In continuation of our investigation of liver diphosphopyridine nucleotide-linked aldehyde dehydrogenase (1)) we have undertaken a study of various classes of inhibitors of the enzyme. Interest in aldehyde oxidation has been increasing in recent years from several points of view. The classical problem of ethanol oxidation in viva still has many unresolved facets (Z), and the enzymes responsible...

Alcohol sensing membranes coated on overhead transparency films for the continuous monitoring of ethanol, propanol and butanol are presented. Alcohol oxidation catalyzed by alcohol oxidase in conjunction with the fluorescence quenching reaction of oxygen-sensitive dye ion-pair, tris(4,7-diphenyl-1,10-phenanthroline) ruthenium(II) didodecylsulphate was chosen for the determination. Alcohol oxida...

the oxidation of complexes of ti(iii), (til6)3+ (l=ur, meur, dmeur, deture, n-bu-ur, and phur), by iodine as i3- in ethanol and acetonitrile solutions, appears to proceed as a second order reaction and is much faster in ethanol solution (where solvolysis occurs) than in acetonitrile. the enthalpy of activation appears to decrease as ligand's size increases which suggest that the kinetic stabili...

Although Artemisia iwayomogi (AI) has been shown to improve the lipid metabolism, its mode of action is poorly understood. In this study, a 95% ethanol extract of AI (95EEAI) was identified as a potent ligand of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptorδ (PPARδ) using ligand binding analysis and cell-based reporter assay. In cultured primary human skeletal muscle cells, treatment of 95EEAI inc...

1. The influence of a deficiency or surplus of thiamin in the diet on voluntary ethanol consumption, ethanol elimination rate and blood acetaldehyde concentration was studied in rats. 2. Both the high-thiamin diet containing 20 mg thiamin hydrochloride/kg and the thiamin deficient diet containing no measurable thiamin produced obvious functional effects on thiamin metabolism in rat tissues afte...

The kinetics of phenol oxidation with chlorine dioxide in different solvents (2 methylpropan 1 ol, ethanol, 1,4 dioxane, acetone, acetonitrile, ethyl acetate, dichloromethane, heptane, tetrachloromethane, water) was studied by spectrophotometry. In all solvents indicated, the reaction rate is described by an equation of the second order w = k[PhОН]•[ClO2]. The rate constants were measured (at 1...

antioxidant active packaging is one of the active packaging that prevents of lipid oxidation by releasing antioxidant during storage of food. in recent years the use of natural antioxidant instead of the synthetic variety in these packaging has been considered. the aim of this study was evaluating the performance of polymeric film coated with natural antioxidant (rosemary extract) to prevent li...

Low density lipoprotein (LDL) was incubated with 20 microM of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors captopril, fosinopril and quinapril or ethanol. Oxidation of LDL was initiated by addition of CuSO4 and monitored for production of conjugated dienes, thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) and lipid peroxides. The inhibition of production of conjugated dienes was expressed ...

1. The kinetics of oxidation of ethanol, propan-l-ol, butan-1-ol and propan-2-ol by NAD+ and of reduction of acetaldehyde and butyraldehyde by NADH catalysed by yeast alcohol dehydrogenase were studied. 2. Results for the aldehyde-NADH reactions are consistent with a compulsory-order mechanism with the rate-limiting step being the dissociation ofthe productenzyme-NAD+ complex. In contrast the r...

Acetone is an important solvent and widely used in the synthesis of drugs and polymers. Currently, acetone is mainly generated by the Cumene Process, which employs benzene and propylene as fossil raw materials. Phenol is a co-product of this synthesis. However, this ketone can be generated from ethanol (a renewable feedstock) in one-step. The aim of this work is to describe the influence of phy...