We examined the block of voltage-dependent rat skeletal muscle sodium channels by derivatives of mu-conotoxin GIIIA (muCTX) having either histidine, glutamate, or alanine residues substituted for arginine-13. Toxin binding and dissociation were observed as current fluctuations from single, batrachotoxin-treated sodium channels in planar lipid bilayers. R13X derivatives of muCTX only partially b...

Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors showed a glucose lowering effect in type 2 diabetes patients through inducing renal glucose excretion. Detailed analysis of the mechanism of the glucosuric effect of SGLT2 inhibition, however, has been hampered by limitations of clinical study. Here, we investigated the mechanism of urinary glucose excretion using nonhuman primates with SGLT inh...

Ti/PbO2/Sb2O3 electrode was used as indicator electrode in potentiometric and conductometric titration in aqueous solution at 298 K. The E-pH curve is linear with a slope of 0.0505 V/dec at 298 K which is close to the theoretical value 2.303RT/F (0.059 V at 298 K). The standard potential of this electrode, E, is computed with respect to the SCE as reference electrode. The recovery percentages f...

Experimental evidence in animal models suggests that misfolded Amyloid-b (Ab) spreads in disease following a prion-like mechanism. Several properties characteristics of infectious prions have been shown for the induction of Ab aggregates. However, a detailed titration of Ab misfolding transmissibility and estimation of the minimum concentration of biologically active Ab seeds able to accelerate...

1. The specimen of polygalacturonic acid used in these studies was shown to contain very little neutral sugar, methyl ester groups or ash, and only residues of galacturonic acid. Its electrophoretic homogeneity was examined in pyridine-acetic acid buffer at pH6.5 and in borate buffer at pH9.2. The distribution of effective particle weights was shown to be fairly narrow. 2. The pH-titration curv...

The use of chemically modified atomic force microscopy (AFM) probes allows us to measure the surface charges of supported planar lipid bilayers with high sensitivity through the force spectroscopy operation mode. By controlling the chemistry of the tip, we can perform a classical analytical chemistry titration where the titration agent is a weak acid (attached to the AFM tip) with the particula...

Protonation of a free-base meso-pyrimidinyl-substituted AB(2)-corrole (H(3)AB(2)) in ethanol solution by stepwise addition of sulfuric acid has been studied in the temperature range from 293 to 333 K. The formation rate of protonated species was found to depend profoundly on the temperature at which the titration was undertaken. Two steps in the titration curve were identified at temperatures a...