OBJECTIVE To describe the cardiac arrhythmias, electrolyte disturbances, and serum cardiac glycoside levels seen in patients presenting to hospital with acute yellow oleander (Thevetia peruviana) poisoning and to compare these with published reports of digitalis poisoning. DESIGN Case series. SETTING Medical wards of Anuradhapura District General Hospital, Sri Lanka, and coronary care unit ...

The effects on the Schwann cell electrical potential of external ionic concentrations and of K-strophanthoside were investigated. Increasing (K)(o) depolarized the cell. The potential is related to the logarithm of (K)(o) in a quasi-linear fashion. The linear portion of the curve has a slope of 45 mv/ten-fold change in (K)(o). Diminutions of (Na)(o) and (Cl)(o) produced only small variations in...

Herein, we report a two-step deglycosylation mediated by the oxidation of glycoside which is different from traditional glycoside hydrolase (GH) mechanism. Previously, we reported a novel flavin adenine dinucleotide (FAD)-dependent glycoside oxidoreductase (FAD-GO) having deglycosylation activity. Various features of the reaction of FAD-GO such as including mechanism and catalytic residue and s...

The glycoside hydrolases (GH) of Caldicellulosiruptor bescii are thermophilic enzymes, and therefore they can hydrolyze plant cell wall polysaccharides at high temperatures. Analyses of two C. bescii glycoside hydrolases, CbCelA-TM1 and CbXyn10A with cellulase and endoxylanase activity, respectively, demonstrated that each enzyme is highly thermostable under static incubation at 70°C. Both enzy...

The physiological significance of the cardiac glycoside-binding site on the Na,K-ATPase remains incompletely understood. This study used a gene-targeted mouse (alpha2(R/R)) which expresses a ouabain-insensitive alpha2 isoform of the Na,K-ATPase to investigate whether the cardiac glycoside-binding site plays any physiological role in active Na(+)/K(+) transport in skeletal muscles or in exercise...

Intra-atrial, intranodal and His-Purkinje conduction times were determined in perfused rabbit hearts. In one series, the concentration of lanatoside C was increased by 0.4 mg/liter every 30 minutes, in the presence of normal (4.5) or high (7.5 DIM) K in the perfusion fluid. At high (K) the glycoside produced a greater increase in intra-atrial and His-Purkinje conduction times but caused a small...

Fungi produce a wide range of extracellular enzymes to break down plant cell walls, which are composed mainly of cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose. Among them are the glycoside hydrolases (GH), the largest and most diverse family of enzymes active on these substrates. To facilitate research and development of enzymes for the conversion of cell-wall polysaccharides into fermentable sugars, we ...

1. A glycoside of the aucubin type has been isolated in crystalline form from Plantago and Buddleia species, and has been shown to be identical with catalpol (Lunn, Edward & Edward, 1962). Catalpol has not been found in the free state before, but occurs as its p-hydroxybenzoyl ester, catalposide, in the genus Catalpa. 2. A second glycoside of this type has been obtained in crystalline form from...