We investigated continuous profiles and within-day variations of some metabolites and hormones in four nonpregnant, nonlactating cows fed hay-based diets in two equal meals. Diets supplied either too much or too little N (approximately 1.3 or .8 times the maintenance requirements) and NE1 (approximately 1.2 or .8 times). Continuous collection of ruminal liquor, blood, and urine samples was perf...

Biosynthesis of an Escherichia coli cell, with organic compounds as sources of energy and carbon, requires approximately 20 to 60 billion high-energy phosphate bonds [Stouthamer, A. H. (1973) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 39, 545-565]. A substantial fraction of this energy budget is devoted to biosynthesis of amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The fueling reactions of central metabolism pr...

a sensitive and rapid method is described for determination of clopidogrel carboxylic acid (cca), the inactive metabolite of the antiplatelet agent clopidogrel in human serum. the analytical procedure involves liquid-liquid extraction of the analyte and an internal standard (phenytoin) with ethyl acetate. a mobile phase consisting of 0.05 m phosphate buffer containing triethylamine (0.5 ml/l; p...

forty renal allograft patients with three months under immunosuppression by cycloserine were examined for their gingival overgrowth and it's correlation with several parameters including the trough levels of blood cyclosporine and it's metabolites measured by the fluorescence polarization immunoassay technique. no correlation was found between the scores of gingival overgrowth and both the age ...

Along with genes and proteins, metabolites play important roles in sustaining life. Their functions include "primary" functions in metabolism and energy storage, as well as "secondary" functions in cell-to-cell signaling, metal acquisition, and virulence. There remains much to be learned about the in vivo roles of metabolites. Approaches that accelerate measurement of metabolite levels directly...

Phosphatic metabolite profiles of 19 malignant and normal human colon specimens were analyzed by techniques of perchloric acid extraction and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 202.4 MHz. Thirty-one individual phosphorus-containing intermediates of metabolism were iden tified and quantified for statistical intergroup comparisons. Elevations in relative concentrations of phosphorylethanolami...

The adenosine diphosphate glucose synthase (pyrophosphorylase) of Escherichia co2i responds very sharply to variation in the energy charge of the adenylate pool. The response is in the right direction to insure that this enzyme, which catalyzes the &-St step unique to glycogen storage in E. coli, will have appreciable activity only under conditions of energy excess (high energy charge). The pos...

Phosphatic metabolite profiles of 19 malignant and normal human colon specimens were analyzed by techniques of perchloric acid extraction and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 202.4 MHz. Thirty-one individual phosphorus-containing intermediates of metabolism were identified and quantified for statistical intergroup comparisons. Elevations in relative concentrations of phosphorylethanolamin...