. Carboxylesterase and formyltetrahydrofolate synthetase activities were not affected by Li+ either in vivo or in vitro.     

Some observations on the seed coat structure within the genusEpilobium

Résumé Nous avons examiné au MEB et au microscope ordinaire l'épiderme de la graine de 17 formes du genreEpilobium provenant de l'Amérique du Nord et relevé l'utilié et la valeur taxonomique et génétique des données obtenues dans le cadre du genre.

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Acknowledgements: This work was supported in part by the NRC of Canada and the Boreal Institute of Alberta.     

Widespread occurrence of inhibitors of melanoma tyrosinase in plant and mammalian tissues

Résumé Les inhibiteurs de tyrosinase ont été trouvés dans des extraits de foie, de rein, de rate et de cerveau de rats et de souris, ainsi que dans des tumeurs amélanotiques S91, des sérums humains, des extraits de foie, de rein, de rate, de sein, et de peau humaine. Il y a au moins deux inhibiteurs: le premier, stable à la chaleur et dialysable, tandis que le second est labile à la chaleur et non-dialysable.

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This investigation was supported by the Medical Research Council of Canada, and the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. One of us (H.F.H.) is a Fellow of the Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation. The authors thank Mrs.H. Li and MissE. Santos for their skilful technical assistance.     

Cell-to-cell coupling studied by diffusional methods in myocardial cells

Summary The diffusion of large molecular substances from cell to cell in multicellular and enzymatically isolated cell pairs is described. Permeability of the gap junctional membrane to these molecules and the critical diffusing diameter of the myocardial gap junctional channel are discussed.