Rate of oxygen consumption during embryonic development of great ramshorn Planorbarius corneus (Gastropoda)

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Zotin ◽  
E. F. Kirik
1955 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 729-734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Ludwig ◽  
Mary C. Barsa

1. Readings were made on the rates of oxygen consumption and on the activities of the succinoxidase system of eggs of the mealworm for each day of embryonic development at 30°C. 2. The rate of oxygen consumption, expressed as microliters/50 eggs/hour, was low (4.89) in newly laid eggs. It rose to 7.41 during the next 24 hours, remained at this level for the next 2 days, and then increased during the remainder of the embryonic period reaching a high value of 14.79 at the time of hatching. 3. The activity of cytochrome oxidase in eggs from newly emerged beetles, expressed as Δ log [Cy Fe++]/minute, remained at a value of 0.042 during the first half of the embryonic period, increasing to 0.233 during the latter half of this period. 4. The activity of succinic dehydrogenase showed the same series of changes except at much lower values. Expressed as Δ log [Cy Fe+++]/minute, they ranged from 0.010 in the newly laid egg to 0.034 at the end of the embryonic period. 5. The activity of cytochrome oxidase of the egg was found to decrease with parental age. Eggs from newly emerged beetles had activity values considerably higher than those of beetles 6 or 8 weeks after emergence. However, no comparable changes were noted in the activity of succinic dehydrogenase or in the rate of oxygen consumption. These observations suggest that cytochrome oxidase is not a rate-limiting enzyme in the respiratory metabolism of the mealworm egg.


In a comparison of muscles poisoned with mono-iodo-acetic acid (IAA) in the presence and in the absence of oxygen respectively, Lundsgaard (1930) found:- (1) That the spontaneous breakdown of phosphagen in poisoned resting muscle is much more rapid under anaerobic conditions. (2) That the onset of the characteristic contracture produced by IAA is accompanied always by an increase in the rate of oxygen consumption.


1996 ◽  
Vol 271 (3) ◽  
pp. F717-F722
Author(s):  
G. Bajaj ◽  
M. Baum

Intracellular cystine loading by use of cystine dimethyl ester (CDME) results in a generalized inhibition in proximal tubule transport due, in part, to a decrease in intracellular ATP. The present study examined the importance of phosphate and metabolic substrates in the proximal tubule dysfunction produced by cystine loading. Proximal tubule intracellular phosphorus was 1.8 +/- 0.1 in control tubules and 1.1 +/- 0.1 nmol/mg protein in proximal tubules incubated in vitro with CDME P < 0.001). Infusion of sodium phosphate in rabbits and subsequent incubation of proximal tubules with a high-phosphate medium attenuated the decrease in proximal tubule respiration and prevented the decrease in intracellular ATP with cystine loading. Tricarboxylic acid cycle intermediates have been shown to preserve oxidative metabolism in phosphate-depleted proximal tubules. In proximal tubules incubated with either 1 mM valerate or butyrate, there was a 42 and 34% reduction (both P < 0.05) in the rate of oxygen consumption with cystine loading. However, tubules incubated with 1 mM succinate or citrate had only a 13 and 14% P = NS) reduction in the rate of oxygen consumption, respectively. These data are consistent with a limitation of intracellular phosphate in the pathogenesis of the proximal tubule dysfunction with cystine loading.


1995 ◽  
Vol 41 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 372-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
João P. S. Cabral

Pseudomonas syringae cells starved in buffer released orcinol-reactive molecules and materials that absorbed ultraviolet light. The number of cells culturable in nutrient medium decreased more rapidly than the number of intact particles determined by microscopy. The results suggested that starvation resulted in the lysis of an increasing number of cells, and that a fraction of the intact particles were not culturable. Starvation also resulted in a decrease in the rate of oxygen consumption with acetate, glycerol, and succinate, but at different levels. Whereas the respiration of acetate and glycerol decreased concomitantly with culturability, the respiration of succinate decreased to levels similar to the concentration of intact cells, suggesting that all intact particles respired the succinate, but only the culturable cells respired the acetate and glycerol. The results suggest that measuring the activity of the electron-transport system can overestimate the viability of starved bacterial cells, and that complex metabolic activities such as the respiration of acetate and glycerol are probably better suited for the evaluation of this parameter.Key words: Pseudomonas syringae, starvation, culturability, viability, respiration.


1958 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 959-988 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. P. Hurlbut

Azide (0.2 to 5.0 mM) and chloretone (2.0 to 15.0 mM) reversibly inhibited 20 to 90 per cent of the resting respiration of frog sciatic nerves, and caused a loss of potassium and a gain of sodium in this tissue. The changes in ionic contents that developed after 5 or 10 hours were roughly correlated with the degree of respiratory depression, but the time courses of these changes were different with the two reagents. In azide these changes appeared to begin immediately, while in chloretone, at concentrations between 3.0 and 5.0 mM, the ionic shifts developed after a delay of several hours. Fifteen millimolar chloretone produced immediate changes in ionic contents several times greater than those produced by anoxia. The changes in ionic distribution produced in 5 hours by anoxia, 5.0 mM azide, or 5.0 mM chloretone were at least partially reversible; those produced by 15.0 mM chloretone were irreversible. With the exception of 15.0 mM chloretone the ionic shifts produced by these reagents may be due primarily to the depression of the respiration, although there are indications that azide acts, in addition, by another pathway. Concentrations of azide or chloretone that depressed the resting rate of oxygen consumption more than 50 per cent produced a slow conduction block, while 15.0 mM chloretone blocked conduction within 15 minutes.


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