Lactoperoxidase (LP) is one of the most prominent enzymes in bovine milk and catalyses the inactivation of a wide range of micro-organisms in the lactoperoxidase system (LP-s). LP-systems are also identified as natural antimicrobial systems in human secretions such as saliva, tear-fluid and milk and are found to be harmless to mammalian cells. The detailed molecular structure of LP is identifie...

Background: C-reactive protein (CRP) and lipoprotein (a) (Lp[a]) play essential roles in cardiovascular disease incidence. This study aimed to review the association between the intake of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) in the form of dietary supplement or enriched food with different treatment durations and the levels of Lp(a) and CRP in human studies.Methods: All the articles published i...

We formally derive the standard deterministic linear program (LP) for bid-price control by making an affine functional approximation to the optimal dynamic programming value function. This affine functional approximation gives rise to a new LP that yields tighter bounds than the standard LP. Whereas the standard LP computes static bid prices, our LP computes a time trajectory of bid prices. We ...

Dear Editor, Lichen planus (LP) is a chronic inflammatory, papulosquamous disease. A previous Singapore study reported that LP is more common in ethnic Indians.1 Other studies have reported that LP may be associated with metabolic syndrome-related diseases, such as hyperlipidaemia2,3 and diabetes mellitus.4,5 LP in Asians has not been well characterised, especially in Singapore which has a mult...

BACKGROUND Recently, the biological effects of oxidized lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] have been reported to be more potent than Lp(a), the arteriosclerosis-relevant lipoprotein. Thus, investigations with oxidized Lp(a) are expected to provide viewpoints different from the conventional ones based on Lp(a). METHODS AND RESULTS An anti-Lp(a) monoclonal antibody (161E2) was produced against synthetic pe...

OBJECTIVE We determined whether U-shaped relationships exist between serum lipoprotein[Lp](a) and cardiometabolic risk. METHODS In population-based nondiabetic and diabetic middle-aged adults (n=1 428 and 241, respectively) who had been genotyped for the LPA rs10455872 A>G polymorphism, we adjusted the Lp(a) concentration for the effects of genotype and other covariates. Via sex-specific equa...

We study some structural aspects of the subspaces of the non-commutative (Haagerup) Lp-spaces associated with a general (non necessarily semi-finite) von Neumann algebra a. If a subspace X of Lp(a) contains uniformly the spaces lnp , n ≥ 1, it contains an almost isometric, almost 1-complemented copy of lp. If X contains uniformly the finite dimensional Schatten classes S p , it contains their l...

Lucina pectinata ctenidia harbor three heme proteins: sulfide-reactive hemoglobin I (HbI(Lp)) and the oxygen transporting hemoglobins II and III (HbII(Lp) and HbIII(Lp)) that remain unaffected by the presence of H(2)S. The mechanisms used by these three proteins for their function, including ligand control, remain unknown. The crystal structure of oxygen-bound HbII(Lp) shows a dimeric oxyHbII(L...