Naturally-occurring and artificially-induced polyploids have been documented in various fish species but to date no comparison has been reported of the impacts of ploidy on fish biomarker responses to organic pollutants. This study describes effects of ploidy, gender, and dose on biliary fluores...

The impact of low temperature treatment and its combination with ultrasound has been evaluated in order to correct texture defects in dry-cured hams. A total of 26 dry-cured hams, classified as high proteolysis index (PI>36%), were used. From these hams, ten slices from each ham sample were cut,...

The preparation of 11-hydroxy-eudesmanolides with the stereochemistry found in the Umbelliferae family of plants is described. The decalin system of the eudesmane skeleton is produced by the addition of 5-methyl-2-furyllithium to 3-ethoxycyclohex-2-enone and acidic treatment of the resulting add...

The reaction of [PtX2(L)] (X = Cl, Br, I; L = NH2CH2CH2NY2; Y = Et, Me) with thallium(I) carbonate and a polyfluorobenzene (RF) in pyridine (py) yields the platinum(II) complexes, [Pt{N(R)CH2CH2NY2}X(py)] (R = C6F5, 4-HC6F4, 4-BrC6F4, or 4-IC6F4, Y = Et (1), Me (2), X = Cl, Br or I) in an improv...

Pirogliride, a new orally active hypoglycemic agent, significantly inhibited the caffeine-, epinephrine-, ACTH-, and glucagon-stimulated lipolysis of rat epididymal fat pads in vitro. Baseline lipolysis, however, was not affected. Concentrations in excess of 10−4m were inhibitory and the inhibit...

Pirogliride, a new orally active hypoglycemic agent, was shown to be an effective inhibitor of renal and hepatic gluconeogenesis in isolated rat kidney cortex slices, hepatocytes and perfused liver. The inhibition was concentration dependent (0.1–1.0 mM), with 1.0 mM pirogliride producing virtu...

Metabolism of the hypoglycemic agent, pirogliride, was investigated in the rat, dog, monkey and human. Unchanged pirogliride plus six metabolites were isolated and identified using solvent extraction, HPLC and CI and EI–MS from urine and fecal samples. Pirogliride was metabolized in man to a sm...

Since the discovery of endogenous nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) peptide and N/OFQ peptide (NOP) receptor [or opioid-receptor-like-1 (ORL1) receptor], the structures, distribution, and pharmacology have been reported in detail. N/OFQ and NOP receptor are located in the corticolimbic regions that...

A series of novel 3β-aminotropane derivatives containing a 2-naphthalene or a 2-quinoline moiety was synthesised and evaluated for their affinity for 5-HT1A, 5-HT2A and D2 receptors. Their affinity for the receptors was in the nanomolar to micromolar range. p-Substitution (6c, 6f, 6i, 6l, 6o), ...

Chiral enantiopure bicyclic 1,4-amino alcohols were synthesised by a new methodology that provided a common precursor, which was easily N-functionalised with a wide variety of substituents. The final compounds were used as chiral ligands in a model study of the enantioselective addition of dieth...

We have synthesized biologically relevant 6-aza-8-oxa[3.2.1]bicyclooctane scaffolds in a five-step procedure starting from furfural. Besides showing that these scaffolds are amenable to decoration via standard functional group interconversions, we also describe investigations for further functio...

An efficient synthesis of the 23-deoxy-25-epi north unit of cephalostatin 1 has been achieved in 17 steps via reductive and oxidative functionalizations of hecogenin acetate with an overall yield of 3.8%. This synthesis features transetherification-mediated E-ring opening, D-ring oxidation, hemi...

The current study was conducted to compare the cytotoxicity of two stereospecific cephalostatin 1 analogues (CAs) against several human normal cell types and cancer cell lines and to determine their cytotoxic mechanism. Both CA analogues induced apoptosis and were cytotoxic with 50% growth inhib...

A synthesis of cephalostatin 1 from hecogenin is described in detail. The gram-scale synthesis of south part features a Baeyer–Villiger oxidation of hecogenin to 16,20-diol, a selective oxidation of C16OH with Dess–Martin periodinane, a Rh(I)-catalyzed C15C16 double bond shift to C14C15 positi...

This case–control study aimed to assess the interactive effect between polymorphisms of lymphotoxin (LT) α +252 and habitual substance use on risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We enrolled 150 pairs of sex- and age-matched HCC patients and unrelated healthy controls. LTα genotypes were d...

BackgroundBronchopulmonary neuroendocrine tumours are divided into typical carcinoid (TC), atypical carcinoid (AC), large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC), and small cell lung cancer (SCLC).

We have explored the potential of cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME) as a solvent for radical reactions. Hydrostannation, hydrosilylation, hydrothiolation, and tributyltin hydride mediated reductions were successfully carried out in CPME. GC–MS analysis indicated that CPME degraded into methyl pen...

A series of methylenealkanes RCH2CH2(R)C = CH2 (R = n-butyl, n-hexyl, isopropyl and isobutyl), which are products of selective zirconocene-catalyzed dimerization of α-olefins, were introduced into Pd-catalyzed methoxycarbonylation. With the use of 5-methyleneundecane (1-hexene dimer) as a subst...

Microbial production of fatty acids and fatty alcohols has attracted increasing concerns because of energy crisis and environmental impact of fossil fuels. Therefore, simple and efficient methods for the extraction and quantification of these compounds become necessary. In this study, a high-per...

β-Secretase (BACE1) has been widely recognized as one of the possible therapeutic targets for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. In this paper, we report the synthesis and the BACE1 inhibitory activity of new, variously substituted N-(3-(4-benzhydrylpiperazin-1-yl)-2-hydroxypropyl) arylsulf...