Cis-elements (-933 to -641) upstream of the human M creatine kinase gene cap site contain an enhancer that confers developmental and tissue-specific expression to the chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene in C2C12 myogenic cells transfected in culture. Division of the enhancer at -770 into a 5' fragment that includes the MyoD binding sites (-933 to -770) and a 3' fragment that includes the MEF...

A novel method with quaternary ammonium salts as internal additives has been applied to the mass scale calibration of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). Five kinds of quaternary ammonium salts, octyltrimethylammonium bromide (C8TMA), tetradecyltrimethylammonium chloride (C14TMA), octadecytrimethylammonium chloride (C18TMA), cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) and benzyldimeth...

The influence of metallothionein (MT)(2) on Zn absorption was investigated in MT-null (MT-/-) and normal (MT+/+) mice fed Zn-depleted (ZnD) diets for 7 d and compared with those fed Zn-replete (ZnR) diets in a previous study. Mice were starved for 20 h, then administered an oral gavage of aqueous (65)ZnSO(4) solution at doses of 154, 770 or 1540 nmol of Zn, and the amount transferred into nongu...

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a pathogen that causes an AIDS-like syndrome in domestic cats and is extensively used as a model system by which criteria for anti-lentiviral vaccines and drugs development can be tested. Despite little homology sequence, the surface and TM gp of FIV and HIV-1 exhibit a common structural framework and appear to play similar roles in Initiation of cell infe...

Prostatic Reservoir of Gonococci L. Molin, M.D., and D. Danielsson, M.D. .. 767 Appendicitis in Infancy R. J. M. Love, F.R.C.S ................... 767 Perforated Diverticulitis A. P. Barabas, F.R.C.S . .................. 767 Apomorphine in Parkinsonian Tremor J. Braham, M.D., and others .............. 768 Hydroxyprolinuria C. E. Dent, F.R.C.P., F.R.S ................. 768 Viruses and Immunosupp...

BACKGROUND TRPC6 has been proposed to be responsible for the abnormal OAG-dependent Ca(2+) influx in cystic fibrosis (CF) cells and we hypothesized that it interacts with CFTR. Here, we investigated how this functional complex operates in CF and non-CF epithelial cells. METHODS Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells stably transfected with pNut vector containing wild type CFTR (CHO-WT), F508del-CF...