Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
... inconclusive.Tests of enzymes in the liver, which detoxifies alcohol for the body, showedsome differences between how the liver processed the two wines. Percival saidshe hopes to do further studies to determine whether muscadine might havegreater protective effects because of its greater concentration of antio...Other highlights of the January 1 JNCI
... of glutathione-S-transferase (GST), which in turn detoxifies many chemical carcinogens. To identify the molecular signals that stimulate this induction, Keon Wook Kang and Sang Geon Kim, Ph.D., of Seoul National University, and their colleagues investigated the role of the CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP...Enzyme structure holds key to cocaine, heroin metabolism
...ecular explanation of how the body metabolizes and detoxifies cocaine and heroin. "We show for the first time how humans initiate the breakdown and clearance of these dangerous narcotics," said Dr. Matthew R. Redinbo, assistant professor in the department of chemistry, and in the School of Medicine's department...Highlights summarized for movement disorders research at 56th annual meeting
...gene called GST (glutathione S-transferase), which detoxifies a wide variety of toxins in the body. This same gene had previously been linked to the risk for PD among people who had used pesticides. These results confirm the importance of both environmental factors and specific forms of common genes in the deve...