Disease relevance of Bass

• We have isolated and characterized several recombinant lambda phage clones carrying growth hormone (GH) cDNA of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) [1].
• The kinetics of the antibody response to Aeromonas salmonicida were determined in sunshine bass (hybrid striped bass: female Morone chrysops X male Morone saxatilis) acclimated to 10, 18, 24, 29 degrees C, and to 0.15 mg 1(-1) un-ionized ammonia and 200 mg 1(-1) nitrate levels [2].
• According to the information available on the most pertinent and diffuse fish diseases and their related therapies, the presence of flumequine and oxytetracycline in sediments sampled from two trout farms and three sea-bass farms and in their surrounding environments was selected for an analytical investigation [3].
• Investigation of media formulations promoting differential antigen expression by Photobacterium damsela ssp. piscicida and recognition by sea bass, Dicentrarchus labrax (L.), immune sera [4].
• These antigens were recognized by sea bass sera collected after natural pasteurellosis outbreaks and other sea bass sera raised against live or inactivated Phdp cells [4].

High impact information on Bass

• Here we describe a chloride-mediated current response from isolated rod-driven horizontal cells (H4) of the white perch retina that has this novel pharmacology [5].
• A glutamate-activated chloride current in cone-driven ON bipolar cells of the white perch retina [6].
• Pharmacology of novel GABA receptors found on rod horizontal cells of the white perch retina [7].
• The effects of prolonged darkness and dopamine on the coupling between horizontal cells in the isolated, superfused white perch retina were studied [8].
• Here we described the biochemical and molecular characterization of a unique fucose-binding lectin (MsaFBP32) isolated from serum of the striped bass (Morone saxatilis), composed of two tandem domains that exhibit the eel carbohydrate recognition sequence motif, which we designate F-type [9].

Chemical compound and disease context of Bass

• Two phagocytes-mediated activities of the sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax were examined after exposure to sublethal concentrations of copper and cadmium: (a) phagocytosis (measured by phagocytotic index), and (b) the production of reactive oxygen intermediates (luminol-dependent chemiluminescence) in response to bacteria Aeromonas salmonicida [10].
• Toxicity of bromate to striped bass ichthyoplankton (Morone saxatilis) and juvenile spot (Leiostomus xanthurus) [11].
• Effect of exposure to several pentachlorophenol concentrations on growth of young-of-year largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides, with comparisons to other indicators of toxicity [12].

Biological context of Bass

• Early maturity in the male striped bass, Morone saxatilis: follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone gene expression and their regulation by gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogue and testosterone [13].
• Five gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-rho subunits were cloned from a white perch retinal cDNA library and expressed in Xenopus oocytes [14].
• We investigated the effect of mouse recombinant leptin on basal and sea bream (sb) GnRH-induced LH release from dispersed pituitary cells obtained from male European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) at different stages of sexual development [15].
• These sex-related differences in expression profiles between males and females by the time of sex differentiation, suggest an important role for AR controlling this process in the sea bass [16].
• Comparisons of the deduced amino acid sequence to that of the ovarian aromatase (P450aromA) in the same species revealed 62% identity, lower than the 84% identity shared between sea bass and tilapia brain aromatases [17].

Anatomical context of Bass

• Thus, we isolated and characterized MSTN complementary DNA clones from the skeletal muscle of the tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus and the white bass Morone chrysops [18].
• A high retinol dietary intake increases its apical absorption by the proximal small intestine of juvenile sunshine bass (Morone chrysops x M. saxatilis) [19].
• PYY and PY gene expression was predominantly detected within the sea bass forebrain [20].
• The results indicated both temporal and spatial modulation of white perch immune systems in the Chesapeake Basin, and demonstrated the utility of quantitative PCR for TGF-beta as a molecular biomarker for field assessment of teleost fish immune status [21].
• Microsomes from the liver of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) were shown to hydroxylate lauric acid at subterminal positions [22].

Associations of Bass with chemical compounds

• The glutamine- and N-acetyl-L-glutamate-dependent carbamoyl phosphate synthetase III present in liver of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) has been highly purified [23].
• In conclusion, plasma melatonin rhythms in sea bass reflect the pineal capacity to integrate seasonal information and supply precise calendar information, which may synchronize different physiological processes such as annual reproduction and feeding rhythms [24].
• We have examined the catecholamine-sensitive adenylate cyclase in the retina of the white perch (Roccus americanus) [25].
• The levels of trimethoprim ranged from 1 to 7 micrograms/g (sea bass), 1 to 13 micrograms/g (turbot), and 4 to 38 micrograms/g (white shrimp) [26].
• 3. This study provides evidence for hormonal control of the Cl- secretion in sea bass gill respiratory cells in culture, involving AVT, prostaglandin (PGE2), and beta- and alpha-adrenergic receptors [27].

Gene context of Bass

• In the present study, molecular riboprobes were used to study PYY and PY mRNA central distribution in the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) [20].
• Molecular evolution of the neuropeptide Y (NPY) family of peptides: cloning of three NPY-related peptides from the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) [28].
• The physiological role of PY is unknown, but we demonstrate here that sea bass PY, like NPY and PYY but in contrast to the tetrapod PP, is expressed in brain [28].
• Here, we report the identification of complementary DNA and corresponding genomic sequences that encode three distinct PPAR from sea bass [29].
• Changes in some critical residues raise questions about variation in function: thus S281 is conserved in all mammals and an important determinant of negative agonist function of TSHR is replaced by R in Sea Bass [30].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Bass

• At each sampling, 48 sea bass were sacrificed at a rate of 6 fish every 3 hr and the level of melatonin was determined in plasma and eye cup samples by ELISA [24].
• Molecular cloning and characterization of a glutathione S-transferase from largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) liver that is involved in the detoxification of 4-hydroxynonenal [31].
• Peptide YY (PYY) and fish pancreatic peptide Y (PY) expression in the brain of the sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) as revealed by in situ hybridization [20].
• Cloning, sequence analysis, tissue distribution, and sex-specific expression of the neural form of P450 aromatase in juvenile sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) [17].
• A calcium-activated neutral cysteine protease was purified to homogeneity from Dicentrarchus labrax white muscle using three steps: hydrophobic interaction, anion exchange, and gel filtration chromatographies [32].

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