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Comparative cytoarchitectonic analysis of some visual pretectal nuclei in teleosts.

The posterior pretectal nucleus, which in Osteoglossum receives second order visual input and projects to the inferior lobe of the hypothalamus, was identified and characterized in species from all major groups of non-neoteleost teleosts. The hypothesis that the posterior pretectal nucleus in these species is homologous to both the pars intermedius of the superficial pretectal nucleus and nucleus glomerulosus in acanthopterygians is supported by multiple similarities in relative position and cytoarchitecture. Nucleus corticalis, which receives retinal input and projects to the posterior pretectal nucleus (or to nucleus glomerulosus), was identified in species belonging to three of the four major teleost radiations. Both the posterior pretectal nucleus and nucleus corticalis are plesiomorphic for teleosts. The presence of glomeruli in the posterior pretectal nucleus and nucleus glomerulosus in esocids and acanthopterygians, respectively, and the presence of two nuclei, the pars intermedius and nucleus glomerulosus, in acanthopterygians, as opposed to one nucleus, the posterior pretectal nucleus, are apomorphies.

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[The human genome--chromosome 22].

Once dare, today casual, the project of the human genome basic structure analysis celebrated its first major accomplishment when the almost complete sequence of the twenty-second chromosome was published. Though the chromosome represents only hardly more than 1.5% of the total genomic DNA, it is comparatively rich from the point of gene content (545 hitherto identified gene sequences) and it is important from the medicinal point of view. Among pathologic states resulting from its impaired function inborn heart and major vessel defects, mental disorders, and malignities are rated.

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The autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease gene in a Jewish family from Uzbekistan is PKD1.

A large Jewish family from Tashkent (Uzbekistan) was studied for linkage of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) to molecular markers on the short arm of chromosome 16. A restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis was performed on 28 family members, including 9 ADPKD diagnosed patients in 3 consecutive generations. A specific haplotype was found to segregate with the disease in eight of the nine affected individuals. The peak lod scores for linkage between the disease phenotype and the five informative flanking markers were: 3'HVR 1.70 at theta = 0.08; GGG1 1.18 at theta = 0.001; CMM65 1.50 at theta = 0.001; 26-6 0.86 at theta = 0.001 and 218EP6 1.39 at theta = 0.001. A particular haplotype of these markers segregated with the disease phenotype. The peak lod score of this haplotype was 3.046. Homogeneity test, comparing this family to 40 PKD European families, showed that the conditional probability that it belongs to the same group is 1.000. Taken together, these findings show that the defective gene in this Jewish family from Uzbekistan is PKD1. To our knowledge, this is the first ADPKD family in Israel in whom linkage studies were performed and one of the few originating from populations outside the Western world.

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Detection of Bartonella bacilliformis in cultures, blood, and formalin preserved skin biopsies by use of the polymerase chain reaction.

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is described for the detection of Bartonella bacilliformis, the etiologic agent of bartonellosis, which cannot be identified biochemically. Amplification of a genomic 231 bp Bartonella DNA sequence permitted specific identification of 12 Bartonella isolates from Peruvian bartonellosis patients as well as detection of Bartonella DNA in blood samples and formaldehyde preserved skin biopsies. Specificity of amplification products was confirmed by restriction fragment analysis. No positive results were obtained with Brucella abortus, phylogenetically closely related to B. bacilliformis, and several other bacterial, fungal, and protozoal species. PCR appears as a promising technique for specific identification of B. bacilliformis in cultures and in clinical materials with further applications in taxonomic studies and in the investigation of Bartonella-like isolates obtained outside South America.

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Correlation and revised nomenclature of ventral nuclei in the thalamus of human and monkey.

The application of histochemical and immunocytochemical methods to the human thalamus, when allied with traditional staining methods, permits a clearer definition of the borders between many nuclei. The findings of electrophysiological and anatomical tracing studies in monkeys can then be correlated with the human material and a nomenclature that is applicable to both monkeys and humans introduced. The ventral nuclei can be divided into four channels relaying pallidal, substantia nigral, cerebellar, and lemniscal information separately to the cerebral cortex. The lemniscal relay is further divided into a proprioceptive component and a cutaneous component, corresponding to Hassler's V.c.e.a. and V.c.e.p nuclei, respectively, and now called VPLa and VPLp.

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Topographical organization of the entorhinal projection to the dentate gyrus of the monkey.

The topographic organization of the projections from the entorhinal cortex to the dentate gyrus in the macaque monkey was studied with anterograde and retrograde tracing methods. Injections of WGA-HRP or the fluorescent retrograde tracers, Fast blue and Diamidino yellow, were placed at various levels along the rostrocaudal axis of the dentate gyrus and hippocampus. In 5 experiments the fluorescent dyes were injected at 2 rostrocaudal levels of the same dentate gyrus. Labeled neurons were observed mainly in layers II and III of the entorhinal cortex, though some were also seen in layers V and VI. The labeled layer II cells resulting from each of the tracer injections were located throughout much of the rostrocaudal extent of the entorhinal cortex, though they tended to have a more limited distribution in the transverse or mediolateral axis. Injections of retrograde tracers located caudally in the dentate gyrus resulted in a rostrocaudally oriented zone of labeled cells that was situated laterally in the entorhinal cortex adjacent to the rhinal sulcus. The zone of labeled cells was not oriented strictly parallel to the rhinal sulcus since at caudal levels it extended medially to encompass the full transverse extent of the most caudal portion of the entorhinal cortex. When injections were placed more rostrally in the dentate gyrus and hippocampus, the rostrocaudally oriented zone of labeled cells was situated more medially in the entorhinal cortex. Anterograde tracing experiments using 3H-amino acid injections into different rostrocaudal and mediolateral positions of the entorhinal cortex confirmed the organization demonstrated by the retrograde tracers and further indicated that the entorhinal fibers terminate in the outer two-thirds of the molecular layer of the dentate gyrus. Unlike in the rat, where the entorhinal termination zone in the molecular layer is clearly bilaminate, projections from all portions of the entorhinal cortex appeared to terminate more diffusely throughout the outer two-thirds of the molecular layer. The results of the present study indicate that rostrocaudally oriented zones of cells that cut across several cytoarchitectonic subdivisions of the entorhinal cortex give rise to topographically organized projections to the dentate gyrus. Cells located laterally in the entorhinal cortex project to caudal levels of the dentate gyrus, whereas progressively more medially situated cells project to progressively more rostral parts of the dentate gyrus.

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