The administration of lycopene to female rats at doses ranging from 0.001 to 0.1 g/kg b.w. per day for 2 weeks was found to alter the drug-metabolizing capacity and antioxidant status of the exposed animals. An investigation of four cytochrome P450-dependent enzymes revealed that benzyloxyresorufin O-dealkylase activity in the liver was significantly induced in a dose-dependent fashion at all l...

The present study determines the efficacy of N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) on marker enzymes, lipid peroxidation and antioxidants in carbon tetrachloride induced hepatotoxicity in rats. Carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) (3 mL/kg/week) administered subcutaneously to albino Wistar rats for a period of three months significantly increased the activities of marker enzymes in plasma such as aspartate transamina...

A study was made of the enzyme content of the isolated cell walls and of a plasma-membrane preparation obtained by centrifugation after enzymic digestion of the cell walls of baker's yeast. The isolated cell walls showed no hexokinase, alkaline phosphatase, esterase or NADH oxidase activity. It was concluded that these enzymes exist only in the interior of the cell. Further, only a negligible a...

Urea is an important reutilizable nitrogen source for the ruminant and is mainly synthesized through the urea cycle in the liver. The cycle is undertaken by 5 enzymes: carbamoyl phosphate synthetase (CPS), ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTC), arginino-succinate synthetase (AS), argininosuccinate lyase (AL), and arginase. The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in the activity of the ...

Phospholipase A, lyophospholipase, acyl CoA hydrolase, and palmitoyl CoA synthetase are present in the plasma membrane of Acanthamoeba castellanii. The first three of these enzymes also occur in other cell fractions but in concentrations too low for the activities in the plasma membrane fraction to be accounted for by contamination by any other cell fraction. Palmitoyl CoA synthetase is restric...

Platelets reportedly inhibit lactate dehydrogenase activity in plasma under reaction conditions of low osmolality. We describe observations inconsistent with these reports, and we attribute this "inhibition" to optical interference by platelets during the course of a reaction. We conclude that when platelet lysis is prevented and the optical interference of platelets corrected, platelet-rich pl...

Aim: to study changes in the activities of purine nucleotide degradation enzymes – adenosine deaminase (ADA) and xanthine oxidase (XO) patients with rectum cancer (RC). Material Methods. The activity was studied blood plasma tissue homogenates: tumor normal rectal mucosa 70 stage I–IV RC. histological type RC adenocarcinoma. levels ADA XO were measured using spectrophotometry. Results. serum si...

Explosive blast results in multiple organ injury and polytrauma, the intensity of which varies with the nature of the exposure, orientation, environment and individual resilience. Blast overpressure alone may not precisely indicate the level of body or brain injury after blast exposure. Assessment of the extent of body injury after blast exposure is important, since polytrauma and systemic fact...