Cocaine Exacerbates Hypoxia-lnduced Cell Damage in the Developing Brain: Effects on Ornithine Decarboxylase Activity and Protein Synthesis

Neonatology ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 66 (5) ◽  
pp. 254-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y.R. Spraggins ◽  
F.J. Seidler ◽  
T.A. Slotkin
1973 ◽  
Vol 132 (4) ◽  
pp. 791-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Kay ◽  
Valerie J. Lindsay

Ornithine decarboxylase activity in extracts of phytohaemagglutinin-stimulated human lymphocytes is rapidly and extensively inhibited by additions of micromolar concentrations of putrescine or spermidine to the culture medium. This inhibition is not due to feedback inhibition of the enzyme by putrescine, spermidine or their metabolites. Inhibition is dependent on the continuation of protein synthesis, but does not require RNA synthesis. The effect of putrescine is abolished when its conversion into spermidine by the cells is prevented.


1980 ◽  
Vol 192 (2) ◽  
pp. 765-767 ◽  
Author(s):  
E W Chideckel ◽  
S J Rozovski ◽  
E R Belur

We examined thyroidectomized, normal and hyperthyroid rats and found that ornithine decarboxylase activity was directly correlated with thyroid functional state in heart and liver and unaffected in brain, testes and spleen, phenomena that correlate with the known effect of thyroid hormone on protein synthesis.


1978 ◽  
Vol 39 (02) ◽  
pp. 496-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
P A D’Amore ◽  
H B Hechtman ◽  
D Shepro

SummaryOrnithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity, the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of polyamines, can be demonstrated in cultured, bovine, aortic endothelial cells (EC). Serum, serotonin and thrombin produce a rise in ODC activity. The serotonin-induced ODC activity is significantly blocked by imipramine (10-5 M) or Lilly 11 0140 (10-6M). Preincubation of EC with these blockers together almost completely depresses the 5-HT-stimulated ODC activity. These observations suggest a manner by which platelets may maintain EC structural and metabolic soundness.


2007 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUTAKA HOSHINO ◽  
SHINYA TERASHIMA ◽  
YASUSHI TERANISHI ◽  
MASANORI TERASHIMA ◽  
MICHIHIKO KOGURE ◽  
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