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Figures 4e and 4f show OCT images of two control seeds after 60 minutes when turgescence has started. Similar to the GMF seeds, individual structural differences of the seeds are clearly visible here. However, after the same time period the heterogeneous absorption zones (Fig. 4f) are less expressed than in the GMF seeds (Fig. 4d). The bright area corresponding to highly scattering regions (Fig. 4d) is narrower (about 100 im) in the control than in GMF seeds (about 200 pm). Thus OCT imaging of barley seeds can distinctly visualize water absorption processes within the first hour, as well as, individual variations in different seeds. The variations reflect the phenomenon of biological variability of seeds at the tissue level.

Chimyl alcohol (Structure 7.79), isolated from the mantle tissues of the nudibranch Tritoniella belli,44 caused rejection by O. validus of shrimp-treated disks at natural tissue-level concentrations. T. belli sequesters this defensive chemistry from its diet, the stoloniferan coral Clavularia franklin-iana. Sequestration of chimyl alcohol from the diet, however, seems to be opportunistic, and T. belli also provisions its mucus with other yet undescribed deterrent natural products.49 Chimyl alcohol is reported from other non-Antarctic molluscs209 and has been demonstrated to function as an antibacterial and a fish antifeedant at levels found in the tissues of the dorid nudibranchs Archidoris montereyensis and Aldisa sanguinea cooperi.210... 

Based upon its greater potency (i.e., 30- to 60-fold more potent than lino-mide) in assays and the lack of any resulting proinflammation in Beagle dog, ABR-215050 (tasquinimod, structure shown in Fig. 4 as well as in Table 1) was characterized for dose-response ability in the growth inhibition of a series of four additional human and rodent prostate cancer models in mice [35]. Pharmacokinetic analysis following oral dosing indicated that blood and tumor tissue levels of ABR-215050 as low as 0.5-1 p,M are therapeutically effective [35]. 

Gels are of central importance for most semisolid food products. A gel can contain more than 99% water and still retain the characteristics of a solid. The network structure will determine whether the water will be firmly held or whether the gel will behave more like a sponge, where water is easily squeezed out. The gel structure will also have a major impaet on the texture as well as diffusion of water and soluble compounds. Many food matrixes are based on colloidal gels such as yoghurts, cheeses, many desserts, sausages etc (see also Chapters 19 and 20). In whole foods, there is often a combination of colloidal structures and fragments of biological tissues or gel structures in combination with particles, emulsion and foam structures. This level of complexity of composite food structures will not be dealt with here. 

Figure 8.3 Cell electroporation at the tissue level. Yet another layer of complexity is added when the cell is viewed as part of a tissue. The extracellular volume is not a liquid medium where molecules freely diffuse, but rather a dense mesh of structures and...

Jensen S, Sundstrom G. 1974. Structures and levels of most chlorobiphenyls in two technical PCB products and in human adipose tissue. Ambio 3 70-76. 

Though speculative, these suggestions are now amenable to experimental evaluation. I am suflSciently optimistic to beheve that truly significant progress will soon be made in the evaluation of structural features and reactions of the very complex enzyme cytochrome c oxidase as well as for other hemeproteins. This progress will result in no small part from the applications of independent physical methods at several levels—the hemin, the protein, and the tissue levels. 

The deiodinases play a key role in the maintenance of circulating and tissue levels of thyroid hormones. There are three types of deiodinase — type 1, 2, and 3 DIOl, DI02, and DIOS) iodothyronine — all are seleno-enzymes characterized by a selenocysteine in the catalytic domain of the enzyme encoded by a UGA codon in the presence of a characteristic h untranslated region stem loop structure the selenocysteine insertion sequence (SECIS). 

Jensen, S. and G. Sundstrom, Structure and Levels of Most Chlorobiphenyls in Two Technical PCB Products and in Human Adipose Tissue, Ambio 70-76 (1974). 

Pharmacokinetics describes the time dependence of transport and distribution of a drug in the different compartments of a biological system, e.g. by rate constants of absorption, blood and tissue levels, and metabolism and elimination rate constants. Quantitative structure-pharmacokinetics relationships [433, 442, 451, 452, 472, 761 — 766] investigate the structural dependence of such parameters within groups of chemically related compounds. 

Generally, a targeted strategy to determine the relationship between structure and poteney of inhibitors using an isolated receptor enzyme cannot take into account the many pitfalls and complexities of the in vivo system arising at different points for example, the tissue level and the half-time of the inhibitor, the concentration and reserve capacity of the enzyme [34,74], and the residence time of the inhibitor at its binding site. This is stated here only to indicate that the inhibitors characterized in the Na /K -ATPase test (Tables 4.1-4.5) are not necessarily meant to serve as potential drugs. 

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