Journal Article · December 1, 2006
Pancreatic exocrine dysfunction can present clinically either as an acute illness, a destructive process, or a condition such as pancreatic insufficiency or chronic abdominal pain. Acute pancreatitis is associated with injury to the pancreas through direct ...
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Journal ArticleHum Mutat · October 2005
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a recessive disease caused by mutations of the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. The risk of idiopathic chronic pancreatitis (ICP) is increased in individuals who have CFTR genotypes containing a CF-causing mutatio ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Gastroenterol · April 2005
Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis (ICP) is the leading cause of chronic pancreatitis in children and nonalcoholic adults. The risk of developing ICP is increased in individuals who have mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) and of a trypsin inhibitor ...
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Journal ArticleClin Lab Med · March 2005
This article reviews current concepts regarding the pathobiology of cystic fibrosis pancreatic disease. It summarizes recent studies on the relationship between CFTR mutations and pancreatitis, and it reviews several unresolved issues in the field. ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterol Clin North Am · December 2004
This article reviews current concepts regarding the pathobiology of cystic fibrosis pancreatic disease. It summarizes recent studies on the relationship between CFTR mutations and pancreatitis, and it reviews several unresolved issues in the field. ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem J · February 15, 2004
Gating of the CFTR Cl- channel is associated with ATP hydrolysis at the nucleotide-binding domains (NBD1, NBD2) and requires PKA (protein kinase A) phosphorylation of the R domain. The manner in which the NBD1, NBD2 and R domains of CFTR (cystic fibrosis t ...
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Journal ArticleRNA · October 2003
Spliceosome-mediated RNA trans-splicing (SMaRT) has been used previously to reprogram mutant endogenous CFTR and factor VIII mRNAs in human epithelial cell and tissue models and knockout mice, respectively. Those studies used 3' exon replacement (3'ER); a ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · May 30, 2003
We previously proposed that ductal bile formation is regulated by secretin-responsive relocation of aquaporin 1 (AQP1), a water-selective channel protein, from an intracellular vesicular compartment to the apical membrane of cholangiocytes. In this study, ...
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Journal ArticleCan J Gastroenterol · January 2003
Mutations of two genes, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (CFTR) and the pancreatic secretory trypsin inhibitor gene (PSTI), are associated with an increase in the risk of idiopathic chronic pancreatitis. Persons who have mutatio ...
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Journal ArticleJ Investig Med · September 2002
Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis (ICP) is the leading cause of nonalcoholic chronic pancreatitis. This study examined a series of patients with ICP to determine the prevalence and role of mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) and of a trypsin inhibit ...
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Journal ArticleNat Biotechnol · January 2002
Spliceosome-mediated RNA trans-splicing (SMaRT) was investigated as a means for functionally correcting endogenous DeltaF508 cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) transcripts using in vitro human cystic fibrosis (CF) polarized airway e ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · December 2001
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Nonalcoholic chronic pancreatitis is usually idiopathic and often associated with cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR) mutations. It is unknown whether pancreatitis risk correlates with having 1 or 2 CFTR mutations, abnormal epithelial ion transp ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Cell Physiol · November 2001
We have designed and synthesized benzo[c]quinolizinium derivatives and evaluated their effects on the activity of G551D cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) expressed in Chinese hamster ovary and Fisher rat thyroid cells. We demonstra ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · September 21, 2001
Sphingolipids have been implicated in the regulation of cell growth, differentiation, and programmed cell death. Sphingosine 1-phosphate (SPP) has recently emerged as an important lipid messenger and a ligand for the endothelial differentiation gene recept ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol Cell Physiol · August 2001
Mammary epithelial 31EG4 cells (MEC) were grown as monolayers on filters to analyze the apical membrane mechanisms that help mediate ion and fluid transport across the epithelium. RT-PCR showed the presence of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regu ...
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Journal ArticleGene Ther · November 2000
Most messenger RNA precursors (pre-mRNA) undergo cis-splicing in which introns are excised and the adjoining exons from a single pre-mRNA are ligated together to form mature messenger RNA. This reaction is driven by a complex known as the spliceosome. Spli ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem Biophys Res Commun · May 10, 2000
Residues 417-830 of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) were expressed as a glutathione-S-transferase fusion protein. This fusion protein, NBD1/R/GST, contains the regulatory and first nucleotide binding domains of CFTR. NBD1/R/G ...
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Journal ArticleMed Clin North Am · May 2000
Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis is a leading cause of chronic pancreatitis. Work from this and other groups has shown that idiopathic chronic pancreatitis is associated with mutations of the cystic fibrosis gene (CFTR). Many idiopathic pancreatitis patient ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · December 17, 1999
The CFTR splicing mutation 3849 + 10 kb C --> T creates a novel donor site 10 kilobases (kb) into intron 19 of the gene and is one of the more common splicing mutations that causes cystic fibrosis (CF). It has an elevated prevalence among patients with aty ...
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Journal ArticleSurg Clin North Am · August 1999
The leading causes of chronic pancreatitis are alcohol and idiopathic pancreatitis. The importance of genetic factors in chronic pancreatitis has been uncertain. Recently, however, it was learned that many patients with idiopathic chronic pancreatitis have ...
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Journal ArticleCurr Gastroenterol Rep · April 1999
Idiopathic chronic pancreatitis accounts for up to one third of chronic pancreatitis cases. The most common inherited disease of the exocrine pancreas is cystic fibrosis, which is caused by mutations of a gene encoding an ion transport protein. It was disc ...
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Journal ArticleN Engl J Med · September 3, 1998
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BACKGROUND: It is unknown whether genetic factors predispose patients to idiopathic pancreatitis. In patients with cystic fibrosis, mutations of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene typically cause pulmonary and pancreatic in ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · September 1, 1997
Abnormal folding of mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and subsequent degradation in the endoplasmic reticulum is the basis for most cases of cystic fibrosis. Structural differences between wild-type (WT) and mutant proteins, ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · July 1997
Airway goblet cells secrete mucin in response to ATP and uridine 5'-triphosphate (UTP), but the underlying signal transduction pathways are poorly understood. Cultures of SPOC1 cells (L. H. Abdullah, S. W. Davis, L. Burch, M. Yamauchi, S. H. Randell, P. Ne ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cell Physiol · March 1997
HT29 cells endogenously express the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) and have been used previously as a model to examine cellular regulation of CFTR expression and chloride secretory function. Homologous recombination has been use ...
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Journal ArticleFASEB Journal · December 1, 1996
We tested the hypothesis that cAMP-stimulated CI channels are expressed exclusively on the apical membrane of isolated polarized cells (figure-eight cells) from Necturus gallbladder (NGB) epithelium. In the intact NGB epithelium, the electrophysiological c ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · November 1996
We have described a preparation of Necturus maculosus gallbladder (NGB) epithelium yielding isolated cells that retain structural and functional polarity ("figure-eight" cells). These cells have a normal membrane voltage and remain polarized for several ho ...
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Journal ArticleScience · August 11, 1995
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Cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR), the gene product that is mutated in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, has a well-recognized function as a cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-regulated chloride channel, but this property does not accoun ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · August 1, 1995
Disruption of the renal proximal tubule (PT) brush border is a prominent early event during ischemic injury to the kidney. The molecular basis for this event is unknown. Within the brush border, ezrin may normally link the cytoskeleton to the cell plasma m ...
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Journal ArticleHum Mol Genet · February 1995
We have identified a novel CFTR missense mutation associated with a protein trafficking defect in mammalian cells but normal chloride channel properties in a Xenopus oocyte assay. The mutation, a cysteine for glycine substitution at residue 480 (G480C), wa ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · October 1994
Osmotic stress elicits hypertonic NaCl secretion and promotes structural and biochemical differentiation in avian salt glands. In addition to cholinergic control, Cl- secretion is stimulated by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), suggesting that the cysti ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · March 18, 1994
Cystic fibrosis results from mutations in the gene encoding the CFTR Cl- channel. Although CFTR occurs as an integral component of the plasma membrane, recent studies implicate CFTR in endocytic recycling and suggest that the protein may also exist in intr ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · February 1994
Critical to an understanding of the pulmonary disease in cystic fibrosis (CF) and the development of effective gene therapies is a definition of the distribution and regulation of CF gene expression in adult human lung. Previous studies have detected the p ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology · January 1, 1994
Osmotic stress elicits hypertonic NaCl secretion and promotes structural and biochemical differentiation in avian salt glands. In addition to cholinergic control, Cl- secretion is stimulated by vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP), suggesting that the cysti ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · December 1993
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BACKGROUND: Liver dysfunction is a common manifestation of cystic fibrosis (CF), a disease caused by mutations affecting the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). The aim of this study was to examine the distribution and role of CFTR in liver. MET ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · October 15, 1993
The most common cause of cystic fibrosis is deletion of Phe-508 (delta F508) from the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). Previous studies have suggested that delta F508 CFTR is an unstable protein that retains a pattern of glycosyl ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Respir Cell Mol Biol · October 1993
Monolayers of SV-40 immortalized human airway epithelial cell lines were stimulated with bradykinin and isoproterenol to study protein phosphorylation responses that accompany ion transport regulation in normal (BEAS) and cystic fibrosis (CF/T43) cells. Ph ...
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Journal ArticleHum Mol Genet · August 1993
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by mutations in the gene encoding a chloride channel called the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). A single mutation in this gene, deletion of three nucleotides that leads to the absence of phenylalanine 508 (i.e. ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · June 1993
BACKGROUND: The cellular mechanisms which contribute to billing secretion and absorption are not fully defined. The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the membrane ion transport properties of Mz-ChA-1 and Sk-ChA-1 cell lines derived from human biliar ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · May 15, 1993
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease of epithelial cell ion transport that is associated with pathology in multiple organ systems, including lung, pancreas, and liver. As treatment of the pulmonary manifestations of CF has improved, management of C ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · May 1993
Cl- secretion in T84 cells evoked by a stimulus that activates protein kinase C, carbachol, was associated with elevated levels of 32P-labeled phosphatidic acid (PA). PA's role in the regulation of Cl- secretion was explored by examining the effect of exog ...
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Journal ArticleHum Mol Genet · March 1993
The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene encodes a cAMP-activated chloride (Cl-) channel, and expression of the full length gene in vitro is sufficient to correct the Cl- conductance defect that is characteristic of cystic fibros ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · January 1993
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This study examines the conductive properties of the plasma membrane of cells isolated from the intrahepatic portion of bile ducts. Membrane Cl- conductance was measured in single cells using whole-cell patch clamp recording techniques and in cells in shor ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · 1993
Background: The cellular mechanisms which contribute to billing secretion and absorption are not fully defined. The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the membrane ion transport properties of Mz-ChA-1 and Sk-ChA-1 cell lines derived from human biliar ...
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Journal ArticleNat Genet · November 1992
We have used in situ hybridization and immunocytochemistry to characterize the cellular distribution of cystic fibrosis (CF) gene expression in human bronchus. The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regular (CFTR) was primarily localized to cells of ...
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Journal ArticleNat Genet · September 1992
Human cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) was expressed in transgenic mice under the control of transcriptional elements derived from the human surfactant protein C (SP-C) gene. The hCFTR mRNA was expressed in lungs and testes: in th ...
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Journal ArticleGastroenterology · August 1992
Pituitary adenylate-cyclase-activating peptide (PA-CAP) and PACAP-27 are novel hypothalamic peptides that can stimulate adenylate cyclase in cultured anterior pituitary cells. Because these peptides are present in the gut and are homologous with vasoactive ...
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Journal ArticleJ Biol Chem · June 25, 1992
Regulation of epithelial chloride flux, which is defective in patients with cystic fibrosis, may be mediated by phosphorylation of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) by cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) or protein kinase ...
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Journal ArticleBiochim Biophys Acta · March 16, 1992
To examine the role of the ligand binding domain of epidermal growth factor receptor in its dimerization, we studied the dimerization of a truncated form of the receptor that resembles v-erbB in that it lacks a ligand binding domain. Receptor dimerization ...
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Journal ArticleProc Natl Acad Sci U S A · March 15, 1992
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An anti-peptide antibody raised to the C-terminal sequence of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) was used to examine CFTR immunoreactivity in the T84 colonocyte cell line. Immunoblots of T84 cell lysates detected CFTR as a 170-k ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem Biophys Res Commun · November 27, 1991
Rabbit antisera were raised to six synthetic peptides corresponding to amino acid sequences contained in the protein product of the cystic fibrosis gene, CFTR. For two peptides, [Lys102]CFTR(102-116) and CFTR(1468-1480), antibody-peptide binding was of hig ...
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Journal ArticleJ Clin Invest · August 1991
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by an abnormality in cAMP-regulated chloride transport that results from a primary defect in the protein product of the CF gene, the CF transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). In this report, antibodies against CFT ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem Pharmacol · June 15, 1991
Flavonols are dietary compounds widely distributed in plants and characterized by a 2-phenyl-benzo(alpha)pyrane nucleus possessing hydroxyl and ketone groups at positions 3 and 4, respectively. Kaempferol, quercetin, and myricetin are flavonols that are fu ...
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Journal ArticleMol Pharmacol · March 1991
The effects of permeant cAMP analogs were studied on the function of the gamma-aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptor and on the activation of protein kinase A in brain synaptoneurosomes. Incubation of cerebral cortical synaptoneurosomes with permeant cAMP an ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · May 1990
The inflammatory mediator adenosine caused sustained Cl- secretion across monolayers of T84 cells. The effect was promptly reversed by the adenosine receptor antagonist 8-phenyltheophylline and appeared to be mediated through an adenosine A2-receptor [rank ...
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Journal ArticleElectrophoresis · March 1990
Two-dimensional (2-D) gel electrophoresis methods for separating complex mixtures of proteins have not changed fundamentally since their original description in the late 1970's. Nevertheless, 2-D gel resolution has improved substantially as a result of a s ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · February 1990
T84 cell monolayers were used to study the cholinergic regulation of protein phosphorylation in epithelial cells. When T84 cell monolayers are labeled with 32Pi and stimulated with carbachol, six proteins exhibit altered phosphorylation. The most prominent ...
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Journal ArticleBiochem Biophys Res Commun · December 15, 1989
Protein phosphorylation responses in intact enterocytes were examined by stimulating 32Pi-labeled T84 cell monolayers with histamine and resolving proteins by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Histamine increases 32P-incorporation into two acidic protei ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · June 1989
Free cytosolic Ca2+ [( Ca2+]i) has been implicated as a second messenger mediating the ion transport effects of carbachol, histamine, taurodeoxycholate, ionomycin, and 4-bromo-A23187 (4-BrA23187) in T84-cells. In this study, we correlated short-circuit cur ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Physiology Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology · December 1, 1987
The T84 colonic epithelial cell line was used to examine protein phosphorylation during neurohumoral stimulation of ion transport. T84 cell monolayers grown on collagen-coated filters were mounted in Ussing chambers to measure ion tra ...
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Journal ArticleAm J Physiol · September 1987
The T84 colonic epithelial cell line was used to examine protein phosphorylation during neurohumoral stimulation of ion transport. T84 cell monolayers grown on collagen-coated filters were mounted in Ussing chambers to measure ion transport stimulated by v ...
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Journal ArticleBiochim Biophys Acta · May 18, 1987
A calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (Ca/calmodulin protein kinase) was purified from rat pancreas using hydrophobic chromatography followed by gel filtration and affinity chromatography. Ca/calmodulin protein kinase from pancreas resembled previo ...
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Journal ArticleJ Cell Biol · October 1983
Previous work from our laboratory has demonstrated that neurohumoral stimulation of the exocrine pancreas is associated with the phosphorylation of the Mr 29,000 ribosomal protein S6. In a cell-free system using pancreatic postmicrosomal supernatant as the ...
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Journal ArticleJ Exp Med · June 1, 1977
The difference spectra of the carbon monoxide-complex of dithionite-reduced rat brain microsomes, compared with both reduced microsomes, alone, and the carbon monoxide-complex of oxidized microsomes, indicate the presence of small amounts of cytochrome P-4 ...
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