The activity of pectin esterase and cellulase in abscission of citrus explants was studied. No relation was established between pectin esterase and abscission, while cellulase activity was markedly increased before abscission and for a certain period after excision. IAA and cycloheximide delay abscission and cellulase activity, while ethylene and, to a lesser extent, GA(3) accelerate them. Appl...

Salvinorin A is the main active psychoactive ingredient in Salvia divinorum, a Mexican plant that has been widely available as a hallucinogen in recent years. The aims of this study were to investigate the stability of salvinorin A in rat plasma, esterases responsible for its degradation, and estimation of the degradation products. The apparent first-order rate constants of salvinorin A at 37 d...

esterase acting on fatty acid esters of p-nitrophenol, thereby substantiating the view that a single enzyme is responsible for these different activities. The acid esterase was resistant to the microsomal esterase inhibitor, E600, and showed broad specificity with respect to fatty acid chain length of the p-nitrophenyl esters. Other lysosomal hydrolase activities were increased non-specifically...

The active site serine of the acetylesterase of influenza C virus was localized to amino acid 71 of the hemagglutinin-esterase protein by affinity labeling with 3H-labeled diisopropylfluorophosphate. This serine and the adjacent amino acids (Phe-Gly-Asp-Ser) are part of a consensus sequence motif found in serine hydrolases. Since comparative analysis failed to reveal esterase sequence similarit...

We present a case of Korsakoff's syndrome that was successfully treated with high doses of donepezil, an inhibitor of acetylcholine esterase, known to retard the progress of symptoms in Alzheimer's disease. The patient was a 46-year-old married Japanese woman who began to drink alcohol after she married. After several years of drinking she developed typical symptoms of the Korsakoff syndrome. D...

Monocyte nonspecific esterase has been purified from cultured cells of the acute myeloid leukemia cell line. ML-l. The purified enzyme shows the characteristic properties of the monocyte neutral serine carboxyI esterase, with high sensitivity to organophosphorus inhibitors and sodium fluoride inhibitor. The enzyme is a membrane protein which in the native state exists as a monomer of a mol wt o...

A significant reduction was noticed in the amount of vecurenium needed to maintain steady neuromuscular blockade at 20% twitch height (Tl> in patients given nicardipine intraoperatively. Bolus ajection of either nicardipine or d.iltlazem during constant infusion of yecuronium produced transient depression of Tl and the train-offour ratio CTOFR). Reversal of neuromuscular blockade wtth a choline...