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Effects of amygdala lesions on taste aversions produced by amphetamine and LiCl.

Rats which sustained bilateral damage to the amygdala were treated with one of two diversely acting agents (either d-amphetamine sulphate 4 mg/kg, or lithium chloride 0.24 M) in a taste aversion paradigm. Both groups of animals showed an attenuation of the aversion on the first test day after the initial pairing with the drug thus demonstrating that this effect of the lesion was not UCS specific. The implication of these findings for the hypothesis concerning the role of the amygdala in taste aversion conditioning is discussed.

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Thermal membrane potential across charged membranes in NaCl-NH4Cl and LiCl-NH4Cl solutions.

Measurements of the thermal membrane potential across cation exchange membranes were carried out by using aqueous solutions containing two 1-1 electrolytes, with an anion in common. The same solution was used on both sides of the membrane. In all cases a good linear relationship was observed between the thermal membrane potential delta psi and the temperature difference delta T (in the range delta T = +/- 10 degrees C). Assuming that the activity of one cation is equal to that of another cation in the solutions and the sum of transport numbers of cations is unity, the plot of delta psi/delta T vs logarithmic activity of one cation is linear with a slope of R/F. These experimental results are in agreement with a theory presented previously. From the analysis of thermal membrane potential in mixtures of electrolytes it is obtained that the cross coefficient of cation-cation interaction in membranes is negative and about 6 to 9% of the main coefficient.

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Bilateral lesions of the gustatory thalamus disrupt morphine- but not LiCl-induced intake suppression in rats: evidence against the conditioned taste aversion hypothesis.

Rats decrease intake of a saccharin conditioned stimulus (CS) when followed by: (1) the administration of an aversive agent such as lithium chloride (referred to as a conditioned taste aversion, CTA); (2) access to a very palatable concentration of sucrose (referred to as an anticipatory contrast effect, ACE); or (3) the administration of a drug of abuse. It is not clear, however, whether the suppressive effects of drugs of abuse are mediated by their aversive or rewarding properties. The present set of experiments addressed this issue by examining the suppressive effects of morphine in rats with a lesion thought to dissociate the two phenomena (i.e., CTA and ACE). The results show that bilateral ibotenic acid lesions of the gustatory thalamus eliminate the suppressive effects of morphine, but fail to disrupt the suppressive effects of the aversive agent, lithium chloride. This pattern of results argues against the CTA account in favor of the reward comparison hypothesis. Specifically, the data suggest that rats suppress intake of a saccharin CS in anticipation of the availability of a preferred drug of abuse and that the gustatory thalamus is essential for this type of reward comparison process.

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Similarities and differences between cobalamins and cobaloximes. Accurate structural determination of methylcobalamin and of LiCl- and KCl-containing cyanocobalamins by synchrotron radiation.

The accurate crystal structure determinations of MeCbl (1), CNCbl.2LiCl (2), and CNCbl.KCl (3), based on synchrotron diffraction data collected at 100 K and using high-quality single crystals, are reported. Refinements gave R1 indices of 0.0834 (1), 0.0434 (2), and 0.0773 (3). The influence of the water of crystallization and ion content on the crystal packing of these and other cobalamins (XCbl) is discussed, and a relationship between the crystal packing and the corrin side chain conformations is presented. An analysis of the bond lengths within the corrin moiety, based on 13 accurate structures with several X groups, shows that the trend of the C-C and C-N distances can be interpreted in terms of electronic and steric factors. The variation in structural, NMR and IR spectroscopic, and electrochemical properties are compared with those of cobaloximes, the B12 model, when X is varied. This comparison indicates that the pi-back-donation from metal to the CN axial ligand and the transmission of the trans influence of the X ligand are more effective in cobalamins than in cobaloximes. These findings are consistent with a significantly greater availability of electron charge on Co in cobalamins, and, hence, a semiquantitative evaluation of the electronic difference between the cobalt centers in the two systems is allowed.

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Effects of inositol, LiCl, and heparin on the antibody responses to SRBC by normal and immunodeficient XID mice.

Spleen cells from naïve adult immunocompetent and immunodeficient XID mice were cultured on agar containing sheep red blood cells (SRBC) with and without myo-inositol, scyllo-inositol, lithium chloride, or heparin, and after 1 or 2 days the number of colonies of antiSRBC antibody-forming cells (PFC) were determined. It was found that myo-inositol and scyllo-inositol at one-tenth the concentration were equally effective in increasing the number of specific PFC. Myo-inositol, scyllo-inositol, and lithium chloride accelerated the appearance of direct foci in cultures of spleen cells from normal and XID mice. When heparin was added to cultures of XID spleen cells, PFC were found to be increased on Day 1; however, PFC and foci were not increased in cultures of spleen cells from competent mice until 1 day later. The addition of combinations of these agents to cultures of spleen cells had no positive or negative effect on the generation of foci or PFC. Normal mice given heparin intraperitoneally with SRBC had increased splenic PFC on Days 3 and 4 but not on Day 7. The results suggest that these agents modulate B-cell responses by increasing the rate of proliferation and/or secretion through a signaling pathway(s) distal to, or more likely, independent of Bruton's tyrosine Kinase (BTK). It is not clear that the mechanism is the same with each agent.

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On the structure of aqueous LiCl solutions.

The structure of highly concentrated aqueous lithium chloride solutions was investigated by the Reverse Monte Carlo method. Two total structure factors, obtained from neutron and x-ray diffraction experiments, were applied as input information. From the resulting particle configurations, partial pair correlation functions, coordination numbers and cosine distributions of bond angles have been determined. It was found that, in accordance with common-sense expectations, the hydrogen bonded network of water molecules is breaking up continuously as the concentration of the electrolyte increases. The hydration shell of the cations becomes more and more distorted as concentration grows whereas the hydration structure of the anions appears to be nearly invariant. Ion-pairing was not detected even at the highest salt concentration.

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