Adhesion of protein residues to substituted (111) diamond surfaces: an insight from density functional theory and classical molecular dynamics simulations.

Protein-repellent diamond coatings have great potential value for surface coatings on implants and surgical instruments. The design of these coatings relies on a fundamental understanding of the intermolecular interactions involved in the adhesion of proteins to surfaces. To get insight into these interactions, adhesion energies of glycine to pure and Si and N-doped (111) diamond surfaces represented as clusters were calculated in the gas phase, using density functional theory (DFT) at the B3LYP/6-31G* level.

Inherent desensitisation-preventing properties of a novel, subtype-selective AMPA receptor agonist, (S)-CPW 399, as a possible explanation for its excitotoxic action in cultured cerebellar granule cells.

The synthesis and pharmacological characterisation of (S)-CPW 399 as a novel, potent and subtype-selective agonist of the AMPA receptor was recently reported. Studies have been extended to investigate its excitotoxic action in primary cultures of mouse cerebellar granule cells. (S)-CPW 399 induced neuronal cell death in a time- and concentration-dependent manner (EC(50) approximately 70 microM) at 24-h exposure.

Characterization of the 1H-cyclopentapyrimidine-2,4(1H,3H)-dione derivative (S)-CPW399 as a novel, potent, and subtype-selective AMPA receptor full agonist with partial desensitization properties.

(S)-CPW399 (2b) is a novel, potent, and subtype-selective AMPA receptor full agonist that, unlike (S)-willardiine and related compounds, in mouse cerebellar granule cells, stimulated an increase in [Ca(2+)](i), and induced neuronal cell death in a time- and concentration-dependent manner. Compound 2b appears to be a weakly desensitizing, full agonist at AMPA receptors and therefore represents a new pharmacological tool to investigate the role of AMPA receptors in excitotoxicity and their molecular mechanisms of desensitization.

Photogenotoxicity of skin phototumorigenic fluoroquinolone antibiotics detected using the comet assay.

The fluoroquinolone (FQ) antibiotics photosensitize human skin to solar UV radiation and are reported to photosensitize tumor formation in mouse skin. As tumor initiation will not occur without genotoxic insult, we examined the potential of ciprofloxacin, lomefloxacin, fleroxacin, BAYy3118 (a recently developed monofluorinated quinolone) and a nalidixic acid to photosensitize DNA damage in V79 hamster fibroblasts in vitro. Cells were exposed to 37.

Metabolizing systems in cell culture cytotoxicity tests.

1. The addition of 9000 g supernatant of rat liver homogenate (S9) or rat liver microsomal fractions to a cytotoxicity test system using BCL-D1 cells has been investigated. 2.