The aim of this study was to evaluate the (3S)-3-hydroxylation and the N-oxidation of quinidine as biomarkers for cytochrome P-450 (CYP)3A4 activity in human liver microsome preparations. An HPLC method was developed to assay the metabolites (3S)-3-hydroxyquinidine (3-OH-Q) and quinidine N-oxide (Q-N-OX) formed during incubation with microsomes from human liver and from Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

Complex formation between [Pd(H2O)4](2+) and oxalate (ox = C2O4(2-)) has been studied spectrophoto-metrically in aqueous solution at variable temperature, ionic strength and pH. Thermodynamic parameters at 298.2 K and 1.00 mol dm(-3) HClO4 ionic medium for the complex formation [Pd(H2O)4](2+) + H2ox ⇄ [Pd(H2O)2(ox)] + 2H3O(+) with equilibrium constant K1,H (in mol dm(-3)) are log10K1,H = 3.38 ±...

INTRODUCTION Pattern recognition receptor-mediated signaling pathways have recently been elucidated to bridge the innate immune system and atherosclerosis. NLRP3 is a member of the NLR family. Upon activation, it initiates IL-1β and IL-18 processing, a key step in the inflammatory process of atherosclerosis. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used three different types of lipoproteins, ox-LDL, ox-HDL, a...

New arylbismuth(lll) oxinates, PhBi(MeOx)(2), (p-MeC(6)H(4))Bi(Ox)(2), (p-MeC(6)H(4))Bi(MeOx)(2), (p-ClC(6)H(4))Bi(Ox)(2), and (p-ClC(6)H(4))Bi(MeOx)(2) (Ox(-) = quinolin-8-olate and MeOx(-)=2-methylquinolin-8-olate) have been prepared by reaction of the appropriate diarylbismuth chlorides with Na(Ox) or Na(MeOx) in the presence of 15-crown-5. An X-ray crystallographic study has shown PhBi(MeOx...

atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects the arterial wall. oxidized low- density lipoprotein (ox-ldl) seems to have an important role in atherosclerotic plaque formation. this study was performed to investigate the effects of ox-ldl as well as pha on proliferation and gene expression of  peripheral blood  mononuclear  cells (pbmcs) in patients with atherosclerosis compa...

Oxidized 1-palmitoyl-2-arachidonoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine (ox-PAPC), a component of minimally modified low density lipoprotein, induces monocyte adhesion to endothelial cells. It is not known whether the upstroke slopes of pulsatile flow, defined as shear stress slew rates (tau(r)/tauT)), can regulate monocyte binding to ox-PAPC-treated bovine aortic endothelial cells (BAECs). At 60 cy...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the present study was to investigate the value of ox-LDL and oxidation ratio of LDL (ox-LDL/TC, ox-LDL/HDL-C and ox-LDL/LDL-C) in diagnosis and prognosis evaluation in CAD patients. Also, we aimed to observe the effect of statins on reducing level of ox-LDL and oxidation ratio of LDL, and explore whether statins still have similar effect on ox-LDL in a short period of t...

A new class of cyclopentadiene-bis(oxazoline) compounds and their piano-stool-type organometallic complexes have been prepared as catalysts for hydroamination of aminoalkenes. The two compounds MeC(Ox)2C5H5 (BoCpH; Ox = 4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazoline) and MeC(Ox)2C5Me4H (Bo CpH) are synthesized from C5R4HI (R = H, Me) and MeC(Ox)2Li. These cyclopentadienebis(oxazolines) are converted into ligands tha...

1. Ox heart phosphofructokinase catalyses isotope-exchange reactions at pH 6.7 between ADP and ATP, and between fructose 6-phosphate and fructose 1,6diphosphate, the latter reaction being absolutely dependent on the presence of the magnesium complex of ADP. 2. The reaction kinetics are hyperbolic with respect to substrate concentration for both exchange reactions (within the experimental error)...