In many crustacea, including the lobster, the bulk of the vitamin A of the whole animal is concentrated in the eyes. Recently Fisher, Kon, and Thompson found that vitamin A extracted from the eyes of euphausiid crustacea has only about one half the biological potency of the same amount of the all-trans acetate or fish liver vitamin A. In the present experiments the vitamin A of the lobster eye ...

The lethal and bone marrow toxicity and antitumor activity of the cis- and trans-2-hydroxylated metabolites of 1-(2-chloroethyl)-3-cyclohexyl-1-nitrosourea (CCNU) have been correlated with their relative in vitro alkylating and carbamoylating activities. Both the isomers have considerably greater alkylating activity and shorter chemical half-lives than the parent compound and on a molar basis h...

A number of epoxides, including cis- and trans-stilbene oxides, were assayed as substrates for epoxide hydrolases (EHs) by gas-liquid chromatography. Radiolabeled stilbene oxides were prepared by sodium borotritide reduction of desyl chloride followed by ring closure with base treatment. Rapid radiometric assays for EHs were performed by differential partitioning of the epoxide into dodecane, w...

The reaction of tetrapyrazine Pt(II) with adenine under basic conditions yielded two products both disubstituted by adenine and bound in all cases to the N-9 nitrogen of adenine. Crystals amenable to X-crystallographic analysis were obtained for one product which was consequently identified as trans-[Pt(II)(N9-adeH)2(pz)2](NO3)(4).H2O. The other product, though, was identified as the cis isomer...

Conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) are octadecadienoic fatty acids that have profound effects on lipid metabolism. Our previous work showed that CLA (mixture of isomers) markedly reduced milk fat synthesis. In this study, our objective was to evaluate the effects of specific CLA isomers. Multiparous Holstein cows were used in a 3x3 Latin square design, and treatments were 4-day abomasal infusions ...

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) has been found to exert beneficial effects on lipid profile and repress de novo fatty acid synthesis in mammary gland during lactation. However, the underlying mechanisms responsible for the antilipogenic effects of CLA have not been established. The cytosolic NADP+ -dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH1) plays a critical role in cholesterol and fatty acid bios...

The synthesis, characterisation and thermal and photochemical reactivity of Ru(CO)2(PPh3)(dppe) 1 towards hydrogen are described. Compound proved to exist in both fac (major) and mer forms in solution. Under thermal conditions, PPh3 is lost from 1 in the major reaction pathway and the known complex Ru(CO)2(dppe)(H)2 2 is formed. Photochemically, CO loss is the dominant process, leading to the a...

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) consists of a group of naturally occurring and synthetic positional and geometric (cis-trans) stereoisomers of the polyunsaturated fatty acid linoleic acid. The cis-9,trans-11 (c9,t11) CLA isomer (the most prevalent form found in ruminant-derived foods) and the trans-10,cis-12 (t10,c12) CLA isomer (present in commercial preparations) are the two most widely studie...

We conducted a series of experiments to evaluate the effects of conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) on lipid metabolism and energy homeostasis in lactating dairy cows. In all experiments, multiparous Holstein cows in mid to late lactation were abomasally infused with CLA for 5 d. The initial study established that trans-10, cis-12 CLA markedly reduced milk fat yield whereas cis-9, trans-11 CLA, the...

The title compound, cis-[Re(C(12)H(24)O(4)P)Cl(2)O(C(18)H(15)P)], was prepared from the analogous trans isomer [Głowiak et al. (2000 ▶). Polyhedron, 19, 2667-2672] by a trans-cis isomerization reaction. The Re(V) atom adopts a distorted octa-hedral coordination geometry. Besides being coordinated by the oxide and the butano-late O atoms, the Re(V) atom is coordinated by a pair of chloride ligan...