By a series of structural changes, Frank, Nothmann, and Wagner (1) developed synthalin, the most powerful hypoglycemic synthetic product known today. The details of their researches are not available. The increased hypoglycemic activity of agmatine over guanidine offered the first clue as to the nature of the groups which were productive of hypoglycemic activity. It may be gathered from the rec...

[PSI(+)] yeast, containing the misfolded amyloid conformation of Sup35 prion, is cured by inactivation of Hsp104. There has been controversy as to whether inactivation of Hsp104 by guanidine treatment or by overexpression of the dominant negative Hsp104 mutant, Hsp104-2KT, cures [PSI(+)] by the same mechanism- inhibition of the severing of the prion seeds. Using live cell imaging of Sup35-GFP, ...

Four guanidino compounds that have been found to be markedly increased in cerebrospinal fluid and brain tissue of uremic patients, namely, guanidine, methylguanidine, creatinine, and guanidinosuccinic acid, were applied to mouse spinal cord neurons in primary dissociated cell culture to evaluate their effects on postsynaptic responses to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and glycine. Intracellular...

Tuberculous meningitis (TBM) is a severe form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis. The aims of this study were to evaluate in-house molecular diagnostic protocols of DNA extraction directly from CSF samples and the targets amplified by qPCR as an accurate and fast diagnosis of TBM. One hundred CSF samples from 68 patients suspected of TBM were studied. Four DNA extraction techniques (phenol-chlorofo...

Considerable attention has been focused on the biological activity of guanidine derivatives from two main directions. Ever since the original report by Watanabe of the hypoglycemic properties of guanidine (3), derivatives of this compound have been investigated as possible therapeutic agents for the control of diabetic hyperglycemia. At least three such compounds, Synthalin (decamethylenediguan...

A novel 2',4'-BNA/LNA analog bridged by guanidine, termed as guanidine bridged nucleic acid (GuNA), was synthesized and incorporated into oligonucleotides. Thermal stabilities and nuclease resistance of GuNA-modified oligonucleotides were investigated and compared with those of 2',4'-BNA/LNA and natural DNA oligonucleotides. GuNA exhibited interestingly high binding affinity towards complementa...

A simple and Noval Synthesis of guanidine derivatives is presented in this study. The construction of the Central basic Scaffolds is achieved by the using of HgCl2 as a promoter. The Formation of product of substituted guanidines controlled by amount of reactant. Further a new fast-tract access to N-1(Boc)-N-(2) cyclohexyl-N(3) phenyl-guanidine was developed.

Guanidine and its alkyl analogs stimulate the neuromuscular junction presynaptically by inhibiting voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channels, leading to enhanced release of acetylcholine in the synaptic cleft. This stimulatory effect of guanidine underlies its use in the therapy for the neuromuscular diseases myasthenic syndrome of Lambert-Eaton and botulism. The therapeutic use of guanidine is lim...

Staphylococcal enterotoxin types A and C, were observed by viscosimetry and near-ultraviolet difference spectroscopy to unfold at concentrations of aqueous guanidine hydrochloride greater than 1 M. Apparent rate constants of unfolding calculated from spectral curves differed markedly for the two enterotoxins. Rate constants for the unfolding of enterotoxin A in 2 or 3 M guanidine hydrochloride ...