A comparison between the photoreactivity of some furocoumarins with native DNA and their skin-photosensitizing activity

Riassunto È stata determinata la fotoreattività con DNA nativo di un gruppo di furocumarine per irradiazione a 365 nm. I valori ottenuti sono risultati in accordo con quelli di attività fotosensibilizzatrice cutanea posseduti dalle stesse sostanze.     

A simple culture vessel for turbidimetric studies of anaerobic growth of microbes

Résumé La fiole de culture décrite permet le mesurage par voie turbidimétrique de la croissance microbienne en culture anaérobie et agitée. Du gaz, produit par la culture, peut s'échapper par une valve. Par l'application additionelle d'un bulbe latéral contenant de la potasse, la comparaison est possible entre des cultures parallèles, croissant soit en présence soit en absence de CO₂.

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The first author is indebted to Prof. Dr.T. O. Wikén for facilities offered to him in the Laboratory of Microbiology, Technological University, Delft.     

Dosis-Wirkungs-Beziehungen zwischen Koronardurchfluss und Herzfrequenz für Adenosin

Summary In the isolated guinea-pig heart, it has been found that the amount of adenosine which slows the heart rate is about 100 times greater than the amount which increases coronary flow.     

Shwartzman phenomenon without endotoxin preparation

Zusammenfassung Kasein, Pepton bzw. Baktokasiton wurde als präparierende Erstinjektion für lokalisiertes Shwartzman-Phänomen an Kaninchen verwendet. Nach provozierender i.v. Endotoxininjektion kommt es zum typischen Shwartzman-Phänomen. Da die verwendeten Substanzen Chemotaxis von Leukozyten verursachen, ist anzunehmen, dass die an Stelle der präparierenden Injektion angesammelten Leukozyten in der Ausbildung des Shwartzman-Phänomens eine vorwiegende Rolle spielen.     

Radiation induced avoidance behavior transfer by brain extracts of mice

Zusammenfassung In «naiven» Mäusen werden Verhaltensveränderungen nach Injektion kleiner Mengen von Gehirnmaterial aus Saccharin bevorzugenden und röntgenbestrahlten Mäusen beobachtet. Es trat Vermeidung der Saccharinlösung ein, und zwar ähnlich wie sonst in «trainierten», Saccharin bevorzugenden Tieren nach der Bestrahlung.     

Theory agrees with experimental thermal denaturation of short DNA restriction fragments

Experimental melting transitions of several natural DNAs of known nucleotide sequences have recently been obtained. The differential melting curves of these DNAs-phi X174 DNA, fd DNA and SV40 DNA-all show distinctive sets of peaks or fine structure. Theoretical melting curves calculated from the sequences and a few a priori parameters have not accurately predicted the experimental transitions. Although calculated fine structure resembled experimental curves in some cases, the characteristic features of a DNA's differential melting curve could not generally be produced. Azbel and Gabbarro-Arpa et al. have recently obtained good agreement between calculated and experimental curves using a different theoretical approach-only ground-state configurations of DNA were considered for temperatures inside the transition region. Their results suggest that the basic model of DNA melting, common to all theoretical approaches, is accurate. We have used here an exact theoretical approach to calculated melting curves of four DNA restriction fragments of 95-301 base pairs containing the lactose promoter region (Fig. 1). Theoretical curves agree very well with the experimental transitions published by Hardies et al. and obtained in this laboratory.     

On the biosynthesis of testicular steroids in vitro and its inhibition

Zusammenfassung Der Seitenkettenabbau von C₂₁-Steroiden zu Androgenen in Rattentesteshomogenat erwies sich abhängig von der Konzentration der Vorstufen und konnte durch gewisse Pyridinderivate präferentiell blockiert werden.