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Mianserin protein binding was measured in serum from 43 healthy subjects and plasma from 12 elderly depressed patients and 23 patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Free fraction (mean +/- SD) was 5.5 +/- 0.7% in the healthy subjects, 5.0 +/- 0.8% in the elderly subjects and 6.0 +/- 1.0 in the patients with rheumatoid arthritis. In the group of elderly patients treated with mianserin, a high correlation (r = 0.83, P less than 0.001) between total and free concentrations of mianserin was found. In both groups a high linear correlation (r = +0.90, P less than 0.001) between the free fraction of mianserin and that of imipramine was found, the latter being about twice as high as for mianserin. In both healthy subjects and arthritis patients the degree of protein binding was positively correlated to the concentration of alpha 1-acid-glycoprotein and complement C3c, and somewhat more weakly to haptoglobin. In the healthy subjects protein binding was also highly positively correlated to the concentration of apolipoprotein B, whereas no such correlation was found in the rheumatoid arthritis patients. In the rheumatoid arthritis patients protein binding was highly correlated to the concentration of hemopexin and somewhat more weakly to ceruloplasmin and fibrinogen; a weak negative correlation to the concentration of albumin was also found. Since significant intercorrelations between the concentrations of these proteins were found, the correlation to the degree of binding of mianserin may not necessarily represent binding of the drug to the protein.
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PMID:Mianserin protein binding in serum and plasma from healthy subjects and patients with depression and rheumatoid arthritis. 393 Nov 47

In 23 patients with rheumatoid arthritis the plasma protein binding of 3H-imipramine and the plasma levels of 13 proteins were measured in order to examine the significance of the proteins for the binding of imipramine. The degree of 3H-imipramine binding did not differ significantly from that in healthy controls. It was positively correlated with the concentrations of fibrinogen, alpha 1-acid-glycoprotein, ceruloplasmin, complement C3c, haptoglobin and hemopexin. Erythrocyte sedimentation rate was also highly positively correlated with binding. The concentration of several of the proteins showed a significant covariation. The 3H-imipramine binding was negatively correlated with the concentration of albumin and the latter was negatively correlated with some of the proteins mentioned-above. No correlation with the levels of apolipoproteins A and B was found. There appears to be more a qualitative than a quantitative change in 3H-imipramine binding in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.
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PMID:Plasma protein binding of imipramine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 406 95

Urine was collected from 6 healthy male adults at rest and from 20 male adults after a marathon race (25 miles). The concentrated urines were quantitatively analyzed, by single radial immunodiffusion, for their content in 12 different plasma proteins: tryptophan-rich prealbumin, albumin, alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein, alpha(1)-antitrypsin, ceruloplasmin, haptoglobin, Gc-globulin, transferrin, hemopexin, beta(2)-glycoprotein I, gammaA-globulin, and gammaG-globulin.Albumin, gammaA-globulin, and gammaG-globulin represent the major part of the plasma proteins detected in normal urine excreted by humans at rest (12, 0.5, and 2.5 mg respectively, out of a total excretion of 17.5 mg of plasma proteins per 24 hr). The other plasma proteins were excreted at a lower rate (< 0.4 mg/24 hr). The relative content of tryptophan-rich prealbumin, alpha(1)-antitrypsin, Gc-globulin, transferrin, and gammaG-globulin was lower in normal urine than in normal serum, whereas that of alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein, beta(2)-glycoprotein I, and gammaA-globulin was higher. The ratio of gammaG-globulin to gammaA-globulin was 4.9:1. When plotted on a logarithmic scale, no direct relationship between the molecular weight of a protein and the value of its renal clearance could be observed.Strenuous exercise increased (up to 50-fold) the excretion of plasma proteins which represent 82% of the total proteins found in urine, instead of 57% in urine collected from humans at rest. There was particularly a significant rise of tryptophan-rich albumin, albumin, alpha(1)-acid glycoprotein, transferrin, gammaA-globulin, and gammaG-globulin (0.26, 127, 11.8, 3.3, 1.2, and 2.0 mug respectively, out of a total excretion of 167 mug of plasma proteins per min). The ratio of gammaG-globulin to gammaA-globulin was 16:1. After exercise, the renal clearance of proteins increased from 2 to 40 times, but, as for the urine of normal subjects at rest, no direct relationship between molecular weight and renal clearance could be observed.
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PMID:Quantitative immunological determination of 12 plasma proteins excreted in human urine collected before and after exercise. 417 Mar 90

The synthesis of gammaG, gammaA, gammaM, beta(1C)/beta(1A), C'1 esterase inhibitor, ceruloplasmin, transferrin, hemopexin, haptoglobin, fibrinogen, alpha(1)-antitrypsin, orosomucoid, beta-lipoprotein, alpha(2)-macroglobulin, and prealbumin was studied in 15 normal human embryos and fetuses of 29 days to 18 wk gestation and in the yolk sacs of four embryos from 5.5 to 11.5 wk gestation using tissue culture in (14)C-labeled amino acids followed by radioimmunoelectrophoresis. The human embryo as early as 29 day gestation synthesized beta(1C)/beta(1A), C'1 esterase inhibitor, transferrin, hemopexin, alpha(1)-antitrypsin, beta-lipoprotein, alpha(2)-macroglobulin, and prealbumin in culture. At 32 days gestation ceruloplasmin and orosomucoid were also synthesized, but synthesis of fibrinogen was not observed before 5.5 wk. Synthesis of gammaM occurred as early as 10.5 wk gestation, and gammaG synthesis was found in cultures as early as 12 wk gestation; gammaA synthesis was not detected in any of the tissue cultures. With the exception of the gamma-globulins, each of the proteins studied was synthesized by the liver, but additional sites of synthesis for some of these proteins were also found. Synthesis of gammaG and gammaM occurred primarily in the spleen, but other sites of synthesis were noted as well. Changes in the concentrations of most of these proteins and plasminogen in embryonic and fetal serum from 5.5 to 41 wk gestation, in amniotic fluid from 6.5 to 38 wk gestation, and in the sera of neonates during the 1st 3 wk postpartum are described. Although gammaA, gammaM, ceruloplasmin, or haptoglobin were not detectable in some of the embryonic and fetal sera, gammaA and ceruloplasmin were both present as early as 6.5 wk gestation, haptoglobin by 9.5 wk gestation, and gammaM by 17 wk gestation. Each of the other proteins were present in all of the sera examined.
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PMID:Development of gamma G, gamma A, gamma M, beta IC-beta IA, C 1 esterase inhibitor, ceruloplasmin, transferrin, hemopexin, haptoglobin, fibrinogen, plasminogen, alpha 1-antitrypsin, orosomucoid, beta-lipoprotein, alpha 2-macroglobulin, and prealbumin in the human conceptus. 579 55

We evaluated hepatic enzyme induction by measuring urinary D-glucaric acid and serum gamma-glutamyltransferase in a group of 40 adult epileptics of both sexes who were receiving long-term treatment with phenobarbital and (or) phenytoin. Total concentrations of copper and ceruloplasmin in their serum and the oxidase activity of ceruloplasmin were significantly greater than in the control group. However, non-ceruloplasmin copper and specific oxidase activity of the ceruloplasmin (activity per gram) were unchanged. A highly significant relationship was found between gamma-glutamyltransferase and (a) copper (r = 0.682, p less than 0.001), (b) ceruloplasmin (r = 0.523, p congruent to 0.001), and (c) the oxidase activity of the ceruloplasmin (r = 0.598, p less than 0.001). There is also a significant correlation of hemopexin with ceruloplasmin (r = 0.531, p congruent to 0.001) and the oxidase activity of the ceruloplasmin (r = 0.598, p less than 0.001). These results suggest that hypercupremia in patients undergoing long-term anticonvulsant therapy is a direct result of hepatic enzyme induction caused by the drugs that induce synthesis of ceruloplasmin.
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PMID:Serum copper concentration and hepatic enzyme induction during long-term therapy with anticonvulsants. 612 16

A human hepatoma cell line, HuH-7, which was established from a hepatocellular carcinoma, was found to replicate continuously in a chemically defined medium when the medium was supplemented with Na2SeO3. The cells grew better in this medium than in serum-containing medium without any adaptation period. Other established human hepatoma and hepatoblastoma cell lines, HuH-6 cl-5, PLC/PRF/5, huH-1, and huH-4, also grew in the defined medium. Although HLEC-1 cells failed to proliferate continuously with Na2SeO3 alone, they grew if a cell-free conditioned medium from HuH-7 cells was added to the medium. These cell lines, except the HLEC-1 cell line, produced the following human plasma proteins among those examined: albumin, prealbumin, alpha 1-antitrypsin, ceruloplasmin, fibrinogen, fibronectin, haptoglobin, hemopexin, beta-lipoprotein, alpha 2-macroglobulin, beta 2-microglobulin, transferrin, lipoprotein, alpha 2-macroglobulin, beta 2-microglobulin, transferrin, Complement Components 3 and 4, and alpha 1-fetoprotein. Beside plasma proteins, the media from HuH-7, HuH-6 cl-5, PLC/PRF/5, and huH-1 contained anti-carcinoembryonic antigen-reactive proteins, and those from PLC/PRF/5, huH-1, and huH-4 medium contained hepatitis B surface antigen. These proteins were detected during periods of serial cultivation over 9 months under the above culture conditions. The hepatoma cell lines grown in the fully defined synthetic medium may provide a new approach for investigating the growth and metabolism of human hepatoma cells in vitro.
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PMID:Growth of human hepatoma cells lines with differentiated functions in chemically defined medium. 628 15

Liver biopsies of a 58-year-old clinically healthy patient with a hepatomegaly and intracisternal PAS-negative globular hyaline bodies were immunofluorescent-optically examined for the content of the complement components C 1 q, C 4, C 9, C 1-inactivator, C 3-activator. Further examinations were performed for fibrinogen, IgG, IgA, IgM, IgD, IgE, L-chain (type chi and lambda), alpha 1-antitrypsin, alpha 1-fetoprotein, alpha 1- and alpha 2-glycoprotein, cholinesterase, ceruloplasmin, myoglobin, hemopexin, HBsAg and HBsAg. Th inclusion bodies reacted with antisera against the complement components C 4, C 3 and C 3-activator, as also identified by double immunofluorescence. Probably this is a disturbance of the protein metabolism of the liver cell with abnormal complement storage in the presence of normal total complement and normal complement components in the serum.
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PMID:Storage of the complement components C4, C3, and C 3-activator in the human liver as PAS-negative globular hyaline bodies. 628 41

This study systematically examined the characteristics of specific binding of adult diferric transferrin to its receptor using a Triton X-100 solubilized preparation from human placentas as the receptor source. The following information was obtained. The ionic strength for maximal binding is in the range of 0.1-0.3 M NaCl. The pH optimum for specific binding extends over the range, from pH 6.0-10.0. Specific binding of diferric transferrin is not affected by 2.5 approximately 50 mM CaCl2 or by 10 mM EDTA. Triton X-100 in the concentration range of 0.02-3.0% does not affect specific binding. Specific binding is saturated within 10 min at 25 or 37 degrees C in the presence of excess amounts of diferric transferrin. The binding is reversible and the dissociation of diferric transferrin from the transferrin receptor is complete within 40 min at 25 degrees C. Apotransferrin, both adult and fetal, showed less binding than the holotransferrin species by competitive binding assay in the presence of 10 mM EDTA independent of up to 20 mM CaCl2. A 1500-fold molar excess of adult and fetal apotransferrin is required to give 40% inhibition for 125I-labeled diferric transferrin binding. Since calcium ion is not a factor, and since apotransferrin has such high binding affinity for iron (Ka = 1 X 10(24], this experiment suggests that the EDTA was necessary to prevent conversion of apotransferrin to holotransferrin from available iron in the reaction system. The specificity of the transferrin receptor for transferrin was examined by competitive binding studies in which 125I-diferric transferrin binding was measured in the presence of a series of other proteins. The proteins tested in the competitive binding studies were classified into three groups; in the first group were human serum albumin and ovalbumin; in the second group were proteins containing iron ions, such as hemoglobin, hemoglobin-haptoglobin complex, heme-hemopexin complex, ferritin, and diferric lactoferrin; in the third group were the metal-binding serum proteins, ceruloplasmin and metallothionein. None of these proteins except ferritin showed inhibition of diferric transferrin binding to the receptor. The effect of ferritin was small since a 700- to 1500-fold molar excess of ferritin is required for 50% inhibition of binding of diferric transferrin to the receptor.
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PMID:Characterization of transferrin binding and specificity of the placental transferrin receptor. 631 Nov 10

Immunologic analyses of urinary proteins in patients with gestosis and related obstetrical conditions were performed and urinary protein patterns were compared with blood plasma protein patterns. Many kinds of proteins could be detected in urine of patients with gestosis beside albumin. Therefore, "proteinuria" should be chosen to characterise this state instead of the term "albuminuria". Generally speaking, when a total volume of protein contained in urine increases, its types or subfractions also increase in urine. Next to albumin, the most commonly detected proteins in urine of patients with gestosis were transferrin, IgG, inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor, alpha 1-antitrypsin, IgA, alpha 2-HS-glycoprotein, alpha 1-acid glycoprotein, Gc-globulin, alpha 1-antichymotrypsin, hemopexin, ceruloplasmin, prealbumin, haptoglobin, anti-thrombin III, Cl-inactivator, IgM, and alpha 2-macroglobulin, in the descending order of their occurrence. Proteins that promptly became negative in urine of gestosis patients after delivery were inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor, IgA, and ceruloplasmin. On the other hand, proteins most apt to persist in urine were albumin, alpha 2-HS-glycoprotein, and IgG. Generally speaking, lower molecular weight proteins were likely to persist in urine after delivery. Simultaneous determination of blood plasma and urinary proteins was performed for 18 kinds or subfractions of protein. A prognostic value of renal protein clearance was discussed.
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PMID:A study on proteins contained in urine of gestosis patients. 641 21

Forty-seven normal health women were studied longitudinally for changes in liver functions during the use of the levonorgestrel contraceptive implant system, NORPLANT. Samples were collected before insertion of the implants and after one, three and six months of use. The enzymes studied were the transaminases (SGOT and SGPT), alkaline phosphatase and gamma-glutamyl transferase. Serum bilirubin and bile acid levels were also measured. The protein synthetic function of the liver was tested by estimation of total proteins, albumin, transferrin, hemopexin, ceruloplasmin and haptoglobin. The three main immunoglobulins, G, M and A, were also measured. There were no significant changes in the liver enzymes after NORPLANT use. Serum bilirubin and bile acid concentrations showed rises in the first month of use which ameliorated in subsequent months. Serum albumin was transiently increased during the first and third months. Ceruloplasmin decreased significantly at the sixth month. The concentrations of total serum proteins and the other individual proteins showed no significant change. The results point to safety of NORPLANT implant use, as regards hepatic functions.
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PMID:Effect of subdermal levonorgestrel contraceptive implants, Norplant, on liver functions. 644 Jul 36


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