Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has a high metastatic character in the clinic, but its mechanism is not clear. As a carcinogen with organ specificity for the nasopharyngeal epithelium, N,N'-Dinitrosopiperazine (DNP) is involved in NPC metastasis. Herein, our data revealed that anterior gradient 2 (AGR2) was overexpressed in human NPC tissues, particularly in cervical lymph node metastatic NPC (L...

桑原幹典,林 正信,吉 井義一:北 海道大学獣 医学 部放射 線学 教室,札 幌市北区北18条 西9丁 目,〒060 When the solid-state deoxyribonucleoprotein (DNP) was irradiated by gamma rays, Lucke Huhle et al.1) found that single strand breaks of DNA were produced more frequently in the DNP than in pure DNA. Ormerod2) and Kuwabara and Yoshii3) reported that the ESR spectra of DNP after irradiation showed radicals to be located preferentially on ...

Genetic nonresponder guinea pigs incapable of an immune response to DNP-PLL alone were immunized with DNP-PLL complexed to ovalbumin or bovine serum albumin. Under these circumstances the animals produce both anti-DNP-PLL antibodies and antibodies directed against the conveyor albumin. Thus immune response to DNP-PLL complexed to conveyor albumin molecules can serve as a simple model of hapten-...

Both electrically induced exercise and infusion of 2,4-dinitrophenol (DNP) increased oxygen consumption and tissue metabolism in chloralose-anesthetized dogs. Cardiac output increased with oxygen consumption at the same rate in both experimental conditions. The increase in cardiac output induced by exercise was, as expected, accompanied by increases in both lactate-to-pyruvate ratio and "excess...

Recently, dynamic nuclear polarization enhanced nuclear magnetic resonance (DNP/NMR) has emerged as a powerful technique to obtain significant enhancements in spin spectra from biological samples. For DNP in modern NMR systems, a high power continuous-wave source in the submillimeter wavelength range is necessary. Gyrotrons can deliver tens of watts of CW power at submillimeter wavelengths and ...

To determine whether the increase in glucose uptake following AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) activation in adipocytes is mediated by accelerated GLUT4 translocation into plasma membrane, we constructed a chimera between GLUT4 and enhanced green fluorescent protein (GLUT4-eGFP) and transferred its cDNA into the nucleus of 3T3-L1 adipocytes. Then, the dynamics of GLUT4-eGFP translocation wer...

Fluoroquinolones form drug-topoisomerase-DNA complexes that rapidly block transcription and replication. Crystallographic and biochemical studies show that quinolone binding involves a water/metal-ion bridge between the quinolone C3-C4 keto-acid and amino acids in helix-4 of the target proteins, GyrA (gyrase) and ParC (topoisomerase IV). A recent cross-linking study revealed a second drug-bindi...

Gene products of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) 1 are associated with various effector and cooperative functions of immunocompetent lymphoid cells (1). The I region of the MHC is associated with the induction of helper T cells (2), the proliferative response of T cells to allogeneic cells (3) and to antigen-pulsed macrophages (4), cooperation of T helper cells with B cells (5), and ...

Since the introduction 10 years ago of the dissolution method, Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) became a widely applied and powerful technique to enhance nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) signals of low naturally abundant, insensitive nuclear spins for analytical chemistry and biomedical research. The aim of DNP is to obtain a very high degree of polarization on the nuclei of interest in cryog...

During the three decades 1980-2010, magic angle spinning (MAS) NMR developed into the method of choice to examine many chemical, physical, and biological problems. In particular, a variety of dipolar recoupling methods to measure distances and torsion angles can now constrain molecular structures to high resolution. However, applications are often limited by the low sensitivity of the experimen...