Several studies suggest the involvement of Na+ and HCO3- transport in the formation of cerebrospinal fluid. Two Na+-dependent HCO3- transporters were recently localized to the epithelial cells of the rat choroid plexus (NBCn1 and NCBE), and the mRNA for a third protein was also detected (NBCe2) (Praetorius J, Nejsum LN, and Nielsen S. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 286: C601-C610, 2004). Our goal wa...

BACKGROUND The cellular apoptosis susceptibility (CAS) protein is regarded as a proliferation-associated protein that associates with tumour proliferation as it associates with microtubule and functions in the mitotic spindle checkpoint. However, there is no any actual experimental study showing CAS (or CSE1 and CSE1L) can increase the proliferation of cancer cells. Previous pathological study ...

A heart involvement known as Lyme carditis (LC), a consequence of Lyme borreliosis (LB), is relatively rare in contrast to the involvement of skin, joints and nervous system; it accounts for < 4% of all these patients in European countries. However, the diagnosis of the disease belongs to the most difficult challenges. While various forms of AV blocks dominate in the USA as confirmed by the lit...

When Camillo Golgi invented the black reaction in 1873 and first described the fine anatomical structure of the nervous system, he described a ‘big nerve cell’ that later took his name, the Golgi cell of cerebellum (‘Golgi’schen Zellen’, Gustaf Retzius, 1892). The Golgi cell was then proposed as the prototype of type-II interneurons, which form complex connections and exert their actions exclus...

Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is important in mammalian renal development. In our study, we investigated the detailed distribution and the time of the first appearance of EGF in developing rat kidney. Kidneys from embryonic 18 (E18)- and 20-day-old (E20) fetuses, postnatal 1 (P1)-, 3 (P3)-, 7 (P7)-, 14 (P14)-, and 21-day-old (P21) pups, and adults were processed for immunohistochemistry and ele...

INTRODUCTION Non-pathological, age-related cognitive decline varies markedly between individuals andplaces significant financial and emotional strain on people, their families and society as a whole.Understanding the differential age-related decline in brain function is critical not only for the development oftherapeutics to prolong cognitive health into old age, but also to gain insight into p...

Lipomas are frequently encountered in the gastrointestinal tract but liposarcomas in this location are extremely rare. We present the first reported case of primary colonic liposarcoma. CASE REPORT: A 54 year old female presented with lethargy, abdominal discomfort, diarrhoea, and loss of 7 kg weight. She was clinically anaemic. A firm, irregular 6 cm mass was palpable in the right upper quadra...

The Drosophila gene ten-m/odz is the only pair rule gene identified to date which is not a transcription factor. In an attempt to analyze the structure and the function of ten-m/odz in mouse, we isolated four murine ten-m cDNAs which code for proteins of 2,700-2, 800 amino acids. All four proteins (Ten-m1-4) lack signal peptides at the NH2 terminus, but contain a short hydrophobic domain charac...

Diabetic nephropathy, i.e. albuminuria and decreasing glomerular filtration rate—often associated with increased blood pressure—is closely associated with structural lesions in the kidney. In advanced diabetic nephropathy all compartments of the kidney show abnormalities. The glomerular changes are rather characteristic. By light-microscopy the most conspicuous change of diabetic glomerulopathy...

Endotoxin sensitivity varies among animal species and appears to correlate with the presence of pulmonary intravascular macrophage (PIM). In rats, which lack PIM, we investigated the hypothesis that chronic cholestatic liver injury leads to induction of PIM and endotoxin sensitivity. Rats were randomized to either common bile duct ligation (BDL) or sham-surgery and studied at 1 wk (acute choles...