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    Bromocriptine acts as an agonist-antagonist of angiotensin in human adrenocortical Conn’s adenomatous cells in primary culture

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    Bromocriptine acts as an agonist-antagonist of angiotensin in human adrenocortical Conn’s adenomatous cells in primary cultur

    Primary tissue culture of human adrenocortical Conn's adenomata. Bromocriptine as a possible agonist-antagonist of angiotensin at the cellular level.

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    Angiotensin II-induced the hypertrophy of the cytoplasmic compartment and significantly increased (5-3H)uridine incorporation into RNA species by Conn's human adult adenomatous cells in primary tissue culture. On its own, bromocriptine, while enlarging only the nucleolar compartment, also intensely stimulated the incorporation of (5-3H)uridine into RNA species by the cultured adrenocortical adenomatous cells. However, an equimolar mixture of angiotensin II and bromocriptine was totally ineffective, eliciting no change in cellular morphometry or isotope incorporation with respect to the control specimens run in parallel. The present findings support the view that bromocriptine can influence the metabolism of Conn's cells directly at the cellular level by acting as an agonist-antagonist of angiotensin

    The primary tissue culture of human adrenocortical Conn’s adenomata. I. The synergistic stimulation of adenomatous cell growth by purine cyclic nucleotides and by ACTH1-24 and angiotensin II.

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    Primary cultures of dissociated parenchymal cells from Conn's adenomata causing primary hyperaldosteronism were successfully set up by a method previously used with normal adult human and rat adrenocortical tissue. In such cultures the adenomatous cells largely prevailed (making up 87% of the whole cell population), could survive for lengthy terms (at least up to 30 days), and were endowed with a spontaneous, discrete capability to proliferate. The de novo RNA- and DNA-synthetic and mitotic activities of Conn's cells were markedly stimulated in cultures exposed between 16 and 21 to daily doses of exogenous cyclic AMP, either alone or in equimolar association with cyclic GMP. A significantly weaker, though still prominent enhancement of adenomatous cell growth was elicited also by daily administrations of an equimolar mixture of ACTH1-24 and angiotensin II. In contrast, little stimulation or inhibition of growth or no effect at all could be observed when cyclic GMP, ACTH1-24, and angiotensin II were respectively administered, each by itself

    The growth of primary human adrenal Conn’s adenoma cells is hormone-dependent

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    The growth of primary human adrenal Conn’s adenoma cells is hormone-dependen

    Tissue culture of human reninoma cells

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    The tissue culture of human reninoma cells, a rare tumor, is reported

    Dosaggio diretto della renina in una coltura di cellule di reninoma.

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    Dosaggio diretto della renina in una coltura di cellule di reninoma

    Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis

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    The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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