Endo-alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase (endo-alpha-GalNAc-ase) catalyzes the hydrolysis of the O-glycosidic bond between alpha-GalNAc at the reducing end of mucin-type sugar chains and serine/threonine of proteins to release oligosaccharides. Previously, we identified the gene engBF encoding endo-alpha-GalNAc-ase from Bifidobacterium longum, which specifically released the disaccharide Gal beta 1...

1. Kumar A, Teuber SS, Gershwin ME. Intravenous immunoglobulin: striving for appropriate use. Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2006:140:185-98. 2. Fergusson D, Hutton B, Sharma M, Tinmouth A, Wilson K, Cameron DW, Hebert PC. Use of intravenous immunoglobulin for treatment of neurologic conditions: a systematic review. Transfusion (Paris). 2005:45:1640-57. 3. Dalakas MC. Intravenous immune globulin the...

In spite of the widespread occurrence of herpes zoster few cases have been reported in the newborn. As long ago as 1889 Lomer reported its occurrence in an infant aged 4 days and mentioned that a similar case had been reported by Bohn 20 years earlier. Further cases have been reported by Gaehde (1897), Kalb (1909), Bonar and Pearsall (1932), Tausch (1932), Katayama (1938), Freud, Rook and Guria...

Risk of High Dose Hydrocortisone in Patients With Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage To the Editor: We read with great interest the article by Katayama et al.1 In concordance with their previous pilot study,2 the authors showed that hydrocortisone 1200 mg/d prevented excess sodium excretion and urine volume, and achieved the management of hypervolemic protocol with lower sodium and fluid. The r...

Oxidative stress is implicated in atherogenesis; however most clinical trials with dietary antioxidants failed to show marked success in preventing atherosclerotic diseases. We have found that hydrogen (dihydrogen; H(2)) acts as an effective antioxidant to reduce oxidative stress [I. Ohsawa, M. Ishikawa, K. Takahashi, M. Watanabe, K. Nishimaki, K. Yamagata, K. Katsura, Y. Katayama, S, Asoh, S. ...

Mechanism of Its Antilipolytic Action 1 T. R. TEPHLY AND G. J. MANNERING. Inhibition of Drug Metabolism. V. Inhibition of Drug Metabolism by Steroids 10 R. E. STITZEL, T. R. TEPHLY, AND G. J. MANNERING. Inhibition of Drug Metabolism. VI. Inhibition of Hexobarbital Metabolism in the Isolated Perfused Liver of the Rat 15 G. ETZOLD, B. PREUSSEL, AND P. LANGEN. Structural Requirements for the Inhib...

Wiener index is a topological index based on distance between every pair of vertices in a graph G. It was introduced in 1947 by one of the pioneer of this area e.g, Harold Wiener. In the present paper, by using a new method introduced by klavžar we compute the Wiener and Szeged indices of some nanostar dendrimers.