Mitochondria isolated from disrupted carrot tissue oxidize succinate more rapidly than all other substrates tested, have relatively high qo2 values, relatively low cofactor requirements and show respiratory control with ADP only when bovine serum albumin (1 %) is present in the homogenization medium. A protective effect of albumin during the isolation or incubation of mitochondria from insect (...

Introduction: Drugs are mainly delivered to the target tissues by plasma proteins, such as human serum albumin, in the human body. Practical information about the thermodynamic parameters of drugs and their stability can be obtained using simulation methods, such as molecular docking. Material & Methods: This study, investigated the molecular docking of human serum albumin with fluorouracil an...

Murine thioglycollate-elicited peritoneal macrophages were cultured in the presence of a variety of fatty acids added as complexes with bovine serum albumin. All fatty acids tested were taken up readily by the cells and both neutral and phospholipid fractions were enriched with the fatty acid provided in the medium. This generated a range of cells enriched in saturated, monounsaturated or polyu...

circulation and represent an important, readily available energy source for certain organs like liver and heart. Controversy exists over how they are translocated across the plasma membrane [ 13. Since albumin is not taken up into the cells, only the dissociated unbound fatty acids are available for uptake. For evaluation of whether this uptake occurs by simple diffusion or facilitated transpor...

Squids belong to the cephalopod family, which composes more than 5% of the total annual fishing volume of southern Iran as by- products; however, these do not have significant usage in Iran. This product was studied to extract the high-value products, i.e. marine oils rich in unsaturated multiple-band fatty acids from 50kg squid (Loligo loligo) obtained from Chabahar fishing port and transferre...

Understanding reproductive performance in ecologically impoverished vs. more sustained anthropogenic habitats is critical to assess population health status and to develop land use and conservation management strategies. We compared resourcebased maternal effects, reproductive performance, and offspring quality in a model migratory passerine bird, the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris). We as...

In this communication we describe serum-free culture conditions for the serial propagation of the C6 glioma cell line. The growth rate, saturation density, and morphology of these cells are equivalent to those of their serum-grown counterparts when cultured in a 3:1 mixture of Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium and Ham's medium F-12 supplemented with trace elements, insulin, transferrin, fibrob...