Disease relevance of Nephropidae

• The nonphysiological effector caffeine and the physiological modulator urate, the latter accumulating in the hemolymph of the lobster Homarus vulgaris during hypoxia, increase hemocyanin oxygen affinity and decrease cooperativity of oxygen binding [1].
• Nitric oxide inhibits the rate and strength of cardiac contractions in the lobster Homarus americanus by acting on the cardiac ganglion [2].

High impact information on Nephropidae

• We demonstrate that over its physiological range, O2 can reversibly modify the activity of the pyloric network in the lobster Homarus gammarus [3].
• Proctolin in identified serotonergic, dopaminergic, and cholinergic neurons in the lobster, Homarus americanus [4].
• We report the synthesis and characterization of a Homarus americanus MT-cDNA (MTH) through retrotranscription of MTH-mRNA from metal-injected lobsters [5].
• An unusual heparan sulfate isolated from lobsters (Homarus americanus) [6].
• In the present report, the arrangement of serotonin- and engrailed-expressing cells was examined in the embryonic ventral nerve cord of the American lobster Homarus americanus Milne Edwards, 1873 (Malacostraca, Pleocyemata, Homarida), and the spatial relationship of these two cell classes was explored by a double-labelling approach [7].

Biological context of Nephropidae

• A cDNA encoding an ionotropic gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptor subunit was isolated from a lobster (Homarus americanus) cDNA library [8].
• Oral bioavailability and pharmacokinetics of elimination of 9-hydroxybenzo[a]pyrene and its glucoside and sulfate conjugates after administration to male and female American lobsters, Homarus americanus [9].
• Substrate binding sites on arginine phosphokinase (Homarus vulgaris) [10].
• Amino acid sequence of a peptide with both molt-inhibiting and hyperglycemic activities in the lobster, Homarus americanus [11].
• The effects of adenosine and adenine nucleotides on haemolymph velocity and on heart rate and scaphognathite frequency were investigated in the American lobster Homarus americanus [12].

Anatomical context of Nephropidae

• 1. The electrophysiological properties of two pairs of identified serotonin-containing neurons in the fifth thoracic (T5) and first abdominal (A1) ganglia of the lobster, Homarus americanus, were studied with the use of intracellular recording methods [13].
• Whole-mount immunocytochemical techniques have been used to map candidate proctolin-containing cells in the central nervous systems of the lobster, Homarus americanus, and the crayfish, Procambarus clarkii [14].
• Microtubule proteins isolated from pleopod tegumental gland (PTG) tissue of the American lobster, Homarus americanus, reveal a complex tubulin (Tub) profile [15].
• Mechanisms of copper transport into purified mitochondrial suspensions prepared from the hepatopancreas of the Atlantic lobster Homarus americanus were investigated [16].
• An even more rigorous test was made possible by the development of an antiserum to OET-07, an ionotropic glutamate receptor homolog specifically expressed by Homarus americanus olfactory sensory neurons [17].

Associations of Nephropidae with chemical compounds

• 13C Magic angle spinning NMR analysis and quantum chemical modeling of the bathochromic shift of astaxanthin in alpha-crustacyanin, the blue carotenoprotein complex in the carapace of the lobster Homarus gammarus [18].
• Cadmium-induced metallothionein from C. maenas shows a high degree of structural similarity to metallothioneins from the decapod crustaceans Scylla serrata and Homarus americanus [19].
• Evolutionary variation between a monomer and a dimer arginine kinase. Purification of the enzyme from Holothuria forskali and a comparison of some properties with that from Homarus vulgaris [20].
• Purification and characterization of a digestive cysteine proteinase from the American lobster (Homarus americanus) [21].
• The primary structure of MT from the freshwater crayfish A. astacus showed a high degree of sequence identity with MT from other decapod crustaceans, especially the marine astacidean Homarus americanus, although two valine residues were unexpectedly found at positions 8 and 21, where lysine residues are normally found [22].

Gene context of Nephropidae

• The polypeptide chain folding and subunit arrangement closely resemble the known structure of Homarus americanus GAPDH [23].
• The tail muscle of the lobster Homarus americanus contains an actin-binding protein with an apparent molecular mass of 105 kDa determined by SDS/PAGE and gelsolin-like properties [24].
• Role of phospholipids in the inhibitory action of DDT and permethrin on the nerve ATPase of lobster, Homarus americanus [25].
• Dopamine in the lobster Homarus gammarus. I. Comparative analysis of dopamine and tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivities in the nervous system of the juvenile [26].
• In the preceding paper (Kobierski et al: J. Comp. Neurol. 266:1-15, '87) FMRFamidelike immunoreactivity (FLI) was localized to specific cells and processes in the nervous system of the lobster Homarus americanus [27].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Nephropidae

• Molecular cloning of three cDNAs that encode cysteine proteinases in the digestive gland of the American lobster (Homarus americanus) [28].
• Neuromuscular terminals of the low-output type formed by the single excitor axon to the limb distal accessory flexor muscle in the lobster Homarus americanus were studied with serial section electron microscopy [29].
• Resonance Raman spectroscopy and quantum chemical calculations were used to investigate the molecular origin of the large redshift assumed by the electronic absorption spectrum of astaxanthin in alpha-crustacyanin, the major blue carotenoprotein from the carapace of the lobster, Homarus gammarus [30].
• Vitellogenesis inhibiting hormone (VIH)-mRNA in secretory cells of the eyestalk of Homarus americanus was detected by nonradioactive in situ hybridization (ISH) using two digoxigenin-tailed oligonucleotide probes deduced from the peptide sequence [31].
• Use of injectable potassium chloride for euthanasia of American lobsters (Homarus americanus) [32].

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