For several years it was believed that angiotensin II (Ang II) alone mediated the effects of the renin-angiotensin system. However, it has been observed that other peptides of this system, such as angiotensin-(1-7) (Ang-(1-7)), present biological activity. The effect of Ang II and Ang-(1-7) on renal sodium excretion has been associated, at least in part, with modulation of proximal tubule sodiu...

The electrical signals of neurons are fundamentally dependent on voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs), which are responsible for the rising phase of the action potential. An array of naturally occurring and synthetic neurotoxins have been identified that modify the gating properties of VGSCs. Using murine neocortical neurons in primary culture, we have compared the ability of VGSC gating modif...

The selective nitrosation of β-dicarbonyl compounds with sodium nitrite was carried out under1-methyl-3-carboxymethylimidazolium chloride, prepared from N-methylimidazole andchloroacetic acid, as an acidic ionic liquid. The reaction was found to proceed under relativelymild conditions with excellent conversion and selectivity. The ionic liquid was recycled andreused.

In this work, different ethyl 2,4-dioxo-4-arylbutanoate derivatives were prepared and evaluated for their Src Kinase inhibitory activity. For this purpose, the appropriate substituted acetophenone derivatives reacted with diethyl oxalate in the presence of sodium ethoxide in dried ethanol to give the corresponding products. All compounds showed moderate activities comparing with staurosporine a...

3,5-dinitro-benzoyl chloride was refluxed with different amino acids to form the amino acid derivatives that were reduced with zinc/formic acid, to form the products and the reduced products so formed were cyclized to give the title compounds with benzil in the presence of sodium ethoxide/ethanol. All the intermediates and title compounds were characterized by physical, chemical, analytical and...

Recently, Major R. N. Chopra, i.m.s., Pro| fessor of Pharmacology at the Calcutta School ; of Tropical Medicine, whilst carrying out some j pharmacological experiments with antimony ; compounds, noticed that when the serum from a kala-azar patient was added to certain of the pentavalent compounds of antimony a heavy precipitate was formed. He found that this precipitate was not formed if normal...

1. Conditions were established for the reaction of retinal with phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylserine, ethanolamine and serine in chloroform, ethanol or ethanol-water solutions to form retinylidene compounds, or Schiff bases. 2. The Schiff bases were reduced to retinyl compounds with sodium borohydride. 3. Absorption maxima and molar extinction coefficients were determined for the variou...

An easy and efficient method to obtain Schiff bases of [2-(2-substituted-phenyl)-3-(4-{1-[2-(1Htetrazol-5-yl)-biphenyl-4-ylmethyl])-1H benzoimidazol-2-yl}-phenyl)thiazolidin-4-one] using different aromatic aldehydes. Reaction mixture of Schiff base (0.01 mol) and mercaptoacetic acid (0.05 mol) dissolved in dioxane (50 ml), anhydrous zinc chloride (0.008 mol) was added and refluxed for 12 hrs. T...