Alterations in erythrocytes from Alzheimer disease patients were examined using EPR spectroscopy. Three spin-labeled fatty acids were applied to measure lipid membrane fluidity. A decrease of membrane fluidity was found in the deeper region of lipid bilayer of erythrocytes membrane, as indicated by 12-doxylstearic acid assay. The physical state of erythrocyte membrane proteins was estimated usi...

Cholesteryl hemisuccinate has been incorporated into pea chloroplast thylakoids to investigate the relationship between fluidity and functioning of this membrane system. Levels of sterol which increased the apparent viscosity of the membrane, estimated by fluorescence polarization measurements using the lipophilic probe, 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5 hexatriene, affected several photosynthetic processes. ...

Glycosylation, oxidation and other post-translational modifications of membrane and transmembrane proteins can alter lipid density, packing and interactions, and are considered an important factor that affects fluidity variation in membranes. Red blood cells (RBC) membrane physical state, showing pronounced alterations in Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), could be the ideal candidate for monitor...

Solid-state NMR spectroscopy has emerged as an excellent tool to study the structure and dynamics of membrane proteins under native-like conditions in lipid bilayers. One of the key considerations in experimental design is the uniaxial rotational diffusion of the protein that can affect the NMR spectral observables. In this regard, temperature plays a fundamental role in modulating the phase pr...

background: exposure to endogenous hormones such as estrogen is known as a lifetime breast cancer (bc) risk factor. polymorphisms in genes that are involved in the steroidogenic process, such as cytochrome p450c17alpha ( cyp17) , affect individuals’ susceptibility to bc. in iran, the highest incident of bc is among young women. this study aimed to find prevalence of single nucleotide polymorphi...

background : alzheimer's disease (ad) is one of the most common problems for old peoples. etiology of ad is not clear, but genetic factors play a major role in determining a person's risk to develop ad. twin and family studies con-firm that ad has a genetic basis.ad genetics has been split into two broad categories: early-onset and late-onset. eo-ad cases are inherited in an autosomal dominant ...

The biological activity of cell-derived substrates to maintain undifferentiated murine-induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells was correlated to membrane fluidity as a new parameter of cell culture substrates. Murine embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) were employed as feeder cells and their membrane fluidity was tuned by chemical fixation using formaldehyde (FA). Membrane fluidity was evaluated by real-...

To determine a possible role of sodium-potassium adenosine triphosphatase (Na+, K+-ATPase) in the regulation of membrane functions in hypertension, we investigated the effects of ouabain on the membrane fluidity of erythrocytes in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) by means of an electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and spin labeling method. Erythrocytes obtained from SHR were examined comp...

It has recently been shown that the lipid composition of the plasmalemma may be altered by taking advantage of the acyltransferase system to incorporate selected fatty acids into phosphatidyl lipids of the plasmalemma. Such lipid alterations have been shown to effect changes in cell adhesion in chick neural retina cells. Based on the fluid-mosaic model, it has been suggested that such changee i...