Does nitrogen mustard mimic the X-ray effects in any case?

Résumé Les effets de l'ypérite nitrée sur le cerveau et yeux de l'embryon du rat blanc ont été analysés. Seulement les embryons présentant un aspect normal ont été coupés et colorés. De larges centres de nécrose ont été trouvés sur les coupes tandis que les «rosettes» n'ont pas pu être décelées.Bien que connue comme radiomimétique, l'yperite nitrée ne mime pas les rayons X en ce qui concerne la formation des «rosettes» dans le cerveau.     

The control of contraction activation by the membrane potential

Summary Force measurements under voltage-clamp control were performed in short toe muscles of the frog. The results show a) that the activation of force development and its repriming process can at least qualitatively be correlated to charge movement kinetics; b) that caffeine improves EC coupling by potentiating the potential dependent activation process.This work was supported by DFG (SFB 114 Bionach) and DAAD.     

Fluoride-resistant acid phosphatase system of nociceptive dorsal root afferents

Zusammenfassung Fluorid-resistente saure Phosphatase wird aus den kleinen (dunklen) Nervenzellen des Spinalganglions mittels axoplasmatischer Strömung durch die Hinterwurzeln in die Rolando-Substanz des Rückenmarkes transportiert, wo das Enzym in den Nervendendigungen eine freie axoplasmatische Lokalisation aufweist.     

Distribution of inulin space in the rabbit thoracic aorta

Zusammenfassung Die ganze Länge und Dicke des extrazellulären Raumes der thorakalen Kaninchenaorta wurde gemessen. Der Raum ist unverändert die ganze Länge des Blutgefässes hindurch und entspricht 0,59 ml/g 0,39 ml/g für die Adventitia und die Media. In jeder dieser Tunicae ist der Raum durch ihre ganze Dicke gleichmässig verteilt.

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Supported by grants from The American Medical Association Education and Research Foundation, U.S. Public Health Service (HE-08359) and the Los Angeles County Heart Association (408 IG).     

Chemical investigation of hassium (element 108)

The periodic table provides a classification of the chemical properties of the elements. But for the heaviest elements, the transactinides, this role of the periodic table reaches its limits because increasingly strong relativistic effects on the valence electron shells can induce deviations from known trends in chemical properties. In the case of the first two transactinides, elements 104 and 105, relativistic effects do indeed influence their chemical properties, whereas elements 106 and 107 both behave as expected from their position within the periodic table. Here we report the chemical separation and characterization of only seven detected atoms of element 108 (hassium, Hs), which were generated as isotopes (269)Hs (refs 8, 9) and (270)Hs (ref. 10) in the fusion reaction between (26)Mg and (248)Cm. The hassium atoms are immediately oxidized to a highly volatile oxide, presumably HsO(4), for which we determine an enthalpy of adsorption on our detector surface that is comparable to the adsorption enthalpy determined under identical conditions for the osmium oxide OsO(4). These results provide evidence that the chemical properties of hassium and its lighter homologue osmium are similar, thus confirming that hassium exhibits properties as expected from its position in group 8 of the periodic table.     

Rapid accretion and early core formation on asteroids and the terrestrial planets from Hf-W chronometry

The timescales and mechanisms for the formation and chemical differentiation of the planets can be quantified using the radioactive decay of short-lived isotopes. Of these, the (182)Hf-to-(182)W decay is ideally suited for dating core formation in planetary bodies. In an earlier study, the W isotope composition of the Earth's mantle was used to infer that core formation was late (> or = 60 million years after the beginning of the Solar System) and that accretion was a protracted process. The correct interpretation of Hf-W data depends, however, on accurate knowledge of the initial abundance of (182)Hf in the Solar System and the W isotope composition of chondritic meteorites. Here we report Hf-W data for carbonaceous and H chondrite meteorites that lead to timescales of accretion and core formation significantly different from those calculated previously. The revised ages for Vesta, Mars and Earth indicate rapid accretion, and show that the timescale for core formation decreases with decreasing size of the planet. We conclude that core formation in the terrestrial planets and the formation of the Moon must have occurred during the first approximately 30 million years of the life of the Solar System.     

NMR analysis of a 900K GroEL GroES complex

Biomacromolecular structures with a relative molecular mass (M(r)) of 50,000 to 100,000 (50K 100K) have been generally considered to be inaccessible to analysis by solution NMR spectroscopy. Here we report spectra recorded from bacterial chaperonin complexes ten times this size limit (up to M(r) 900K) using the techniques of transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy and cross-correlated relaxation-enhanced polarization transfer. These techniques prevent deterioration of the NMR spectra by the rapid transverse relaxation of the magnetization to which large, slowly tumbling molecules are otherwise subject. We tested the resolving power of these techniques by examining the isotope-labelled homoheptameric co-chaperonin GroES (M(r) 72K), either free in solution or in complex with the homotetradecameric chaperonin GroEL (M(r) 800K) or with the single-ring GroEL variant SR1 (M(r) 400K). Most amino acids of GroES show the same resonances whether free in solution or in complex with chaperonin; however, residues 17 32 show large chemical shift changes on binding. These amino acids belong to a mobile loop region of GroES that forms contacts with GroEL. This establishes the utility of these techniques for solution NMR studies that should permit the exploration of structure, dynamics and interactions in large macromolecular complexes.     

Genetic analysis of the mouse brain proteome

Proteome analysis is a fundamental step in systematic functional genomics. Here we have resolved 8,767 proteins from the mouse brain proteome by large-gel two-dimensional electrophoresis. We detected 1,324 polymorphic proteins from the European collaborative interspecific backcross. Of these, we mapped 665 proteins genetically and identified 466 proteins by mass spectrometry. Qualitatively polymorphic proteins, to 96%, reflect changes in conformation and/or mass. Quantitatively polymorphic proteins show a high frequency (73%) of allele-specific transmission in codominant heterozygotes. Variations in protein isoforms and protein quantity often mapped to chromosomal positions different from that of the structural gene, indicating that single proteins may act as polygenic traits. Genetic analysis of proteomes may detect the types of polymorphism that are most relevant in disease-association studies.