Synthetic sugar esters are a relatively new class of insecticidal compounds that are produced by reacting sugars with fatty acids. The objective of this research was to determine how systematic alterations in sugar or fatty acid components of sugar ester compounds influenced their insecticidal properties. Sucrose octanoate, sorbitol octanoate, sorbitol decanoate, sorbitol caproate, xylitol octa...

Weinhouse and co-workers (39-43) have estab lished that the Krebs tricarboxylic acid cycle operates in a variety of experimental tumors and that fatty acid oxidation, believed to be non existent in tumors (9), provides 2-carbon frag ments for continuous operation of this cycle in neoplastic tissues. Our studies with the mouse hepatoma C954, carried by mice of the C57-Leaden strain, also led us ...

Postischemic recovery of contractile function is better in hearts from fasted rats than in hearts from fed rats. In this study, we examined whether feeding-induced inhibition of palmitate oxidation at the level of carnitine palmitoyl transferase I is involved in the mechanism underlying impaired recovery of contractile function. Hearts isolated from fasted or fed rats were submitted to no-flow ...

The regulation of ketogenesis in the rat has been studied both in uiuo and in the isolated perfused liver with octanoic acid as substrate. This fatty acid, which is not utilized directly for triglyceride synthesis, was chosen in order to investigate the events that govern the metabolism of fatty acids subsequent to the (?-oxidation process. Experiments in viuo established that for any given loa...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to test the hypothesis that fluid loading with sodium chloride (150 mmol Na and 150 mmol Cl) or sodium octanoate (150 mmol Na, 100 mmol Cl, and 50 mmol octanoate) would lead to different acid-base changes. DESIGN We performed a double-blind crossover experimental study. SETTING The study was done at a University Physiology Laboratory. SUBJECTS Eight Merino ewes ...

The sweetpotato whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), B biotype, presents a unique problem for vegetable growers by serving as a vector of plant viruses and by inducing physiological disorders of leaves and fruit. An action threshold of a single whitefly is necessary because of the threat of disease in many areas and growers rely heavily on a single class of insecticides (neonicotinoids) for wh...

We reported previously that a substantial fraction of the acetyl groups used to synthesize malonyl-CoA in rat heart is derived from peroxisomal beta-oxidation of long-chain and very-long-chain fatty acids. This conclusion was based on the interpretation of the 13C-labelling ratio (malonyl-CoA)/(acetyl moiety of citrate) measured in the presence of substrates that label acetyl-CoA in mitochondri...

Two noninvasive tests for assessing pancreatic exocrine function, the cholesteryl-[14C]octanoate breath test and the HPLCN-benzoyl-tyrosyl-p-aminobenzoic acid/p-aminosalicylic acid (NBT-PABA/PAS) test, were simultaneously performed in nine patients with pancreatic exocrine insufficiency due to chronic pancreatitis and in nine healthy volunteers. 14CO2 output in breath and plasma PABA concentrat...

The interaction of sodium octanoate, decanoate or dodecanoate with lead(II) has been studied in aqueous solutions using potentiometry, electrical conductivity, turbidity and ICP-OES measurements. These show an alkyl chain length dependence on the behavior. At the lead(II) concentration used (1.0 mM), relatively strong interactions are observed with the decanoate and dodecanaote, leading to form...