for evaluation of citric acid and citrate effects on bovine epididymal protoplasmic droplets, fifty bovine testes were collected in the october 2007 till june 2008 from urmia slaughterhouse and transported to the laboratory in a cool container filled with 5 °c ice pack. caudal epididymis was incised and sperm cells were put into petri dishes containing hams f10 media with 10% fetal calf serum (...

Passive transport of potassium through the plasma membrane of a protoplasmic droplet isolated from large internodal cells of Chara corallina Klein ex Willd., em, R.D.W. has been investigated using the patchclamp technique. When the membrane is hyperpolarized the conductance of a single K(+)-channel is of the order of magnitude of 100 picoSiemens and is reduced by tetraethylammonium chloride. It...

For evaluation of citric acid and citrate effects on bovine epididymal protoplasmic droplets, fifty bovine testes were collected in the October 2007 till June 2008 from Urmia slaughterhouse and transported to the laboratory in a cool container filled with 5 °C ice pack. Caudal epididymis was incised and sperm cells were put into Petri dishes containing hams f10 media with 10% fetal calf serum (...

Protoplasmic astrocytes have been reported to exhibit neuroprotective effects on neurons, but there has been no direct evidence for a functional relationship between protoplasmic astrocytes and neural stem cells (NSCs). In this study, we examined neuronal differentiation of NSCs induced by protoplasmic astrocytes in a co-culture model. Protoplasmic astrocytes were isolated from new-born and NSC...

Physarum polycephalum, Surface Blebbing and Budding, Caffeine, Plasmalemma, Cytoplasmic Äctomyosin The mechanism of plasma membrane proliferation was studied in the acellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum with the aid of light and electron microscopical techniques. Treatment of protoplasmic drops with a Tris-buffered 15 m M caffeine solution causes surface blebbing and budding over periods o...

When protoplasm dies it becomes completely and irreversibly permeable and this may be used as a criterion of death. On this basis we may say that when 0.2 M formaldehyde plus 0.001 M NaCl is applied to Nitella death arrives sooner at the inner protoplasmic surface than at the outer. If, however, we apply 0.17 M formaldehyde plus 0.01 M KCl death arrives sooner at the outer protoplasmic surface....