Lecithin is an essential biological component and widely used as a nutritional supplement for protecting cells from oxidation, increase fat burning and preventing cardiovascular disease. Lecithin contains fatty acids identified as the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR) agonists. However, the role of lecithin in adipogenesis and lipogenesis remains elusive. 3T3-L1 cells and mouse ...

as the antigen for a simplified precipitation test for syphilis. Cardiolipin is the lipid which, in combination with lecithin, gives the alcoholic extract of beef heart its antigenic properties. It is a complex phosphatidic acid with a molecular weight of 2195 and iodine number 120-125. It requires lecithin and cholesterol for antigenicity. It has not yet been synthesized. The cardiolipin-lecit...

Human platelets incubated with 32p lysolecithin convert this compound to platelet lecithin and the water-soluble product glycerylphosphorylcholine. Lecithin synthesis from lysolecithin by intact platelets has a pH optimum of 9, whereas platelet homogenates show a pH optimum of 7.5 for the same reaction. Conversion of lysolecithin to platelet lecithin takes place by direct acylation of lysolecit...

ketorolac tromethamine (kt) containing microemulsion-based gels (mbgs) have been formulated, based on the previous phase diagram studies, using a pharmaceutically acceptable surfactant (soybean lecithin; epikuron 200) and oil (isopropyl myristate; ipm) and the effect of formulation variables on the release profile of the drug from mbgs through intact guinea pig skin and various artificial membr...

in a 42-d experiment, 576 one-day-old vencobb 308 broiler chicks were used to investigate the effects of lecithin extract (0.5 g/kg), choline chloride 60% (1 g/kg) and bio choline (1 g/kg) in diets of moderate and high energy in a 4 × 2 factorial arrangement on performance and certain physiological traits in broiler chickens. the inclusion of bio choline and lecithin extract in the diet signifi...

THE most recent work on the decomposition of lecithin is due to Fischgold and Chain [1934], who have obtained evidence that lecithin, even in the absence of air, undergoes a spontaneous change. This change was found to be due to separation of free fatty acid from the lecithin molecule. C. W. Price and Lewis [1933, 1] noted a change in the electrophoretic properties of lecithin as it became aged...

the effect of various amount of soybean lecithin replaced with egg yolk to protect the ram semen in times of one hour after semen collection, as well as 24 and 48 hours after the semen store at 5°c was evaluated. semen was collected weekly for 8 weeks from 10 rams with 2-3 years old and average body weights of 64 kg. semen samples were pooled and divided into 4 parts. each part was diluted with...

n-/3-Hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase is a lipid-requiring enzyme which has an absolute requirement for lecithin for enzymic activity. We have studied the activation of the purified apodehydrogenase by a number of lecithin analogues with modifications in either the hydrophobic or polar regions of the molecule in order to map the structural specificity for the lecithin molecule. The apodehydrogenas...

The in vivo biosynthesis of lecithin in rats has been studied with the precursors choline-1,2-(14)C, ethanolamine-1,2-(14)C and methionine-CH(3)-(14)C or -CH(3)-(3)H. Lecithin synthesis from choline is rapid in all organs. No sex difference was observed in this pathway. The biosynthesis of lecithin by methylation of phosphatidyl ethanolamine is of quantitative significance in the liver, but not...

A rapid (30-min) semiautomated continuous-flow procedure is described for use in assessing the phospholipids of the particulate ("lamellar body") fraction of human amniotic fluid. The method is based on measuring the difference in fluorescence of 1,6,-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene added to amniotic fluid before and after micropore filtration. The filtration step removes "lamellar body" particles, w...