Objective(s): It has been demonstrated that hydrogen sulfide plays a vital role in physiological and pathological processes such as regulating inflammation, oxidative stress, and vessel relaxation. The aim of the study was to explore the effect of hydrogen sulfide on angiogenesis in the ischemic adductor muscles of type 2 diabetic db/db mice and ischemic diabetic wound...

Using UV-VIS spectrophotometric method, the formation constant for interaction of Fe2+(aq) ion with L-Alaninewas experimentally studied at pH = 4.1 ± 0.01 (50mM of potassium hydrogen phthalate buffer), ionic strengthof 0.1M potassium nitrate and at 5 different temperatures 15,20, 25,30 and 35 T. The optical absorption spectraof mixtures containing considered cation and L-Alanine were analyzed b...

A fragment of Histidine rich protein II (HRP II 215-236) was investigated by 14N and 17O electric field gradient, EFG, tensor calculations using DFT. This study is intended to explore the differences between 310-helix and α-helix of HRPII both in the gas phase and in solution. To achieve the aims, the 17O and 14N NQR parameters of a fragment of HRPII (215-236) for both structures are calculated...

Four novel receptors were designed and synthesized for colorimetric detection of F− ions. The introduction of four electron withdrawing groups into the backbone of the receptors makes the two phenolic groups efficient hydrogen bonding sites. The binding properties of receptors with anions were examined for the first time by UV–Vis, 1H NMR and fluorescence spectroscopies. The addition of F− resu...

In this study, we investigated whether vitamin E at concentrations achievable in blood after supplementation inhibits platelet function in humans. Gel-filtered platelets were incubated 30 minutes with scalar concentrations (50 to 250 mmol/L) of vitamin E and then stimulated with collagen. Compared with controls, vitamin E inhibited collagen-induced platelet aggregation and thromboxane A2 format...

The enthalpy of hydrogen-bond formation between guanine (G) and cytusine (C) in o-dichlorobenzene and in chloroform at 25°C has been determined by direct calorimetric measurement. We derivatized 2’-deoxyguanosine and 2‘-deoxycytidine at the 5’and 3’-hydroxyls with triisopropylsilyl groups; these group increase the solubility of the nucleic acid bases in nonaqueous solvents. Such derivatization ...

The transition from α-helical to β-hairpin conformations of α-syn12 peptide is characterized here using long timescale, unbiased molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in explicit solvent models at physiological and acidic pH values. Four independent normal MD trajectories, each 2500 ns, are performed at 300 K using the GROMOS 43A1 force field and SPC water model. The most clustered structures at ...