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Query: EC:1.4.1.2 (glutamate dehydrogenase)
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Of a total of 1,420 odontogenic cysts, 52 (3.3%) were diagnosed as odontogenic keratocysts. Clinical and histological findings in these 52 cysts are reported. Frozen sections of 26 of the keratocysts were incubated to show the following enzyme activities: NADH2- and NADPH2-diaphorase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, acid phosphatase, leucine aminopeptidase and ATPase. Furthermore, keratinization was studied with the rhodamine B method and lipids with the oil red O, the OTAN and the acid hematein methods. Sections from epidermis, oral mucosa, radicular cysts, residual cysts and follicular cysts served as reference material. The oxidative enzymes showed strong activity in the keratocyst epithelium which contrasted with weak activity in the reference cysts. Acid phosphatase activity was weak in all epithelia except that in keratocysts, which displayed a marked activity. In the fibrous capsule of the keratocyst a high activity of leucine aminopeptidase was recorded. This high activity contrasted with a weak activity in the reference material. The significance of the histochemical results in relation to the aggressive behavior of the keratocyst is discussed.
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PMID:Odontogenic keratocysts: a clinical and histological study with special reference to enzyme histochemistry. 14 97

Oxidoreductases were studied histochemically in 162 cases of neuroectodermal tumors. In order of decreasing activity in the cytoplasma these enzymes could be arranged as follows: NADH diaphorase, lactate dehydrogenase, NADPH diaphorase, glutamate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase. The weak activity of Krebs cycle enzymes and the relatively strong activity of other oxidoreductases, particularly of lactate dehydrogenase, permits to conclude that glycolysis prevails over oxidative processes in neuroectodermal tumor cells. But this should not be interpreted as a decrease of the Krebs cycle enzymes in astrocytoma and oligodendroglioma cells as compared with their parent cells because the latter themselves display a weak activity of these enzymes. A real decrease of Krebs cycle enzyme activity was established only for tumors, the parent cells of which are characterized by a strong (in choroid-papillomas) or moderate (in ependymomas) activity of these enzymes. Many neuroectodermal tumors, in particular those of astrocytic origin, demonstrate a certain correlation between the amount of cytoplasm and oxidoreductase activity. This results in enzymatic polymorphism of the tumor tissue. A certain similarity was established of the oxidoreductase activity in tumor cells and in reactive hypertophic astrocytes. This indicates that both tumor cells and reactive astrocytes may in certain conditions utilize similar mechanisms of increased metabolism. The oxidoreductase activity correlates not with the grade of anaplasia but with different directions of anaplasia reflected in different variants of neuroectodermal tumors. The concept "anaplasia" includes not only certain degrees of dedifferentiation of tumor cells but, as it has been shown histochemically, also an increase of metabolic processes in the tumor cell cytoplasma.
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PMID:Histochemistry of oxidoreductases, enzymatic polymorphism and anaplasia of neuroectodermal tumors. 18 68

One hour after a single i.v. dose of 250 mg/kg folic acid, the straight portion of distal tubules in the outer medulla of rat kidneys showed a distinct reduction in succinate dehydrogenase, NADH2-diaphorase, glutamate dehydrogenase, cytochrome oxydase, Na+/K+-ATPase, and acid phosphatase activity. In contrast, the proximal tubules exhibited only a reduction in glutamate dehydrogenase and alkaline phosphatase activity. At this time the straight portion of the distal tubules, whose enzyme activity had changed, showed partly regressive epithelial changes. 24 hours after folic acid administration an even greater reduction in enzyme activity had occurred in the straight portion of distal tubules; these structures also became dilated. The adjacent collecting tubules and the corresponding proximal tubules were also severely dilated, the proximal tubules showing a loss in enzyme acitivities similar to those observed in the distal tubules. 48 hours after folic acid administration the changes largely resembled those observed after 24 hours, but were more pronounced. At this time a tubular regeneration was observed. 72 hours after folic administration extensive normalization of the histological and histochemical changes had occured. It is postulated that a disturbance of the hairpin counter-current mechanism occurs as a result of a direct, concentration-dependent effect of folic acid on the enzymes of the energy supplying metabolism. A dilation in the region of the loop of Henle and the collecting tubules occurs subsequently.
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PMID:Enzyme histochemistry of rat folic acid nephropathy. 19 86

The authors have studied the enzymhistochemical and ultrastructural pictures of tenocytes of adult human tendons. High succinate dehydrogenase, cytochrome oxidase, TPN-diaphorase, lactate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity were found, as indicated both oxidativ, anaerobic and pentose-phosphate shung activity. Phosphorylase and glutamate dehydrogenase activity was medial, lipase and alcaline phosphatase activity was slight. In tenocytes well developed rough endoplasmic reticulum and GOLGI apparatus, large amount of free ribosomes were found.
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PMID:Histochemical and ultrastructural study of adult human tendon. 23 84

The authors investigated the dehydrogenase histochemistry of arterioles on 22 muscular biopsies from 14 male and 8 female patients with different clinical forms of atherosclerosis, and in 5 controls. There was a diminution with age of all the enzymes studied. In 3 of 6 cases with pathological lesions (thickening of endothelium, fragmentation of the internal elastic lamina, thrombosis) there was a regional diminution of NADH-diaphorase and NADPH-diaphorase activities parallel with an increase of the reaction for lactic dehydrogenase and glutamate dehydrogenase in the muscular cells and endothelium.
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PMID:Histoenzymology of muscular arterioles. 81 50

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

An enzymatic method for the determination of free glutamic acid in meat products and dried soups was collaboratively studied in 11 laboratories. In the presence of the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase, L-glutamic acid is oxidatively deaminated by nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) to 2-oxoglutarate. In a reaction catalyzed by diaphorase, the NADH thus formed converts 2-(p-iodophenyl)-3-(p-nitrophenyl)-5-phenyltetrazolium chloride to a formazan, which is measured in the visible range at 492 nm. Fourteen samples (7 samples of minced sausage and 7 samples of dried cauliflower soup) with glutamate contents varying between 0.4 and 16 g/kg were included in the study. Materials were distributed to participants as blind duplicates and as split level pairs. The mean relative standard deviation (RSDR) for reproducibility for the dried soup material containing glutamate between 7 and 16 g/kg was 4.6%. RSDR values for samples of minced sausage containing glutamate at lower levels (0.4-1.3 g/kg) were between 12 and 16%.
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PMID:Enzymatic determination of free glutamic acid in dried soups and in minced sausages: NMKL collaborative study. 168 80

Haemonchus contortus, incubated in 10 micrograms/ml and 50 micrograms/ml concentrations of Nilzan and albendazole in Tyrode solution were stained for histoenzymatic demonstration of various phosphatases, oxido-reductases and esterases. The intestine showed major alterations after drug treatments. The alkaline phosphatases (AkPase), adenosine triphosphatase (ATPase), glucose-6-phosphatase, succinic dehydrogenase (SDH), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide diaphorase showed a decreased activity in intestine after Nilzan treatment, whereas lactic dehydrogenase (LDH), glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD) and monoamine oxidase resisted increased reaction. The albendazole treatment resulted in altered distribution pattern of the AkPase, ATPase, SDH, and GDH; while LDH, G-6-PD, and non-specific esterases exhibited slightly enhanced activity in the epithelium. The functional significance of these changes has been fully discussed.
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PMID:Effect of Nilzan and albendazole on the absorptive surfaces of Haemonchus contortus (Nematoda)--a histoenzymic study. 196 79

To evaluate changes in liver metabolic zonation during development of juvenile cirrhosis, zonal activities of succinate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphatase, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) dehydrogenase were measured by quantitative cytochemistry in the liver of developing rats intoxicated with carbon tetrachloride and phenobarbitone. During treatment, activities were most decreased in perivenular zones and subsequently at the periphery of the cirrhotic nodules for succinate dehydrogenase and glucose-6-phosphatase, whereas glutamate dehydrogenase and NADPH dehydrogenase were less affected. In the periportal zones, enzyme activities decreased less. After stopping intoxication, the rats remained cirrhotic, but enzyme activities returned to control perivenular levels at the periphery of the cirrhotic nodule and to control periportal levels at its center. It is concluded that a metabolic zonation persists in carbontetrachloride/phenobarbitone-induced juvenile cirrhosis and that enzyme activities can recover despite persisting cirrhosis. In this model, afferent vessels seem to be located at the center of the cirrhotic nodules, and efferent vessels, at their periphery. A different metabolic zonation may exist in other human and animal liver cirrhosis that could be related to the site of initial liver damage.
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PMID:Adaptative changes of metabolic zonation during the development of cirrhosis in growing rats. 216 52

Hepatocytes differ in their metabolism depending on their position in the liver acinus. To assess how such specialization changes during development, we used quantitative cytochemistry to measure succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), glucose-6-phosphatase (G6P), and NADPH dehydrogenase (ND) activities specifically in periportal and perivenular hepatocytes in developing rats, aged between 1-114 days. Important and distinct changes were observed in each zone for each enzyme during development. An intra-acinar gradient of distribution was present from day 1 for SDH and G6P and from day 5 for GDH and ND. It was being similar to the adult value for SDH but less pronounced for the remaining enzymes. The SDH and G6P activity was greater in periportal cells, and the GDH and ND activity was greater in perivenular cells. The more pronounced distribution with age was due, for G6P, to an initial specific periportal increase combined with a mild perivenular decrease and for GDH to a greater perivenular than periportal increase. The ND first increased simultaneously in both zones, but from day 20 the perivenular increase became prevalent. The SDH changes were parallel in both zones. All zonal enzyme activities changed distinctly after weaning. To what extent the changes in activities and metabolic zonation observed in our study reflect a response to specific metabolic demands of the liver or can be modified by environmental factors remains to be investigated.
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PMID:Developmental changes in the intra-acinar distribution of succinate dehydrogenase, glutamate dehydrogenase, glucose-6-phosphatase, and NADPH dehydrogenase in the rat liver. 254 10


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