Kynurenine Pathway
Mostrando 1-12 de 21 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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1. Análise de polimorfismos dos genes da rota quinureniana em pacientes com meningite bacteriana.
Bacterial meningitis (BM) is still an important infectious disease causing death and disability. Invasive bacterial infections of the central nervous systems (CNS) generate some of the most powerful inflammatory responses known, which contributes to neuronal damage. The DNA microarray technology showed alterations in the kynurenine (KYN) pathway that is indu
Publicado em: 2008
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2. Ativação local da rota da quinurenina por moduladores inflamatórios durante a meningite bacteriana.
A ativação da rota da quinurenina por moduladores do sistema imune tem sido observada durante diversas doenças neurológicas. Neste trabalho foi avaliado a associação entre os níveis de citocinas e quimiocinas com a concentração dos metabólitos da rota da quinurenina ( Kynurenine pathway KP) em amostras de líquor e plasma de pacientes com meningite
Publicado em: 2008
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3. Circadian periodicity of tryptophan metabolism
Rhythmicity of tryptophan metabolism via the kynurenine pathway has been demonstrated in man. Normal subjects given 3 g of tryptophan at 0900 hours excreted almost three times the quantity of kynurenine, kynurenic acid, and xanthurenic acid than did subjects given the same dose at 2100 hours. Other metabolites of the kynurenine pathway varied in the same fas
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4. Induction of Indolamine 2,3-Dioxygenase in Primary Human Macrophages by Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Is Strain Dependent
Increased kynurenine pathway metabolism has been implicated in the etiology of AIDS dementia complex (ADC). The rate-limiting enzyme for this pathway is indolamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO). We tested the efficacy of different strains of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV1-BaL, HIV1-JRFL, and HIV1-631) to induce IDO in cultured human monocyte-derived macro
American Society for Microbiology.
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5. Tryptophan catabolism in Bacillus megaterium.
Bacillus megaterium grows in a medium containing L-tryptophan as the sole carbon, nitrogen, and energy source. Kynurenine, anthranilic acid, and catechol are metabolic intermediates, suggesting that this organism used the anthranilic acid pathway for tryptophan degradation. Cells that grow on L-tryptophan oxidize kynurenine, alanine, and anthranilic acid and
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6. Regulation of Enzymes Involved in the Conversion of Tryptophan to Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide in a Colorless Strain of Xanthomonas pruni1
A colorless strain of Xanthomonas pruni was isolated which is capable of converting tryptophan to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD). The enzymes responsible for the conversion of tryptophan to quinolinic acid were shown to be present. Nicotinic acid-requiring mutants were isolated, and it was found that the growth of these mutants can be supported by v
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7. Tryptophan metabolism in depression
Psychiatric patients suffering from endogenous depression and a control group without endogenous depression were given oral loads of L-tryptophan and urinary excretion determined of the tryptophan metabolites on the pyrrolase pathway: kynurenine, 3-hydroxykynurenine, and 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid. Female endogenously depressed subjects excreted significantly
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8. Synergistic and Product Induction of the Enzymes of Tryptophan Metabolism in Pseudomonas acidovorans1
The process of induction of tryptophan oxygenase in Pseudomonas acidovorans is typical of many microbial enzyme induction systems, in that it (i) requires cell multiplication and de novo protein synthesis, (ii) is subject to catabolite repression, (iii) results in the formation of a stable enzyme, whose level, upon removal of inducer, is diluted out by cell
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9. Activation of Liver Tryptophan Pyrrolase Mediates the Decrease in Tryptophan Availability to the Brain after Acute Alcohol Consumption by Normal Subjects
Aims: We have previously suggested that acute ethanol consumption by normal subjects decreases the availability of circulating tryptophan (Trp) to the brain by activating liver Trp pyrrolase, the first and rate-limiting enzyme of the (major) kynurenine pathway of Trp degradation. The aim of the present study was to examine this hypothesis further by measurin
Oxford University Press.
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10. Expression of Indoleamine 2,3-Dioxygenase, Tryptophan Degradation, and Kynurenine Formation during In Vivo Infection with Toxoplasma gondii: Induction by Endogenous Gamma Interferon and Requirement of Interferon Regulatory Factor 1
The induction of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (INDO) expression and the tryptophan (Trp)-kynurenine (Kyn) metabolic pathway during in vivo infection with Toxoplasma gondii was investigated. Decreased levels of Trp and increased formation of Kyn were observed in the lungs, brain, and serum from mice infected with T. gondii. Maximal INDO mRNA expression and enz
American Society for Microbiology.
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11. Control of the actinomycin biosynthetic pathway in and actinomycin resistance of Streptomyces spp.
Using actinomycin-producing and nonproducing strains of Streptomyces antibioticus, I studied several steps in the biosynthetic pathway of this antibiotic. Actinomycin-nonproducing strains derived after acriflavine or novobiocin treatment showed activity of kynurenine formamidase and phenoxazinone synthase as high as that of the parental strain, but these non
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12. Immunocytochemical localization of the endogenous neuroexcitotoxin quinolinate in human peripheral blood monocytes/macrophages and the effect of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I infection.
Quinolinate (Quin), a metabolite in the kynurenine pathway of tryptophan degradation and a neurotoxin that appears to act through the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor system, was localized in cultured human peripheral blood monocytes/macrophages (PBMOs) by using a recently developed immunocytochemical method. Quin immunoreactivity (Quin-IR) was increased in gam