Dark cell degeneration

Strahlendorf, J.C., Acosta, S., and Strahlendorf, H.K., 1996. Diazoxide and cyclothiazide convert AMPA-induced dark cell degeneration of Purkinje cells to edematous damage in the cerebellar slice. Brain Res., 729, pp. 197-204. 

Strahlendorf, J.C., McMahon, K., Border, B., Barenberg, P. Miles, R., and Strahlendorf, H.. 1999. AMPA-induced dark cell degeneration of cerebellar Purkinje neurons has characteristics of apoptosis, Neurosci. Res. Comm., 25, pp. 149-161. 

DCD Dark cell degeneration, a form of programmed cell death in which the cells display cell shrinkage and hyper-condensed cytosol and nuclei. 

In every study, light was required for the effects of the inhibitors to become apparent. Chloroplasts of herbicide-treated plants kept in the dark resembled, in all respects, chloroplasts of the dark-control plants. The modifications produced in chloroplasts are not unique to herbicides. Mineral and vitamin deficiencies, antibiotics, unnatural pyrimidines, and genetic alterations all cause similar aberrant ultrastruetural changes in chloroplasts however, the extent of the disruptions produced by herbicides is more extreme. The changes induced by herbicides are similar in many respects to those that occur in normal senescence, reflecting the characteristic pattern associated with degeneration and death of a cell. 

The initial texture of a hybrid cell filled with E7 is seen outside the dark spot in Figure 5.23. It is a typical texture of a hybrid cell with degenerate planar anchoring. Such texture was also observed for MBBA and 5CB. After strong irradiation with UV light either polarized or unpolarized it does not matter) corresponding to the end of the curve shown in Figure 5.1 OB, a... 

The recombination current density in the dark (i.e. at temperature T) at voltage V across the cell, can be obtained by assuming the recombination rate at a plane x in the active region to be proportional to the product of the carrier concentrations. For non-degenerate semiconductors assuming quasi-Fermi... 

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