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Selected AbstractsEffect of Environmental Enrichment on Stress Related Systems in RatsJOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY, Issue 5 2004F. Moncek Abstract The aim of this study was to test whether environmental enrichment alters the status and responsiveness of pituitary-adrenocortical and sympathetic-adrenomedullary hormones in rats. Previous studies have shown that rats kept in an enriched environment differ from those kept in standard cages in dendritic branching, synaptogenesis, memory function, emotionality and behaviour. In male Wistar rats kept in an enriched environment for 40 days, we studied basal concentrations of hormones, endocrine responses to 5-HT1A challenge and responsiveness and adaptation to repeated handling. Environmental enrichment consisted of large plexiglass cages with 10 rats per cage, which contained variety of objects exchanged three times a week. Rats kept in this enriched environment had higher resting plasma concentrations of corticosterone, larger adrenals and increased corticosterone release to buspirone challenge compared to controls. Lower adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticosterone and adrenaline responses to handling were noticed in rats kept in an enriched environment. Exposure to repeated handling led to a more rapid extinction of corticosterone responses in rats kept in an enriched environment. Thus, environmental enrichment leads to pronounced changes in neuroendocrine regulation, including larger adrenals and increased adrenocortical function, which are so far considered to be indication of chronic stress. [source] Towards a 32-Electron Principle: Pu@Pb12 and Related Systems.CHEMINFORM, Issue 18 2007Jean-Pierre Dognon Abstract ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract, please click on HTML or PDF. [source] Synthesis of New Ring Systems: Isomeric 1,2,4-Triazolopyrimido[4,,,5,,:4,,5,]thieno[3,,2,:5,6]pyrido [3,2-c]cinnolines and Other Related Systems.CHEMINFORM, Issue 19 2005M. Z. A. Badr Abstract For Abstract see ChemInform Abstract in Full Text. [source] Complexation and Dynamic Switching Properties of Fluorophore-Appended Resorcin[4]arene CavitandsEUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY, Issue 5 2010Laura D. Shirtcliff Abstract Fluorophore-appended resorcin[4]arene-based cavitands having pyrene (2) and anthracene (3) moieties attached to the rims were prepared by short synthetic routes. Both undergo reversible temperature- and acid- (CF3COOD) induced vase,,,kite switching as evidenced by 1H NMR spectroscopy. The 1H NMR spectra also suggest that suitably sized solvents, such as [D8]toluene, efficiently solvate the cavity, reducing the conformational flexibility. In [D12]mesitylene, both cavitands undergo remarkably stable host-guest inclusion complexation with cycloalkanes. The larger cavity of 3 preferentially hosts cyclohexane, whereas the smaller cavity of 2 forms the most stable complex with cyclopentane. The propensity for the cavitands to facilitate ,,, stacking between the chromophores was confirmed by both 1H NMR and fluorescence spectroscopy. The interchromophoric interaction is strongly solvent-dependent: ,,, stacking between the pyrene moieties of 2 is not as efficient in [D8]toluene, as it solvates the inner cavity and prevents the two chromophores from approaching each other. Fluorescence studies revealed an unexpectedly large conformational flexibility of the cavitand structures both in the vase and kite forms, which was further confirmed by molecular dynamics simulations. Excimer formation is most preferred in [D12]mesitylene when the cavities are empty, whereas efficient solvation or guest binding in the interior spaces reduces the propensity for excimer formation. The observed high conformational flexibility of the cavitands in solution explains previous differences from the behavior of related systems in the solid state. This study shows that the rigid, perfect vase and kite geometries found for bridged resorcin[4]arene cavitands in the solid state are largely a result of crystal packing effects and that the conformational flexibility of the structures in solution is rather high. [source] PERSPECTIVE: MATERNAL KIN GROUPS AND THE ORIGINS OF ASYMMETRIC GENETIC SYSTEMS,GENOMIC IMPRINTING, HAPLODIPLOIDY, AND PARTHENOGENESISEVOLUTION, Issue 4 2006Benjamin B. Normark Abstract The genetic systems of animals and plants are typically eumendelian. That is, an equal complement of autosomes is inherited from each of two parents, and at each locus, each parent's allele is equally likely to be expressed and equally likely to be transmitted. Genetic systems that violate any of these eumendelian symmetries are termed asymmetric and include parent-specific gene expression (PSGE), haplodiploidy, thelytoky, and related systems. Asymmetric genetic systems typically arise in lineages with close associations between kin (gregarious siblings, brooding, or viviparity). To date, different explanatory frameworks have been proposed to account for each of the different asymmetric genetic systems. Haig's kinship theory of genomic imprinting argues that PSGE arises when kinship asymmetries between interacting kin create conflicts between maternally and paternally derived alleles. Greater maternal than paternal relatedness within groups selects for more "abstemious" expression of maternally derived alleles and more "greedy" expression of paternally derived alleles. Here, I argue that this process may also underlie origins of haplodiploidy and many origins of thelytoky. The tendency for paternal alleles to be more "greedy" in maternal kin groups means that maternal-paternal conflict is not a zero-sum game: the maternal optimum will more closely correspond to the optimum for family groups and demes and for associated entities such as symbionts. Often in these circumstances, partial or complete suppression of paternal gene expression will evolve (haplodiploidy, thelytoky), or other features of the life cycle will evolve to minimize the conflict (monogamy, inbreeding). Maternally transmitted cytoplasmic elements and maternally imprinted nuclear alleles have a shared interest in minimizing agonistic interactions between female siblings and may cooperate to exclude the paternal genome. Eusociality is the most dramatic expression of the conflict-reducing effects of haplodiploidy, but its original and more widespread function may be suppression of intrafamilial cannibalism. In rare circumstances in which paternal gene products gain access to maternal physiology via a placenta, PSGE with greedy paternal gene expression can persist (e.g., in mammals). [source] Non-empirical calculations of NMR indirect carbon,carbon coupling constants.MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY, Issue 6 2005Aliphatic, Part 1, alicyclic oximes Abstract One-bond carbon,carbon coupling constants were calculated in a series of nine aliphatic and alicyclic oximes at the SOPPA (second-order polarization propagator approach) level in good agreement with the available experimental data, and several unknown couplings were predicted with high reliability. The experimental difference between J(C,C) of the corresponding carbon,carbon bonds in cis and trans orientations to the nitrogen lone pair is very well reproduced at the SOPPA level, and this provides an additional tool in the configurational assignment at the CN bond in oximes and related systems. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Exchange of conserved quantities, shock loci and Riemann problemsMATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES, Issue 13 2001Michael Sever Systems of conservation laws admitting extensions, such as entropy density/flux functions, generate related systems obtained by exchanging the extension with one of the constituent equations. Often if not always, the smooth solutions of the two systems coincide, and weak solutions of one system containing only small discontinuities are approximate weak solutions of the other. The adiabatic approximation for the Euler system illustrates the utility of this procedure. Such an exchange of conserved quantities preserves hyperbolicity and genuine non-linearity in the sense of Lax. On the other hand, the topological structure of the shock locus of a point in phase space and the solvability of Riemann problems in the large can be strongly affected. A discussion of when and how this occurs is given here. In this paper the exchange of conserved quantities is conveniently described by a simple homotopy in an extended version of the usual ,symmetric variables'. A dynamical system in phase space is constructed, the trajectories of which describe the Hugoniot locus of a fixed point in phase space at each state of the homotopy. The appearance of critical points for this dynamical system is identified with the alteration of the topological structure of the Hugoniot locus by the exchange of conserved quantities. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Technical Note: Accounting for anatomical symmetry in the first-order optical character of left and right eyesOPHTHALMIC AND PHYSIOLOGICAL OPTICS, Issue 4 2007W. F. Harris Abstract In quantitative analyses of the optical character of eyes (and related systems) it is sometimes necessary to deal with left and right eyes in the same context. In accounting for anatomical symmetry (mirror symmetry in the mid-sagittal plane) one treats a cylinder axis at 20°, say, in a left eye as equivalent to an axis at 160° in a right eye. But this is only one aspect of the linear optical character of an eye. The purpose of this note is to show how to account for anatomical symmetry in the linear optical character of eyes in general. In particular the note shows how to modify the optical properties of left (or right) eyes so that anatomical symmetry is accounted for in quantitative analyses in contexts in which both left and right eyes are involved. [source] Ru-catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Aryl Ketones Using Tetrazole Derived NH2 -hybrid LigandCHINESE JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY, Issue 12 2009Fusheng Bie Abstract Readily available chiral hybrid NH2/tetrazole ligand [(S)-TEA, 1] in combination with Ru-BINAP or Ru-DIOP complexes catalyzes the asymmetric hydrogenation of a number of simple ketones with moderate enantioselectivity (up to 72% ee). The tetrazole functionality results in reversal of the typically observed chiral-induction for related systems and allows for hydrogenation to be uncharacteristically conducted in (non-protic) THF solvent. The observed catalyst performance is sensitive to the reaction conditions employed and the particular compounds involved. The origins of such features are considered to derive from the added functionality provided by the tetrazole moiety in 1, which due to its modular nature provides a good basis for further development. [source] | |||||||||||||