Cholinesterase Activity in Female Greenhouse Workers—Influence of Work Practices and Use of Oral Contraceptives: Jesper B NIELSEN, et al. Environmental Medicine, University of Southern Denmark—Objectives—Associations between serum butyryl cholinesterase activity in female greenhouse workers and information from a questionnaire on work, use of personal protective equipment, and lifestyle were ev...

People with genetic variants of cholinesterase respond abnormally to succinylcholine, experiencing substantial prolongation of muscle paralysis with apnea rather than the usual 2-6 min. The structure of usual cholinesterase has been determined including the complete amino acid and nucleotide sequence. This has allowed identification of altered amino acids and nucleotides. The variant most frequ...

The cholinesterase activity of the sera of 25 subjects diagnosed as homozygotes for the silent cholinesterase gene was studied by a sensitive enzymatic method employing several thiocholine esters and various inhibitors, and by disc electrophoretic, immunochemical, and chromatographic methods.(a) With one exception, the sera fell into two classes by all criteria. One class (type I, 16 cases) had...

Background We investigated the effect of cholinesterase inhibitors on all-cause discontinuation, efficacy and safety, and the effects of study design-, intervention-, and patient-related covariates on the risk-benefit of cholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer's disease. Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials comparing cholinesterase inh...

V,,,, and K,,, values with twenty-five “atypical” and thirty-seven “usual” cholinesterase human sera were determined for the cholinesterase substrates procaine, tetracaine, benzoylcholine, o-nitrophenylbutyrate, cu-naphthylacetate and aspirin. Aspirin was demonstrated to be a substrate for serum cholinesterase. For each of these substrates the ratio of V,,substrate to V,,,, benzoylcholine was f...

Memantine hydrochloride is a reversible cholinesterase inhibitor used in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, low-moderate affinity, uncompetitive n-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist, with strong voltage dependency and rapid blocking/unblocking kineticsThe present study was explore potential mamentine loaded nanoparticle.with varying quantity chitosan byionotropic gelation method.T...

The presence of enzymes in mammalian blood which hydrolyze acetylcholine was first suspected by Dale (1)) and later demonstrated by Plattner (2) and by Engelhart and Loewi (3). A serum cholinesterase isolated by Stedman et al. (4) from horse blood was first thought to be the same as the cholinesterase in the central nervous system.’ Distinct differences between the cholinesterase of erythrocyte...

BACKGROUND The prescribing cascade model involves the misinterpretation of an adverse reaction to 1 drug and the subsequent, potentially inappropriate prescription of a second drug. We present a new example of the prescribing cascade involving cholinesterase inhibitors and anticholinergic drugs used to manage urinary incontinence. METHODS A population-based retrospective cohort study was carr...

The cholinesterase activity of skeletal muscle and its subcellular components, including motor endplates, was compared chemically in human, mouse and rat. The total cholinesterase activity of muscle per unit protein was in the descending order of human, mouse and rat. Cholinesterase was present in all subcellular components fractionated by differential centrifugation, and was greatest in the mi...