Phospholipids - Biotech, Pharma and Life Science Channel
Phospholipids are the main component of cell membranes. They are composed of a hydrophilic head and two hydrophobic tails, which gives them their clustering and membrane - forming properties.
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What's Your 'Eye Q Score?' Dietary Supplement News Has A Test
NEW YORK, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- What do you know about taking care of your most precious asset—your eyes? Dietary Supplement News said it has an insightful way to find out your...
Medigene Receives Further European Patent on EndoTAG®-1
Medigene AG / Medigene Receives Further European Patent on EndoTAG®-1 . Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE. The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Martin...
PuraCap's Team EpiCeram® Joins Walk to Cure Eczema
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J., May 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Team EpiCeram is proud to announce its support of the National Eczema Association's "Itching for a Cure" walk in New Jersey on June 8, 2013. W...
Job stress may raise our 'bad cholesterol' levels
'A stressful job really can kill you – by raising your cholesterol,' reports the Mail Online website. This headline is based on Spanish research that looked at the relationship between job stress a...
SOUTH EASTON, Mass., May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pressure BioSciences, Inc. (OTCQB: PBIO) ("PBI" or the "Company") today announced the publication in the journal Analytical Chemistry...
Latteno's Subsidiary Green Cannabis Introduces Medical Marijuana Edible Products
SANTA ANA, Calif., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Latteno Food Corp.'s (OTCPink: LATF) wholly-owned subsidiary Green Cannabis, today announced the release of new roll-out medical marijuana edible produc...
NEW YORK, NY and LONDON -- (Marketwired) -- 05/08/13 -- Celsus Therapeutics (OTCQB: MRRBY), an emerging growth, development-stage biotechnology company, announced today positive interim results from...
TearScience® Dry Eye Treatment Featured on The Doctors
TV Show to Feature LipiFlow®, Only U.S. Food and Drug Administration-Cleared Treatment Available for Leading Cause of Dry Eye TearScience®, a privately held me...
When Fat Is Good: Brown Adipose Tissue (BAT) Shows Potential As Obesity Buster
A Boston-based physician/researcher today presented promising evidence that a specific type of body fat may help fight obesity in the future. His findings were highlighted at the...
BioAlabama Showcases Life Science Assets at BIO’s 2013 International Convention in Chicago
BioAlabama announced today that it will debut a new state pavilion (Booth # 4422) at the BIO 2013 International Convention in Chicago, Ill., from April 22nd through April 25th....
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Companies
Atherotech is a CLIA-certified clinical reference laboratory and cardiodiagnostic company focusing on cardiometabolic tests, including the company's patented VAP Cholesterol Test, which reports the ch...
Maine Standards Company, LLC, is located in Windham, Maine. Maine Standards Company manufactures VALIDATE® test kits for over 80 analytes, including general chemistries, urine...
Alverix is a leader in providing next-generation instrument and connectivity platforms for diagnostic Point-of-Care (POC) testing. Building upon a 30-year legacy within Hewlett Pa...
VitalRemedyMD, founded by Seth J. Baum, MD, FACC, FACPM, FAHA, FNLA, a leading preventive cardiologist and cholesterol expert, offers scientifically-formulated nutritional supplem...
About chronic idiopathic constipation
Clinical Trials
Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to Study Brain Signaling
This study uses positron emission tomography (PET) to examine brain function and signaling involving phospholipids, and to see how signaling is related to blood flow. Much of the brain is...
The Effects of Anabolic Steroids and Protease Inhibitors on People Living With HIV/AIDS
The main aim of the study is to investigate the combined effects of using anabolic steroids and protease inhibitors on fat metabolism and body composition of People Living with HIV/AIDS....
Estrogen is known to be a regulator of bone and lipid metabolism. Letrozole is a potent inhibitor of estrogen synthesis. This study will evaluate the effects of letrozole and tamoxifen on...
Lipoproteins are large complexes of molecules that transport lipids (primarily triglycerides and cholesterol) through the blood. The intestine has traditionally been viewed as a 'passive'...
Type 1 Diabetes Aerobic and Resistance Exercise (T1-DARE)
This is a randomized controlled trial evaluating different exercise modalities in previously inactive subjects with type 1 diabetes. The primary objective of this study is to determine th...
Lipitor Trial To Study The Effect Of Torcetrpib/Atorvastatin To Atorvastatin Alone.
The Torcetrapib project was terminated on December 2, 2006 due to safety findings. To look at various lipids in the blood of people with Fredrickson Type IIa and Type IIb mixed dyslipidem...
The Torcetrapib project was terminated on December 2, 2006 due to safety findings. To look at ultrasound images taken in the carotid arteries and to look at various lipids in the blood of...
Ninety percent of patients with type-1-diabetes will develop late-diabetic complications in the eyes, kidneys, nervous- or cardiovascular-system. Poor glycaemic control is an important ris...
Safety and Efficacy of APD356 in the Treatment of Obesity
This is a research study of an investigational drug, APD356, a novel, selective 5-HT2c receptor agonist, in clinical development as a potential treatment for obesity. The purpose of this...
In this study, Liposome Entrapped Paclitaxel Easy to Use (LEP-ETU) is being compared to Taxol® to examine whether the paclitaxel in these 2 formulations undergoes similar processing by th...
PubMed Articles
Trends in C-Reactive Protein Levels in US Adults From 1999 to 2010.
C-reactive protein (CRP) is a well-known biomarker of systemic inflammation and cardiovascular disease. We investigated the trends in prevalence of elevated CRP levels (>3.0 mg/L) in a general populat...
Regioisomeric analysis of triacylglycerols is important in understanding lipid biochemistry and the involvement of lipids in disease and nutrition. The use of calibration plots employing fractional ab...
The acyl-CoA levels and the acyl-CoA synthetase activities in 7 areas of mouse brain were determined by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry. Twenty-one acyl-CoA este...
Use of potato processing wastewater for microbial lipid production by oleaginous filamentous fungus Aspergillus oryzae was studied with the purpose of recycling potato processing wastewater for biodie...
ABCA8 stimulates sphingomyelin production in oligodendrocytes.
Members of the ABCA (ATP-binding cassette subfamily A) family are characterized by their ability to transport lipids across cellular membranes and regulate lipid homoeostasis in the brain and peripher...
Whole fat milk and dairy products (although providing more energy compared to low- or non-fat products), are good sources of α-linolenic acid (ALA), conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) and calcium, which...
Apolipoprotein E gene polymorphisms in Lebanese with hypercholesterolemia.
Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) has an important role in the metabolism of lipids through its major isoforms (ε2, ε3, ε4). In particular, ApoE ε4, has been considered as a major genetic risk factor for ca...
Haptoglobin binding stabilizes hemoglobin ferryl iron and the globin radical on tyrosine β145.
Hemoglobin (Hb) becomes toxic when released from the erythrocyte. The acute phase protein haptoglobin (Hp) binds avidly to Hb and decreases oxidative damage to Hb itself and to the surrounding protein...
Gender aspects in cardiovascular diseases.
Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in women and men worldwide, and, especially as far as coronary heart disorders are concerned, this is true of an increasing number of older and elde...
This tutorial review describes multivalent carbohydrate-protein and carbohydrate-carbohydrate interaction studies that utilize self-assembled aggregates of thermodynamically stable liposomes and micel...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching
A method used to study the lateral movement of MEMBRANE PROTEINS and LIPIDS. A small area of a cell membrane is bleached by laser light and the amount of time necessary for unbleached fluorescent marker-tagged proteins to diffuse back into the bleached site is a measurement of the cell membrane's fluidity. The diffusion coefficient of a protein or lipid in the membrane can be calculated from the data. (From Segen, Current Med Talk, 1995).
Photobleaching
Light-induced change in a chromophore, resulting in the loss of its absorption of light of a particular wave length. The photon energy causes a conformational change in the photoreceptor proteins affecting PHOTOTRANSDUCTION. This occurs naturally in the retina (ADAPTATION, OCULAR) on long exposure to bright light. Photobleaching presents problems when occurring in PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY, and in FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY. On the other hand, this phenomenon is exploited in the technique, FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING, allowing measurement of the movements of proteins and LIPIDS in the CELL MEMBRANE.
Galactolipids
A group of GLYCOLIPIDS in which the sugar group is GALACTOSE. They are distinguished from GLYCOSPHINGOLIPIDS in lacking nitrogen. They constitute the majority of MEMBRANE LIPIDS in PLANTS.
1-alkyl-2-acetylglycerophosphocholine Esterase
A lipoprotein-associated PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 which modulates the action of PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR by hydrolyzing the SN-2 ester bond to yield the biologically inactive lyso-platelet-activating factor. It has specificity for phospholipid substrates with short-chain residues at the SN-2 position, but inactive against long-chain phospholipids. Deficiency in this enzyme is associated with many diseases including ASTHMA, and HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA.
Retinoid X Receptor Gamma
A nuclear transcription factor. Heterodimerization with PPAR ALPHA is important to metabolism of LIPIDS.
