Skeletal Muscle, 2011 Background During development, the branchial mesoderm of Torpedo californica transdifferentiates into an electric organ capable of generating high voltage discharges to stun fish.
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Synaptic vesicles isolated from the electric organ of Torpedo californica and from the central nervous system of Mus musculus contain small ribonucleic acids (sRNAs). [PDF]
Genom Data, 2017 Synaptic vesicles (SVs) are presynaptic organelles that load and release small molecule neurotransmitters at chemical synapses. In addition to classic neurotransmitters, we have demonstrated that SVs isolated from the Peripheral Nervous Systems (PNS) of ...
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Transcriptome-wide single nucleotide polymorphisms related to electric organ discharge differentiation among African weakly electric fish species. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 African weakly electric fish of the mormyrid genus Campylomormyrus generate pulse-type electric organ discharges (EODs) for orientation and communication. Their pulse durations are species-specific and elongated EODs are a derived trait.
Canitz J, Kirschbaum F, Tiedemann R.
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Two new species and a new subgenus of toothed Brachyhypopomus electric knifefishes (Gymnotiformes, Hypopomidae) from the central Amazon and considerations pertaining to the evolution of a monophasic electric organ discharge [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2013 We describe two new, closely related species of toothed Brachyhypopomus (Hypopomidae: Gymnotiformes: Teleostei) from the central Amazon basin and create a new subgenus for them.
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A beta-D-galactoside binding protein from electric organ tissue of Electrophorus electricus. [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1975 Extracts of electric organ tissue of Electrophorus electricus contain a saccharide-binding protein, named electrolectin, which agglutinates trypsin-treated rabbit erythrocytes and is specifically inhibited by disaccharides containing nonreducing terminal
Vivian I. Teichberg +3 more
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Peripheral proteins of postsynaptic membranes from Torpedo electric organ identified with monoclonal antibodies. [PDF]
Journal of Cell Biology, 1984 Highly purified postsynaptic membranes from Torpedo electric organ contain the acetylcholine receptor as well as other proteins. To identify synapse-specific components, we prepared monoclonal antibodies (mabs) to proteins extracted from the membranes ...
Stanley C. Froehner
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The myogenic electric organ of Sternopygus macrurus: a non-contractile tissue with a skeletal muscle transcriptome. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 In most electric fish species, the electric organ (EO) derives from striated muscle cells that suppress many muscle properties. In the gymnotiform Sternopygus macrurus, mature electrocytes, the current-producing cells of the EO, do not contain sarcomeres,
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THE ROLE OF SODIUM IONS IN THE ACTIVATION OF ELECTROPHORUS ELECTRIC ORGAN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 1963 Preparation of containing sodium-activated A TPase: Electric organ tissue is dissected from freshly killed eels, minced with scissors, and disintegrated in a stainless steel blendor in 10 volumes of 0.05 M Tris buffer, pH 7.5.
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Waveform generation in the weakly electric fishGymnotus coropinae(Hoedeman): the electric organ and the electric organ discharge [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Biology, 2009 SUMMARYThis article deals with the electric organ and its discharge in Gymnotus coropinae, a representative species of one of the three main clades of the genus. Three regions with bilateral symmetry are described: (1)subopercular (medial and lateral columns of complex shaped electrocytes); (2)abdominal (medial and lateral columns of cuboidal and ...
María E. Castelló +5 more
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Components of Torpedo electric organ and muscle that cause aggregation of acetylcholine receptors on cultured muscle cells. [PDF]
Journal of Cell Biology, 1984 The synaptic portion of a muscle fiber's basal lamina sheath has molecules tightly bound to it that cause aggregation of acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) on regenerating myofibers.
Earl W. Godfrey +4 more
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