Previous studies have revealed that the glucoincretin hormone glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1)(7-36)amide is metabolized by dipeptidyl peptidase-IV (DPP-IV) and neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (NEP) to yield GLP-1(9-36)amide and GLP-1(28-36)amide, respectively, as the principal metabolites. Contrary to the previous notion that GLP-1(7-36)amide metabolites are pharmacologically inactive, recent studi...

one pot solvent less synthesis of amidoalkylnaphthol derivatives via reaction of aldehydes, 2-naphthol and acetamide/urea in the presence of phenylphosphinic acid is  described. this methodology provides a simple synthetic route to amidoalkylnaphthols in good to high yields.

Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) lowers glycemia by modulating gastric emptying and endocrine pancreatic secretion. Rapidly after its secretion, GLP-1-(7-36) amide is degraded to the metabolite GLP-1-(9-36) amide. The effects of GLP-1-(9-36) amide in humans are less well characterized. Fourteen healthy volunteers were studied with intravenous infusion of GLP-1-(7-36) amide, GLP-1-(9-36) amide, o...

Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) is a potent anti-hyperglycemic hormone currently under investigation for its therapeutic potential. However, due to rapid degradation by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPP IV), which limits its metabolic stability and eliminates its insulinotropic activity, it has been impossible to assess its true efficacy in vivo. In chloralose-anesthetized pigs given valine-pyrrolid...

amide-iminol tautomerism was studied for ionized oxamic acid (oa+•) in the gas phase using thedft method with the ub3lyp functional and various basis sets {6-31++g(d,p), 6-311+g(d,p), and augcc-pvdz}. among twenty tautomers-rotamers possible for oa+•, eleven isomers were found to bethermodynamically stable. similarly as for the neutral molecule, ionization (oa → oa+• + e) favors theamidization ...

five new aromatic poly(amide-imide)s (5a-e) were synthesized by direct polycondensationreaction of n-(4-carboxy phenyl) trimellitimide (3) with five aromatic diamines (4a-e) by usingtriphenyl phosphite in n-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (nmp) and pyridine at solution containingdissolved cacl2. all of the polymers were obtained in quantitative yields with inherentviscosities between 0.29-0.40 dl/g. the r...

The previous discoveries of butyl fenbufen amide analogs with antitumor effects were further examined. The amide analogs with 1, 3, 4 and 8 carbons chains were prepared in 70-80% yield. Fenbufen had no cytotoxic effects at concentrations ranging from 10 to 100 μM. Methyl fenbufen amide had significant cytotoxic effects at a concentration of 100 μM. As the length of the alkyl amide side chain in...

Attractive interactions between two carboxamide groups in a "stacked" geometry are explored under isolated molecule conditions. Infrared spectra of single conformations of a small gamma-peptide, Ac-gamma(2)-hPhe-NHMe, reveal the presence of a conformation in which the two amide planes are approximately parallel with the amide dipoles in an antialigned orientation. This stacked conformation is e...