There is a lack of consensus about the effects of the type of menopause (surgical or natural) and of oestrogen replacement therapy on Parkinson's disease. The effects of the timing of replacement therapy and the female's age may explain the observed differences in such effects. However, the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. The renin-angiotensin system mediates the beneficial effects o...

Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (reduced form)-nitrate reductase was freed from ammonium repression in a Neurospora crassa mutant having drastically lowered glutamine synthetase activity, gln-1a. The general phenomenon of nitrogen metabolite repression required glutamine or some aspect of glutamine metabolism.

In this issue of Blood, Zhang et al show that mice lacking the stromal-interacting molecule 1 (STIM1) gene in bone marrow cells are more susceptible to bacterial infection but are resistant to ischemia/reperfusion injury because of defective activation of phagocyte nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH) oxidase.

We report an unusual phenotype of congenital hemidysplasia with ichthyosiform erythroderma and limb defects syndrome most likely resulting from a novel X-chromosomal microdeletion encompassing the promoter region and exon 1 of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate steroid dehydrogenase-like protein gene, the neighboring gene CETN2, and more than 10 kb of noncoding deoxyribonucleic acid.

Reduced nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADPH), required as co-factor for lipogenesis and steroidogenesis, may, in part, be supplied by pyridine nucleotide transhydrogenation mediated by malate dehydrogenase (oxaloacetate+NADH\ar=r\malate+NAD) and the malate (`malic') enzyme (malate+NADP\ar=r\pyruvate+CO2 +NADPH). The malate transhydrogenation reactions (cf. Ballard & Hanson, 1967,...

The in vivo regulation of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) was studied in Mucor racemosus as a function of nutritional conditions and morphological state. Both nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP)-dependent GDH activities were found. The effect of carbon and nitrogen source on the specific activity of the NAD-dependent GDH suggests that its...

The effects of 5-azacytidine (5-AC) administration on the hepatic cytochrome P-450 systems of mice were studied. A single i.p. dose of 5-AC (25 mg/kg) to male Swiss-Webster mice caused about a 50% depression of microsomal cytochromes P-450 and b5 and of ethylmorphine N-demethylase and ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase activities. Depression was greatest 24 h after treatment; by 48 to 72 h, cytochrome...