BACKGROUND Sulfate is important for fetal growth and development. During pregnancy, the fetus relies on sulfate from the maternal circulation. We report reference intervals for maternal plasma sulfate levels and fractional excretion index (FEI) for sulfate in pregnancy, as well as sulfate levels in cord blood from term pregnancies. METHODS Plasma and urine were collected from 103 pregnant wom...

The cationic detergent tetradecyltrimethylammonium ion interacts with four binding sites on the surface of AI polypeptide from human serum high density lipoprotein and 10 sites on the AI1 polypeptide with association constants of 2 X lo4 and 1 x lo4 liters per mole, respectively. The sites on AI appear to be primarily hydrophobic in that the anionic detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate binds to the...

Using our newly developed ion-pairing reversed-phase liquid-chromatographic method for assay of indoxyl sulfate, we measured its concentration in plasma of normal subjects and patients in various degrees of renal failure. Response was linear over the range of 50 to 25 000 pmol of indoxyl sulfate injected into the chromatograph. We demonstrated the specificity of the assay for azotemic plasma by...

-Sulfate adsorption on kaolinite was followed at 0.7 ~teq/ml to 99/~eq/ml solution concentrations at 30"C and at pH 6.0, and the amount of OHions released and the change in surface charge were determined. Sulfate was adsorbed at positive and neutral sites by displacing O H 2 and OHgroups, respectively. Adsorption of sulfate occurred predominantly at positive sites at low (0.7/~eq/ml to 0.9/~eq/...

In the title compound, [Co(SO(4))(C(12)H(8)N(2))(2)]·C(4)H(10)O(2), the Co(2+) ion has a distorted octa-hedral coordination environment composed of four N atoms from two chelating 1,10-phenanthroline ligands and two O atoms from an O,O'-bidentate sulfate anion. The dihedral angle between the two chelating N(2)C(2) groups is 83.48 (1)°. The Co(2+) ion, the S atom and the mid-point of the central...

In the title polymer, {[Cu(SO(4))(C(12)H(9)N(3)O)(2)(H(2)O)(2)]·4H(2)O}(n), both the metal center and the sulfate anion are located on a twofold axis. The Cu(II) ion is coordinated by two pyridyl N atoms from two symmetry-related organic ligands, two O atoms from two symmetry-related water mol-ecules, and two O atoms from two symmetry-related sulfate anions, resulting in a distorted octa-hedral...

Heparan sulfate proteoglycans were extracted from rat brain microsomal membranes or whole forebrain with deoxycholate and purified from accompanying chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans and membrane glycoproteins by ion-exchange chromatography, affinity chromatography on lipoprotein lipase-Sepharose, and gel filtration. The proteoglycan has a molecular size of approximately 220,000, containing gly...