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Query: EC:1.8.1.4 (diaphorase)
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Using histological, morphometric, histochemical and immunocytochemical methods, the effect of cytotoxic treatment on structural and functional characteristics of the epithelium of esophageal mucosa was studied in mice together with the reversibility of the changes induced by cytotoxic drug. Fourfold intraperitoneal injection of cyclophosphamide (400 mg/kg of body mass) resulted in such morpho-functional changes, as thickening of epithelial layer, increase in proportion of its stratum corneum and its loosening, disturbances in cornification process, hyperkeratosis, vacuolization of cell cytoplasm in stratum basale and stratum spinosum, interstitial edema, nuclear hypertrophy and parakeratosis. Mitotic activity and the activity of NADH-diaphorase were significantly reduced, while the number of PCNA' cells was increased. Cyclophosphamide had no significant affect on the concentration of total proteins. 15 days after the discontinuation of cytostatic treatment, most of the indexes did not return to normal values, indicating profound disturbances in the esophageal epithelium.
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PMID:[Morphological and functional changes in the esophageal epithelium after treatment with a cytostatic agent]. 1733 19

Mitochondrial defects including reduction of a key mitochondrial tricarboxylic acid cycle enzyme alpha-ketoglutarate-dehydrogenase complex (KGDHC) are characteristic of many neurodegenerative diseases. KGDHC consists of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, dihydrolipoyl succinyltransferase (E2k), and dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase (Dld) subunits. We investigated whether Dld or E2k deficiency influences adult brain neurogenesis using immunohistochemistry for the immature neuron markers, doublecortin (Dcx) and polysialic acid-neural cell adhesion molecule, as well as a marker for proliferation, proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA). Both Dld- and E2k-deficient mice showed reduced Dcx-positive neuroblasts in the subgranular zone (SGZ) of the hippocampal dentate gyrus compared with wild-type mice. In the E2k knockout mice, increased immunoreactivity for the lipid peroxidation marker, malondialdehyde occurred in the SGZ. These alterations did not occur in the subventricular zone (SVZ). PCNA staining revealed decreased proliferation in the SGZ of E2k-deficient mice. In a transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease, Dcx-positive cells in the SGZ were also reduced compared with wild type, but Dld deficiency did not exacerbate the reduction. In the malonate lesion model of Huntington's disease, Dld deficiency did not alter the lesion-induced increase and migration of Dcx-positive cells from the SVZ into the ipsilateral striatum. Thus, the KGDHC subunit deficiencies associated with elevated lipid peroxidation selectively reduced the number of neuroblasts and proliferating cells in the hippocampal neurogenic zone. However, these mitochondrial defects neither exacerbated certain pathological conditions, such as amyloid precursor protein (APP) mutation-induced reduction of SGZ neuroblasts, nor inhibited malonate-induced migration of SVZ neuroblasts. Our findings support the view that mitochondrial dysfunction can influence the number of neural progenitor cells in the hippocampus of adult mice.
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PMID:Influence of mitochondrial enzyme deficiency on adult neurogenesis in mouse models of neurodegenerative diseases. 1842 80

We investigated the distribution of gamma aminobutyric acid, tyrosine hydroxylase and nitric oxide-producing elements in a cherry salmon Oncorhynchus masou brain at various stages of postnatal ontogenesis by immunohistochemical staining and histochemical staining. The periventricular region cells exhibited the morphology of neurons and glia including radial glia-like cells and contained several neurochemical substances. Heterogeneous populations of tyrosine hydroxylase-, gamma aminobutyric acid-immunoreactive, as well as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate diaphorase-positive cells were observed in proliferating cell nuclear antigen-immunoreactive proliferative zones in periventricular area of diencephalon, central grey layer of dorsomedial tegmentum, medulla and spinal cord. Immunolocalization of Pax6 in the cherry salmon brain revealed a neuromeric construction of the brain at various stages of postnatal ontogenesis, and this was confirmed by tyrosine hydroxylase and gamma aminobutyric acid labeling.
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PMID:Features of adult neurogenesis and neurochemical signaling in the Cherry salmon Oncorhynchus masou brain. 2520 67