Food and Agricultural Immunology, 2018 The deficient functional polarization of macrophages is implicated in the disease progression of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). This study aims to evaluate the impact of Magnesium isoglycyrrhizinate (MgIG) on concanavalin A (Con A)-induced hepatitis in a ...
Rui Lin, Yun Liu, Meiyu Piao, Yan Song
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Niosomes and polymeric chitosan based vesicles bearing transferrin and glucose ligands for drug targeting [PDF]
, 2000 PURPOSE: To prepare polymeric vesicles and niosomes bearing glucose or transferrin ligands for drug targeting. METHODS: A glucose-palmitoyl glycol chitosan (PGC) conjugate was synthesised and glucose-PGC polymeric vesicles prepared by sonication of ...
Couet, W. +7 more
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Comparison of Four Methods for the Determination of the Amylose Content in Foxtail Millet [PDF]
Shipin Kexue, 2023 In this study, the amylose contents in 24 commercial foxtail millet samples from major production provinces in China were determined by four different methods, namely, the improved national standard method (GB/T 15683-2008), the spectrophotometric method
LIU Jianlei, SHANG Bo, XING Xiaoting, ZHANG Dong, CHANG Liu, SUN Hui, DUAN Xiaoliang
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Role of CD44 and its v7 isoform in staphylococcal enterotoxin B-induced toxic shock : CD44 deficiency on hepatic mononuclear cells leads to reduced activation-induced apoptosis that results in increased liver damage [PDF]
, 2005 Exposure to bacterial superantigens such as staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) leads to the induction of toxic shock syndrome which results in multiorgan failure, including liver damage.
McKallip, R. J. +5 more
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Behenic Acid Monolayer and Bilayer Assemblies- A Study of Concanavalin A (Con A) Adsorption and its Interaction with Dextran Using Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy and Microscopy [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, 1993 Deposition of behenic acid (B.A) mono and bilayers onto gold coated surfaces was performed by Langmuir-Blodget dip-casting technique. Surface Plasmon resonance (SPR) and ellipsometry methods were employed for investigation of the monolayer and bilayer ...
Gholam Hossein Rounaghi +2 more
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Concanavalin A Toxicity Towards Potato Psyllid and Apoptosis Induction in Midgut Cells
Insects, 2020 Concanavalin A (ConA), a legume lectin, has been drawing increasing attention in recent years concerning its toxicity against insects and its potential application in pest management.
Xiao-Tian Tang +2 more
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New Activity of a Protein from Canavalia ensiformis
Scientia Pharmaceutica, 2014 Concanavalin A is a legume lectin which preferentially agglutinates transformed cells and shows antitumor effects on human breast carcinoma cells in vitro and in vivo.
Vanya Petkova BOGOEVA +2 more
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On the selection and design of proteins and peptide derivatives for the production of photoluminescent, red-emitting gold quantum clusters [PDF]
, 2013 Novel pathways of the synthesis of photoluminescent gold quantum clusters (AuQCs) using biomolecules as reactants provide biocompatible products for biological imaging techniques.
A Baksi +48 more
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The enigma of RIPK1 in the liver: More than just a kinase
Molecular & Cellular Oncology, 2017 Receptor interacting protein kinase 1 (RIPK1) represents a key molecule in cell death. Here, we discuss our recent data on RIPK1 in liver injury and hepatocellular carcinoma development and put these into relation to previous experimental findings to ...
Mihael Vucur +3 more
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Binding of acetylcholinesterases to concanavalin A
FEBS Letters, 1974 Acetylcholinesterases from a number of different sources are known to be glycoproteins. Carbohydrate residues were found in the eel enzyme [ 1,2] , human erythrocyte acetylcholinesterase [3 ] torpedo California [4] plaice cholinesterase [ 51 and the cholinesterases from human serum [6,7], horse serum [8,9] and human brain [lo]. It was of interest to us
Wiedmer, T. +2 more
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