The synthesis of (14)C-labeled xanthine/hypoxanthine, uric acid, allantoin, allantoic acid, and urea from [8-(14)C]guanine or [8-(14)C]hypoxanthine, but not from [8-(14)C]adenine, was demonstrated in a cell-free extract from N(2)-fixing nodules of cowpea (Walp.). The (14)C recovered in the acid/neutral fraction was present predominantly in uric acid and allantoin (88-97%), with less than 10% of...

Serum prolactin increases during late embryogenesis. In order to elucidate the function of prolactin at this period, tissue distribution of prolactin receptor mRNA was examined by RNase protection assay. The mRNA was detected strongly in the kidney, intestine, and allantoic membrane; weakly detected in the brain; but not detected in the liver. The expression levels of the prolactin receptor mRN...

Allen, Emma G. (Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.). Use of tetrazolium salts for electron transport studies in meningopneumonitis. I. Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide system. J. Bacteriol. 90:1505-1512. 1965.-Purified preparations of meningopneumonitis virus (MP) prepared from allantoic fluids of infected chick embryo reduce several tetrazolium salts in the presence of reduced n...

We have recently treated with N2 gas plasma and achieved inactivation of bacteria. However, the effect of N2 gas plasma on viruses remains unclear. With the aim of developing this technique, we analyzed the virucidal effect of N2 gas plasma on influenza virus and its influence on the viral components. We treated influenza virus particles with inert N2 gas plasma (1.5 kpps; kilo pulses per secon...

Using dialyzed allantoic fluid suspensions of meningopneumonitis virus, Crocker (1954) studied the ratio of numbers of virus particles, as determined by electron microscopy, to egg infectivity. He reported the number of particles per egg LDso to vary from 200 to 1000. Zahler and Moulder (1953) used the method of Gogolak (1953), in which stained virus particles are counted by light microscopy, t...

Hydroallantois is one of the gestational disorder in which sudden increase in allantoic fl uid occurs in allantoic cavity due to foetal membrane pathology leading to bilateral enlargement of abdomen (Roberts, 1971). This is more common last phase of third trimester in dairy and beef cattle and less so in buffaloes and heifers (Srinivas and Sreenu, 2006). The present report describes a case of h...

Because of the peculiar properties of the psittacosis-lymphogranuloma group of viruses, the pattern of multiplication in the allantois of the chick embryo of one of their number, meningopneumonitis virus, was studied. This was done by determination of the changes in its infectivity for mice and chick embryos. Titration of infectivity in embryos proved to be a more sensitive procedure than titra...