The properties of amino acids at C-2 > C-1 for TEAC, C-3 > C-4 > C-1 for ORAC, and C-4 > C-1 > N-1 for SOR were highly correlated with antioxidant activity. Although electronic property most significantly contributed to antioxidant activity in the three free radical systems, it had https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Lapatinib-Ditosylate.html complex effects
at each position. Bulky hydrophobic amino acids at the C-terminal were related to the antioxidant activity of peptides in the three free radical systems. For peptides in the TEAC database, the relationship between the N-terminal segment (N-2, N-3) and the activity increased when longer peptides were included, which reflects the likely influence of stericity. This study contributes to the ongoing research on antioxidants in food and its application in medicine. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All
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“Antipsychotic affinity for the histamine H1 receptor and the muscarinic M3 receptor have been associated with the side effects weight gain, and development of diabetes, respectively.
We investigated polymorphisms of the histamine H1 (HRH1) and muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M3 (CHRM3) receptor genes for an association with body mass index (BMI) and glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c).
We included 430 Caucasian patients with a non-affective psychotic disorder using antipsychotics for at least 3 months. Primary endpoints of the study were cross-sectionally measured BMI and HbA1c; secondary endpoints were obesity and hyperglycaemia. Two single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) www.selleckchem.com/products/Imatinib-Mesylate.html in the HRH1 gene, rs346074 and rs346070, and one SNP in the CHRM3 gene,
rs3738435, were genotyped. Our primary hypothesis in this study was an interaction between genotype on BMI and antipsychotic affinity for the H1 and M3 receptor.
A because significant association of interaction between haplotype rs346074-rs346070 and BMI (p value 0.025) and obesity (p value 0.005) in patients using high-H1 affinity antipsychotics versus patients using low-H1 affinity antipsychotics was found. There was no association of CHRM3 gene variant rs3738435 with BMI, and we observed no association with HbA1c or hyperglycaemia in any of the variants.
This study, for the first time, demonstrates a significant association between HRH1 variants and BMI in patients with a psychotic disorder using antipsychotics. In future, genotyping of HRH1 variants may help predicting weight gain in patients using antipsychotics.”
“A generalized timing-dependent plasticity rule is incorporated into a recent neural field theory to explore synaptic plasticity in the cerebral cortex, with both excitatory and inhibitory populations included. Analysis in the time and frequency domains reveals that cortical network behavior gives rise to a saddle-node bifurcation and resonant frequencies, including a gamma-band resonance.