Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), principally heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, and chronic respiratory diseases, are a global crisis and require a global response. Despite the threat to human development, and the availability of affordable, cost-effective, and feasible interventions, most countries, development agencies, and foundations neglect the crisis. The UN High-Level Meeting (UN ...

Linoleic acid has recently been shown to be glucuronidated in vitro by human liver and intestinal microsomes and recombinant UGT2B7. In the present study, the dietary fatty acids (FA), phytanic acid (PA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) have been used as substrates for human UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs). Both compounds were effectively glucuronidated by human liver microsomes (HLM; 1.25 +...

Oxidative metabolism of the insect repellent N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) by pooled human liver microsomes (HLM), rat liver microsomes (RLM), and mouse liver microsomes (MLM) was investigated. DEET is metabolized by cytochromes P450 (P450s) leading to the production of a ring methyl oxidation product, N,N-diethyl-m-hydroxymethylbenzamide (BALC), and an N-deethylated product, N-ethyl-m-toluami...

Human arylacetamide deacetylase (AADAC) catalyzes the hydrolysis of some clinically used drugs, but the information available on its substrates is limited. To increase our knowledge of the AADAC substrates, we examined whether AADAC catalyzes the hydrolysis of indiplon, which was initially developed as a hypnotic sedative drug. It has been reported that approximately 30–40% of the administered ...

Human cellular DNA contains two distinguishable families of retroviral related sequences. One family shares extensive nucleotide sequence homology with infectious mammalian type C retroviral genomes (T. I. Bonner, C. O'Connell, and M. Cohen, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 79:4709-4713, 1982; M. A. Martin, T. Bryan, S. Rasheed, and A. S. Khan, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78:4892-4896, 1981). The othe...

Succinic dehydrogenase and cytochrome oxidase have been assayed in permanent cell lines (HEP 1, HEP 2, and HLM), in short-term cultures of chick embryo heart cells, and in various tissues. Their activities in different cells are compared by relating them to deoxyribonucleic acid. They are very low in HEP 1, HEP 2, and HLM cells by comparison with the activities in any normal tissues examined. A...

Abiraterone acetate for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is an acetylated prodrug to be hydrolyzed abiraterone. known by pancreatic cholesterol esterase secreted into the intestinal lumen. This study aimed investigate possibility that arylacetamide deacetylase (AADAC) expressed in enterocytes contributes hydrolysis of abiraterone based on its substrate preference. hydrolase activ...

The predictive validity of personality for important life outcomes is well established, but conventional longitudinal analyses cannot rule out the possibility that unmeasured third-variable confounds fully account for the observed relationships. Longitudinal hierarchical linear models (HLM) with time-varying covariates allow each subject to serve as his or her own control, thus eliminating betw...