Measles virus-infected hamster brain tissue remained viable when frozen slowly in medium containing dimethyl sulfoxide. This procedure was essential for isolation of neurotropic measles virus from tissue specimens stored frozen.

6-Nitrochrysene (6-NC) is a pollutant generated in diesel exhaust. In order to study its propensity to induce mammary cancer, we injected 6-NC into the mammary glands of female CD rats. 4-Nitropyrene (4-NP), the most active mammary carcinogen among the mononitropyrene isomers, was used as a positive control (K. Imaida et al., Cancer Res., 51: 2902-2907, 1991). A total of 2.04 mumol of each comp...

Myeloid differentiation is induced in HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cells by dimethyl sulfoxide, retinoic acid, hypoxanthine, and a number of other chemical agents. We questioned whether the induction process was associated with changes in lipid synthesis. With [14C]acetate, a precursor for all cell lipids, a decrease in sterol and phospholipid synthesis (but not triglyceride synthesis) was obse...

Recent evidence supports the hypothesis that corticosteroids influence behavioral changes associated with stressful events. Most investigations into this relationship focus on the long-term behavioral effects of corticosterone. Because many behavioral responses to environmental perturbations occur within minutes, we determined what rapid effects corticosterone may have on behavior. With this go...

The nature of molybdenum cofactor in the bacterial enzyme dimethyl sulfoxide reductase has been investigated by application of alkylation conditions that convert the molybdenum cofactor in chicken liver sulfite oxidase and milk xanthine oxidase to the stable, well-characterized derivative [di(carboxamidomethyl)]molybdopterin. The alkylated pterin obtained from dimethyl sulfoxide reductase was s...

In the title compound, [Sn(C(6)H(5))(3)Cl(C(2)H(6)OS)], the Sn(IV) atom is coordinated by three phenyl groups, a chloride ion and a dimethyl sulfoxide mol-ecule in a distorted trigonal-bipyramidal geometry. In the crystal, adjacent mol-ecules are linked through inter-molecular C-H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds, weak C-H⋯π inter-actions and π-π inter-actions [centroid-centroid distance = 3.934 (3) Å. An int...

The title compound, C(37)H(67)NO(13)·2C(2)H(6)OS·1.43H(2)O, is a macrolide anti-biotic with better solubility and better dermal penetration abilities than erythromycin A itself. The asymmetric unit of this form contains one erythromycin A mol-ecule, two dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) solvent mol-ecules, a fully occupied water mol-ecule and a partially occupied water mol-ecule with an occupancy facto...

The title compound, [Zn{(CH3)2SO}6]I4, is a one-dimensional supra-molecular polymer along a threefold rotation axis of the space group. It is built up from discrete [Zn{(CH3)2SO}6](2+) units connected through non-classical hydrogen bonds to linear I4 (2-) polyiodide anions (C-H⋯I = 3.168 Å). The Zn(II) ion in the cation has an octa-hedral coordination geometry, with all six Zn-O bond lengths be...

The first acidity scale to be established in a pure solvent other than water was the result of the pioneering work of Conant, Wheland, and McEwen in ether or ben~ene .~ During the past 20 years an ion-pair acidity scale covering an "effective pKa rangefrom about 15 to 40 has been developed in cyclohexylamine (CHA),6 and similar studies in other low-dielectric-constant solvents including 1,2-dim...

On November 11, 1965, research on DMSO in the United States came to an abrupt halt. A conference between the Food and Drug Administration and the pharmaceutical companies who were involved in the research was called because lens changes had been observed in a number of mammalian species. No changes ha been observed in man or any primates. The FDA and the pharmaceutical companies agreed, because...