(1) Immunoreactivity of antisera directed against human neuropeptide Y (NPY), anglerfish polypeptide YG (aPY), bovine pancreatic polypeptide (bPP), salmon pancreatic polypeptide (sPP), porcine peptide tyrosine tyrosine (PYY), and salmon glucagon-like peptide (GLP) was investigated in the endocrine pancreas and anterior intestine of adult lampreys, Petromyzon marinus, by immunohistochemical analysis.
(2) Anglerfish peptide YG (aPY) was isolated from pancreatic islets of the anglerfish.
(3) The results demonstrate that a PAM is present in secretory granules of anglerfish islet tissue.
(4) Two distinct somatostatin precursors are synthesized in anglerfish (AF) islets.
(5) The results suggest that the two somatostatin genes present in both anglerfish and catfish were the result of a gene duplication event in a common ancestor of anglerfish and catfish.
(6) Although the functional significance of this observation remains to be determined, the results imply that oxytocin, or an oxytocin-like peptide, may affect the synthesis or release of insulin from anglerfish islets.
(7) We have used a recombinant retroviral expression vector encoding anglerfish prepor-SRIF-I to infect rat pituitary GH3 cells.
(8) Amino acid incorporation into SLI has been studied in a variety of systems, including anglerfish and rat pancreas, frog retina, rat dorsal root ganglia, cerebral cortex and hypothalamus.
(9) A propeptide converting enzyme capable of producing somatostatin-14 has been identified and partially characterized from anglerfish pancreatic islets.
(10) The effects of glucose and arginine on islet hormone biosynthesis were investigated using primary cell cultures prepared from islets of the anglerfish (Lophius americanus).
(11) Anglerfish islet somatostatin was found to possess an amino acid composition and immunological and biological activities equivalent to synthetic somatostatin.
(12) As part of an effort to characterize prohormone processing enzymes in the anglerfish, Lophius americanus, we have cloned and sequenced a cDNA for the fish prohormone processing carboxypeptidase H (CPH).
(13) Subsequent immunohistochemical and biochemical analyses demonstrated that anglerfish islet cells synthesize aPY.
(14) An enzyme that performs the conversion of anglerfish prosomatostatin-II (pro-SS-II) to anglerfish SS-28 has been identified using an improved two-dimensional electrophoresis procedure.
(15) In the flounder the same dibasic residue processing site is utilised but cleavage at different monobasic sites takes place (corresponding to Arg50 and Arg97 in anglerfish preprosomatostatin II).
(16) Somatostatin-28 was the major form of somatostatin detected and is similar to the gene II product from anglerfish.
(17) They suggest that this octacosapeptide, which is potent on the inhibition of growth hormone release by anterior pituitary cells, may play such a role in the gastrointestinal tract of the anglerfish.
(18) Results from a previous report demonstrate that more than one molecular form of neuropeptide Y-like peptide may be present in the islet organ of the anglerfish (Lophius americanus).
(19) In pancreatic islets of the anglerfish (Lophius americanus), there are two separate precursors, preproSRIF I and preproSRIF II, which give rise to SRIF-14 or an N-terminally extended form SRIF-28, respectively.
(20) The results demonstrate the usefulness of the culture system for studying the modulation of hormone biosynthesis in anglerfish islet cells.
Esca
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(1) The surface of dental alloys, on which such a composite plating was made, was analyzed by ESCA.
(2) Polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride surfaces were grafted with crotonic acid and characterized with ESCA.
(3) The ESCA technique provides a useful approach to identifying probable sites of fracture initiation in ceramic-fused-to-metal systems in which the analyzed fracture area is 1 mm2 or larger.
(4) ESCA analysis of the uppermost 5-nm point layer revealed the presence of N on silver points removed from failed treatments.
(5) After a few minutes of etching, ESCA spectra were observed.
(6) The ESCA data indicate enrichment of soft segment in the surface.
(7) Since ESCA only analyzes the first 40-50 Angstroms of a surface, we believe that a "protective coating" composed of soft segments has formed.
(8) Surface analysis by XPS (X-ray photoelection spectroscopy), also called ESCA (electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis), indicates that only certain cations are appreciably sorbed by enamel from an acid etching solution containing phosphoric acid and equimolar concentrations of candidate mordant salts.
(9) Both ESCA data and protein loadings are in excellent agreement.
(10) Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis (ESCA) was explored as a means of studying the oxidation state of chromium in SMAC (coated electrode) stainless steel welding fume collected on Nucleopore filters in the laboratory.
(11) The apices of silver points removed from teeth with successful or failed endodontic treatments were subjected to complete surface characterization by small-area ESCA, scanning electron microscopy, and electron probe microanalyzer.
(12) The resulting surfaces exhibited a wide range of surface oxygen concentrations, as measured by electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA).
(13) The pattern of selective release of chromium, iron and molybdenum from a non-prepassivated ferritic stainless steel, with the designation SS 2326 and a nickel content of 0.3%, has been measured in artificial saliva under static conditions using nuclear tracer and ESCA techniques.
(14) Using electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA) technique these oxide layers on Vitallium specimens were investigated regarding thickness, elemental composition, and valence state of the elements.
(15) Analysis of these surfaces by measurement of contact angles and ESCA verified the presence of the grafted PEO.
(16) The principals of the ESCA technique are described in details.
(17) The ESCA depth profiling experiments involved several elemental analyses (Na, Ba, O, B, Si, Al, and C) for both the product-contact surface and various depths (0.01-0.30 micron) beneath the surface.
(18) The addition of the silicone-containing polyol did not significantly lower the surface wettability, although ESCA-measured silicon content increased and physical properties were unfavourably affected by the incorporation of this co-soft segment.
(19) Future research in this area will include the use of surface analytical techniques such as Auger electron spectroscopy and ESCA.
(20) Ultraviolet irradiation with the use of a photomask placed on a substrate hydrophilically modified the irradiated regions, which was evident in ESCA and contact angle measurements.