Changes in succinate dehydrogenase activity in various parts of the brain during combined exposure to vibration and licorice root.

Data obtained in the studies reported here provide evidence that during exposure to vibration for 30 days, feeding with licorice root significantly increases the activity of the anaerobic respiration enzyme succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) in the cerebral cortex, while activity in the subcortex, conversely, decreases. Combined treatment for 30 days with licorice root and vibration after a preliminary 30-day period of feeding with licorice root resulted in high SDH activity in all the structures studied, improving brain energy supply and metabolism and ameliorating the effect of vibration.

Partial purification and some properties of a bovine brain trypsin inhibitor.

Using hemoglobin modified by pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as substrate, a trypsin inhibitor from bovine brain was purified by extraction at pH 4.5, ion-exchange chromatography on DEAE-Sephadex A-50, gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and isoelectric focusing. On a column of Sephadex G-100 the inhibitor exhibited a molecular mass of 78 kDa. The iso-electric point of the inhibitor was 4.3-4.4. The dissociation constant (Ki) for the complex of bovine trypsin and brain inhibitor was estimated to be 3.7 X 10(-10)M as tested with a protein substrate, and 2.4 X 10(-10)M when tested with a synthetic substrate. During purification two other brain trypsin inhibitors were detected.