background: there are only four drugs for treating african trypanosomiasis, a devastating disease in sub-saharan africa. with slow discovery of better drugs, vaccination is viewed as the best method of control. we previously showed that antibodies to native trypanosoma brucei brucei tubulin inhibit the growth of trypanosomes in culture. here, we aimed to determine the effect of antibodies to ba...

1:1 and 1:2 complexes of americium(III) with a hydrophilic anionic SO3-Ph-BTP4- ligand were detected in acidic aqueous nitrate solutions by a solvent extraction method. The determined conditional stability constants of these complexes, logβ1 = 4.35 ± 0.07 and logβ2 = 7.67 ± 0.06, related to 1 M aqueous solutions, are much lower than the literature values for the analogous curium species, determ...

function [mean (SD) GFR 59 (23) in the patient cohort of White vs 38.6 (15.1) in our patient cohort]. Finally, an additional economic aspect must also be taken into account: BTP is considerably more expensive than creatinine. Thus, the suggested BTP-based equation for GFR calculation will gain public recognition only when its perfomance is demonstrated to be clearly superior to the MDRD equatio...

OBJECTIVE Beta-trace protein (beta-TP) has been analysed in human cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and other body fluids. Beta-trace protein is a very sensitive and specific clinical marker and can confirm reliably the presence of CSF in patients with a suspected CSF leakage. DESIGN Perilymph specimens from the scala vestibuli (n=10) and from the lateral semicircular canal (n=4) were taken from pati...

background the hepatitis b virus x (hbx) protein has long been recognized as an important transcriptional transactivator of several genes. human aldo-keto reductase family 1, member c1 (akr1c1), a member of the family of akr1cs, is significantly increased in hbx-expressed cells. objectives this study aimed to investigate the possible mechanism of hbx in regulating akr1c1 expression in hepg2.2.1...

Brain monoamines include common biogenic amines (dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin) and trace amines [beta-phenylethylamine (beta-PEA), tyramine, tryptamine, and octopamine]. Common biogenic amines are well established as neurotransmitters, but the roles and functional importance of trace amines remain elusive. Here, we re-evaluated the interaction of trace amines with trace amine-associa...