SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States.

With the accelerating pace of global change, it is imperative that we obtain rapid inventories of the status and distribution of wildlife for ecological inferences and conservation planning. To address this challenge, we launched the SNAPSHOT USA project, a collaborative survey of terrestrial wildlife populations using camera traps across the United States. For our first annual survey, we compiled data across all 50 states during a 14-week period (17 August-24 November of 2019).

gamma-Glutamyltransferase and the inhibition of azo dye-produced neoplasia by concomitant administration of disulfiram.

The concentration and total amount of DNA in the livers of SD rats fed 3'-methyl-4-dimethylaminoazobenzene (3'-Me-DAB) gradually increased and reached a maximum in developing tumors. In SD rats fed 3'-Me-DAB plus disulfiram (DSF), the concentration of DNA was higher than in controls, but it soon became stabilzed and the total amount of DNA in the liver did not differ substantially from that in rats fed DSF alone. In rats given 3'-Me-DAB, neoplastic nodules and liver carcinomas appeared after 3 months, but in those fed both compounds these formations were absent even after 6 months.

gamma-Glutamyltransferase, a common marker of human epithelial tumors?

Having previously established gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) as a marker of experimental carcinogenesis in rat liver, we investigated whether human tumors differ from their tissue or origin by showing a higher activity or different localization of this enzyme histochemically. We found such differences in each of the human carcinomas we examined. The presence of GGT activity in carcinomas arising in organs normally containing little (tongue) or no GGT activity (larynx, urinary bladder, and esophagus) clearly distinguished cancerous from normal epithelium.