Juvenile periodontitis (JP) is a disease characterized by severe gingival infections. PMN from some JP patients exhibit abnormal chemotactic responsiveness when challenged with the synthetic formyl peptide, FMLP. While investigating PMN function in JP, we found a patient in whom abnormal PMN chemotactic responses to FMLP were associated with a defective population of PMN formyl peptide receptor...

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Relatively little is known about the inflammatory mediators and mechanisms that drive the progression of influenza flu infection to cytokine storm, lung dysfunction, organ failure, and ultimately death. Vaccines and antiviral medications cannot control the excessive host inflammatory response associated with severe influenza flu infection. Studies by Elgebaly et al demonstrated the rapid releas...

Michael addition reaction of α-branched aldehydes to β-nitroacrylates was successfully carried out by using a mixed catalyst consisting of a primary amino acid, L-phenylalanine, and its lithium salt to give β-formyl-β'-nitroesters having a quaternary carbon centre in good yields (up to 85%) with high enantioselectivity (up to 98% ee). By using benzyl β-nitroacrylates as Michael acceptors, the o...

In the title compound, C10H5IO3, an iodinated 3-formyl-chromone derivative, the non-H atoms are essentially coplanar (r.m.s. deviation = 0.0259 Å), with the largest deviation from the least-squares plane [0.056 (5) Å] being found for the formyl O atom. In the crystal, mol-ecules are linked through I⋯O halogen bonds [I⋯O = 3.245 (4) Å, C-I⋯O = 165.95 (13) and C=O⋯I = 169.7 (4)°] along [101]. The...

Ligand-free Pd(OAc)2 was found to catalyze very efficiently the direct C2-arylation of benzothiophene derivatives under low catalyst concentration. The reaction can be performed employing as little as 0.5-0.1 mol-% catalyst with electron-deficient and some electron-rich aryl bromides. The presence of a methyl or a formyl substituent at C3 of benzothiophene has a minor influence on the reactivit...

Note FPR1 is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), originally identified in phagocytic leukocytes, which mediates cell chemotaxis and activation in response to the bacterial chemotactic peptide N-formyl-methionylleucyl-phenylalanine (fMLF). A number of host-derived chemotactic agonists of FPR1 have been identified, including formyl peptides potentially released by mitochondria of ruptured cells,...

This report details the effects of methotrexate on the intracellular folate pools of the MCF-7 human breast cancer cell line. To achieve this goal, we designed a high-pressure liquid chromatography system capable of separating the physiologic folates. The folate pools were quantitated following growth and equilibration in 2.25 microM radiolabeled folic acid. Each of the intracellular folates wa...

• Two different D -π-A molecules were synthesised by varying acceptor groups. Carbazole-benzylidenemalononitrile shows one of the highest solvatochromism (153 nm). Carbazole-benzaldehyde also high (86 The dicyanovinyl group is a more effective than formyl group. A pyridine linker leads to larger Stokes shift benzene ring. 4-(9′-Hexylcarbazol-3′-yl)benzaldehyde (Cz-Ph-CHO: 4 ) and 4-(9′-hexylcar...

A novel series of indole and quinoline tricarboxamides were synthesized using simple and efficient one-pot pseudo-five-component reactions of 2-formylindole or 2-chloro-3-formyl quinolines, isocyanides, amines, and Meldrum’s acid as a CH-acid in CH2Cl2 at room temperature. This conversion has been achieved via the construction of new bonds including two C-C bonds, two ...