Central and peripheral glucocorticoid receptor function in abdominal obesity
摘要:
Abdominal obesity seems to be associated with a moderately deranged feedback regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ad renal (HPA) axis where central glucocorticoid receptors (GR) are involved. Therefore, functions of central and peripheral GR were compared in this study. Furthermore, since trinucleotide repeats in early exons of steroid hormone receptor genes influence transcription, and therefore may influence receptor density, this was also studied. Ten middle-aged men, 5 with abdominal obesity and 5 controls, were studied. The suppression of dexamethasone (dex) on serum cortisol was used in dose-response tests to assess the function of central GR. Abdominal adipose tissue biopsies were incubated and exposed to cortisol in different concentrations, and the function of the peripheral GR assayed as induction of lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity. Aberrant expansion of exonic trinucleotide repeats in the first coding exon of the GR gene was studied by sequencing of genomic DNA. Results showed that men with abdominal obesity showed less inhibition of serum cortisol by dex, particularly at lower concentrations, while in the controls cortisol secretion was inhibited in an apparent dose-response manner. LPL activity in adipose tissue was lower in abdominal obese men than in controls. However, the sensitivity to cortisol was not different between the groups. There was no evidence for expansion of trinucleotide repeats. These results suggest that the central GR and the peripheral GR in adipose tissue exhibit functional differences in abdominal obesity.
esters can be carried out with high levels of enantioselectivities utilizing commercially available isothiourea catalysts under base-free conditions. The reaction, which proceeds via the in situformation of chiral C1 ammonium enolates, is best carried out under cryogenic conditions combined with a direct trapping of the activated α-chlorinated ester derivative to prevent epimerization, thus allowing
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Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Selective Racemisation Reactions of α-Chloro Esters
作者:Louise Haughton、Jonathan M. J. Williams
DOI:10.1055/s-2001-13395
日期:——
The kinetic resolution of a-chloro esters was effected with good selectivity using CLEC (Cross-Linked Enzyme Crystals) enzymes. The selective racemisation of a-chloro esters in the presence of alpha -chloro acids enabled a successful dynamic kinetic resolution reaction to be performed.
Herein we report a new method for the catalytic Appel reaction by P(III)/P(V) redox cycling at very low catalyst loadings of 1–2 mol % using low amounts of hexachloroacetone as the halogen source and phenylsilane as the terminal reductant. Twenty-six alcohols and nine epoxides containing a wide variety of functional groups were converted to the respective chlorides and dichlorides in yields of up to
33. Experiments on the interaction of hydroxy-compounds and phosphorus and thionyl halides in the absence and in the presence of tertiary bases. Part I. Optically active β-octanol, ethyl mandelate, and phenylmethylcarbinol
作者:William Gerrard
DOI:10.1039/jr9440000085
日期:——
LVII.—The interaction of ethyl l-mandelate and thionyl chloride in the presence of pyridine. The mechanism of the replacement of hydroxyl by chlorine by means of thionyl chloride
作者:Joseph Kenyon、Alfred George Lipscomb、Henry Phillips