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Neuroimmunomodulation
September 2009
Department of Pediatrics, Central Hospital, Karlstad, Sweden.
Objective: Cortisol is an important hormone/steroid in the regulation of intermediate metabolism and stress. It exists in free (unbound) and protein-bound forms in serum but only in a free form in saliva. The free form is the biologically active one.
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September 2006
Department of Pathology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Lai Chi Kok, Hong Kong, China.
Poisoning from aconite occurs worldwide as a result of misuse of the potent plant. Laboratory investigation into suspected intoxication cases is challenging because the content of toxic aconitum alkaloids varies depending on the plant source, market processing, dosing protocol, hydrolytic degradation, and metabolic transformation. Using a triple-quadrupole tandem mass spectrometer, a group screening method was developed based on the mass-fragmentographic scheme of common aconitum alkaloids.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAm J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol
October 2004
Dept. of Medicine, Gastroenterology and Nutrition Laboratory, BMC B11, Lund Univ. Hospital, S-22184 Lunds Universitet, Sweden.
Neutral ceramidase activity has previously been identified in the intestinal mucosa and gut lumen and postulated to be important in the digestion of sphingolipids. It is found throughout the intestine but has never been fully characterized. We have purified rat intestinal neutral ceramidase from an eluate obtained by perfusing the intestinal lumen with 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBiochim Biophys Acta
October 1996
Division of Medicine, Karolinska Institute at Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
It has been proposed that lithocholic acid may have a physiological role for the regulation of bile acid synthesis in humans. In this study, the portal concentration and hepatic uptake of unsulfated lithocholic acid was determined in 21 gallstone patients-untreated, cholestyramine-treated and chenodeoxycholic acid-treated-at cholecystectomy. Lithocholic acid was analyzed by a combined gas-liquid mass-fragmentographic technique.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Neurosci
June 1995
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Center for Neuropharmacology, Orangeburg, New York 10962, USA.
Coupling high performance liquid chromatography with gas chromatography-mass fragmentography has made it possible to simultaneously measure subpicomolar concentrations of allopregnanolone and its precursors, pregnenolone, progesterone and 5 alpha-dihydroprogesterone (5 alpha-DHP) in various brain areas. Allopregnanolone was measured in the brain of adrenalectomized/castrated (ADX/CX) rats in nanomolar concentrations long after peripheral sources of allopregnanolone were removed. A partial decrease (approximately 30%) in the content of allopregnanolone was found in the brains of ADX/CX rats compared to sham-operated rats.
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