the chemical composition, in situ ruminal degradability coefficients of dry matter (dm), and nutrient digestibility in sheep were evaluated for corn silage (cs) treated (fresh weight basis) with different levels of a commercial bacterial inoculant (i) as follows: (1) untreated cs (control); (2) cs + i at half of the recommended level; (3) cs + i at the recommended level (3  1010 colony forming...

Quantitative receptor autoradiography was used to determine the distribution of excitatory amino acid binding sites in the basal ganglia of rat brain. alpha-Amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid, N-methyl-D-aspartate, kainate, quisqualate-sensitive metabotropic and non-N-methyl-D-aspartate, non-kainate, non-quisqualate glutamate binding sites had their highest density in striatum, ...

The acetaminophen (APAP)-induced hepatic centrilobular necrosis is preceded by hepatic microcirculatory dysfunction including the infiltration of erythrocytes into the space of Disse. The purpose of this study was to examine the involvement of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in the hepatic microvascular injury elicied by APAP. Male C57Bl/6 mice were pretreated with 2-[(4-biphenylsulfonyl) amin...

Helix formation in a 17-residue alanine-lysine peptide and analogous peptides with specific lysine --> X substitutions, where X is 2,3-diamino-L-propionic acid, 2, 4-diamino-L-butyric acid or L-ornithine, have been examined using circular dichroism measurements. The dependence of helix content on X, its position in the sequence, and the number of lysine --> X substitutions are reasonably well d...

propionic acid (pa) is a short chain fatty acid, a common food preservative and metabolic end product of enteric bacteria in the gut. the present study was undertaken to investigate the effect of pa on liver injury in male rats. male western albino rats were divided into two groups. the first group served as normal control, the second was treated with pa. the activities of serum hepatospecific ...

(3-Amino-13-(4-amino-6-c a r b o x y5-m e t h y l p y r imidin-2-yl)-propionic acid, designated compound II in the former report,'' is produced by degradation of an amino acid residue containing (3-lactam in the bleomycin molecule .2-4) The absolute configuration of the asymmetric carbon in this part of the bleomycin molecule has been determined by X-ray analysis of IIdiamide hydrobromide.

In the title compound, C(11)H(12)N(2)O(2)·C(7)H(5)NO(4)·C(2)H(6)O, the (2S*)-2-amino-3-(1H-indol-3-yl)propionic acid is present in the zwitterionic form. In the crystal structure, 2-amino-3-(1H-indol-3-yl)propionic acid mol-ecules and pyridine-2,4-dicarb-oxylic acid mol-ecules are linked through strong inter-molecular O-H⋯O and N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming layers parallel to (100). The layers ...

General. Linkers used in preparation of modified hyaluronan (HA) derivatives were synthesized according to stated literature procedures. Their structures are given in Scheme S1. Particularly, 3,3'dithiobis(propionic hydrazide) 11 and 2-(2-pyridinyldithio)ethyl hydrazinecarboxylate 32 were used to attach thioland 2-dithiopyridyl-terminated side chains to HA backbone respectively. 3-(Acrylamido-1...

The effect of acetic or propionic acid rumen fermentation patterns on whole-body protein turnover, tissue protein synthetic rates and body composition was investigated in growing lambs. Protein turnover was assessed using a continuous intravenous infusion of [2,3-3H]tyrosine and tissue protein fractional synthetic rates (FSR) from the specific activities of plasma free, intracellular free and t...