Pediatric cardiologists treating patients with severe congenital cardiac defects define "visceral heterotaxy" on the basis of isomerism of the atrial appendages. The isomeric features represent an obvious manifestation of disruption of left-right asymmetry during embryonic development. Thus, there are two subsets of individuals within the overall syndrome, with features of either right or left ...

Indolicidin is an antimicrobial peptide showing a broad spectrum of antibacterial and antifungal activities, and according to the cis-trans isomerism of three Xaa-Pro peptide bonds, eight different stereoisomers could be distinguished for this peptide. As the cis-trans isomerism about the Xaa-Pro peptide bonds was not considered in previous studies, the structural features of distinct stereoiso...

The morphology of the common atrioventricular valve and its relation to the ventricles was assessed by cross sectional echocardiography in 17 patients with atrial isomerism--four with left isomerism and 13 with right isomerism. In 13 patients the atrioventricular valve consisted of four leaflets: a large anterosuperior leaflet, two lateral leaflets, and a posteroinferior leaflet. The remaining ...

In NHC pincer complexes incorporating a hemilabile donor site, there exists an equilibrium between the true pincer form and a pseudopincer coordination isomer. The influence of the NHC moieties on this isomerism has been studied by DFT calculations.

Deuterium NMR in polypeptide chiral liquid crystals is used for the first time to investigate the internal rotational isomerism phenomenon, illustrated by the interconversion between conformers of 1-(2,6-dideutero-4-methylphenyl)naphthalene

Assembly of Fe(II), 3-cyanopyridine and [Au(CN)2](-) affords, in one-pot reaction, three coordination polymers that represent a genuine example of supramolecular isomerism with strong influence in the spin crossover regime of the Fe(II) ions.

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Abstract The thioether‐group‐containing SNS‐type pincer complex [({EtSCH 2 CH } NH)RuCl(H)(PPh 3 )] ( ) exists in three different diastereomers a – c ). molecular structures obtained from single crystal X‐Ray diffraction studies of all isomers reveal difference the relative orientation respective EtS‐groups, while other commonly observed as result cis ‐/ trans ‐ or fac mer ‐isomerism are not ob...

lefty-1, lefty-2, and nodal are expressed on the left side of developing mouse embryos and are implicated in left-right (L-R) determination. The role of lefty-1 was examined by analyzing mutant mice lacking this gene. The lefty-1-deficient mice showed a variety of L-R positional defects in visceral organs. Unexpectedly, however, the most common feature of lefty-1-/- mice was thoracic left isome...