The metabolism of glucose and glutamine in freshly prepared resting and concanavalin A-stimulated rat thymocytes was studied. Concanavalin A addition enhanced uptake of both glucose and glutamine and led to an increase in oxidative degradation of both substrates to CO2. With variously labelled [14C]glucose, it was shown that the pathways of glucose dissimilation were equally stimulated by the m...

in this research, zeolite-tio2 nanocomposite was prepared for degradation of dibenzothiophene as a typical aromatic organosulfur compound of transportation fuels.the synthesized tio2 was immobilized on the surface of clinoptilolite by solid state dispersion (ssd) method. the nanocomposite was then characterized by xrd, ftir, tem and sem techniques. photodegradation of dibenzothiophene in n-hexa...

brassica napus l. and sinapis alba l. are two cruciferous species for which some medicinal uses are mentioned in the iranian, indian and chinese traditional medicine. seed oil of  b. napus has cathartic action, and is either used as such or after partial hydrogenation for cooking, shortening or as margarines. sees of s. alba have also cathartic action and some other medicinal uses but, because ...

Glucose, maltodextrin, and sucrose exhibit significant differences in their alkaline reaction properties and interactions in aluminate/silicate cement slurries that result in diverse hydration behaviors of cements. Using 1D solution- and solid-state (13)C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the structures of these closely related saccharides are identified in aqueous cement slurry solutions and a...

Acid hydrolysis of sucrose was studied as a method to convert in sweet sorghum syrup into glucose and fructose before fermentation with the genetically engineered succinic acid-producing Escherichia coli strain AFP184. Successful achieved without noticeable formation degradation products using moderate temperatures, 65–85 °C, 0.24–0.48 M HCl less than 30 min. The measured rates were lower previ...

Insulin-stimulated glycogenesis and insulin degradation were studied simultaneously at 37 degrees C in cultured foetal hepatocytes grown for 2-3 days in the presence of cortisol. Degradation of cell-associated insulin, as measured by trichloroacetic acid precipitation, was significant after 4 min in the presence of 1-3 nM-125I-labelled insulin. This process became maximal (30% of insulin degrad...

a capillary electrophoresis method was used for assay of some degradation products of carvedilol. the optimized parameters were as; running buffer 80 mm acetate dissolved in methanol/ethanol mixture (65:35 v/v), applied voltage of 19 kv, temperature is 20 ºc and the wavelength range of 200-350 nm. the results indicate that the proposed ce method could effectively separate carvedilol from its de...

BACKGROUND The malQ and glgP genes, respectively, annotated as putative 4-α-glucanotransferase and putative glycogen phosphorylase are located with a 29 nucleotide overlap on the Streptococcus mutans genome. We found that the glgP gene of this organism was induced with maltose, and the gene likely constituted an operon with the upstream gene malQ. This putative operon was negatively regulated w...