Demonstration of continuously seropositive population against Borna disease virus in Misaki feral horses,a Japanese strain: a four-year follow-up study from 1998 to 2001     

Inoue Y  Yamaguchi K  Sawada T  Rivero JC  Horii Y 《The Journal of veterinary medical science / the Japanese Society of Veterinary Science》2002,64(5):445-448

Borna disease virus (BDV)-specific antibodies were monitored in Misaki feral horses annually for 4 years using an electrochemiluminescence immunoassay (ECLIA). Among 130 horses examined, 35 (26.9%) with an ECLIA count above 1000 once or more were judged as BDV seropositive. Throughout the study period, p24 antibodies were more frequent than p40 antibodies in almost all positive animals. Among the 35 seropositive horses, the ECLIA count was consistently high in 12 cases. Eleven horses seroconverted from negative to positive and 7 underwent reversal. The count in the remaining 95 horses (73.1%) remained low for 4 years and these animals were judged as seronegative.  相似文献   

Photodynamic stimulation causes sustained increase in intracellular calcium concentration in cells of small cell lung carcinoma     

Hayashi M  Kanno T 《The Japanese journal of veterinary research》1998,46(2-3):65-72

Photodynamic agents, due to their selective uptake by tumor cells and photon-dependent selective activation, have immense implications for cancer treatment. The present study provided direct evidence that the photon activation of chloro-aluminum phthalocyanine sulphonate (A1PcS4) in the presence of extracellular Ca2+ caused a rapid increase followed by a sustained increase in intracellular concentration of calcium ion ([Ca2+]i) in a small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) cell line, SBC-3. The [Ca2+]i increase by photodynamic stimulation was completely inhibited by the removal of extracellular Ca2+ and reintroduction of extracellular Ca2+ immediately led to a rapid elevation of [Ca2+]i. However, the increase was not inhibited by application of Ni2+, nifedipine, or SK&F 96365, a receptor-mediated and voltage-dependent Ca2+ entry blocker. The photosensitizer A1PcS4 alone or light alone (4 min) had no effect on [Ca2+]i. Cytotoxicity examination by trypan blue exclusion test, however, suggested photodynamic stimulation-induced cell injury which was observed in both the presence and the absence of extracellular Ca2+. These results indicate that [Ca2+]i increase may not be mandatory for photodynamic stimulation-induced cell injury. Whether [Ca2+]i increase can accelerate, at least in part, cell death under the physiological condition, whether the mechanism(s) of cell death can be different in the presence and the absence of extracellular Ca2+, and whether [Ca2+]i increase can be totally unrelated to cell death await further work.  相似文献   

Gastrointestinal motor disturbance in rabbits experimentally infected with Strongyloides papillosus     

Kobayashi I  Horii Y 《Veterinary parasitology》2008,158(1-2):67-72

Strongyloides papillosus is a common nematode in ruminants, and the rabbit is the only susceptible experimental animal that has been identified to date. It is known that heavy infection with S. papillosus causes death in a number of animals. However, even though a number of fatal cases have been reported, the mechanism by which S. papillosus infection leads to death remains unknown. In this study, the pathogenic effect of S. papillosus infection on gastrointestinal motility in infected rabbits was investigated by radiographic means. Gastrointestinal motility in rabbits experimentally infected with S. papillosus was assessed by contrast radiography after oral administration of barium sulfate on days 11 (group A) and 13 (group B) of infection. Body weight, food intake, fecal weight and egg count per gram of feces (EPG) were examined in order to investigate the effect of infection on gastrointestinal motility. Seven rabbits from each S. papillosus-infected and uninfected group were examined. Significant declines in body weight, daily food intake, and fecal weight, as well as gastrointestinal motor disturbances, were observed in association with elevated EPG counts in infected rabbits. This was only observed during the intestinal phase of S. papillosus infection. These results suggest that gastrointestinal motor disturbances underlie the anorexia, weight loss and subsequent death observed in rabbits infected with adult stage S. papillosus.  相似文献   

Spawning periodicity and synchrony of bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus) and a nest associate,yellowfin shiner (Notropis lutipinnis), across local streams     

Seoghyun Kim  Yoichiro Kanno 《Ecology of Freshwater Fish》2020,29(2):299-310

We studied daily spawning periodicity of a nest-building species, bluehead chub (Nocomis leptocephalus), and a nest associate, yellowfin shiner (Notropis lutipinnis), in three streams in the upper Piedmont region of South Carolina, USA. Field observations were conducted for 89 consecutive days in 2016 by recording the number of active nests and environmental variables. A total of 71 nests were located across study streams; bluhead chub and yellowfin shiner spawned between April and June. Spawning was observed periodically at intervals of 4–6 days within the same stream and across different streams, indicating broad-scale influences of the same environmental factors leading to synchrony. A generalized linear auto-regressive and moving average model showed that the periodic spawning pattern was likely caused by changes in water temperature, with effects of water level varying by stream. Specifically, spawning was triggered by a short-term (2-day) increase in water temperature and was observed under stable flow conditions (i.e. a lack of precipitation). This study showed that spawning periodicity of bluehead chub and yellowfin shiner tracked daily variation in in-stream conditions, indicating that their reproduction might be affected by anthropogenic disturbances that affect the rate of change in thermal and flow regimes at the fine temporal scale (e.g. hydroelectric dams and impervious cover).  相似文献   

β－乳球蛋白加压凝胶的生成及其物化特性研究   总被引：5，自引：1，他引：5  

木泰华  孙艳丽  菅野长右工门 《中国农业科学》2005,38(8):1652-1657

 研究了在30℃ 、800 MPa压力的作用下, 不同加压时间（5～120 min）和不同浓度N-乙基马来酰亚胺 (NEM,1～10 mmol·L-1)对14%（w/v）的β-乳球蛋白（β-Lg）溶液在pH 7.20条件下形成凝胶物理化学特性的影响。结果表明，延长加压时间未对凝胶的硬度和破断应力造成影响。凝胶呈现出类似蜂窝状的多孔网状结构。随加压时间延长，蜂窝状多孔的孔径变大，但其网状结构未受到破坏。在加压时间延长的条件下凝胶保持着高持水力，说明在加压过程中，凝胶内部蛋白质和水的相互作用未产生明显变化。随加压时间延长，用Tris-glycine-EDTA缓冲溶液或含有0.5% SDS和8 mol·L-1尿素的缓冲液溶解凝胶，发现凝胶中蛋白溶解度降低。SDS-聚丙烯酰胺凝胶电泳图谱显示，在2-巯基乙醇不存在的条件下，除了β-Lg单体以外，还检出二聚物、三聚物、四聚物以及高分子聚合体的染色带。相反，在2-巯基乙醇存在的条件下，只检出了单体。此外，在800 MPa条件下添加10 mmol·L-1的N-乙基马来酰亚胺未导致凝胶的生成。表明在pH中性范围内，加压 β-Lg凝胶，主要是通过SH基的氧化和SH/S-S内部交换反应形成的内部分子间架桥而形成。  相似文献   

Histopathological and immunohistochemical features of proliferative lesions in the pituitary pars distalis of rats     

Takuya Doi  Takeshi Kanno  Junko Sato 《Journal of toxicologic pathology》2021,34(1):1

Pituitary proliferative lesions derived from the endocrine cells of the pars distalis are frequently encountered and adenomas/carcinomas are a common cause of death in standard 2-year carcinogenicity studies using various rat strains, especially Sprague-Dawley. This report describes the immunohistochemical characteristics of pituitary tumors derived from the pars distalis in rats. Prolactin (PRL)-containing tumors are the most common, with PRL/growth hormone (GH) dual positive tumor masses (PRL/GH co-positive tumor masses) being more prevalent than only PRL-positive tumor masses (PRL single-positive tumor masses). GH-containing tumors are relatively numerous and many of these are also PRL/GH co-positive tumor masses. TSH-containing tumors are common in females. PRL-containing tumors have been shown to increase the incidence of hyperlactation in males and mammary adenomas/adenocarcinomas in females, suggesting that these masses are functional tumors.  相似文献   

Differentially methylated CpG sites related to fertility in Japanese Black bull spermatozoa: epigenetic biomarker candidates to predict sire conception rate     

Kumiko TAKEDA  Eiji KOBAYASHI  Kazuko OGATA  Akira IMAI  Shinya SATO  Hiromichi ADACHI  Yoichiro HOSHINO  Kagetomo NISHINO  Masahiro INOUE  Masahiro KANEDA  Shinya WATANABE 《The Journal of reproduction and development》2021,67(2):99

For semen suppliers, predicting the low fertility of service bull candidates before artificial insemination would help prevent economic loss; however, predicting bull fertility through in vitro assessment of semen is yet to be established. In the present study, we focused on the methylated CpG sites of sperm nuclear DNA and examined methylation levels to screen new biomarkers for predicting bull fertility. In frozen-thawed semen samples collected from Japanese Black bulls, for which the sire conception rate (SCR) was recorded, the methylation level of each CpG site was analyzed using human methylation microarray. According to regression analysis, 143 CpG sites related to SCR were significantly differentially methylated. Whole genome bisulfite sequence data were obtained from three semen samples and the differentially methylated regions (DMRs) that included the target CpG sites selected by human methylation microarray were confirmed. Using combined bisulfite restriction analysis, fertility-related methylation changes were detected in 10 DMRs. With the exception of one DMR, the methylation levels of these DMRs were significantly different between groups with high fertility (> 50%) and low fertility (< 40%). From multiple regression analysis of methylation levels and SCR, three DMRs were selected that could effectively predict bull fertility. We suggest that these fertility-related differences in spermatozoal methylation levels could be new epigenetic biomarkers for predicting bull fertility.  相似文献   

Interploid and intraploid hybridizations to produce polyploid Haskap (Lonicera caerulea var. emphyllocalyx) plants     

Tomomi Miyashita  Yoichiro Hoshino 《Euphytica》2015,201(1):15-27

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Isolation of an equine coronavirus from adult horses with pyrogenic and enteric disease and its antigenic and genomic characterization in comparison with the NC99 strain     

Oue Y  Ishihara R  Edamatsu H  Morita Y  Yoshida M  Yoshima M  Hatama S  Murakami K  Kanno T 《Veterinary microbiology》2011,150(1-2):41-48

A new equine coronavirus was isolated from the feces of adult horses with pyrogenic and enteric disease. The disease outbreak was mainly observed among 2- to 4-year-old horses living in stables of a draft-horse racetrack in Japan. On comparing the isolated virus (isolate Tokachi09) with the equine coronavirus NC99 strain, no significant differences were observed in several biological properties such as hemagglutinating activity, antigenicity (in indirect immunofluorescence and neutralization tests), and one-step growth (in cell culture). The sequences of the nucleocapsid and spike genes of isolate Tokachi09 showed identical size (1341 and 4092 nucleotides, 446 and 1363 amino acids, respectively) and high similarity (98.0% and 99.0% at the nucleotides, 97.3% and 99.0% at the amino acids, respectively) to those of strain NC99. However, the isolate had a 185-nucleotide deletion from four bases after the 3'-terminal end of the spike gene, resulting in the absence of the open reading frame predicted to encode a 4.7-kDa nonstructural protein in strain NC99. These results suggest that the 4.7-kDa nonstructural protein is not essential for viral replication, at least in cell culture, and that the Japanese strain probably originated from a different lineage to the North American strain. This is the first equine coronavirus to be isolated from adult horses with pyrogenic and enteric disease.  相似文献   

Effect of the expression level of an AGAMOUS-like gene on the petaloidy of stamens in the double-flowered lily, ‘Elodie’     

Yusuke Akita  Mutsumi Nakada  Akira Kanno 《Scientia Horticulturae》2011

Double-flowered lilies, in which stamens are converted to petaloid organs, are valuable for horticulturists. ‘Elodie’ is a double-flowered lily cultivar in which stamens are homeotically converted into petaloid organs in whorl 3. The ‘Elodie’ cultivar shows individual variation in stamen structure and it was therefore classified into the following three types according to the strength of petaloidy of the stamens: weak (type-I), intermediate (type-II), and strong (type-III) phenotypes. The AGAMOUS (AG) gene is a class C floral identity gene in Arabidopsis thaliana that is involved in the formation of stamens and carpels. An AG-like gene was isolated from ‘Elodie’ (LelAG1) and its expression was compared between flower types. The LelAG1 gene was expressed in whorls 3 and 4, but not in whorls 1 and 2 in all flower types. In type-I flowers, LelAG1 was expressed strongly in whorls 3 and 4, while its expression was significantly decreased in whorl 3 in type-III flowers. In type-II intermediate phenotype flowers, the expression level of LelAG1 in whorl 3 was reduced by 60%. These results suggest that the expression level of AG-like genes is correlated with the degree of petaloidy of the stamens.  相似文献