Hemolytic suppression roles of taurine in yellowtail Seriola quinqueradiata fed non-fishmeal diet based on soybean protein   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Shusaku Takagi  Hisashi Murata  Takanobu Goto  Masahiro Hayashi  Hideo Hatate  Makoto Endo  Hirofumi Yamashita  Masaharu Ukawa 《Fisheries Science》2006,72(3):546-555

ABSTRACT:   To elucidate the hemolytic suppression roles of taurine and the necessity of dietary taurine supplementation in yellowtail Seriola quinqueradiata fed a diet without fishmeal, juvenile fish with an initial body weight of 250 g were fed for 40 weeks in floating net cages on soybean protein diets supplemented with 0, 3.0, 4.5 and 6.0% taurine. Taurine concentration of the experimental diets were 0.03, 33.9, 52.8 and 71.6 mg/g, respectively. On the 21st week, fish fed the taurine unsupplemented diet had inferior growth and feed performances, higher death, and there were incidences of green liver and hemolytic anemia. In this group, hepatic and plasma taurine concentrations, serum osmolality and osmotic tolerance of erythrocytes (EC50 value) were significantly lower, and plasma hydroperoxide concentration was markedly higher than in the taurine supplemented groups. These conditions markedly improved corresponding with the increase of dietary taurine concentration. These results indicate that taurine plays a role in hemolytic suppression through osmoregulation and biomembrane stabilization in fish. In addition, it is suggested that yellowtail requires dietary taurine as an essential nutrition for maintaining physiological condition normally.  相似文献   

A plastidic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase is responsible for hypersensitive response cell death and reactive oxygen species production     

Shuta Asai  Miki Yoshioka  Hironari Nomura  Chiyori Tone  Kazumi Nakajima  Eiichi Nakane  Noriyuki Doke  Hirofumi Yoshioka 《Journal of General Plant Pathology》2011,77(3):152-162

Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) has been implicated in the supply of reduced nicotine amide cofactors for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. Here, we show participation of the plastidic P2 isoform of G6PDH in plant immunity. A cytosolic isoform (NbG6PDH-Cyto) and two plastidic isoforms (NbG6PDH-P1 and NbG6PDH-P2) cloned from Nicotiana benthamiana were localized in cytosol and chloroplasts, respectively. Hypersensitive response (HR) cell death and NADPH oxidase (RBOH; respiratory burst oxidase homolog)-dependent reactive oxygen species (ROS) production after recognition of INF1 elicitin, secreted by oomycete Phytophthora infestans, decreased in NbG6PDH-P2-silenced plants, but not in NbG6PDH-Cyto- and NbG6PDH-P1-silenced plants. Silencing of the cytosolic NAD kinase NbNADK1, which phosphorylates NADH to form NADPH, compromised HR cell death and ROS production, and concomitant silencing with NbG6PDH-P2 reduced HR cell death and ROS to levels near those in NbG6PDH-P2-silenced plants. Similarly, silencing NbG6PDH-P2 and NbNADK1 resulted in high susceptibility to P. infestans. These results suggest that NADPH produced by the P2 isoform of G6PDH in chloroplasts is responsible for HR cell death and ROS production mediated by RBOH and that NbNADK1 is involved in this pathway.  相似文献   

Multiplex PCR and Genescan analysis to detect immunoglobulin heavy chain gene rearrangement in feline B-cell neoplasms   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Mochizuki H  Nakamura K  Sato H  Goto-Koshino Y  Sato M  Takahashi M  Fujino Y  Ohno K  Uchida K  Nakayama H  Tsujimoto H 《Veterinary immunology and immunopathology》2011,143(1-2):38-45

Lymphoid neoplasms are usually diagnosed on the basis of cytological and histopathological findings. However, in some cases, discrimination of lymphoid neoplasms from reactive lymphoid proliferation is difficult. PCR amplification of complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable region (IGHV) gene can be used to assess clonality of B-cell populations as a supportive diagnostic tool for B-cell neoplasms. Because of the sequence variation and possible somatic hypermutation of the IGHV gene, sensitivity of the PCR-based assay to detect clonal IGHV gene rearrangement largely depends on the sequences and numbers of primer sets. Prior to the development of an efficient assay, we cloned and sequenced 97 IGHV complementary DNAs (48 IGHV-1 and 49 IGHV-3 clones) from normal cat spleens. On the basis of these sequences, we designed 6 forward primers at the variable region and 5 reverse primers at the joining region. Using each of 6 forward primers and a mixture of 5 reverse primers, we amplified CDR3 of IGHV genes and analyzed the PCR products by conventional PAGE and Genescan analyses using fluorescence-labeled primers. Twenty-six feline B-cell neoplasms diagnosed by histopathological and immunohistochemical examinations were subjected to the newly developed analysis of IGHV gene rearrangement. Clonal IGHV gene rearrangement was detected in 22 of 26 (84%) samples by both PAGE and Genescan analyses. To reduce the number of PCR reactions, we constructed a multiplex PCR analysis system using a mixture of IGHV-1- and IGHV-3-specific primers as forward primers and a mixture of 5 joining region reverse primers. Results of the multiplex PCR were 100% concordant with those obtained by each of the singleplex PCRs. The multiplex PCR-based assay and Genescan analysis developed in the present study would be useful and practical tools to detect clonal IGHV gene rearrangement in feline B-cell neoplasms.  相似文献   

Annual variation of natural 15N abundance in tea leaves and its practicality as an organic tea indicator     

Hayashi N  Ujihara T  Tanaka E  Kishi Y  Ogawa H  Matsuo H 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2011,59(18):10317-10321

To obtain basic knowledge about the relationship between the application of organic fertilizers and the δ15N values of leaves of organically grown tea plants, annual variations in the δ15N values of the tea leaves were investigated. Although variations did not immediately arise after the application of organic fertilizers, differences in the δ15N values between organic and conventional cultivations appeared basically after three years from the beginning of the organic cultivation except when an organic fertilizer with a low δ15N value was applied, and the variation depended on the δ15N values of the fertilizers. In addition, the effectiveness of the δ15N values as a practical indicator of organic teas was examined. The tea leaves collected from organic farms did not always have higher δ15N values than the commercially available nonorganic teas. This result demonstrates that it is not easy to discriminate organic teas from nonorganic teas simply by their δ15N values.  相似文献   

Physiological difference between free and triglyceride-type conjugated linoleic acid on the immune function of C57BL/6N mice     

Yamasaki M  Kitagawa T  Chujo H  Koyanagi N  Nishida E  Nakaya M  Yoshimi K  Maeda H  Nou S  Iwata T  Ogita K  Tachibana H  Yamada K 《Journal of agricultural and food chemistry》2004,52(11):3644-3648

Previous studies have shown the physiological significance of dietary conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in various experimental animals and in human beings. One of the important problems to better elucidate is the difference between triglyceride (TG) and free (FFA) dietary CLA. Here, using splenocytes, this study assesses how TG- and FFA-CLA modulate immunoglobulin and various cytokine productions. In this study, C57BL/6N mice were fed an experimental diet containing 0% CLA, 0.1 or 1% FFA-CLA, or 0.1 or 1% TG-CLA for 3 weeks. The production of immunoglobulin tended to be up-regulated by 1% FFA-CLA. As a result of protein array analysis using the supernatant from splenocytes cultured with no CLA, 1% FFA-CLA, and TG-CLA, some cytokine production was shown to be remarkably regulated by dietary FFA- and TG-CLA. A total of 32 cytokines were examined, and 11-14 produced cytokines that were 2-fold up-regulated as compared with control for FFA- or TG-CLA, respectively. Especially, the production of IL-9 and MCP-5 and other cytokines was remarkably up-regulated by both FFA- and TG-CLA. In addition, seven cytokines were 2-fold down-regulated by TG-CLA. These data show that there is a slight but significant difference between the functionalities of FFA- and TG-CLA.  相似文献   

RAPD and seed coat morphology variation in annual and perennial species of the genus Cicer L.     

Firouzeh Javadi  Hirofumi Yamaguchi 《Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution》2004,51(7):783-794

Molecular and morphological variation of six perennial and five annual species including domesticated chickpea, C. arietinum, were inferred on the basis of RAPD and S.E.M. seed coat features using three outgroup taxa (Lens ervoides, Lathyrus japonica and Pisum sativum). Of the 66 decamer arbitrary primers tested, eight primers revealed 87 informative fragments. Neighbor-joining cluster analysis using Jaccard's coefficient of similarity on the basis of polymorphic fragments indicated a narrow variation in C. arietinum and recognized two major clusters in the genus Cicer. The first one included four species of sect. Monocicer: C. echinospermum, C. arietinum, C. reticulatum and Iranian material of C. bijugum. The second cluster contained annual and perennial species belonging to sections Chamaecicer, Polycicer and Acanthocicer. The character state of morphological and ecological traits on the RAPD phenogram indicated no monophyletic incision. Our results suggested that the high genetic difference between annual and perennial species might be regarded as a rapid speciation of section Monocicer. Reconsideration of traditional classification of sections Polycicer and Acanthocicer is necessary. The Desi and Kabuli types of C. arietinum could not be separately grouped at the DNA level, and the low level of genetic variation of C. arietinum may result from a bottleneck during the domestication process.  相似文献   

Effect of salinity on growth and accumulation of organic and inorganic solutes in the leguminous plants Alhagi pseudoalhagi and Vigna radiata     

Halil Kurban  Hirofumi Saneoka  Kunito Nehira  Rahmutulla Adilla  Kounosuke Fujita 《Soil Science and Plant Nutrition》2013,59(4):589-597

The response of two leguminous plants Alhagi pseudoalhagi and Vigna radiata to seawater salinity was studied over a period of 30 d. The growth of Vigna radiata was markedly and gradually reduced by increasing salinity levels, whereas that of Alhagi pseudoalhagi was promoted at 9.1 and 16.2 dS m^-1 salinity but then was slightly reduced at 28.2 dS m^-1 salinity. These results indicate that Alhagi pseudoalhagi belongs to the group of halophytic plants. Seawater salinity caused changes in the membrane permeability measured as electrolyte leakage in both plants. Alhagi pseudoalhagi maintained a lower membrane permeability than Vigna radiata. With increasing salinity levels, the membrane permeability decreased in Alhagi pseudoalhagi, whereas, in Vigna radiata it slightly increased at 9.1 dS m^-1. The leaf water potential and the osmotic potential decreased in both plants along with the seawater salinity levels. However, the turgor potential and osmotic adjustment in Alhagi pseudoalhagi were maintained at a higher level than in Vigna radiata. The contributions of organic and inorganic solutes to the osmotic adjustment differed: Alhagi pseudoalhagi achieved osmotic adjustment through Cl^- and Na⁺ uptake from the substrate, while the contribution of K⁺, Ca²⁺, and organic solutes to the osmotic adjustment was limited. These results suggest that the differences in salt tolerance between Alhagi pseudoalhagi and Vigna radiata can not be due to differences in specific-ion effects, but may be related to some factors involved in membrane permeability and osmotic adjustment.  相似文献   

Effect of soil microorganisms on the growth of roots in rice seedlings     

Shuichi Asanuma  Yasuhiro Kono  Hirofumi Tanaka  Michihiko Yatazawa 《Soil Science and Plant Nutrition》2013,59(4):553-561

Abstract

Root system of rice seedlings grown on nutrient solution inoculated with soil microorganisms were examined morphologically in comparison with those obtained under sterile condition. In the presence of soil microorganisms, primary roots increased in their number and decreased in the total length. Inoculated plants had more secondary roots equipped with tertiary roots. In addition, longer root hairs developed densely on primary and secondary roots of the inoculated seedlings.

Anatomical examination of the primary roots revealed that the number and width of cortical layers, as well as the length and width of the cortical cells, were increased by the effect of microorganisms. Microbial effect on outer morphology of rice roots, consequently, was estimated to have been induced from the alteration in histological and cytological activities including the activation of the periclinal divisions of the epidermal cells, the inactivation of the transverse divisions of the cortical cells and the activation of the elongation of cortical cells.  相似文献   

Changes in mineral concentrations in amberjack Seriola dumerili larvae during seed production: high concentrations of certain minerals in rotifers do not directly affect the mineral concentrations in larvae     

Takeshi Yamamoto  Hiroyuki Matsunari  Takashi Iwasaki  Hiroshi Hashimoto  Isao Kai  Hiroto Hokazono  Kazuhisa Hamada  Kazuhisa Teruya  Takashi Hara  Hirofumi Furuita  Keiichi Mushiake 《Fisheries Science》2013,79(2):269-275

This study examined the changes in mineral concentrations in amberjack Seriola dumerili larvae during seed production taking into consideration the mineral concentrations of rotifers in the larval rearing tanks (tank rotifers), since the concentrations of certain minerals in tank rotifers have been reported to be very high. In the present study, the concentrations of Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn and Mn in tank rotifers were generally higher than in freshly enriched rotifers. The extent of the increase in tank rotifers varied depending on the mineral, larval production facility and larval production trial. Concentrations of Ca in the larvae increased as they grew, those of P and Mn increased up to ca. 30 days post-hatching (DPH), those of Mg and Fe increased up to ca. 20 DPH and then decreased, and those of Zn continuously decreased through the seed production periods (to ca. 40 DPH). However, there were no clear relationships between the mineral concentrations of the tank rotifers and the larvae. These results indicate that high concentrations of minerals in tank rotifers are not directly reflected in amberjack larvae. This suggests that amberjack larvae maintain their mineral status by controlling the uptake and/or excretion of food minerals.  相似文献   

A step forward in development of fish protein hydrolysate-based diets for larvae of Japanese eel Anguilla japonica     

Yoshitsugu Masuda  Tadao Jinbo  Hitoshi Imaizumi  Hirofumi Furuita  Hiroyuki Matsunari  Koji Murashita  Hiroshi Fujimoto  Jirou Nagao  Yutaka Kawakami 《Fisheries Science》2013,79(4):681-688

Eggs of spiny dogfish Squalus acanthias are an indispensable and effective component of the compound diets currently used for larvae of the Japanese eel Anguilla japonica. However, this fish species, a natural resource, is becoming more scarce, suggesting that suitable diets should be developed using more sustainable components. In the search for appropriate diets without shark eggs, we have designed test diets in which shark eggs were replaced with general feed materials, such as fish protein hydrolysate (FPH), with the notable improvement that the FPH had been pre-digested with integral enzymes from frozen krill. Feeding trials were conducted to assess the effects of the test diets on survival and growth of Japanese eel larvae at early developmental stages. Larvae fed on the test diets were found to be able to survive up to 65 days after hatching, the maximum total length and body depth were 14.1 and 1.5 mm, respectively. Although larvae fed on the test diets still exhibited a low survival rate and poor growth, the FPH-based diets had a nutritional value that promoted substantial larval growth based on the significant difference between the initial and final body sizes. Our results suggest that the development of FPH-based diets not based on shark eggs but rather on general feed ingredients is promising but that there is much room for improvement.  相似文献