Role of oregano on bacterial enzymes in 1,2-dimethylhydrazine-induced experimental colon carcinogenesis.

Colon cancer incidence is higher in developed countries than in developing countries. We determined the effect of oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) on fecal bacterial enzyme activities in 1,2-dimethylhydrazine (DMH)-induced experimental colon carcinogenesis in rats.

Dose-dependent effect of oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) on lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status in 1,2-dimethylhydrazine-induced rat colon carcinogenesis.

Colon cancer is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed and developing countries. Diet and dietary constituents play a major role in the aetiology of colon cancer. We have investigated the effect of an aqueous extract of oregano (Origanum vulgare.

Purification and characterization of myosins from human and rabbit skeletal muscles by using specific monoclonal antibodies.

By using immunoaffinity column chromatography slow (I) and fast (IIA, IIB) myosins were isolated from human (vastus lateralis) and rabbit (tibialis anterior, psoas and conoidal bundle) skeletal muscles. The peptide pattern revealed that slow (I) and fast (IIA, IIB) myosin heavy chains are quite distinct, as are those from pure slow (conoidal bundle) and fast (psoas) rabbit skeletal muscles. Unlike Billeter et al.

Myosin isoenzymes in human hypertrophic hearts. Shift in atrial myosin heavy chains and in ventricular myosin light chains.

The myosin light chain complement and proteolytic peptide patterns of myosin heavy chains were studied by two-dimensional and one-dimensional electrophoretic techniques respectively, in a total of 57 samples from ventricular and atrial tissues of normal and hypertrophied human hearts. Hypertrophies were classified haemodynamically as due to pressure-overload and volume-overload. In addition to the occurrence of ventricular light chains in hypertrophied atria we also observed the atrial light chain-1 (ALC-1) in hypertrophied ventricular tissues.

Changes of myosin and its ATPase in "neuronally" and "mechanically" contralateral muscles after cross-reinnervation in normal and capsaicin-treated rats.

The extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle was cross-reinnervated by the soleus (SOL) nerve in normal and neonatally capsaicin-treated rats. After 5 months the muscles were investigated for their myofibrillar ATPase reaction and their myosin light and heavy chain composition. Besides the well known transformation of the cross-reinnervated EDL toward a slow muscle, muscular changes were also found in the contralateral leg.