Naringin (Nar) is a flavonoid that has shown antigenotoxic effect against the chromosome damage induced by various compounds. The aims of the present investigation on Nar were threefold: a) to determine its DNA breaking potential in mouse hepatocytes and cardiocytes, b) to evaluate its capacity to inhibit the DNA damage induced by daunorubicin (Dau) in the same tissues, and c) to determine its ...

Poster Prize Claudine Baraquet (Microbiology, University of Washington, USA) Mechanism of transcriptional regulation of exopolysaccharide genes by FleQ in response to c-di-GMP in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Claudine Baraquet and Caroline S. Harwood A major biofilm-related effect of the secondary messenger c-di-GMP in Pseudomonas aeruginosa is to stimulate Pel and Psl exopolysaccharide production. In...

INTRODUCTION Anxiety and depression are frequent disorders of chronic diseases, yet there is no conclusive information to their association with rhinitis. OBJECTIVE The objective is to determine the frequency of anxiety and depression and its possible association to allergic rhinitis (AR) and non-allergic rhinitis (NAR). METHODS This is a cross-sectional study in which procured subjects wit...

Cerebellar neurones show complex and differentiated mechanisms of action potential generation that have been proposed to depend on peculiar properties of their voltage-dependent Na+ currents. In this study we analysed voltage-dependent Na(+) currents of rat cerebellar granule cells (GCs) by performing whole-cell, patch-clamp experiments in acute rat cerebellar slices. A transient Na+ current (I...

Rate-limiting processes of catalysis by eukaryotic molybdenum-containing nitrate reductase (NaR, EC 1.7.1.1-3) were investigated using two viscosogens (glycerol and sucrose) and observing their impact on NAD(P)H:NaR activity of corn leaf NaR and recombinant Arabidopsis and yeast NaR. Holo-NaR has two "hinge" sequences between stably folded regions housing its internal electron carriers: 1) Hing...

We recently have identified an antigen receptor in sharks called NAR (new or nurse shark antigen receptor) that is secreted by splenocytes but does not associate with Ig light (L) chains. The NAR variable (V) region undergoes high levels of somatic mutation and is equally divergent from both Ig and T cell receptors (TCR). Here we show by electron microscopy that NAR V regions, unlike those of c...

Hypoalbuminemia is accompanied by hypercholesterolemia in both nephrotic syndrome and hereditary analbuminemia. Hypercholesterolemia is more severe in the female than in the male Nagase analbuminemic rats (NAR). The gender difference in plasma cholesterol diminishes ovariectomy (OVX) and reappears by estrogen replacement in the NAR. The molecular mechanism responsible for the gender difference ...

The term "rhinitis" denotes nasal inflammation causing a combination of rhinorrhea, sneezing, congestion, nasal itch, and/or postnasal drainage. Allergic rhinitis is the most prevalent and most frequently recognized form of rhinitis. However, nonallergic rhinitis (NAR) is also very common, affecting millions of people. By contrast, NAR is less well understood and less often diagnosed. Nonallerg...

The transient dialkyl complexes [TaCp*R2(NAr)] (Cp*=C5Me5; R=Et, n-Pr; Ar=2,6-Me2C6H3), obtained by alkylation of [TaCp*Cl2(NAr)] with two equiv. of RMgCl in diethylether at low temperature, react with one equiv. of PMe3 to give [TaCp*(NAr)(CH2 CHR)(PMe3)] (R=H1, Me2) after b-elimination and reductive elimination of alkane. When the same alkylation is carried out and then one equiv. of CN(2,6-M...

Discovery of the light-driven sodium-motive pump Na(+)-rhodopsin (NaR) has initiated studies of the molecular mechanism of this novel membrane-linked energy transducer. In this paper, we investigated the photocycle of NaR from the marine flavobacterium Dokdonia sp. PRO95 and identified electrogenic and Na(+)-dependent steps of this cycle. We found that the NaR photocycle is composed of at least...