Studies on Contact Sensitivity to Chromium in the Guinea Pig. The Role of Valence in the Formation of the Antigenic Determinant

Guinea pigs sensitized with either the trivalent chromium chloride or the hexavalent potassium dichromate are capable of reacting in vivo and in vitro to challenges with both chromium salts. This double reactivity is retained also after repeated restimulations with only 1 of these chromium compounds. From the failure to select lymphocytes directed specifically against a chromium determinant of a particular valence it is concluded that by sensitization with chromium salts of different valences a common determinant or closely related determinants are formed. It is suggested that this determinant is formed by chromium in the trivalent form

The possible role of fermented milk-derived peptides in reducing risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2-diabetes

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Screening of anti-inflammatory milk proteins and peptides using luminol-enhanced chemiluminescence assay

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Angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibitory and antihypertensive properties of potato and rapeseed protein-derived peptides

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Chemiluminescence of non-differentiated THP-1 promocytes

Human leukemic THP-1 promonocytes are widely used as a model for peripheral blood monocytes. However, superoxide production during respiratory burst (RB) of non-differentiated THP-1 (nd-THP-1) cells is very low. Here we present a rapid and low-cost method for measuring the chemiluminescence (CL) of opsonized zymosan (OZ) induced RB which allows detection of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induced priming of nd-THP-1 cells on the basis of CL reaction kinetics. Maximum CL intensity obtained was 2.20+- 0.25 and 1.30+- 0.11 relative light units, while CL peak time was achieved at 18.1+- 2.6 and 28.7+- 1.3 min in primed and non-primed cells, respectively. The priming of nd-THP-1 cells with LPS evoked tzpical TNF-[alfa] and IL-6 production. We tested the effects of bovine lactoferrin and protein fractions from Lactobacillus helveticus BGRA43 fermented milk for potential anti-inflammatory effects on LPS primed nd-THP-1 cells. Four fractions were found to inhibit the OZ-induced CL in a dose-dependent manner (IC50 3-30 g/mL), while lactoferrin inhibited CL to a lesser extent (IC50 270? g/mL). These results suggest that measuring CL response of nd-THP-1 cells can serve as a method for screening anti-inflammatory compounds which could be used in reducing the risk of phagocyte-mediated inflammatory diseases

Chemiluminescence of non-differentiated THP-1 promonocytes : developing an assay for screening anti-inflammatory milk proteins and peptides

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