Introduction Licorice could exhibit beneficial effect in the management of insomnia by regulating key modulators such as GABA and serotonin, we therefore aimed to study potentail hypnotic licorice extract, glycyrrhizin (GCZ), on underlying mechanisms. Material methods Mice were randomly grouped a Control group, GCZ (low) (high) group DZP with 8 mice each group. Sleep latency, sleep duration loc...

Peak exogenous carbohydrate oxidation rates typically reach ~1 g∙min-1 during exercise when ample glucose or glucose polymers are ingested. Fructose co-ingestion has been shown to further increase exogenous carbohydrate oxidation rates. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of fructose co-ingestion provided either as a monosaccharide or as part of the disaccharide sucrose on exogen...

BACKGROUND Genetic variants of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) could influence individual susceptibility to coronary artery disease. OBJECTIVE To assess whether Glu298-->Asp polymorphism of the eNOS gene is associated with the occurrence and severity of angiographically defined coronary artery disease in the Italian population. METHODS Polymerase chain reaction/restriction fragment...

dear editor analysis of the phenylalanine hydroxylase (pah mckusick 261600) gene in different populations has revealed more than 320 different mutations associated with phenylketonuria (pku). one of these mutations, ivs10nt546, results in severe pah deficiency due to defective mrna splicing. it accounts for about 40 percent of all mutant alleles in turkish and between 10 to 20 percent of all mu...

We investigated the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory activities of both crude and ultrafiltrated Maillard reaction (MR) products (MRPs) derived from sugar-amino acid MR models, comprising fructose (Fru), glucose (Glu) or ribose (Rib) reacted with glycine (Gly) or lysine (Lys), respectively. Crude MRPs derived from Glu-Lys showed the greatest capacity (P < 0.05) to inhibit nitric oxide (NO) and...

Background: Individuals respond to statins differently due to genetic variations. One of the most significant enzymes involved in drug metabolism is CYP2D6 enzyme, coded by the CYP2D6 gene. Individuals who carry two non-functional alleles in this gene are considered as poor metabolizers (PMs). Recognizing poor metabolizers might help in preventing adverse effects of drugs. Objective: In this ...

in this study, 120 accessions of aegilops crassa collected from various geographical areas of iran were analyzed with respect to genome size and protein markers. a flow cytometry survey of these accessions revealed that one hundred and thirteen of the accessions were tetraploid and seven were hexaploid. moreover, these accessions revealed variations in high molecular weight glutenin subunit com...

Lys 10 10 8 4 8 7 5 12 9 13 9 Try 4 4 4 1 2 1 6 3 4 3 4 6 His 0 0 0 1 0 3 I 4 1 0 0 Arg 2 2 2 6 3 3 4 4 8 6 2 Asp 18 17 16 20 17 1 3 1 4 22 28 25 21 28 Thr 4 5 8 6 9 6 8 14 16 8 8 Ser 14 8 7 7 8 4 4 11 11 15 12 Glu 19 21 18 17 18 1 6 1 7 25 22 16 23 26 Pro 4 4 5 4 6 3 4 5 7 5 3 Gly 17 14 14 19 14 11 19 25 28 21 19 Ala 14 6 18 18 15 11 15 24 20 15 12 CvS 1 3 2 5 5 3 2 5 2 1 1 Val 15 10 13 10 16 ...