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To determine whether an oral tetravalent rotavirus vaccine (RV-TV) can be safely coadministered with a combined diphtheria-tetanuspertussis-Haemophilus influenzaetype b vaccine (DTP/Hib) and oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) to healthy infants without interfering with the immune responses to any of the component antigens.

Specific receptors for angiotensin II (AII) were expressed in albino Xenopus laevisoocytes co-injected with poly(A) +mRNA isolated from rat adrenal cortex and the calcium-specific photoprotein, aequorin. In such oocytes, AII elicited rapid, dose-dependent rises in cytosolic free calcium with light emission responses up to 100-fold above basal levels. Ligand-induced light emission was also observed in oocytes injected with rat brain mRNA and stimulated with acetylcholine and glutamate. These findings demonstrate that mammalian AII receptors expressed in Xenopusoocytes are functionally linked to intracellular Ca 2+mobilization, and indicate the potential value of aequorin-injected oocytes for rapid and specific screening of mRNAs transcribed from expression libraries containing cloned receptor cDNAs.