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Query: EC:1.4.1.2 (glutamate dehydrogenase)
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Cardiac tissue obtained by left-ventricular endomyocardial biopsy from patients with valvular heart-disease was assayed for marker enzyme activities of subcellular organelles and these were correlated with left ventricular function as assessed by haemodynamic studies. In patients with poor left ventricular function, calcium-dependent adenosine-triphosphatase (A.T.P.ase) activity, predominantly localised to the myofibrils, was strikingly reduced. Activity of lactate dehydrongenase, a cytosol enzyme, was significantly increased in tissue from patients with poor left ventricular function. The activity of enzymes associated with sarcolemma (5'-nucleotidase), mitochondria (glutamate dehydrogenase and monoamine oxidase), microsomes (neutral alpha-glucosidase), and lysosomes (acid phosphatase, N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminidase) was no different in patients with good or poor left ventricular function. It is suggested that reduced myofibrillary A.T.P.ase concentration is the biochemical basis for the impaired ventricular function.
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PMID:Enzymic analysis of cardiac biopsy material from patients with valvular heart-disease. 5 85

The effects of chloramphenicol on the morphology and respiratory enzymes of BHK-21 cells in spinner culture have been examined with time. Cells treated with chloramphenicol double twice before growth ceases; these cells have increased size as measured by several techniques. Mitochondria are enlarged and appear to degenerate with prolonged treatment. Cytochrome c oxidase and succinate cytochrome c reductase activities are reduced while there is no decrease in the activities of monoamine oxidase, glutamate dehydrogenase or NADPH-cytochrome c reductase. Cytochromes aa3 and b disappear on treatment while cytochromes c + c1 appears to be unaffected. All these effects are reversible if chloramphenicol is removed within a limited period of time.
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PMID:Mitochondrial biogenesis in cultured animal cells. I. Effect of chloramphenicol on morphology and mitochondrial respiratory enzymes. 19 16

A crude mitochondrial fraction (M) derived from manually disrupted cerebellar tissue and enriched in choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) activity was fractionated by centrifugation in discontinuous and continuous sucrose gradients. Further purification of 'cholinergic' synaptosomes was achieved (relative specific activity (RSA) of ChAT greater than 3), but the overlap with other synaptosomal populations was still considerable. Hand-homogenized cerebella processed through the full fractionation procedure described here and in previous papers yielded preparations enriched in certain neuronal structures and a fraction in which 'heavy' free mitochondria was concentrated. To characterize these preparations the activities of two transmitter enzymes (CHAT and glutamate decarboxylase, GAD) and 6 mitochondrial enzymes (succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), monoamine oxidase, citrate synthase, fumarase and GABA-aminotransferase) were determined. The distribution of the transmitter enzymes was clearly different in the preparations containing various neuronal structures. The GAD:ChAT RSA ratio was 2.4 for the glomerulus particles, 1.3 for the molecular layer fragments, 0.6 for the myelinated axon segments, and 0.2 for the 'cholinergic' synaptosomes. The mitochondrial enzyme profile of the preparations comprising mainly neuronal structures differed markedly from that of the 'free' mitochondrial fraction. Notably the latter was greatly enriched in GDH (RSA 5.6), whereas the SDH:GDH RSA ratio was relatively high in the former preparations. Nevertheless there were notable differences in the enzyme profile of the fractions of predominantly neuronal origin indicating that the enzyme composition of mitochondria of neuronal processes is not uniform.
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PMID:Subcellular fractionation of rat cerebellum: separation of synaptosomal populations and heterogeneity of mitochondria. 21 84

The brains of 35 male Wistar rats weighing 250 g were histologically and histochemically examined after a chronic intoxication due to five-month exposure to carbon disulfide. Morphologically, myelin sheath disruptions within the longitudinal tract systems of the spinal cord, destructions of individual ganglion cells in all brain regions and elective parenchyma necroses in the frontal and parietal cerebral cortices were found. The histochemical assays for enzyme activities of monoamine oxidase, ATPase, glucose 6-phosphatase, acetylcholine esterase and succinic dehydrogenase in the entire central nervous system revealed values identical to those obtained for control animals. Only succinic dehydrogenase and acetylcholine esterase revealed focal reduction in activities within the elective parenchyma necroses. After twenty-week duration of experiments a moderate decrease in activities of arylsulfatases and glutamic dehydrogenase in the entire central nervous system was found. Eventual causes responsible for these changes are discussed.
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PMID:Histological and histochemical studies on the rat brain under conditions of carbon disulfide intoxication. 92 88

The subcellular localizations of gamma-aminobutyrate transaminase (EC 2.6.1.19) and glutamate dehydrogenase (EC 1.4.1.2) in brain tissue of adult rats were compared with each other and with those of NAD+-isocitrate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.41) and monoamine oxidase (EC 1.4.3.4; kynuramine as substrate). Crude mitochondrial fractions from brain tissue were centrifuged in continuous sucrose density gradients. gamma-Aminobutyrate transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase were always found at a higher density than NAD+-isocitrate dehydrogenase and monoamine oxidase. When centrifuged for 1 h at 53 000gav., there was a slight difference between the distribution profiles of glutamate dehydrogenase and gamma-aminobutyrate transaminase. This difference was larger when the centrifugation time was only 15 min. It is concluded that there are subpopulations of brain mitochondria with differing proportions of gamma-aminobutyrate transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase. The results are discussed in relation to evidence obtained with labelled precursors in vivo that there are at least two small glutamate compartments in adult brain.
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PMID:Subcellular localization of gamma-aminobutyrate transaminase and glutamate dehydrogenase in adult rat brain. Evidence for at least two small glutamate compartments in brain. 122 1

In vitro alterations induced by a 10 micrograms/ml and 50 micrograms/ml dose each of thiophenate and fenbendazole on the absorptive surfaces of Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda: Trichostrongylidae) were studied. The most significant changes were induced in the gut epithelium. Alkaline phosphatase and adenosine triphosphatase activities were decreased, succinic dehydrogenase activity was increased, while acid phosphatase and glucose-6-phosphatase were completely lost from the intestinal epithelium after treatment with either of the drugs. A stimulatory effect of these two anthelmintics was observe on lactic dehydrogenase and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide diaphorase distribution. Thiophenate caused an increase in the activities of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) and nonspecific esterases and a decrease in reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase (NADPH-D) activity. Fenbendazole treatment led to the inhibition of GDH, while G-6-PD, NADPH-D, cytochrome oxidase, monoamine oxidase and nonspecific esterase activity remained unaltered in the epithelium.
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PMID:Histoenzymic effects of thiophenate and fenbendazole on the absorptive surfaces of Haemonchus contortus. 133 82

Ammonia, lactate and glutamate levels and the activities of glutamine synthetase (GS), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), glutaminase (GLN), aspartate transaminase (AST), phosphofructokinase (PFK) and monoamine oxidase (MAO) were compared in the brain tissue of normal and P. yoelii infected mice. The brain lactate increased by 96% at peak parasitaemia. Cerebral ammonia also exhibited an increase in infected mice which was parasitaemia dependent, while glutamate remained almost unchanged. The brain glutamine synthetase registered an increase of 35% (P < 0.001) in post-mitochondrial fractions, this effect being perceptible even at low parasitaemia, but attained constancy at parasitaemia levels higher than 20%. The activity of monoamine oxidase and phosphofructokinase increased by 105% (P < 0.02) and 41% (P < 0.05) respectively while glutamate dehydrogenase decreased by 15% (P < 0.001). Glutaminase and aspartate transaminase were not significantly influenced by infection (tested only at high parasitaemia levels). It has been postulated that cerebral hypoxia and aberrations in ammonia metabolism may both contribute towards malaria induced cerebral complications.
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PMID:Cerebral ammonia levels and enzyme changes during Plasmodium yoelii infection in mice. 136 Oct 9

Mitochondrial and cytosolic functions were studied in vivo and in perfused livers from rats with secondary biliary cirrhosis induced by bile duct ligation for 5 wk and in sham-operated controls. The livers were stereologically analyzed, and mitochondrial and cytosolic functions were related to liver structure. Oxygen consumption by perfused livers expressed per stereologically determined mitochondrial volume was decreased by 49% in bile duct-ligated rats compared with control rats. Glucose production (expressed per mitochondrial volume) was reduced by more than 90% in bile duct ligation, whereas urea production was not affected. Lactate production, a cytosolic function, was increased fivefold in bile duct ligation, and both the lactate/pyruvate and the beta-hydroxybutyrate/aceto-acetate ratios were increased in the liver perfusate of bile duct-ligated rats. In comparison with control rats, the stereologically determined mitochondrial volume fraction per hepatocyte was increased by 28% in bile duct-ligated rats. Activities of mitochondrial enzymes expressed per area of mitochondrial membrane or per mitochondrial volume were either unchanged (ATPase, cytochrome c oxidase and glutamate dehydrogenase) or decreased (monoamine oxidase) in bile duct ligation. Thus in comparison with control rats, mitochondrial metabolism is impaired in perfused livers from bile duct-ligated rats; increased mitochondrial volume per hepatocyte may represent a strategy to maintain hepatic energy metabolism in rats with secondary biliary cirrhosis.
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PMID:Stereological and functional analysis of liver mitochondria from rats with secondary biliary cirrhosis: impaired mitochondrial metabolism and increased mitochondrial content per hepatocyte. 159 55

Effect of diethyl carbamazine (DEC) on the levels of neurotransmitter amino acids and on the activities of related enzymes of S. digitata have been studied. When the worms were incubated in DEC, substances known to have neurotransmitter effect were found increased except glycine. Among the amines the level of serotonin, dihydroxy phenyl alanine and epinephrine were increased and that of histamine remained the same. DEC inhibited activities of monoamine oxidase, aspartate amino transferase and alanine amino transferase and enhanced those of cathepsin and glutamate dehydrogenase. The effect of DEC on the activities of the enzymes appear to account for the increased level of amino acids and amines. Results indicate that the reversible paralysis caused by DEC is due to the accumulation of neurostimulants and associated decrease in the concentration of inhibitors.
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PMID:Effect of diethyl carbamazine on neurotransmitter amino acids, biogenic amines and certain related enzymes in Setaria digitata. 167 64

Quantitative cytochemical methods in functionally different rat brain formations (sensomotor cortex, visual cortex, nucleus caudatus, hippocampus) showed the peculiarities of the effect of tuftsin on the activity of some enzymes (the oxidative, neurotransmitter and protein metabolism enzymes) 15 min and 3 days after its single administration. No changes of activity of neurotransmitter metabolism enzymes (monoamine oxidase, acetylcholinesterase) were registered cytochemically. The specificity of the neuro-tropical effect of tuftsin on protein (activity of aminopeptidase and acid phosphatase) and oxidative (activity of glutamate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase) metabolism in different functional brain systems is discussed.
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PMID:[A cytochemical study of the effect of tuftsin on the enzyme activity in functionally different formations of the brain in rats]. 184 60


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