To determine whether cones and Müller cells in the rod dominated retina, cooperate to regenerate the 11-cis retinal chromophore via the retinoid cycle, two cell lines from the rod dominated retinas of Murine were used for this study, 661W a mouse cell line derived from cones and rMC-1, a rat Müller cell line. Retinoid cycle enzymes were analyzed by RT-PCR and their catalytic activity were detected by incubation with retinoids and analyzed by HPLC. We found that, 661W cells are capable of reducing all-trans retinal to all-trans retinol due to the presence of multiple dehydrogenases and generate minor amounts of retinyl-ester. The rMC-1 cells take up all-trans retinol and oxidizes it to all-trans retinal or esterify it to retinyl-ester, but are incapable of isomerizing all-trans retinoids to 11-cis retinoids. This could be a reflection of lack of necessary activities in Müller cells in vivo which suggests that Müller cells do not contribute to retinoid cycling by regenerating 11-cis retinoids. Alternatively, this could be due to the potential that rMC-1, as a transformed cell line, has stopped expressing the proteins needed for the regeneration of 11-cis retinoids.
Three commercial systems were compared for ability to detect antibodies to streptolysin O (ASO) and DNase B (ADB). Streptozyme (Wampole Laboratories, Cranbury, N.J.) exhibited high sensitivity (100%) for detecting ASO but low sensitivity for ADB (22.2%). The LeapStrep (Organon Teknika, Malvern, Pa.) and Check-Spectra (Diagnostic Technology, Hauppauge, N.Y.) tests had low sensitivities for detecting ASO (35.3 and 21.4%, respectively) and ADB (22.2 and 33.3%, respectively).
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