{"title":"[Thymus Development in Early Ontogeny: A Comparative Aspect].","authors":"K A Vasil'ev, A V Polevshchikov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This review is dedicated to comparative analysis of the early stages of thymus ontogeny in fish, amphibians, and mammals. Morphological and molecular-genetic aspects of the formation of thymic stroma, colonization of this organ with T-cell progenitors, and interaction of different cell populations in the course of organogenesis are considered. Particular attention is given to the hematopoietic role of the thymus during embryogenesis and new data on the origin of T-cell progenitors. The hypothesis about the possible presence in the organ of a self-sustaining population of stem cells, formed regardless of fetal hematopoiesis areas, is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 3","pages":"143-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33863044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Hormonal Induction of In Vitro Maturation and Ovulation of Loach Oocytes and Obtaining Egg Cells Capable of Fertilization and Development].","authors":"M N Skoblina, A A Minin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Loach oocytes that have reached a definitive size and are surrounded by follicular envelopes are capable of maturation and ovulating under the effect of 1 μg/mL progesterone in 75% Leibovitz medium with 1 g/L sodium bicarbonate or with pH adjustment to 9.0 by 1 N sodium hydroxide. Inseminated eggs are developed until the stage of when adding 20% bovine serum to the incubation medium. Substitution of the bovine serum with 10-20% loach ovarian fluid or 20% carp ovarian fluid provides more complete development of inseminated eggs until the stage of prolarvae that pass to active nutrition.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 3","pages":"198-206"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34032675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Epigenetic mutagenesis as program of age-related protein dysfunction and aging].","authors":"G A Romanov, V S Sukhoverov, B F Vanyushin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>DNA methylation plays an important polyfunctional role in ontogenesis of human and mammals. A steep rise in probability of mutational substitution of CpG dinucleotide on TpG dinucleotide in the genome is one of the consequences of DNA methylation. All spectrum (17) of possible DNA and protein mutations caused by CpG-dinucleotide methylation in DNA were characterized, and the three most dangerous mutations (able to result in protein inactivation) were isolated. The computer program that allows one to predict all most probable mutations in the analyzed gene and encoded protein was created. On the example of genes from humans and various mammals, it was demonstrated that the amount of potentially dangerous sites of epigenetic mutagenesis in exons was drastically decreased as a result of genome evolution. But, at the same time, unforced preservation of such sites and their persistence were established, indicating the occurrence of age-related protein dysfunction built into the genome epigenetic program, resulting in apoptosis and aging; this program is based on the set and position of methylated codons in exonic gene regions. It is assumed that the program of epigenetic mutagenesis limits the lifetime of an individual, accelerating the deliverance of the population from long-lived individuals that completed the reproductive period.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"102-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33216359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Some molecular and genetic properties of progenitor cells in sarcomas induced with foreign body].","authors":"O V Morozova, A F Karamysheva, T G Moizhess","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>One of the important questions in understanding the mechanisms of carcinogenesis induced with foreign body (or plastic carcinogenesis), is a question about normal progenitor cells in sarcomas (FB sarcomas) appearing in close proximity to the plastic plate implanted under the skin of an experimental animal. There is an assumption in literature that progenitor cells in FB sarcomas originate from vascular endothelium cells feeding a connective tissue capsule that forms around foreign body. In our research, we studied mRNA expression of one of the endothelial cell markers--receptor VEGFR2/FIk1--and growth factor VEGF-A, which interacts with it, in precancerous cells of FB sarcomas in mice. In examined cells, mRNA expression of VEGF-A was found while mRNA expression of VEGFR2/FIk1 was absent. In light of this and formerly established properties of progenitor cells in FB sarcomas, possibilities of the origin of these sarcomas from endothelial cells, pericytes, and pluripotent mesenchymal stem cells are being discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"94-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33216362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Caspar Friedrich Wolff: the emergence of epigenesis].","authors":"E B Muzrukova, M A Pomelova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The role of C.F. Wolff, an outstanding anatomist and embryologist, in the development of embryology is described to mark the 280th anniversary of his birth. His life and work were fully elucidated in the book of A.E. Gaisinovich, a famous historian of biology. Although the alternation of preformation and epigenesis is accompanied by a succession of ideas, the boundary between these concepts is clearly retained and depends on many social and cultural factors.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"126-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33216360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Ya Amstislavsky, E Yu Brusentsev, K A Okotrub, I N Rozhkova
{"title":"[Embryos and gametes cryopreservation for genetic resources conservation of laboratory animals].","authors":"S Ya Amstislavsky, E Yu Brusentsev, K A Okotrub, I N Rozhkova","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Article reviews the use of embryos and gametes cryopreservation for cryobanking the laboratory animal species. The special emphasis is made on the mechanisms of cryoinjury and cryoprotection during program freezing and vitrification. The species specific cryobanking problems are discussed and the prospects to overcome these problems are outlined.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"67-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33343168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E I Bystrova, N V Zhukovskaya, V J Rakitin, V B Ivanov
{"title":"[The role of ethylene in activation division cell quiescent center in the cut maize roots].","authors":"E I Bystrova, N V Zhukovskaya, V J Rakitin, V B Ivanov","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the present work we used two maize cultivars in which root meristem responded differently to root tip excision: in Interkras-375 MW we observed meristem opening due to the activation of cell divisions in the quiescent center (QC), while in Krasnodar-194 MW the meristem remained closed. Excised root tips of Interkras M B-375 were shown to produce much more ethylene than excised root tips of Krasnodar-194 MW The inhibitor of ethylene biosynthesis L-α-ethoxyvinyl 2amino-glycine-HCl (AVG) and inhibitors of ethylene action AgNO3 and 1-methyl-cyclopropene (MCP) prevented meristem opening in excised root tips of Intekras-375 MW. The obtained results allow us to conclude that ethylene plays an important role in the activation of cell divisions in the QC of excised root tips.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"82-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33343174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Developmental abnormalities in salmonids (Salmonidae) under the conditions of large-scale volcanic pollution of their spawning ground (using dolly varden Salvelinus malma as an example)].","authors":"E V Esin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Rivers originating from the areas of active volcanism in Kamchatka serve a spawning ground for anadromous and resident populations of dolly varden (Salvelinus malma). In some cases, watercourses with a long-term continuous spawning of S. malma are subjected to chronic pollution with dissolved toxicants and suspended mineral particles. The revealed development conditions range from background (\"clean\" rivers) to critical (most \"polluted\" rivers). Medium pollution leads to the development of hatchlings with abnormalities in the ethmoidal head segment, lower jaw, operculum, lobes of the paired fins, and axial skeleton (up to 40% of all specimens). Delayed ossification of skeletal elements takes place. Abnormalities in the development of spinous processes occur more often (up to 49-55% compared to 25-30% in the background areas). The average number of asymmetries per specimen.(in four bilateral structures) increases from 1.1-1.4 to 1.7- 2.5. Similar developmental abnormalities have been registered in underyearlings, both anadromous and resident, influenced by various pollutant combinations. While fish continue to grow, some of them die because of abnormalities; thus, their frequency in 3-year-old specimens nears the background one. Upon extreme pollution, deviant specimens are sampled at earlier developmental stages and characterized by a lower frequency of morphological abnormalities.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"114-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33216358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Sex identification of the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss by polymerase chain reaction].","authors":"Yu P Rud, M I Maistrenko, L P Buchatskii","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A polymerase chain reaction-based test for rapid sex identification of the rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss has been elaborated. Using the data deposited with the NCBI genome bank, nucleotide sequences of the specific sex-linked locus of salmonid species have been analyzed and the oligonucleotide primers have been selected. The length of the amplification products is 800 nucleotide pairs. Amplification specificity has been tested by nucleotide analysis of the amplicon sequences. All PCR products match the Y chromosome region housing the corresponding specific locus. A comparative analysis of the nucleotide sequences of the fragments carrying the rainbow trout (and other salmonid species) sex-linked marker demonstrates a high degree of identity, amounting to 95-99%. The maximal identity between the sequences (99%) is observed when analyzing representatives of the same genus, for example, Oncorhynchus. Thus, the sex is detectable by a simple PCR test, thereby allowing the male revertants emerging via hormonal sex reversion to be identified. This test is a rapid diagnostic method, since it requires only 1 day for testing and informing the fish farm on its results. Results of abdomen opening of rainbow trout revertants and examination of their hormonal status are also described.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 2","pages":"87-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33343175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
V Ia Brodskiĭ, N P Sharova, L A Mal'chenko, D S Konchenko, T K Dubovaia, N D Zvezdina
{"title":"[Blockade of proteasome activity disturbs the rhythm of synthesis of the protein marker of direct cell-cell interactions].","authors":"V Ia Brodskiĭ, N P Sharova, L A Mal'chenko, D S Konchenko, T K Dubovaia, N D Zvezdina","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of inhibition of proteasome activity on direct cell-cell interactions in primary hepatocyte cultures was studied. The circahoralian rhythm of protein synthesis was a marker of cell-cell communication. The addition of the proteasome inhibitor MG132 at doses of 10 or 20 μM to the medium with hepatocyte cultures for 19 h resulted in a significant reduction in the total pool of 3H-leucine in cells. The incorporation of leucine into proteins changed slightly or negligibly, whereas the content of free labeled leucine in hepatocytes decreased. The rhythm of protein synthesis was distorted compared to the control. The rhythm was restored by external organizers, such as gangliosides and melatonin, as well as by enhancing the activity of protein kinases--the key factor in the organization of the rhythm of protein synthesis. A short-term (3-h) exposure to MG132 did not change the pool of leucine, but the rhythm of protein synthesis was also disturbed. Thus, protein catabolism affects cell-cell interactions organizing the rhythm of protein synthesis. Another factor of the downregulation of the rhythm of protein synthesis, the secretion of proteins from the hepatocytes in vivo, which was shown in vivo in many studies, was also revealed in our study when measuring the content of proteins stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue G250 in the medium with hepatocyte cultures.</p>","PeriodicalId":19673,"journal":{"name":"Ontogenez","volume":"46 1","pages":"44-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"33119695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}