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The 4-amino-5-chloro-N-(2-(diethylamino)ethyl)-2 methoxybenzamide hydrochloride monohydrate exhibits antiemetic and parasympathomimetic activity. Density () and refractive index (nD) measurements were carried out as a function of drug concentration (c=0.01-0.11 mol·L-1) in aqueous NaCl/LiCl (c=0.05, 0.10 and 0.15 mol·L-1) solutions at 30oC. Linear relation of concentration dependence of density and refractive index were studied. Molar refractivity (RM) of solution was calculated from density and refractive index data and polarizability () was calculated from molar refractivity data. Stronger polarizability effects have been observed with increase in drug concentration.
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In view of pharmaceutical applications, the density (ρ) and refractive index (nD) of antiemetic metoclopramide hydrochloride monohydrate (MHM) drug in aqueous, aqueous-DMSO and DMSO solutions were measured at 303.15 K in the wide range of concentration of drug. Apparent molar volumes (φv) were calculated from density data and fitted to the Masson relation to determine partial molar volume (φ °v) of drug. Overall, strong drugsolvent interactions with significant structural changes in pure and mixed solvents have been confirmed.
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Lutropin (LH-1) from water buffaloes has been shown to exhibit microheterogeneity in the N-terminal amino-acid sequence of its alpha-subunit. The beta-subunit did not exhibit such microheterogeneity. Another protocol of purification yielded a preparation of buffalo LH (bu LH-2) different from the buffalo LH-1 in certain physico-chemical properties like ease of dissociation into subunits, sugar composition, isoelectric point, and elution profile on S-200. Data appear to indicate the presence of more than one form of buffalo lutropin.
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Animals , Buffaloes , Carbohydrate Sequence , Carbohydrates/analysis , Chromatography, Ion Exchange , Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel , Luteinizing Hormone/chemistry , Molecular Sequence Data , Oligosaccharides/chemistry , Pituitary Gland/chemistry , Sulfuric Acids/analysisABSTRACT
The presence of sulphate in the carbohydrate of pituitary lutropin from different species has been investigated using a biosynthetic approach. Pituitaries from rats, rabbits, goats, and buffaloes were incubated in the presence of 35SO and the 35SO 4 – -labelled proteins in the tissue immunoprecipitated with a well characterized anti-sheep lutropin serum. The incorporation into immunoreactive lutropin was low in the case of rat, rabbit and goat pituitaries while, it was considerable in the case of buffalo pituitaries. Hence further characterization studies were carried out on 35SO -labelled proteins of buffaloes. The physico-chemical, immunological and biological properties of radio-labelled buffalo pituitary material were shown to be similar to those of standard lutropin. In in vitro conditions of incubations, most of the incorporation of 35SO was observed into tissue lutropin while under similar conditions of incubation, [14C]-amino acids were found to get incorporated mostly into medium lutropin. The physiologically specific releasing hormone, lutropin-releasing hormone was found to stimulate the release of 35SO -labelled lutropin from the rabbit pituitaries into the medium. These results give indirect evidence that sulphate could be present in pituitary lutropin.