Acetylcholine (ACh) is a chemical transmitter serving to propagate an electrical perturbation across the synaptic junctions of animals. ACh and AChE have previously been demonstrated to occur in plants. In this work, we detected AChE at the interface between stele and cortex of the mesocotyl of Zea mays by measuring hydrolysis of acetylthiocholine and by liberation of labeled acetate from [1-(1...

1. Simultaneous platelet and fibrinogen survival studies were carried out on a group of seven normal persons and eleven diabetic patients. 2. Survival time was calculated: (a) by measuring the interval between 50% of the maximum radioactivity in the anabolic phase and 50% of the maximum radioactivity in the catabolic phase, and (b) by fitting an exponential function to the decay phase of the cu...

A new method has been developed for measuring the total covalent binding of metabolically activated compounds to cellular macromolecules. This method employs equilibrium dialysis, in the presence of the detergent sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), to remove unbound radiolabeled compound and its metabolites from cellular macromolecules. [14C] Bromobenzene (80 microM), [14C]aflatoxin B1 (5 microM) or...

Generation and interpretation of biotransformation data on drugs, i.e. identification of physiologically relevant metabolites, defining metabolic pathways and elucidation of metabolite structures, have become increasingly important to the drug development process. Profiling using (14)C or (3)H radiolabel is defined as the chromatographic separation and quantification of drug-related material in...

the biliary excretion and blood/plasma ratios of four novel 5-bromo-6-alkoxy- 5,6-dihydro prodrugs to s-ethyl-2'-deoxyuridine (edu) including (-)-trans-(5s, 6s)-s-bromo-s-ethyl-6-methoxy-s, 6-dihydro-2'-deoxyuridine (bmedu), (+ )-trans( sr, 6r)-s-bromo-s-ethyl-6-ethoxy-s, 6-deoxyuridine (beedu), (+ )-trans-(sr, 6r)-5-bromo-5-ethyl-6-ethoxy -s, 6-dihydro-s '-o-valeryl-2 ':.de...