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Macropodidae

 
 
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Disease relevance of Macropodidae

 

High impact information on Macropodidae

  • Although marsupials have been separated from eutherian mammals for approximately 100 million years, homologues of SRY have been localised to the Y chromosome of two unrelated marsupial species, the tammar wallaby and the Darling Downs dunnart [6].
  • The region harboring the gene for lysine tRNA (tRNA-Lys) in the mtDNA of other vertebrates is in the wallaroo occupied by a sequence (tRNA-Lys) that lacks both an anticodon loop as well as the anticodon for the amino acid lysine [7].
  • The ontogeny of Müllerian inhibiting substance (MIS) production by the developing testis of an Australian marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii), was determined during pouch life using an organ-culture bioassay of mouse fetal urogenital ridge [8].
  • We report here the isolation of WAP from the milk of a marsupial, the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) [9].
  • We found that the wallaby has a SWS1 class pigment of 346 amino acids [10].
 

Chemical compound and disease context of Macropodidae

 

Biological context of Macropodidae

 

Anatomical context of Macropodidae

  • Fluorescent and radioisotope techniques were used sequentially to determine the activity of pathways of glucose metabolism by individual wallaby blastocysts during diapause and 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 10 days after removal of pouch young (RPY) [18].
  • The organisation presumably underlies the less extensive searching within the developing superior colliculus to generate retinotopic maps in the quokka and also in tammar wallaby [Marotte, J. Comp Neurol. 293:524-539, 1990] than in the rat [Simon and O'Leary, J. Neurosci. 12:1212-1232, 1992] [19].
  • Characterization and properties of a progesterone receptor in the uterus of the quokka (Setonix brachyurus) [20].
  • Mammary gland lactose concentrations in tammar wallabies are therefore a useful indicator of biosynthetic activity and as an index of lactogenesis but the role, if any, of progesterone withdrawal in lactogenesis remains unclear [21].
  • Inhibitors of protein kinase C [1-(5-isoquinolinyl-sulfonyl)-2-methylpiperazine] and phospholipase A2 [dexamethasone] did not effect DiC8-induced acrosomal loss in wallaby spermatozoa [22].
 

Associations of Macropodidae with chemical compounds

  • To investigate the mechanism by which androgens virilize the Wolffian ducts in the tammar wallaby, [(3)H]progesterone was incubated with testes from d 10 and 19 pouch young, and radioactivity was recovered in testosterone and androstanediol at both ages [1].
  • Seasonal changes in the circadian plasma melatonin profile of the tammar, Macropus eugenii [23].
  • Micropreparative two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis has been used to separate milk whey proteins from the Tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) [24].
  • The unique feature of the female tammar wallaby is that it does not become a seasonally breeding mammal until after puberty, when it has acquired a corpus luteum [25].
  • The data confirm that a local fetal influence is more important than systemic factors, such as estrogen, in the regulation of uterine mesotocin receptors in the tammar wallaby [17].
 

Gene context of Macropodidae

  • We have identified MKRN1 orthologs from human, mouse, wallaby, chicken, fruitfly, and nematode, underscoring the age and conservation of this gene [26].
  • Genomic imprinting of IGF2, p57(KIP2) and PEG1/MEST in a marsupial, the tammar wallaby [27].
  • The existence of two PGK1 homologous restriction fragments from the X and a large number from the autosomes was also demonstrated by somatic cell hybridization for two other macropodid species, the wallaroo (M. robustus) and the red kangaroo (M. rufus) [28].
  • cDNA sequence of the lymphotoxin beta chain from a marsupial, Macropus eugenii (Tammar wallaby) [29].
  • Northern analysis of total wallaby liver RNA detected transcripts of 1.8 kb for IGFBP-1 and 1.6 kb for IGFBP-2, the same as those observed in the sheep and rat [30].
 

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Macropodidae

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