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Cytophotometric measurements of the activities of 5 enzymes (succinate, malate, and NAD+-linked isocitrate dehydrogenases from the tricarboxylic cycle, lactate dehydrogenase from the Embden-Meyerhof pathway, and NADH dehydrogenase) were correlated with cell volume for neurones in the anterior horn of rabbit lumbar and cervical spinal cord. The data for succinate and isocitrate dehydrogenases indicated that these enzymes were at higher concentrations in the smaller neurones, which consist largely of interneurones. No preferential localization to particular sizes of cell could be assigned to the other enzymes studied. The relationship between enzyme distribution patterns and their possible role in contributing toward susceptibility to ischaemia of particular sizes of neurones is discussed.
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PMID:Quantitative oxidative enzyme histochemistry of the spinal cord. Part 2. Relation of cell size and enzyme activity to vulnerability to ischaemia. 117 87

A comparative study of 27 enzymes and proteins in blue and silver foxes was carried out by means of starch gel electrophoresis. The structure of these enzymes and proteins is determined by about 33 genes. It is shown that a number of blood enzymes and proteins of these species is represented by a single electrophoretic form, while lactate dehydrogenase, carboanhydrase, arylesterase, carboxylesterase, diaphorase, hexokinase and tetrasolium oxidase have several forms. It is also found that these species differ in seven enzymes and proteins: diaphorase, G-6-PD, adenylate kinase, carboxylesterase, albumin, prealbumin, transferrins. Other enzymes and proteins are similar in their electrophoretic mobility. The data obtained afford the evidence that the two species (Vulpes vulpes and Alopex lagopus) differ in a set of enzymes and proteins.
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PMID:[Homologous gene expression in intergeneric fox hybrids (Alopex lagopus x Vulpes vulpes). I. Comparative electrophoretic analysis of blood proteins and enzymes in Arctic and silver foxes]. 121 28

In the subcommissural organ (SCO) of the guinea pig, rat, golden hamster, and mouse the activity and distribution of enzymes related to the energy-supplying metabolism and of some marker enzymes of different cell organelles have been investigated by means of mostly modified histochemical methods. The results were compared with findings in the ciliated ependyma of the ventricular wall and with those in the ependyma of the choroid plexus of the third ventricle. In the ependymal part of the SCO only a moderate activity of hexokinase is observed in its specialized columnar cells whereas a high activity is present both in the ciliated ependyma and the choroid plexus. - The staining pattern of glucose-6-phosphatase is similar to that of hexokinase but this enzyme is found is the SCO only. - Likewise hexokinase, glycogen granules and enzymes related to glycogen metabolism (phosphoglucomutase, uridine-diphosphoglucose pyrophosphorylase, glycogen synthetase and phosphorylase) are regularly found most numerous and active in the nuclear and supra-nuclear area of the ependymal part. These enzymes are less active in both the other ependymal regions. - Uridine-diphosphoglucose dehydrogenase could not be demonstrated in the SCO. The NADP-linked enzymes of the pentose phosphate shunt, glucose-6-phosphate and 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, show a moderate activity which decreases also from the nuclear towards the apical area of the ependymal cells of the SCO. Enzymes of the glycolytic pathway, such as glucosephosphate isomerase, fructose-6-phosphate kinase, fructose-I,6-diphosphate aldolase, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and lactate dehydrogenase, are highly active in the SCO and are located mainly in the supranuclear area, too. Fructose-1,6-diphosphatase could not be demonstrated thus indicating that in the SCO the pathway is most probably only glycolytic but not gluconeogenetic. Compared to the ependyma of the ventricular wall and of the choroid plexus, in the SCO the M type subunits of lactate dehydrogenase predominate. Glycolytic enzymes are also very active in the choroid plexus but less in the ciliated ependyma. Compared to the ciliated ependyma and especially to the ependyma of the choroid plexus, the activities of enzymes which are only present in mitochondria (NAD-linked isocitrate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, NAD-linked malate dehydrogenase after preextraction, cytochrome oxidase, 3-hydroxybutyrate and glycerolphosphate and glutamate dehydrogenase) are relatively low. Mitochondria are accumulated near the superior pole of the nuclei as well as in the most apical part of the ependymal cells. - The staining pattern of NADP-linked isocitrate and malate dehydrogenase as well as of NADH dehydrogenase suggests that these enzymes are localized both in and out of mitochondria. The extramitochondrial activity of the first two enzymes might be localized in the cytosol. The extramitochondrial activity of NADH dehydrogenase might be localized in the endoplasmic reticulum...
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PMID:Enzymatic organization of the subcommissural organ. 123 49

Biopsies from non-hypertrophic and hypertrophic scars and from normal skin have been studied histochemically for activities of nicotanamide adenine dinucleotide diaphorase, lactate dehydrogenase, acid phosphatase, beta-D glucuronidase and alkaline phosphatase. The activities of all enzymes studied except alkaline phosphatase were found to be increased in hypertrophic scars as compared with non-hypertrophic scars and normal skin.
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PMID:Enzyme activity in human scars, hypertrophic scars and keloids. 125 60

NADH was metabolized both by serum components and at the cell surface. The metabolism by serum was either oxidation to NAD+, or hydrolysis of the pyrophosphate to yield nicotinamide mononucleotide (reduced) (NMNH) and AMP. NMNH was further hydrolysed to yield nicotinamide riboside (reduced) (NRH), which was stable. NAD+ was hydrolysed (although at a slower rate than was NADH), but was also reduced to yield NADH. The reduction of NAD+ was catalysed by the enzyme serum L(+)lactate dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.27) and was dependent on the concentration of L(+)lactate in the serum. NADPH was hydrolysed in a similar manner to NADH but not oxidized by serum. NADH generated from NAD+ by serum derived from human, foetal calf and horse sources was capable of driving the bioreductive activation of CB 1954 by the enzyme DT diaphorase. Cell surfaces oxidized NADH to NAD+, but did not oxidize NADPH or NRH. These observations suggest that NAD(P)H would be unsuitable as a source of reducing equivalents for the bioreductive activation of prodrugs by a reductase enzyme in Antibody Directed Enzyme Prodrug Therapy (ADEPT). In contrast, NAD+ (which could act as a source of NADH) and NRH could avoid the shortcomings of NAD(P)H, and act as suitable cofactors for an enzyme in an ADEPT system.
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PMID:Metabolism of NAD(P)H by blood components. Relevance to bioreductively activated prodrugs in a targeted enzyme therapy system. 138 14

1. The specific activity of lactate dehydrogenase of skeletal muscle mitochondria was found to be 2.5 times lower than specific activity of total NADH-cytochrome c reductase. 2. The specific activity of mitochondrial LDH in skeletal muscle mitochondria was almost equal to the activity of rotenone-insensitive NADH-cytochrome c reductase. 3. Mitochondrial LDH acting as an oxidase of lactate to pyruvate may feed an "external" pathway, but the activity of the mitochondrial enzyme is a limiting factor in oxidation of lactate-derived NADH. 4. Mitochondrial LDH acting as a reductase of pyruvate to lactate successfully competes with an "external" pathway for cytoplasmic NADH. 5. Exogenous NADH oxidation via an "external" pathway was inhibited by pyruvic acid. This inhibition was overcome by addition of oxamic acid or hydrazine.
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PMID:Regulating effect of mitochondrial lactate dehydrogenase on oxidation of cytoplasmic NADH via an "external" pathway in skeletal muscle mitochondria. 151 36

The c14CoS/c14CoS mouse has a homozygous deletion of about 1.2 cM on chromosome 7 that includes the albino (c) locus. The untreated 14CoS/14CoS newborn has been reported to exhibit a marked transcriptional activation of the hepatic NAD(P)H:menadione oxidoreductase (Nmo-1; DT diaphorase; quinone reductase; azo dye reductase) gene, as well as elevated UDP glucuronosyl-transferase (UGT1*06) and glutathione transferase (GT1) activities, when compared with the cch/cch wild-type and the cch/c14CoS heterozygote. We show here that the newborn hepatic activities of seven enzymes that play a role in the oxidative stress response--NMO1, UGT1*06, GT1, copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, glutathione reductase, and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase--are increased 1.5- to 25-fold in 14CoS/14CoS, as compared with ch/ch and ch/14CoS mice. The activities of four additional enzymes having no known association with the oxidative stress response--benzo[a]pyrene hydroxylase (CYP1A1, cytochrome P(1)450), acetanilide 4-hydroxylase (CYP1A2, cytochrome P(3)450), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and NADPH-cytochrome c reductase--are not significantly different among the three genotypes. These data suggest that there exists an "oxidative stress" response in the untreated 14CoS/14CoS newborn. We postulate that a chromosome 7 regulatory gene, which we have named Nmo-1n, might encode a trans-acting negative effector of the Nmo-1 gene, and genes corresponding to the other elevated enzymic activities described above. When both copies of Nmo-1n are deleted, as is the case in 14CoS/14CoS mice, a battery of genes involved in oxidative stress is released from negative control and becomes activated--despite the absence of any apparent oxidative insult by foreign chemicals.
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PMID:"Oxidative stress" response in liver of an untreated newborn mouse having a 1.2-centimorgan deletion on chromosome 7. 154 Jan 61

In cereal root tissue, hypoxia induces the enzyme lactate dehydrogenase (LDH); (S)-lactate:NADH oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.1.27). In barley, both biochemical and genetic data indicate that five isozymes are induced under hypoxia. These isozymes are tetramers and arise from the random association of the products of two Ldh genes. The induction of LDH activity in root tissue has been shown to be correlated to an increase in LDH protein and Ldh mRNA. In order to more fully characterize the hypoxic induction of LDH, we have isolated a maize Ldh genomic clone which has strong homology at both the amino acid and nucleotide level to the barley LDH cDNA clones. The Ldh1 gene consists of two exons separated by a 296 bp intron, has the expected eukaryotic regulatory signals and a sequence that has strong homology to the maize anaerobic regulatory element.
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PMID:Identification and characterization of a hypoxically induced maize lactate dehydrogenase gene. 162 81

Formation of the nasal septal cartilage in prenatal and neonatal rats was studied histologically and by histochemistry to determine the manner, degree and participation of the nasal septal cartilage in midface growth and in bone formation of the face. Chondrogenesis of the nasal septal cartilage started at the 13th embryonic day, premaxillary and vomerin bone formation at the 14th embryonic day and endochondral bone formation of the septo-presphenoid area at the 17th embryonic day. After differentiation of the nasal septal cartilage, this cartilage supported ethmoid bone formation by endochondal ossification in the septo-presphenoid area. Nasal septal cartilage showed intense activity of lactate dehydrogenase, NADH2-diaphorase and a moderate activity of acid phosphatase, whereas premaxillary and vomerin bone showed intense activity of alkaline phosphatase. Osteoblasts showed intense activity of alkaline phosphatase, lactate dehydrogenase and NADH2-diaphorase and osteoclasts showed intense activity of acid phosphatase. During the embryonal period growth of the nasal septal cartilage could occur in an ethmoido-rostral direction supported by endochondral ossification and growth in length and height supported by apposition and interstitial growth.
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PMID:Histochemical analysis of enzymes involved in the formation and metabolism of the nasal septal cartilage. 163 42

The activities of enzymes related to energy metabolism in the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles in young-adult (4 months), mature (12 months), and senescent (24 months) rats were compared after continuous (72 consecutive h) exposure to normobaric hypoxia or normoxia after the vasodilator naftidrofuryl or saline solution had been given intraperitoneally for 30 consecutive days. The maximum rats (Vmax) of the following enzyme activities in the crude extract and/or the crude mitochondrial fraction of each muscle specimen were evaluated for: the anaerobic glycolytic pathway (hexokinase, phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase), the tricarboxylic acid cycle (citrate synthase, and malate dehydrogenase), the electron transfer chain (cytochrome oxidase), and the NAD+/NADH redox state (total NADH cytochrome c reductase). The significance of differences between the enzyme activities at different ages or under different experimental conditions in the two tissue preparations of the two muscles were determined by ANOVA. MCA and ETA2 were used to evaluate the net effects of the experimental conditions. First, aging did not seem to affect the soleus and gastrocnemius muscles in the same way. In the gastrocnemius muscle, the major changes were seen in enzymes of the glycolytic pathway, in the crude extracts. In the soleus muscle, the more striking changes in enzyme activities as a function of aging were found in the crude mitochondrial fraction. We also found that hypoxia caused more important changes in 12-month-old rats than in those of other ages (especially the enzyme activities of the gastrocnemius muscle). Naftidrofuryl modified the effects of hypoxia only sometimes and further investigations are necessary before we can draw any conclusions about the pharmacological activity of naftidrofuryl in hypoxia.
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PMID:Effects of hypoxia and pharmacological treatment on enzyme activities in skeletal muscle of rats of different ages. 164 27


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