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Serum protein binding dominates the pharmacokinetic profile. The attached chain associates strongly with albumin, shielding the peptide from enzymatic attack and slowing filtration by the kidney. This interaction extends the circulation half-life to roughly one week in humans, which supports weekly administration intervals. An oral version pairs the peptide with an absorption enhancer that transiently alters gastric epithelium, permitting limited uptake; bioavailability by that route is substantially lower than by injection.
Semaglutide belongs to the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist class, a group of synthetic peptides that imitate an incretin hormone released by intestinal L cells after food intake. Native GLP-1 circulates for only a few minutes because dipeptidyl peptidase-4 cleaves it rapidly. The hormone acts on pancreatic islets, the gastrointestinal tract, and several brain regions. Because the natural peptide is short-lived, development work concentrated on analogues that keep receptor activity while resisting enzymatic breakdown and renal clearance.
Solid peptide material is generally kept at reduced temperature to limit degradation. Short-term storage at 2 to 8 degrees Celsius is common, while longer archival storage at minus 20 degrees Celsius or below is typical for lyophilised powder. Vials should remain sealed and protected from light, because ultraviolet exposure can oxidise susceptible residues. Repeated freeze-thaw cycles are avoided, as they promote aggregation and loss of soluble material. Solutions are less stable than solids and are usually prepared close to the time of use.
Reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography is widely used to assess purity and to separate the parent peptide from related substances. Mass spectrometry confirms identity and can resolve modifications that differ by a few daltons. Size-exclusion chromatography detects dimers and higher aggregates, which are relevant to both stability and immunogenicity questions. Peptide mapping with enzymatic digestion locates specific modifications along the sequence. Circular dichroism provides a secondary-structure profile, although it gives limited information about local conformational changes.
Quality control for peptide material focuses on identity, purity, content and the profile of impurities. Common degradants include deamidated and oxidised forms, plus aggregates formed during storage or handling. Forced degradation studies under heat, light, acid and peroxide help define which conditions accelerate change and which analytical methods detect it. Limits for individual impurities are set by pharmacopoeial monographs or manufacturer specifications. How much a given impurity affects biological activity is often uncertain, and conclusions may depend on the assay used.
| Property | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Molecular class | Synthetic peptide, GLP-1 receptor agonist | 31 amino acid residues |
| Molecular formula | C187H291N45O59 | free peptide, no counter-ion |
| Approximate mass | 4114 Da | matches theoretical value |
| Receptor target | Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor | Gs-coupled, cyclic AMP pathway |
| Circulation half-life | About one week in humans | extended by albumin association |
Activation of the GLP-1 receptor couples to Gs signalling and raises intracellular cyclic AMP in pancreatic beta cells. The resulting insulin release depends on prevailing glucose concentrations, so the effect is greater when glucose is elevated. Receptor engagement also suppresses glucagon secretion and slows gastric emptying, which flattens post-meal glucose excursions. In the central nervous system, signalling in hypothalamic and brainstem regions is associated with reduced appetite and lower energy intake. Studies continue to examine effects on cardiac, renal and hepatic endpoints; whether those benefits are independent of weight change remains an open question.
Clinical development of this compound followed earlier short-acting GLP-1 analogues that required frequent injection. Once-weekly subcutaneous formulations entered use after 2017, and an oral formulation using a permeation enhancer later became available. The oral version pairs the peptide with sodium N-(8-[2-hydroxybenzoyl] amino) caprylate, a carrier that improves uptake across the gastric epithelium. Interest has expanded from glycaemic control into weight management and metabolic liver disease. Regulatory status and approved indications differ between countries, and the product remains subject to ongoing safety monitoring.
Semaglutide is a synthetic peptide that acts as an agonist at the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor. It is a structural analogue of human GLP-1(7-37), modified to resist enzymatic degradation by dipeptidyl peptidase-4. The peptide backbone contains alpha-aminoisobutyric acid at position 8, a substitution that stabilises the helix and slows cleavage. A fatty diacid side chain attached through a linker at lysine 34 promotes binding to serum albumin, which extends the circulating half-life. These two modifications together allow less frequent administration than native GLP-1 requires.
纯度评价多采用反相高效液相色谱，流动相常加入三氟乙酸或甲酸作为离子对改性剂，检测波长设在二百一十四纳米或二百二十纳米。分子量确认依靠电喷雾电离质谱或基质辅助激光解吸电离质谱，实测值应与理论值在数 ppm 内吻合。肽图分析通过酶切后液相色谱串联质谱完成，用于核查序列与修饰位点。体积排阻色谱用于定量共价与非共价聚集体。生物基质浓度测定则采用免疫分析或液相色谱串联质谱。
肽类的主要降解路径包括天冬酰胺脱酰胺、甲硫氨酸氧化、天冬氨酸异构化以及由 β-折叠驱动的聚集，这些反应对 pH 与缓冲液种类较为敏感。磷酸盐、丙二醇与苯酚等辅料会影响局部微环境与界面行为。强制降解研究借助高温、强光、氧化剂与极端 pH 暴露来预测产物谱。关于长期室温存放的数据相对有限，超出标签条件的稳定性仍属开放问题，需要在具体制剂中通过实时与加速试验加以确认。
容器与密封系统同样参与稳定性表现。硅油涂层、胶塞材质与顶空氧含量可能改变聚集速率与氧化水平。分析结果因此需要在完整包装形式下评估，而不能仅凭原料药数据推断。法规文件通常要求同时提交批次数据与代表性容器中的稳定性趋势。
The muscular layer consists of two layers of muscle, the inner and outer layer. The muscle of the inner layer is arranged in circular rings around the tract, whereas the muscle of the outer layer is arranged longitudinally. The stomach has an extra layer, an inner oblique muscular layer. Between the two muscle layers is the myenteric plexus (Auerbach's plexus). This controls peristalsis. Activity is initiated by the pacemaker cells (interstitial cells of Cajal). The gut has intrinsic peristaltic activity (basal electrical rhythm) due to its self-contained enteric nervous system. The rate can, of course, be modulated by the rest of the autonomic nervous system. The layers are not truly longitudinal or circular, rather the layers of muscle are helical with different pitches. The inner circular is helical with a steep pitch and the outer longitudinal is helical with a much shallower pitch. The coordinated contractions of these layers is called peristalsis and propels the food through the tract. Food in the GI tract is called a bolus (ball of food) from the mouth down to the stomach. After the stomach, the food is partially digested and semi-liquid, and is referred to as chyme. In the large intestine the remaining semi-solid substance is referred to as faeces. The circular muscle layer prevents food from travelling backward and the longitudinal layer shortens the tract. The thickness of the muscular layer varies in each part of the tract:
The cap of P. semilanceata is 5–25 mm (0.20–0.98 in) in diameter and 6–22 mm (0.24–0.87 in) tall. It varies in shape from sharply conical to bell-shaped, often with a prominent papilla (a nipple-shaped structure), and does not change shape considerably as it ages. The cap margin is initially rolled inward but unrolls to become straight or even curled upwards in maturity. The cap is hygrophanous, meaning it assumes different colors depending on its state of hydration. When it is moist, the cap is ochraceous to pale brown to dark chestnut brown, but darker in the center, often with a greenish-blue tinge. When moist, radial grooves (striations) can be seen on the cap that correspond to the positions of the gills underneath. When the cap is dry, it becomes much paler, a light yellow-brown color. Moist mushrooms have sticky surfaces that result from a thin gelatinous film called a pellicle. This film becomes apparent if a piece of the cap is broken by bending it back and peeling away the piece. When the cap dries from exposure to the sun, the film turns whitish and is no longer peelable. On the underside of the mushroom's cap, there are between 15 and 27 individual narrow gills that are moderately crowded together, and they have a narrowly adnexed to almost free attachment to the stipe. Their color is initially pale brown, but becomes dark gray to purple-brown with a lighter edge as the spores mature. The slender yellowish-brown stipe is 4.5–14 cm (1.8–5.5 in) long by 1–3.5 mm (0.04–0.14 in) thick, and usually slightly thicker towards the base.
== Reverse vaccinology with Meningococcus B == Attempts at reverse vaccinology first began with Meningococcus B (MenB). Meningococcus B caused over 50% of meningococcal meningitis, and scientists had been unable to create a successful vaccine for the pathogen because of the bacterium's unique structure. This bacterium's polysaccharide shell is identical to that of a human self-antigen, but its surface proteins vary greatly; and the lack of information about the surface proteins caused developing a vaccine to be extremely difficult. As a result, Rino Rappuoli and other scientists turned towards bioinformatics to design a functional vaccine. Rappuoli and others at the J. Craig Venter Institute first sequenced the MenB genome. Then, they scanned the sequenced genome for potential antigens. They found over 600 possible antigens, which were tested by expression in Escherichia coli. The most universally applicable antigens were used in the prototype vaccines. Several proved to function successfully in mice, however, these proteins alone did not effectively interact with the human immune system due to not inducing a good immune response in order for the protection to be achieved. Later, by addition of outer membrane vesicles that contain lipopolysaccharides from the purification of blebs on gram negative cultures. The addition of this adjuvant (previously identified by using conventional vaccinology approaches) enhanced immune response to the level that was required. Later, the vaccine was proven to be safe and effective in adult humans.
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== Cultivation == In Siddha medicine, it is known as kostum. It is being cultivated in Kashmir and the Himalayan regions for its root. It is related to the gingers and was originally part of the family Zingiberaceae. The plant grows very quickly. Propagation is by stem cutting. It needs sunshine but it also grows in slightly shady areas. It is cultivated in India for its use in traditional medicine and elsewhere as an ornamental.
=== Hospitals === The Assistance Publique–Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) preserves numerous archives, some dating back to the Middle Ages. The oldest hospitalization registers—approximately one million pages—have been digitized and made available online. “Population registers” document admissions, discharges, births, and deaths. Each hospital maintains two types of annual records: alphabetical indexes to locate individuals and chronological registers specifying civil status, reasons for admission, and, in some cases, causes of death.
It was thought that the heart was examined by Anubis and a variety of deities during the Weighing of the Heart ceremony. If the heart weighed more than the feather of Maat, which symbolized the ideal standard of behavior. If the scales balanced, it meant the heart's possessor had lived a just life and could enter the afterlife; if the heart was heavier, it would be devoured by the monster Ammit. The Chinese character for "heart", 心, derives from a comparatively realistic depiction of a heart (indicating the heart chambers) in seal script. The Chinese word xīn also takes the metaphorical meanings of "mind", "intention", or "core", and is often translated as "heart-mind" as the ancient Chinese believed the heart was the center of human cognition. In Chinese medicine, the heart is seen as the center of 神 shén "spirit, consciousness". The heart is associated with the small intestine, tongue, governs the six organs and five viscera, and belongs to fire in the five elements. The Sanskrit word for heart is hṛd or hṛdaya, found in the oldest surviving Sanskrit text, the Rigveda. In Sanskrit, it may mean both the anatomical object and "mind" or "soul", representing the seat of emotion. Hrd may be a cognate of the word for heart in Greek, Latin, and English. Many classical philosophers and scientists, including Aristotle, considered the heart the seat of thought, reason, or emotion, often disregarding the brain as contributing to those functions.
== Amino acid pKa values == pKa values of amino acid side chains play an important role in defining the pH-dependent characteristics of a protein. The pH-dependence of the activity displayed by enzymes and the pH-dependence of protein stability, for example, are properties that are determined by the pKa values of amino acid side chains. The pKa values of an amino acid side chain in solution is typically inferred from the pKa values of model compounds (compounds that are similar to the side chains of amino acids). See Amino acid for the pKa values of all amino acid side chains inferred in such a way. There are also numerous experimental studies that have yielded such values, for example by use of NMR spectroscopy. The table below lists the model pKa values that are often used in a protein pKa calculation, and contains a third column based on protein studies.
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== Taxonomy == HHV-6A and HHV-6B were recognized by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV) as distinct species in 2012. Human roseoloviruses include HHV-6A, HHV-6B and HHV-7. Herpesvirus was established as a genus in 1971 in the first report of the ICTV. This genus consisted of 23 viruses among 4 groups. In 1976, a second ICTV report was released in which this genus was elevated to the family level — the herpetoviridae. Because of possible confusion with viruses derived from reptiles, the family name was changed in the third report (1979) to herpesviridae. In this report, the family Herpesviridae was divided into 3 subfamilies (alphaherpesvirinae, betaherpesvirinae and gammaherpesvirinae) and 5 unnamed genera; 21 viruses were recognized as members of the family. In 2009, the order Herpesvirales was created. This was necessitated by the discovery that the herpes viruses of fish and molluscs are only distantly related to those of birds and mammals. Order Herpesvirales contains three families, the Herpesviridae, which contains the long-recognized herpesviruses of mammals, birds, and reptiles, plus two new families — the family Alloherpesviridae which incorporates herpes viruses of bony fish and frogs, and the family Malacoherpesviridae which contains viruses of molluscs. As of 2012, this order currently has 3 families, 4 subfamilies (1 unassigned), 18 genera (4 unassigned) and 97 species.
== Pathophysiology == Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune synaptopathy. The disorder occurs when the immune system malfunctions and generates antibodies that attack the body's tissues. The antibodies in MG attack a normal human protein, the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, or a related protein called MuSK, a muscle-specific kinase. Other, less frequent antibodies are found against LRP4, agrin, and titin proteins. Human leukocyte antigen haplotypes are associated with increased susceptibility to myasthenia gravis and other autoimmune disorders. Relatives of people with myasthenia gravis have a higher percentage of other immune disorders. The thymus gland cells form part of the body's immune system. In those with myasthenia gravis, the thymus gland is large and abnormal. It sometimes contains clusters of immune cells that indicate lymphoid hyperplasia, and the thymus gland may give wrong instructions to immune cells.
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3/8 S8 + 6 OH− → 2 S2− + SO2−3 + 3 H2O Adding back 6 Ca2+ cations from hydrated lime for the sake of electroneutrality, one obtains the overall reaction. This last reaction is consistent with the overall lime sulfur reaction mentioned in the USDA document. However, it does not account for all the details, such as the production of thiosulfate and sulfate among the end products of the reaction. Nevertheless, it is a good first-order approximation, and it usefully highlights the overall lime sulfur reaction scheme because the chemistry of reduced or partially oxidized forms of sulfur is particularly complex, and all the intermediate steps or involved mechanisms are hard to unravel. Moreover, once exposed to atmospheric oxygen and microbial activity, the lime sulfur system will undergo a rapid oxidation, and its different products will continue to evolve and eventually enter the natural sulfur cycle. The presence of thiosulfate in the lime sulfur reaction can be accounted for by the reaction between sulfite and elemental sulfur (or with sulfide and polysulfides), and that of sulfate by the complete oxidation of sulfite or thiosulfate, following a more complex reaction scheme. More information on calcium thiosulfate production is described in a patent by Hajjatie et al. (2006). Hajjatie et al. (2006) expressed the lime sulfur reaction in various ways depending on the degree of polymerization of calcium polysulfides, but the following reaction is probably the simplest of their series:
=== Combinatorial selection of RNA molecules enables in vitro evolution === Experimental methods were invented that allowed investigators to use large, diverse populations of RNA molecules to carry out in vitro molecular experiments that utilized powerful selective replication strategies used by geneticists, and which amount to evolution in the test tube. These experiments have been described using different names, the most common of which are "combinatorial selection", "in vitro selection", and SELEX (for Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment). These experiments have been used for isolating RNA molecules with a wide range of properties, from binding to particular proteins, to catalyzing particular reactions, to binding low molecular weight organic ligands. They have equal applicability to elucidating interactions and mechanisms that are known properties of naturally occurring RNA molecules to isolating RNA molecules with biochemical properties that are not known in nature. In developing in vitro selection technology for RNA, laboratory systems for synthesizing complex populations of RNA molecules were established, and used in conjunction with the selection of molecules with user-specified biochemical activities, and in vitro schemes for RNA replication. These steps can be viewed as (a) mutation, (b) selection, and (c) replication. Together, then, these three processes enable in vitro molecular evolution.
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It is a synthetic peptide of 31 amino acids, built to resemble the natural incretin hormone GLP-1. Because of its size and composition it is handled analytically like other therapeutic peptides, using chromatographic and mass spectrometric methods rather than the techniques typical of small organic drugs.
The substitution at position 8 removes the site recognised by dipeptidyl peptidase-4, the enzyme that destroys the native hormone within minutes. The linked lipophilic chain then binds circulating albumin, which further limits access by degradative enzymes and reduces renal loss. Together these features lengthen the effective circulation time considerably.
It acts at the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor, a G protein-coupled receptor that signals mainly through cyclic AMP. Activation is glucose dependent, meaning insulin release is stimulated more strongly when blood glucose is already elevated. Other tissues carrying the same receptor respond as well, which explains effects beyond glucose control.
Lower temperatures slow hydrolysis, oxidation and aggregation reactions that degrade the molecule over time. Lyophilised powder is more tolerant than solution, but both benefit from controlled conditions.