In obese women (a = 16) at their usual weight, fasting adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity, obtained by elution with serum and heparin at 40 and 370C, was inversely correlated to plasma estradiol levels (r = -0.724; P = 0.002) and (r = -0.641; P = 0.010), respectively. Furthermore, fasting postheparin plasma LPL activity during a heparin infusion, showed an even stronger inverse co...

The aim of this study is to investigate antibacterial effects of immunodominant proteins isolated from the venom of Naja Naja Oxiana snake against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.The innate immune system is an important line of defense against bacterial diseases. Antibacterial proteins produced by snake venoms have recently attracted signifi...

The primary structure of rabbit J chain, which occurs covalently bound to secretory IgA, was determined. J chain was isolated in its S-carboxymethylated form, in one step, by SDS/PAGE followed by electro-elution; 5 nmol of protein (approx. 75 micrograms), in all, was necessary for the determination of the complete sequence by the 'shot-gun' microsquencing technique; with the use of several site...

Enzymes adsorbed to ion exchangers are in many cases specifically desorbed by interaction with their ligands. This phenomenon has been variously called ‘specific elution with substrate’ or ‘affinity elution’ in the literature (von der Haar, 1974). Because the most effective ligands for elution are those containing charged groups identical with those on the ion exchanger (positive groups in the ...

Objective: The new Ultra-TechneKowt Dry Ship Top Elute 99mTc generator (UTKt-DTE generator; Mallinckrodt Medical, Inc., St. Louis, MO) was devised to facilitate fractionated elution with an ergonomically designed elution shield. Fractionation is accomplished traditionally by visually observing the eluted volume through 2 layers of leaded glass windows located in a lighted elution shield and gen...

Citric acid is the most widely used organic acid in the field of foods and beverages as an acidulant as well as in pharmaceutical and chemical products. Generally, surface or submerged fungal fermentation mainly with aspergillus niger is utilized for citric acid production. However, the submerged fermentation method is the most used method for citric acid production.1,2 The method of calcium sa...

Here we describe fast analysis of biomolecules by newly developed pressure-driven liquid chromatography (LC) on a chip with integration of a gradient elution system. We have reported the fabrication of a gradient elution system using a cross-Tesla mixer on a chip with pillar array columns [1]. In this study, we applied the chip to the analysis of biological compounds, and showed that 10 times f...

Background: Antibacterial proteins are widely expressed in snake venoms. Previously, we have isolated two immunodominant proteins with molecular weights of 14 and 65kD from the snake venom of Naja naja oxiana (N. oxiana). It was demonstrated that they had potent inhibitory effects against gram-positive bacteria, S. aureus and B. subtilis but were less effective against gram-negative bacteria, s...