(1) The basilar artery was the most sensitive vessel and caprate (C10) was the most potent acid with an EC50 of 49 microM.
(2) The effects of taurocholate, caprylate, and EDTA-2Na for increasing colonic pore sizes and the degree of inulin permeation were less than those of caprate, laurate, or mixed micelles.
(3) Sodium salicylate or sodium caprate in the suppository with rHuEPO also increased its absorption.
(4) Caprate also inhibited contractions elicited by KCl, serotonin, and the thromboxane analogue U46619.
(5) Caprate, laurate, and mixed micelles at 0.25% caused this radius to increase significantly, thus making it possible for inulin to permeate the everted sac from the mucosal to the serosal side.
(6) On the other hand, the concentrations following the caprate or stearate administration decreased slowly and were maintained for as long as 4 h after dosing.
(7) The linear growth phase of S. gardneri was extended through seven days by supplementing the defined medium with continuous feeds of hydrolyzed casein and methyl caprate.
(8) The pharmacokinetics of 125 mg and 250 mg CZX-S, which contained 3% sodium caprate, were also evaluated as a single administration in 9 children (aged 6 years 4 months to 12 years 0 month) and in 11 children (aged 7 years 8 months to 12 years 4 months), respectively.
(9) The pharmacokinetics of newly developed ceftizoxime suppository (CZX-S) was studied in healthy volunteers and in children, compared with that of intramuscular CZX and intravenous CZX: In 8 volunteers (aged 19 to 24 years), each of 500 mg (potency) CZX-S containing 3%, 4% and 5% sodium caprate was compared with 500 mg intramuscular CZX and 500 mg intravenous CZX as a single administration in the cross-over method.
(10) Esterase activity was strongest against caproate (C6), caprylate (C8), nonanoate (C9), and caprate (C10) substrates.
(11) We examined the enhancing effect of sodium caprate (C10) on the jejunal absorption of a poorly absorbed drug, cefmetazole, in rats, in comparison with its colonic absorption (Pharm.
(12) When laurate or caprate was added to ferric cytochrome P-450 s (3P2 and 3E2), the spectrum was converted to that of the typical high-spin type, indicating the binding of the fatty acids to the substrate site of the cytochromes.
(13) Caprate, for example, increased the n-decanoyl-containing factors from the natural level of approximately 14% to approximately 80%.
(14) The enhancing effects of 0.25% sodium caprate (C10) and sodium caprylate (C8) on the paracellular permeation of seven water-soluble nonelectrolytes (inulin, polyethylene glycol 900, mannitol, erythritol, glycerol, thiourea, and urea) across the isolated rat colonic epithelium were examined using the Ussing-type chamber technique.
(15) Colonic absorption of poorly absorbable cefmetazole was shown to increase considerably by the addition of 1% sodium caprate, sodium laurate, and mixed micelles composed of sodium oleate and sodium taurocholate.
(16) Differences in the inhibition constants (Ki) of caprate and trifluoroethanol below pH 7.8 and in the pH dependence of Ki can be explained by the substitution of neutral Gln for positively charged His.
(17) The effects of sodium salts of medium-chain fatty acids, caprylate and caprate, on the penetration of a hydrophilic compound and a macromolecular compound across rabbit corneas in vitro were examined.
(18) Methyl caprate also enhanced the penetration of vitamin D3, erythromycin, triamcinolone acetonide, testosterone, and hydrocortisone.
(19) These results suggest that caprate enhances permeability via the transcellular route through membrane perturbation.
(20) AUC of CZX-S containing 3% sodium caprate was slightly smaller than that of CZX-S containing 4% or 5% sodium caprate, but 3.1 times that of the ABPC suppository in healthy volunteers.
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.) 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.