Paneth cells are specialized epithelia in the small bowel that secrete antimicrobial proteins. Paneth cells are vital to the innate immunity of the small bowel in adult mammals, but their role during neonatal infection of the small bowel is not well established. Dithizone selectively damages Paneth cells, and when dithizone-treated newborn rats are infected enterally with Escherichia coli, the ...

Zinc and Hippocampal Cytoarchitecture Considerable attention has been focused recently on the hippocampus as a brain region in which a relationship between a trace metal and neuronal function may be amenable to investigation. Maske (1955) made the initial observation that a metal was apparently localized in high concentration within this phylogenetically old and relatively large cortical area. ...

Name Type Company Catalog Number Comments Dithizone reagent Dissolve 5mg Dithizone in 5 ml of DMSO in a 50 ml conical tube. Add 45 ml of normal saline and mix gently. Filter with a 60 cc syringe and a 0.22 "m syringe filter into a new 50 ml tube. Store at 4 OC, until use. Add 1 ml to each 35 mm counting Grid-plate, when needed. PBS Buffer HBSS Buffer Isolation soln. Buffer HBSS containing 10 mM...

Abstract A simple, sensitive, and greener method for green extraction preconcentration of lead from aqueous media further assay by UV-Vis spectrophotometer has been developed using 1,5 diphenylthiocarbazone (dithizone). Several factors dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction (DLLME) including the type volume solvents, shaking time, concentration dithizone as a complexing agent, pH were optimiz...

The effects of diabinese, a known antidiabetic drug, and the combined effects of diabinese and nicotinic acid, a vitamin and antilipidemic drug, were studied in rabbits with dithizone-induced diabetes. Side effects of diabinese include hypoglycemia and liver toxicity. Dithizone was used to induce partial experimental diabetes and to increase blood glucose significantly (P < 0.05) by 31.3%, 23.5...

In this work, a procedure for preconcentration of silver using dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction with the reagent dithizone as complexing reagent was developed. At pH 2, silver ions are complexed with dithizone and extracted into the fine droplets formed when mixing carbon tetrachloride (extraction solvent), ethanol (disperser solvent) and the sample solution. After extraction, the phase...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in premature infants. During NEC pathogenesis, bacteria are able to penetrate innate immune defenses and invade the intestinal epithelial layer, causing subsequent inflammation and tissue necrosis. Normally, Paneth cells appear in the intestinal crypts during the first trimester of human pregnancy. Paneth cells consti...

Studies of the biochemistry of zinc have produced results which are widely divergent because of difficulties in methodology. However, techniques have evolved so that general agreement now exists that dithizone methods give reliable and reproducible measurements of zinc in erythrocytes and sera, and that acid extraction of the zinc from these biological materials produces more consistent and acc...