The neurotoxin 1-methyl-4-(2'-aminophenyl)-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (2'-NH(2)-MPTP) damages forebrain serotonin (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) nerve terminals while sparing striatal dopaminergic innervation. Previous studies suggest that 2'-NH(2)-MPTP acts by a mechanism that involves uptake by the plasma membrane 5-HT and NE transporters. The present investigation further explores the molecu...

8-Aminoadenosine (8-NH(2)-Ado), a ribosyl nucleoside analog, in preclinical models of multiple myeloma inhibits phosphorylation of proteins in multiple growth and survival pathways, including Akt. Given that Akt controls the activity of mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), we hypothesized that 8-NH(2)-Ado would be active in mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a hematological malignancy clinically resp...

Chronic high-protein consumption leads to increased concentrations of NH(4)(+)/NH(3) in the colon lumen. We asked whether this increase has consequences on colonic epithelial cell metabolism. Rats were fed isocaloric diets containing 20 (P20) or 58% (P58) casein as the protein source for 7 days. NH(4)(+)/NH(3) concentration in the colonic lumen and in the colonic vein blood as well as ammonia m...

At 10% deuteration ammonium hexachloroplatinate still exhibits the cubic phase Fm3m of the protonated material at all temperatures. Rotational tunneling of the ammonium isomers NH4 1 and NH3D 1 was measured by neutron spectroscopy. At temperatures T>18 K the energies and intensities of the observed tunneling transitions agree with a statistical occurrence of ammonium isomers and a cubic environ...

Brucella native haptens (NHs) extracted with hot water from smooth (S)-type B. abortus and B. melitensis were purified to high levels of serological activity and compared with the polysaccharide obtained by acid hydrolysis (PS) of the S lipopolysaccharide (S-LPS). By 13C nuclear magnetic resonance analysis, NHs showed the spectrum of a homopolymer of alpha-1,2- or alpha-1,2- plus alpha-1,3-link...

introduction raman spectroscopy is a vibrational spectroscopic technique, based on inelastic scattering of monochromatic light. this technique can provide valuable information about biomolecular changes, associated with neoplastic transformation. the purpose of this study was to find raman spectral markers for distinguishing normal samples from cancerous ones in different tissues. materials and...

El objetivo del presente estudio fue caracterizar 10 variedades de quinua (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) y una variedad quelite cenizo album L.), diferente color planta producción materia seca en la parte aérea, por su contenido nitratos oxalatos completa (NPC, OPC), hojas (NH, OH) tallos (NT, OT), presencia alcaloides las etapas botón floral floración condiciones riego temporal o secano Montecill...

A new system for NH transfer is developed for the preparation of sulfoximines, which are emerging as valuable motifs for drug discovery. The protocol employs readily available sources of nitrogen without the requirement for either preactivation or for metal catalysts. Mixing ammonium salts with diacetoxyiodobenzene directly converts sulfoxides into sulfoximines. This report describes the first ...

A long-standing controversy concerning the heat of formation of methylenimine has been addressed by means of the W2 (Weizmann-2) thermochemical approach. Our best calculated values, ∆H◦ f,298(CH2NH)=21.1±0.5 kcal/mol and ∆H◦ f,298(CH2NH + 2 )=179.4±0.5 kcal/mol, are in good agreement with the most recent measurements but carry a much smaller uncertainty. As a byproduct, we obtain the first-ever...

The aquation profiles of two novel dinuclear polyamine-linked, platinum-based antitumour complexes [{trans-PtCl((15)NH(3))(2)}(2){μ-((15)NH(2)(CH(2))(6)(15)NH(2)(CH(2))(6)(15)NH(2))}](3+) (BBR3007, 1,1/t,t-6,6, 1) and [{trans-PtCl((15)NH(3))(2)}(2){μ-((15)NH(2)(CH(2))(6)(15)NH(2)(CH(2))(2)(15)NH(2)(CH(2))(6)(15)NH(2))}](4+) (BBR3610, 1,1/t,t-6,2,6, 1') have been probed using 2D [(1)H, (15)N] HS...