Introduction: Major depressive disorder is often associated with suicidal tendencies, and this condition accentuates the need for rapid-acting antidepressants. We previously reported that alkaloids (ALK) from Trichilia monadelpha possess antidepressant action in acute animal models of depression and that this effect is mediated through the monoamine and L-arginine-NO-cGMP pathways. This study i...

Glycine is the simplest natural amino acid, a basic building block for various biomaterials. Supramolecular packing of glycine molecules into three main crystalline polymorphs allows controlling their functional properties, such as piezoelectricity and ferroelectricity. Though in well studied reviewed, its ferroelectric properties were not summarized analyzed until now. In this mini-review, we ...

the role of cu, zn and co in human physiology is well documented. isatin and glycine have inhibitory effects on central nervous system. to capitalize on these features metal complexes of isatin-3-glycine were prepared and evaluated for anticonvulsant activity. the cu (ii) complex was found to be most active among the compounds. the compounds were screened against staphylococcus aureus, escheric...

Objective: It has been shown that deferasirox can reduce blood and tissues lead content in animal models. In this study the effect of deferasirox alone or combined with glycine as an antioxidant was evaluated in chronic cadmium toxicosis in rat. Methods: Male wistar albino rats were exposed to 200 ppm cadmium in the drinking water for 3 weeks and treated thereafter with deferasirox (140 mg/kg),...

Glycine is taken up twice as rapidly by neurons R3-R14 as by other identified neurons in the Aplysia parietovisceral ganglion. Earlier studies had shown that R3R14 have much higher glycine concentrations than other Aplysia neurons. Most of the glycine taken up by R3-R14 was biochemically untransformed for at least 1 h following its uptake. Glycine is actively transported into R3-R14 and other A...

glycine, alanine and valine are taken as amino acids with an equal polar head and with thedifference in the length of hydrocarbon chains. the structural optimizations show the results of theisolated glycine, alanine and valine in the gases phase, at the hartree-fock level by means ofsto-3g,3-21g, 6-31g and 6-31+g basis sets. the calculations were performed for the ten (1-10)solvents using pcm m...

Since the advancement by Smith et al. (l-4) of the theory that metal ions are chelated simultaneously to enzyme protein and substrate in various polypeptidases, the nature of metal binding to peptides and proteins has become an important as well as an interesting problem. The chelate structures proposed by Smith (3), and later somewhat revised (5, 6), indicate that the metal is bound, at least ...