Environmental pollution from organic contaminants caused by textile dyeing is a real danger. Wastewater the industry has high loads, as well dyes and chemical compounds used in their preparation. Among azo dyes, Congo red (CR) dye widely model experimental studies of wastewater treatment. Heterogeneous photocatalysis consists UV or VIS light irradiation various types water presence solid cataly...

Glycine prevents hepatic damage caused by hypoxia-reoxygenation, diminishes mortality due to endotoxin and minimizes alcoholic liver injury by decreasing blood ethanol. Our purpose was to investigate the effect of dietary glycine during recovery from early alcohol-induced injury, using a model that mimics the clinical presentation and histopathology with alcoholics. Male Wistar rats were expose...

Recent work has made it clear that folic acid is intimately concerned in glycine metabolism. It was shown that a deficiency of glycine produced by feeding sodium benzoate (1) was partially prevented by this vitamin. Likewise, growth in rats fed toxic levels of glycine ir improved by folic acid (2, 3). Holland and Meinke (4) have found that both glycine and folic acid seem to improve the ability...

BACKGROUND Glycine is an amino acid involved in antioxidative reactions, purine synthesis, and collagen formation. Several studies demonstrate inverse associations of glycine with obesity, hypertension, and diabetes mellitus. Recently, glycine-dependent reactions have also been linked to lipid metabolism and cholesterol transport. However, little evidence is available on the association between...

Several pharmacologically distinct sites are known to modulate the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor/ion complex, including a site within the ion channel which binds uncompetitive antagonists like phencyclidine (PCP) or dizocilpine. Glycine acts as a co-agonist for activation of the NMDA receptor complex through a strychnine-insensitive receptor, which is a potential target for novel therape...

Multiple lines of evidence suggest that a dysfunction in the glutamatergic neurotransmission via the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors contributes to the pathophysiology of psychiatric diseases including schizophrenia. The potentiation of NMDA receptor function may be a useful approach for the treatment of diseases associated with NMDA receptor hypofunction. One possible strategy is to incr...

We report new laboratory studies of the radiation-induced destruction of glycine-containing ices for a range of temperatures and compositions that allow extrapolation to martian conditions. In situ infrared spectroscopy was used to study glycine decay rates as a function of temperature (from 15 to 280 K) and initial glycine concentrations in six mixtures whose compositions ranged from dry glyci...