BACKGROUND Antimuscarinic agents are the most popular treatment for overactive bladder and their efficacy in man is well documented, producing decreased urinary frequency and an increase in bladder capacity. During cystometry in rats, however, the main effect reported after acute treatment with antimuscarinics is a decrease in peak micturition pressure together with little or no effect on bladd...

We measured the cerebral blood flow (CBF) of 16 patients by the xenon-133 intracarotid method before and after the intramuscular injection of ergotamine tartrate. The regional and hemispheric CBF was unaltered, even in 3 migraneurs in who ergotamine relieved the headache. Ergotamine tartrate in therapeutic doses has no effect on the cerebral circulation.

A series of 96 patients with severe hypertension has been treated with pentolinium tartrate for an average period of 12 months. Seventeen patients died. Therapy was more effective in arresting changes in the optic fundi and in the heart than in the kidneys. Various combinations of hypo-tensive agents were tested and it was concluded that in general the combination of pentolinium tartrate, Rauwo...

The metabolic activation of the prohormone vitamin D(3) requires a 25-hydroxylation that has been reported to be catalyzed by both mitochondrial CYP27A and a microsomal vitamin D(3) 25-hydroxylase in the liver. CYP27A has been extensively studied, but its role as a physiologically important vitamin D(3) 25-hydroxylase has been questioned. The present paper reports that the microsomal vitamin D(...

Malic dehydrogenase has been shown to catalyze the reduction of diketosuccinate by DPNH (4). Furthermore, both oxaloglycolate and diketosuccinate undergo spontaneous decarboxylation in aqueous solution. These nonenzymatic reactions complicate the analysis of the metabolic path of degradation of tartrate. As a prerequisite for the use of labeled compounds to study the biochemical synthesis and d...

The crystal structure of recombinant rat prostatic acid phosphatase in complex with the inhibitor L(+)-tartrate was determined to 3-A resolution with protein crystallographic methods. The inhibitor binds at the carboxyl end of the parallel strands of the alpha/beta domain. One of the carboxyl groups of the tartrate molecule interacts with the conserved residues Arg-11, His-12, and Arg-15, which...

L-Tartrate in wines and grapes was enzymatically quantified by using the secondary activity of D-malate dehydrogenase (D-MDH). NADH formed by the D-MDH reaction was monitored spectrophotometrically. Under the optimal conditions, L-tartrate (a 1.0 mM sample solution) was fully oxidized by D-MDH in 30 min. A linear relationship was obtained between the absorbance difference and the L-tartrate con...