BACKGROUND Intracellular calcium (Ca²⁺) coordinates the cardiac contraction cycle and is dysregulated in diabetic cardiomyopathy. Treatment with triethylenetetramine (TETA), a divalent-copper-selective chelator, improves cardiac structure and function in patients and rats with diabetic cardiomyopathy, but the molecular basis of this action is uncertain. Here, we used TETA to probe potential lin...

Cysteine replacement of Asp190, Glu192 and Ser201 residues in the cytoplasmic interdomain loop of the TetA(B) tetracycline efflux antiporter from Tn10 reduces tetracycline resistance [Tamura, N., Konishi, S., Iwaki, S., Kimura-Someya, T., Nada, S. & Yamaguchi, A. (2001). J Biol Chem 276, 20330-20339]. It was found that these Cys substitutions altered the substrate specificity of TetA(B), increa...

The title fluoridogermanate, {[Cd(2)(C(6)H(18)N(4))(3)][GeF(6)]}(n), was synthesized hydro-thermally. The crystal structure comprises undulated cationic [Cd(2)(TETA)(3)](4+) chains (TETA is triethyl-ene-tetra-mine) propagating parallel to [101]. The central Cd(II) atom is six-coordinated in a CdN(6) set by three TETA ligands. The isolated [GeF(6)](2-) units, serving as counter-anions, occupy th...

64Cu [T1/2 = 12.8 h; beta+ = 0.655 MeV (19%); beta- = 0.573 MeV (40%)] has shown promise as a radioisotope for targeted radiotherapy. It has been demonstrated previously that the somatostatin analogue 64Cu-TETA-octreotide (64Cu-TETA-OC, where TETA is 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane-N,N',N",N"'-tetraacetic acid) significantly inhibited the growth of somatostatin receptor-positive CA20948 rat p...

Most patients with diabetes die from cardiac or arterial disease, for which there are limited therapeutic options. Free Cu(2+) ions are strongly pro-oxidant, and chelatable-Cu(II) is increased in the diabetic heart. We reported previously that treatment by Cu(II)-selective chelation with triethylenetetramine (TETA) evokes elevated urinary Cu(II) in diabetic rats and humans in whom it also impro...

The asymmetric unit of the title complex, [Fe2Ni(C19H12N3O)2(CN)6(C16H36N4)]·2.07H2O, contains one [Fe(qcq)(CN)3](-) anion, half a [Ni(teta)](2+) cation and two partially occupied inter-stitial water mol-ecules [qcq(-) is the N-(quinolin-8-yl)quinoline-2-carboxamidate anion and teta is 5,5,7,12,12,14-hexa-methyl-1,4,8,11-tetra-aza-cyclo-tetra-deca-ne]. In the complex mol-ecule, two [Fe(qcq)(CN)...

OBJECTIVES Laribacter hongkongensis is a newly discovered bacterium associated with gastroenteritis and found in freshwater fish. Although isolates resistant to tetracycline have been described, their resistance mechanisms have not been studied. PATIENTS AND METHODS We describe the distribution and molecular characterization of tetracycline resistance in 48 L. hongkongensis isolates from huma...

this study aimed to assess whether the triethylenetetramine (teta) is impressed the plasma level of homocysteine (hcy), total sialic acid (tsa) and cardiac troponin i (ctni) as cardiovascular diseases risk factors, cystatin c (cys c) and glucose along with histopathologic changes in alloxan induced diabetes mellitus in rabbit. twenty number new zealand white rabbits were assigned for this study...

Two new organic hybrid thiogermanates [Ni(dien)2](H2dien)Ge2S6 (1, dien = diethylenetriamine) and [Ni(teta)2]2Ge4S10 (2, teta = triethylenetetramine) were synthesized under solvothermal conditions. 1 contains a [Ni(dien)2] complex cation, a protonated dien molecule and a [Ge2S6]4− dimeric anion, while 2 consists of discrete [Ge4S10]4− adamantane-like cluster anions with [Ni(teta)2] complex cati...

Tetracycline-resistant bacteria and genes encoding tetracycline resistance are common in anthropogenic environments. We studied how wastewater treatment affects the prevalence and concentration of two genes, tetA and tetB, that encode resistance to tetracycline. Using real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) we analysed wastewater samples collected monthly for one year at eight key-sites in a ...