Glycosidases are the enzymes involved in various biochemical processes related to metabolic disorders and diseases. Therefore, much effort has been focused on searching novel pharmacotherapy for the treatment of these ailments from medicinal plants due to higher safety margins. To pursue these efforts, the present study was performed to evaluate the α-glucosidase inhibitory activities of thirty...

Small lymphocytes circulate through the body by a unique route; they selectively emerge from the bloodstream in lymphoid tissue and recirculate to the blood via lymphatics. Thus, after radioactively labeled thoracic duct lymphocytes (syngeneic or allogeneic) are transfused intravenously, a relatively large percentage of the radioactivity soon accumulates in all lymphoid tissue of the recipient ...

Amyloid fibrils were isolated by extraction in water from the livers and spleens of four patients who had died of monoclonal, light-chain (AL)-type, systemic amyloidosis and one with reactive systemic, amyloid A protein (AA)-type amyloidosis. Each fibril preparation contained 1-2% by weight of glycosaminoglycan (GAG) which was tightly associated with the fibrils and not just co-isolated from th...