Synthesis and translocation of gangliosides and glycoproteins during urethane anesthesia.

DOMOWICZ MS; KIVATINITZ SC; CAPUTTO BL; CAPUTTO R

WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC

Lugar: Londres; Año: 1988 vol. 50 p. 1369 - 1369

n this work, we have studied (a) the contents of gangliosides, glycoproteins, and phospholipids of the vesicle and plasma membrane fractions from brains of anesthetized and control rats and chickens and (b) the labeling of gangliosides and glycoproteins in the retina ganglion cell layer and optic tectum of urethane-anesthetized and control chickens after intraocular injection of a labeled N-acetylneuraminic acid precursor and the distribution of the label after subcellular fractionation. We found an increase in the content of gangliosides relative to protein in the vesicle fraction of both anesthetized rats and chickens relative to their controls. Other values were not affected by anesthesia. These results do not reflect a faster synthesis of gangliosides stimulated by urethane, because their rate of labeling was diminished in anesthetized animals. During the 4-h period after the animals were injected intraocularly with the radioactive precursor, the highest values of ganglioside-spec