A new, completely in vivo method of measuring the rate of intestinal phosphate absorption has been developed. As expected from previous in vitro and ex vivo measurements, intestinal phosphate absorption is potently and rapidly stimulated by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3. The response is saturated with as little as 11.3 ng of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 per day, consistent with a genomic mechanism. The ...

We describe automated column-switching high-performance liquid chromatography for determining nine tricyclic and tetracyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and their metabolites in human serum. TSKgel ODS-80TM and TSKprecolumn PW (Tosoh Co., Tokyo) are used in the analytical column and the precolumn, respectively. A 200-microL serum sample is directly injected onto the precolumn. After washing the seru...

The phosphorylation of plasma membrane proteins from red beet (Beta vulgaris L.) by radioactive inorganic phosphate was studied. Only few proteins were phosphorylated, among them was one polypeptide with an apparent molecular weight of about 100,000. The phosphorylation of this protein was decreased when orthovanadate was present in the reaction mixture, or when the phosphorylated protein was t...

Concentrations of 27 commonly estimated serum constituents were measured in blood sampled from 20 apparently healthy volunteers at 0830, 1230, and 1630 hours on each of four days, at weekly intervals. Time-dependent statistically significant (p less than or equal to 0.01) variation was observed in 12 of the constituents. The 15 constituents that showed no statistically significant diurnal varia...

In this work, the recovery and purification of inulinase produced by Kluyveromyces marxianus NRRL Y-7571 in solid state fermentation using in aqueous two-phase systems (ATPS) was studied. The effects of concentration of PEG and potassium phosphate were evaluated using experimental design technique. The SAB extraction yielded a purification factor (PF) up to 3.85-fold, using 18% PEG 4000 and 7% ...

Bacillus is a rhizobacterium that can help with the nutrient cycle in soil. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) be found rhizosphere of many plants. This research was divided into two parts: (1) test ability genus isolates to withstand various NaCl concentrations saline and acidic soils; (2) quantification secondary metabolites produced by form hormones organic acids. valezensis (BPF2),...

Patients with vascular disease have significantly higher concentrations of plasma total cysteine (tCYS) than do healthy individuals (1–7). The present method is a new, rapid, and sensitive enzymatic colorimetric assay for tCYS in plasma samples and is homogeneous in that it avoids separation methods. The tCYS assay uses only the recombinant enzymes methionine , -lyase (rMETase) and Sadenosylhom...

The main aim of this research is to obtain high purity potassium dihydrogen phosphate solution with Al, Cr, Fe and Ti impurity content < 0.05 ppmw (5⋅10-6 wt.%) by the simple and effective process of impurities coprecipitation with insoluble precipitants. The completeness of the coprecipitation with different coprecipitants of the above-mentioned impurities in saturated potassium dihydrogen pho...

Ion selectivity of transport systems is an essential property of membranes from living organisms. These entities are used to regulate multifarious biological processes by virtue of selective participation of specific ions in transport processes. To understand this process, we studied the phosphate selectivity of the OprP porin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa using all-atom free-energy molecular dyn...

We describe a simple liquid-chromatographic assay of urinary 4-hydroxy-3-methoxymandelic (vanillylmandelic) acid, 4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenylacetic (homovanillic) acid, and 5-hydroxy-3-indoleacetic acid with electrochemical detection, with direct injection of the sample. The first two analytes are measured simultaneously; 5-hydroxy-3-indoleacetic acid is measured separately. Chromatographic condi...