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Butyrate


Definition:

  • (n.) A salt of butyric acid.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) S-methyl-l-cysteine, 2-hydroxy-4-methiol butyric acid, S-adenosyl-l-methionine, and methionine peptides were the only compounds supporting growth, when substituted for methionine.
  • (2) We previously established that the binding constant (Ka) of this receptor site for the chemically synthesized model AGE, 2-(2-furoyl)-4(5)-(2-furanyl)-1H- imidazole-butyric acid (FFI-BA), on cells of the mouse macrophagelike cell line RAW 264.7 is identical to that for AGE proteins.
  • (3) 1H-NMR spectra of urine from a patient with propionic acidemia show peaks of 3-hydroxy-n-valerate, methylcitrate, propionyl glycine, 3-hydroxy-n-butyrate, lactate, 3-hydroxypropionate, tiglylglycine and hippurate.
  • (4) In the absence of n-butyrate, only a small percentage (approximately 4%) of the total beta A chromatin is in a soluble chromatin fraction following micrococcal nuclease digestion and centrifugation.
  • (5) Tumor cells were unreactive for alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase (ANBE) and adenosine triphosphatase (ATP).
  • (6) Functional characteristics such as nitroblue-tetrazolium reduction, alpha-naphthyl butyrate esterase activity, and phagocytic capability occurred.
  • (7) Nanomolar concentrations of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 reduce the proliferation of RPMI 8226 cells significantly and simultaneously induce the appearance of both new properties and phenotype expression, such as butyrate esterase, enhanced expression of CD20 (B1), CD15 (Leu-M1) antigens and lambda chains, and decreased expression of the PC1 antigen using microfluorometric analysis.
  • (8) In the present study, we found that n-butyrate, a potent inhibitor of histone deacetylase, increases thyroid hormone receptor levels in three distinct non-pituitary cells without changing binding affinity.
  • (9) These observations demonstrate that brain cells synthesize a NGF mRNA in primary culture and that the butyrate moiety of db-cAMP enhances NGF gene expression in these cells, probably by a modification of chromatin structure in and around the NGF gene.
  • (10) In the presence of 1 mM sodium butyrate for 24 h, the cytoplasmic granules contained an abundant dense matrix.
  • (11) Both surfactants were extensively degraded in vivo to yield a common metabolite, butyric acid 4-[35S]sulphate, the major urinary radioactive component.
  • (12) Analysis of the end products showed an accumulation of ethyl alcohol in addition to butyrate and acetate, whereas, in the nonsporulating cultures, acetate and butyrate were the principal products.
  • (13) Benzoyltropine (30 microM) had no effect on the sodium-dependent uptake of norepinephrine, gamma-amino-butyric acid, glutamate or serotonin; tropacocaine (30 microM) inhibited only norepinephrine uptake at this concentration.
  • (14) In addition 6 further subjects were treated with 0.1% hydrocortisone-17-butyrate cream, a preparation considered to have little systemic action.
  • (15) The influence of sodium salt of butyric acid (C4H7NaO2) on the functional state of the cardiovascular system was studied on 12 guinea-pigs and 15 rabbits by the thermodilution method.
  • (16) For lactate+pyruvate as substrate, the stimulatory effect of butyrate was additive to that of 1muM-glucagon and for both lactate+pyruvate and fructose the stimulatory effect of butyrate was not influenced by 20nM-insulin.
  • (17) Infectious center assays demonstrated that the number of cells capable of producing HSV was increased as a result of butyrate pretreatment.
  • (18) These observations suggest that sodium butyrate induces a pattern of events leading to the differentiation of the rat insulinoma cells.
  • (19) We have analyzed the effect of sodium butyrate, under conditions which block the transition from G0 to S phase, on the steady-state levels of several cell growth-dependent mRNAs in ts13 cells, a G1-specific temperature sensitive mutant of the BHK cell line.
  • (20) This was done by measuring coronary sinus blood flow and arterial-coronary sinus differences of oxygen, glucose, free fatty acids, glycerol, lactate, beta-OH-butyrate, and amino acids in a similar group of 19 patients 4 to 5 hours after coronary operations.

Salt


Definition:

  • (n.) The chloride of sodium, a substance used for seasoning food, for the preservation of meat, etc. It is found native in the earth, and is also produced, by evaporation and crystallization, from sea water and other water impregnated with saline particles.
  • (n.) Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning.
  • (n.) Hence, also, piquancy; wit; sense; as, Attic salt.
  • (n.) A dish for salt at table; a saltcellar.
  • (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.
  • (n.) The neutral compound formed by the union of an acid and a base; thus, sulphuric acid and iron form the salt sulphate of iron or green vitriol.
  • (n.) Fig.: That which preserves from corruption or error; that which purifies; a corrective; an antiseptic; also, an allowance or deduction; as, his statements must be taken with a grain of salt.
  • (n.) Any mineral salt used as an aperient or cathartic, especially Epsom salts, Rochelle salt, or Glauber's salt.
  • (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.
  • (n.) Of or relating to salt; abounding in, or containing, salt; prepared or preserved with, or tasting of, salt; salted; as, salt beef; salt water.
  • (n.) Overflowed with, or growing in, salt water; as, a salt marsh; salt grass.
  • (n.) Fig.: Bitter; sharp; pungent.
  • (n.) Fig.: Salacious; lecherous; lustful.
  • (v. t.) To sprinkle, impregnate, or season with salt; to preserve with salt or in brine; to supply with salt; as, to salt fish, beef, or pork; to salt cattle.
  • (v. t.) To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber.
  • (v. i.) To deposit salt as a saline solution; as, the brine begins to salt.
  • (n.) The act of leaping or jumping; a leap.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Samples are hydrolyzed with Ba (OH)2, and the hydrolysate is passed through a Dowex-50 column to remove the salts and soluble carbohydrates.
  • (2) Ursodeoxycholate was the only dihydroxy bile salt which was able to solubilize phospholipid (although not cholesterol) below the critical micellar concentration.
  • (3) Furthermore, recent investigations into the pharmacokinetics of lithium salts are dealt with.
  • (4) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
  • (5) The role of adrenergic agents in augmenting proximal tubular salt and water flux, was studied in a preparation of freshly isolated rabbit renal proximal tubular cells in suspension.
  • (6) An investigation of the constitutive ions of salts revealed that their effects were additive only in the case of salts that have no specific binding capability.
  • (7) Benzyloxycarbonylarginine p-nitrophenyl ester and other activated esters of N-a-sustituted arginine salts may be useful reagents for introduction of trypsin-labile protecting groups into peptide fragments for purpose of polypeptide semi-synthesis.
  • (8) The association constants K'A, KN, and K'N in the scheme (see article), were determined for the magnesium salts of ADP, adenyl-5'-yl imidodiphosphate AMP-P(NH)P, and PPi.
  • (9) In contrast to this, adrenalectomy decreased ANP levels markedly in the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis and preoptic periventricular nucleus, which are reportedly involved in the central regulation of salt and water homeostasis.
  • (10) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
  • (11) Transcription studies in vitro on repression of the tryptophan operon of Escherichia coli show that partially purified trp repressor binds specifically to DNA containing the trp operator with a repressor-operator dissociation constant of about 0.2 nM in 0.12 M salt at 37 degrees , a value consistent with the extent of trp operon regulation in vivo.
  • (12) Mixed micelles of bile salt and phospholipids inhibit the lipase-colipase-catalysed hydrolysis of triacylglycerols.
  • (13) The first one is a region with iodine insufficiency; the second one is a region where the people use table salt in excess.
  • (14) One cellulase is buffer-soluble, the other buffer-insoluble but extractable with high salt concentrations.
  • (15) If salt fluoridation could also be generalized, caries levels could be reduced to a fraction of their initial values.
  • (16) The major lipase in human milk is dependent on bile salts for activity and probably participates in intestinal digestion of milk lipids in the newborn.
  • (17) The strain was resistant to bile salts in TCBS medium and demonstrated several properties from a borderline of two Vibrio and Aeromonas species.
  • (18) Sodium taurolithocholate, a monohydroxy bile salt, does not affect the CD spectrum of CEase, and neither the di- or the monohydroxy bile salt activates the enzyme.
  • (19) It is therefore suggested that salt water adaptation triggers a cellular reorganization of the epithelium in such a way that leaky junctions (a low resistance pathway) appear at the apex of the chloride cells.
  • (20) Depending on the differential sensitivity of nuclear T-ag to extraction by salt and detergent, nuclear T-ag could be separated into nucleoplasmic T-ag, salt-sensitive T-ag and matrix-bound T-ag subclasses.

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