Proliferation, Adult Neuronal Stem Cells and Cells Migration in Pallium during Constitutive Neurogenesis and after Traumatic Injury of Telencephalon of Juvenile Masu Salmon, .

A study of the lateral pallium in zebrafish and the visual tectum of the medaka revealed a population of adult neuroepithelial (NE) cells supported from the early stage of development to various postembryonic stages of ontogenesis. These data emphasize the importance of non-radial glial stem cells in the neurogenesis of adult animals, in particular fish. However, the distribution, cell cycle features, and molecular markers of NE cells and glial progenitors in fish are still poorly understood at the postembryonic stages of ontogenesis.

GFAP expression in the optic nerve and increased HS generation in the integration centers of the rainbow trout () brain after unilateral eye injury.

Hydrogen sulfide (HS) is considered as a protective factor against cardiovascular disorders. However, there are few reports on the effects of HS in the central nervous system during stress or injury. Previous studies on goldfish have shown that astrocytic response occurs in the damaged and contralateral optic nerves.

Intensive X-ray standing-wave-like fields localized near a surface of a crystalline superlattice.

A peculiar kind of intensive X-ray standing wave is analytically shown to exist. Such an X-ray interference field is localized in the vicinity of a surface of a crystalline superlattice and its amplitude decays exponentially in both directions perpendicular to the surface. The appearance of the standing wave is accompanied by a deep dip in a chosen Bragg peak of the superlattice.

Short peptide tools for monitoring caspase and proteasome activities in embryonal and adult rat brain lysates: an approach for the differential identification of proteases.

The numerous caspase-like activities present in nervous tissue can be investigated with labelled peptides. However, the cross-reactivities of peptides with both proteasomes and caspases complicate the analysis of protease activity. The pharmacological features of substrates and inhibitors specific for either caspases or proteasome caspase-like proteases in rat brain lysates were similar or identical to the profiles of commercially purified proteasome preparations.

Electrophysiological and contractile evidence of the ability of human mesenchymal stromal cells to correct vascular malfunction in rats after ionizing irradiation.

The effect of intravenous administration of human mesenchymal stromal stem cells (hMSC) has been evaluated by means of large-conductance calcium-dependent potassium channel (BK(Ca)) activity measurements in thoracic aorta smooth muscle cells (SMC) obtained from non-fatal whole-body irradiated rats, using the patch clamp technique in whole-cell modification, and the standard acetylcholine (ACh) test to evaluate functional endothelium integrity using SM contractile recordings. Myofilament calcium sensitivity was estimated using simultaneous contractile recordings versus [Ca(2+)](i). Arterial blood was measured in intact and irradiated rats before and after hMSC administration.