{"title":"Problem-oriented small-group discussion in the teaching of biochemistry laboratory practicals.","authors":"Das, Sinha","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An experiment on the use of problem-based exercises in an Indian Medical School is described. Problem-based classes were supplemented with laboratory classes and feedback from both students and tutors was analyzed.</p>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 3","pages":"154-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21721014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Carlos A. Stella, Daniel A. Sáenz, Mónica S. Chianelli, Sebastián Kaminszczik
{"title":"A simple protocol to evaluate nitrogen utilisation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae","authors":"Carlos A. Stella, Daniel A. Sáenz, Mónica S. Chianelli, Sebastián Kaminszczik","doi":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00139-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00139-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The present article describes a simple protocol that allows the study of nitrogen source utilisation by cells and its relation with cellular growth. The assay can be performed using the minimum of laboratory equipment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 3","pages":"Pages 169-170"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00139-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21721018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oxidation of cholinesterase-inhibiting pesticides: A simple experiment to illustrate the role of bioactivation in the toxicity of chemicals","authors":"M.I Arufe, J.L Romero, J.J Gamero, M.J Moreno","doi":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00148-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00148-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>A simple undergraduate laboratory experiment that can be used in Biochemistry and Toxicology courses to illustrate the importance of metabolic reactions in the toxicity of chemical substances is reported. It involves the experimental confirmation that oxidized phosphorothionate esters, commonly used as insecticides, are stronger cholinesterase inhibitors and therefore exhibit higher toxicity than do their sulphur analogs starting from which the first are formed by in vivo oxidative desulphuration. Two separated aliquots of a bovine blood sample are incubated with </span>parathion and paraoxon, its oxygen analog, and compared for cholinesterase activity with “normal” blood. Previously, a standard sample of paraoxon was obtained by oxidation of the thiono group of parathion with bromine vapour by reaction TLC. The comparison of the inhibitory capacity of both compounds is made by a colorimetric procedure using acetylthiocholine as substrate of the enzyme and 5,5′-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid) as chromogen.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 3","pages":"Pages 174-177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00148-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21721020","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Association of biochemistry grades with performance in pharmacology and anatomy in a Saudi Arabian medical college.","authors":"Hamdi, Assiri, A Suleiman S","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The College of Medicine, King Khalid University of Abha, Saudi Arabia currently accepts 100 students a year, up from 50 to 70 students four years ago. The first-year students take four science courses (Biology,Chemistry, Physics, and Statistics) in addition to some general university requirement courses. Biochemistry is offered in the second year, Anatomy in the second and third year and Pharmacology in the fourth year. This study was carried out to determine the correlation between the performance of medical students in Biochemistry and their performance in Anatomy and Pharmacology. Data were obtained from two groups of students (Group 22 and 23) of the years 1995 and 1996 who had already taken Biochemistry, Anatomy and Pharmacology. Performance was equal in Pharmacology but in biochemistry performance of group 23 was clearly lower than group 22. Scores of students in Biochemistry course strongly correlated with the basic Pharmacology course (r=0.714, P<0.0001). Scores in Anatomy also correlated with those in Biochemistry (r=0.616, P<0.001) but much less with scores in Pharmacology (r=0.345, P<0.01).</p>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 3","pages":"134-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21721795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A practical approach to the choice of a suitable detergent and optimal conditions for solubilizing a membrane protein","authors":"Hérica de Lima Santos, Pietro Ciancaglini","doi":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00107-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00107-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>The main objective of this laboratory practical class was to teach students how a detergent and the best experimental conditions are chosen to solubilize a given membrane protein. Kidney Na,K-ATPase was chosen as the protein of interest and anionic, neutral and zwitterionic detergents were tested. Simple laboratory experiments were designed to study the effect of the detergent on the activity of the enzyme, the effect of detergent concentration on solubilization, the effect of protein concentration on enzyme solubilization, and the effect of time and temperature of incubation during enzyme solubilization. This resulted in the selection of an appropriate detergent for the solubilization of the protein taking into account smaller inactivation factors, more effective solubilization (more effective solubilization with a better detergent–protein relationship), lower inactivation temperature and time of incubation of the membrane protein with the detergent. The results obtained showed that instantaneous incubation of Na,K-ATPase with C</span><sub>12</sub>E<sub>8</sub> (1<!--> <!-->:<!--> <!-->1 w/w) at 4°C resulted in a more efficient solubilization and had a smaller denaturing effect on the solubilized enzyme.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 3","pages":"Pages 178-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00107-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56623675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maté, Aledo, Pérez-Gómez, Esteban del Valle A, Segura
{"title":"Interrelationship between oxidative damage and antioxidant enzyme activities: an easy and rapid experimental approach.","authors":"Maté, Aledo, Pérez-Gómez, Esteban del Valle A, Segura","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article describes a method for determining some antioxidant enzyme activities (catalase and/or glutathione peroxidase) and the oxidative status (protein oxidative damage and/or lipid peroxidation) of human blood. However, the main objective of the work is to illustrate the relationship between antioxidant defences and oxidative damage, showing to students their correlation and the general importance of the biochemical regulation in health and diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 2","pages":"93-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21575434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of post-graduate studies with corporately funded biotechnology programs","authors":"Jennelle Kyd","doi":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00128-4","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00128-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Post graduate research students need to undertake programs that will develop their potential as a scientist. They need to acquire skills to develop scientific argument, design an experimental approach to test a hypothesis, obtain and analyse data, and effectively communicate their ideas and findings to the scientific community. Many biotechnology-based programs are now funded by industry partnerships and integrating post graduate students into these programs require special considerations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 2","pages":"Pages 86-88"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00128-4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21575534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jose M. Maté, J.Carlos Aledo, Cristina Pérez-Gómez, Alicia Esteban del Valle, Jose M. Segura
{"title":"Interrelationship between oxidative damage and antioxidant enzyme activities: an easy and rapid experimental approach","authors":"Jose M. Maté, J.Carlos Aledo, Cristina Pérez-Gómez, Alicia Esteban del Valle, Jose M. Segura","doi":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00099-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00099-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article describes a method for determining some antioxidant enzyme activities (catalase and/or glutathione peroxidase) and the oxidative status (protein oxidative damage and/or lipid peroxidation) of human blood. However, the main objective of the work is to illustrate the relationship between antioxidant defences and oxidative damage, showing to students their correlation and the general importance of the biochemical regulation in health and diseases.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":80258,"journal":{"name":"Biochemical education","volume":"28 2","pages":"Pages 93-95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0307-4412(99)00099-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56623372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}