The potential to cause tissue damage by metal ions is the matter of widespread investigation. Titanium salts are widely used in industry for ceramic painting, in pharmacy for tablet coating and making chemical sunscreens and in medicine as photo catalysts with bactericidal activity. This may address the idea that the exposure to these salts could play a role in metabolic disorders. In this stud...

Journal of Lipid Research Volume 52, 2011 1551 Copyright © 2011 by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc. that interfere with cysteinyl-leukotriene production are frequently used in treating asthma ( 6 ). These lipid mediators are derived from the enzymatic hydrolysis of arachidonatecontaining phospholipids, probably a phospholipase A 2 , and subsequent metabolism of ...

Relatively little is known about the intermediary metabolism of bacterial phospholipids. Indeed, as Assilineau and Lederer have pointed out in their authoritative review (l), comparatively few bacterial phospholipids have been well characterized chemically by modern techniques. Interest in the chemistry and metabolism of bacterial lipids is, however, rapidly growing. In the past few years, publ...

We assessed several methods of inorganic phosphate assay for their suitability in estimating phospholipids in digested extracts of amniotic fluids. The extraction and digestion procedures used for phospholipids from amniotic fluid were also examined critically. The effect of contamination by blood or obstetric cream has been examined. Accordingly, we suggest a method for measuring total phospho...