Mu opioid (MOP) receptor activation can be functionally modulated by stimulation of Neuropeptide FF 2 (NPFF(2)) G protein-coupled receptors. Fluorescence recovery after photobleaching experiments have shown that activation of the NPFF(2) receptor dramatically reduces the fraction of MOP receptors confined in microdomains of the plasma membrane of SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells. The aim of the pres...

Monitoring-oriented programming (MOP) is a software development and analysis technique in which monitoring plays a fundamental role. MOP users can add their favorite or domain-specific requirements specification formalisms into the framework by means of logic plug-ins, which essentially comprise monitor synthesis algorithms for properties expressed as formulae. The properties are specified toge...

of priesthood, to inviolable secrecy, whatever may be the nature of the information communicated by our patients. A crime, e.g., cannot be allowed to be perpetrated, so to speak, in our presence and with our cognizance during attendance on a household, and we must not, on any account, allow ourselves to be entrapped into being made unconscious confidants of some one who is bent on mischief. It ...

We investigated the effects of morphine and other agonists on the human mu opioid receptor (MOP) expressed in M2 melanoma cells, lacking the actin cytoskeleton protein filamin A and in A7, a subclone of the M2 melanoma cells, stably transfected with filamin A cDNA. The results of binding experiments showed that after chronic morphine treatment (24 h) of A7 cells, MOP-binding sites were down-reg...

mop is the structural gene for the molybdenum-pterin binding protein, which is the major molybdenum binding protein in Clostridium pastuerianum. The mop gene was detected by immunoscreening genomic libraries of C. pastuerianum and identified by determining the nucleotide sequence of the cloned insert of clostridial DNA. The deduced amino acid sequence of an open reading frame proved to be ident...

A method of gas analysis is described for estimating carbon dioxide in the presence of nitrous oxide, using a modified Lloyd-Haldane apparatus. Some of the sample, after scrubbing with soda-lime, bubbles through the potash and this eliminates the solubility effect of nitrous oxide by equilibrating the standard potash solution with nitrous oxide at the tension of the sample analysed and eliminat...

Although oxygen dependent photoreactions of 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) are known, damage to DNA is mostly considered to proceed via photocycloaddition to this biomacromolecule. In this study the survival of colony forming ability of E. coli K12/343, which is deficient in DNA-repair capability, appeared to be lower in D2O than in H2O after exposure to the combination of 8-MOP and UV-A. Photobindi...

Chiral monophosphines (MOPs), whose chirality is due to biaryl axial chirality, are prepared from enantiometrically pure 2,2%-dihydroxy-1,1%-binaphthyl and 3,3%-dihydroxy-4,4%-biphenanthryl. The representatives are 2-(diphenylphosphino)-2%-methoxy1,1%-binaphthyl (MeO–MOP and 3-(diphenylphosphino)-3%-methoxy-4,4%-biphenanthryl (MOP–phen). The palladium complexes coordinated with the MOP ligands ...

Analysis of the distribution of mRNA encoding the serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine) 5-HT2A receptor and the opioid peptide receptor in rat brain demonstrated their coexpression in neurons in several distinct regions. These regions included the periaqueductal gray, an area that plays an important role in morphine-induced analgesia but also in the development of tolerance to morphine. To explore po...