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Other Metal-Peptide and -Protein Interactions.—The determination of protein-bound trace elements in biological material by neutron activation analysis has been described Zn, Hg, Cu, and Se were accurately detected in human liver samples, provided that most of the element concerned was protein bound. An interaction of mercury with a protein or a protein-DNA complex has been invoked to explain the partitioning of the metal in euchromatin over heterochromatin (from mouse liver nuclei) by a 10 1 ratio. " Bovine retinas, isolated rod outer segments and emul-phogene extracts of rod outer segments have been shown to contain appreciable amounts of Zn ", Ca and the zinc levels being light sensitive. 

Stubbs, G. W., Saari, J. C, and Futerman, S. (1979) 11-cw-Retmal-binding protein from retina, isolation and partial charactenzation J Biol Chem 254,8529-8533... 

Figure 4. Distribution of labeled taurine taken up from the medium and endogenous taurine in the microdissected photoreceptor cell layer and inner retina. Isolated cat retinas were incubated for 10 minutes in dim light in media containing 0.05 mM H-taurine. The vertical lines within the bars indicate + S.E.M. for 6 different experiments.

Wacker, W.B., Donoso, L.A., Kalsow, C.M. and Lipton, M.M. (1977). Experimental alleipc uveitis isolation, characterisation and localization of a soluble uveitopathogenic antigen from bovine retina. J. Immunol. 119, 1949-1948. 

Schmitt, G., D. Berges et al. (1959). The effects of helenien and vitamin A on the primary sight process. B. Tissue respiration of the isolated retina under the influence of helenien and vitamin A (German). Z. Biol. Ill 213-219. 

O Brien KB, Esguerra M, Miller RF, Bowser MT (2004) Monitoring neurotransmitter release from isolated retinas using online microdialysis-capillary electrophoresis. Anal Chem 76 5069-5074... 

Mort, D., Marcaggi, P Grant, J., and Attwell, D. (2001) Effect of acute exposure to ammonia on glutamate transport in glial cells isolated from the salamander retina../. Neurophysiol. 86, 836-844. 

Spiridon, M., Kamm, D Billups, B., Mobbs, P, and Attwell, D. (1998) Modulation by zinc of the glutamate transporters in glial cells and cones isolated from the tiger salamander retina../. Physiol. (Lond). 506, 363-376. 

Blood-to-retina influx transport GLUT1 D-Glucose/Dehydroascorbic acid + TR-iBRB Isolated retinal capillary [5, 13, 14, 43, 47]... 

A. L. Betz and G. W. Goldstein. Transport of hexoses, potassium and neutral amino acids into capillaries isolated from bovine retina. Exp. Eye Res. 30 593-605 (1980). 

Doly M, Braquet P, Bonhomme B, Meyniel G. (1987). Effects of PAF-acether on electrophysiological response of isolated retina. IntJ Tissue React. 9(1) 33-37. 

Van Gelder We have not. We haven t looked at any of the downstream kinase pathways in this model. It is hard to isolate these cells because there are only about 500 per mouse retina. 

A somewhat different view is supported by a number of other studies. Behavioural rhythmicity persists in SCN-lesioned rodents under the influence of either periodically available food (Davidson Stephan 1999, Stephan et al 1979) or continuous treatment with methamphetamine (Honma et al 1992). Rhythmicity of at least some circadian genes persists in isolated peripheral tissues for periods of time ranging from several days to two or three weeks (Yamazaki et al 2000, our unpublished results). Removal of the retina (which is known to contain its own circadian oscillator Tosini Menaker 1996) changes the distribution of free-running periods of locomotor activity and the duration of active time (a) (Yamazaki et al 2002a). To pursue our metaphor, these results suggest that circadian signals may be relayed to the periphery by a baton rather than a whip the SCN may indeed be the conductor of an orchestra composed of dozens, if not thousands of potentially independent oscillators. 

K. B. O Brien, M. Esguerra, R. F. Miller, and M. T. Bowser, Monitoring Neurotransmitter Release from Isolated Retinas Using Online Microdialysis-Capillaiy Electrophoresis, Anal. Chem. 2004, 76, 5069. 

In 1912, Hopkins reported a factor m milk needed for the growth of rats. In 1913, Osborne and Mendel demonstrated that milk factor is fat soluble, and present in other fats also, McCollum and Davis, in 1913-1915, identified milk factor (fat-soluble A) in butter and egg yolk. In 1917, McCollum and Simmonds found xerophthalmia in rats due to lack of fat-soluble A. In 1920, Drummond renamed fat-soluble A, vitamin A. In 1930, Moore determined that carotene is a precursor of vitamin A. See also . During 1930-1937, Karrer et al, isolated and synthesized vitamin A. In 1935, Wald reported visual purple in retina to be a complex of protein and vitamin A. 

An unexpected result of recent research is that the human retina is also tetrachromatic. Although the ultraviolet absorption spectrum has not been isolated, the composite spectral absorption function has been defined in detail. See Section 17.2. 

This defines the levels within the CNS. The relative isolation between levels is maintained by circular operations which stabilize the structure at each level. For each level there are many entities organized at that level (for example, many neurons) and such entities prefer interaction with other entities at the same level. A chemical reaction, for example, in the retina of the eye is almost always interpreted as a signal about the outside world, not as a signal about neurochemistry. Thus isolation means that operations at any given level are primarily self-referencing (i.e., they take their own states as inputs for further processing). Coupling refers to exceptions to this "self-referential closure. ... 

The regeneration in vivo of visual pigments is a complex and yet not well understood part of the process of dark adaptation. In vitro regeneration using isolated retinas,... 

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