Abstract:
Disclosed is an assay (method) to quantify the amounts of catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT) protein in samples, such as extracts from cell cultures, body fluids, tissues, and environmental samples. It uses novel agents (anti-NE, COMT-NE, or COMT-epitope-NE) in combination with two previously described agents (anti-COMT and COMT) in a competitive ELISA system to achieve this aim.
Abstract:
A medical application of N-oleoyl-dopamine and 3′-O-methyl-N-oleoyl-dopamine for the production of a medication for treatment or prophylaxis of disturbances or states due to deficiency of dopamine, preferably chosen from the group covering oxygen deficiencies (hypoxia) in anesthetized and awake mammals, breathing with atmospheric oxygen (normoxia), for the respiratory responses to hypoxia in mammals, lack of dopamine binding to the membrane system in the mammalian brain, disturbances in metabolic pathways of dopamine metabolism, states of dopamine deficiencies provoked by morbid or genetic factors as well as under condition connected to the physiological process of aging of the organism, through the systemic introduction of the compound to the mammalian organism. A method of production of 3′-O-methyl-N-oleoyl-dopamine in vitro is also disclosed.
Abstract:
Novel isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides associated with the lignin biosynthetic pathway are provided, together with genetic constructs including such sequences. Methods for the modulation of lignin content, lignin structure and lignin composition in target organisms are also disclosed, the methods comprising incorporating one or more of the polynucleotides of the present invention into the genome of a target organism.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an assay (method) to quantify the amounts of catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT) protein in samples, such as extracts from cell cultures, body fluids, tissues, and environmental samples. It uses novel agents (anti-NE, COMT-NE, or COMT-epitope-NE) in combination with two previously described agents (anti-COMT and COMT) in a competitive ELISA system to achieve this aim.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an assay (method) to quantify the amounts of catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT) protein in samples, such as extracts from cell cultures, body fluids, tissues, and environmental samples. It uses novel agents (anti-NE, COMT-NE, or COMT-epitope-NE) in combination with two previously described agents (anti-COMT and COMT) in a competitive ELISA system to achieve this aim.
Abstract:
Recombinant microorganisms, plants, and plant cells are disclosed that have been engineered to express a mutant AROM polypeptide and/or mutant catechol-O-methyltransferase polypeptide alone or in combination with one or more vanillin biosynthetic enzymes or UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs). Such microorganisms, plants, or plant cells can produce vanillin or vanillin beta-D-glucoside.
Abstract:
Disclosed is an assay (method) to quantify the amounts of catecholamine-O-methyltransferase (COMT) protein in samples, such as extracts from cell cultures, body fluids, tissues, and environmental samples. It uses novel agents (anti-NE, COMT-NE, or COMT-epitope-NE) in combination with two previously described agents (anti-COMT and COMT) in a competitive ELISA system to achieve this aim.
Abstract:
A medical application of N-oleoyl-dopamine and 3′-O-methyl-N-oleoyl-dopamine for the production of a medication for treatment or prophylaxis of disturbances or states due to deficiency of dopamine, preferably chosen from the group covering oxygen deficiencies (hypoxia) in anesthetized and awake mammals, breathing with atmospheric oxygen (normoxia), for the respiratory responses to hypoxia in mammals, lack of dopamine binding to the membrane system in the mammalian brain, disturbances in metabolic pathways of dopamine metabolism, states of dopamine deficiencies provoked by morbid or genetic factors as well as under condition connected to the physiological process of aging of the organism, through the systemic introduction of the compound to the mammalian organism. A method of production of 3′-O-methyl-N-oleoyl-dopamine in vitro is also disclosed.
Abstract:
Methods of treating somatosensory disorders and modulating production of proinflammatory cytokines by administering to a subject an effective amount of a COMT modulator, ADRB2 modulator, ADRB3 modulator or combinations thereof are provided. Methods of predicting effective pharmacological therapies for a subject afflicted with a somatosensory disorder by determining a genotype of the subject with regard to a gene selected from the group consisting of COMT, ADRB2, ADRB3, and combinations thereof are further provided. Methods of determining pain responses or pain perception and predicting susceptibility of a subject to develop related disorders, such as somatosensory disorders and somatization, by determining a genotype of the subject with regard to a gene selected from the group consisting of COMT, ADRB2, ADRB3, and combinations thereof are further provided.
Abstract:
Novel isolated polynucleotides and polypeptides associated with the lignin biosynthetic pathway are provided, together with genetic constructs including such sequences. Methods for the modulation of lignin content, lignin structure and lignin composition in target organisms are also disclosed, the methods comprising incorporating one or more of the polynucleotides of the present invention into the genome of a target organism.