The impact of acute antibody-mediated rejection (AAMR) on the long-term outcome on ABOincompatible (ABOIOur results indicate that AAMR has a heavy impact on the long-term outcome and preoperative DSHA appears to have a more significant association with poor graft outcomes than anti-blood group antibodies, even in ABOI kidney transplantation.

Since several anti-cancer drugs interact with cell membrane lipids, the effects of anti-cancer dietary factors on liposomal membranes with different lipid composition were comparatively studied by measuring fluorescence polarization. Fluidity was imparted on both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions of lipid bilayers by decreasing cholesterol and increasing unsaturated phosphatidylcholine in membranes. At 0.625-10 microM, (-)-epigallocatechin gallate, genistein, apigenin, resveratrol and a reference anti-cancer drug, doxorubicin, rigidified the tumor cell model membranes consisting of 20 mol% cholesterol and 80 mol% phosphatidylcholine with the acyl chain 18:1/16:0 ratio of 1.0, but not daidzein. They were more effective on the membrane core than the membrane surface. Quercetin showed a biphasic effect on the hydrophobic regions of membrane lipid bilayers to rigidify above 5 microM and fluidize below 2.5 microM. In contrast, anti-cancer dietary factors and doxorubicin were not or much less effective in rigidifying the normal cell model membranes consisting of 40 mol% cholesterol and 60 mol% phosphatidylcholine with the acyl chain 18:1/16:0 ratio of 0.5. The membrane-rigidifying effects were greater depending on a decrease of the cholesterol/phosphatidylcholine ratio and an increase of the phosphatidylcholine unsaturation degree. Membrane-active dietary factors and doxorubicin inhibited the growth of mouse myeloma cells at 10-100 microM, while the growth inhibition by membrane-inactive daidzein was relatively weak. Anti-cancer dietary factors appear to act on more fluid membranes like tumor cells as well as doxorubicin to induce rigidification, especially in the hydrocarbon core of membrane lipids, which is determined by the composition of cholesterol and unsaturated phospholipids.

The antioxidant activity of 28 natural and synthetic hydroxyflavonoids was estimated through the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhyrazyl (DPPH) radical, superoxide scavenging activities and lipid peroxidation inhibition. The result showed the hydroxylation pattern had close relationship with the appearance of activities.

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The bio-activity of the brownish scale of onion (Allium cepa) was studied together with identifying the active components and addressing the mode of action. A crude MeOH extract (0.5-1.0 mg/ml) showed the inhibitory effects on human platelet aggregation induced by collagen, adenosine 5′-diphosphate (ADP), thrombin and epinephrine. The anti-platelet extract (1.0 µg/ml) rigidified liposomal membranes by acting on the hydrocarbon core more intensively than the surface of membrane lipid bilayers. Serial solvent extractions and chromatographic purifications provided four isolates which were structurally identified as different quercetin dimers (1 and 2), quercetin (3) and quercetin-4′-glucoside (4). The flavonoidal components 1, 3, 2 and 4 (0.5-2 mM) inhibited collagen-induced platelet aggregation in increasing order of intensity. More active 1 and 3 (2 mM) also dissociated the aggregates produced by ADP. The anti-platelet flavonoids (0.25-10 µM) acted on liposomes of the lipid composition resembling human platelets to cause membrane rigidification which was greatest in the order of 1, 2, 3 and 4. The interaction with membrane lipids to modify membrane fluidity appears to be partly responsible for the anti-aggregatory and disaggregatory effects on human platelets. Although the inedible scale of onion is usually regarded as waste, it has the possibility to be a medicinal resource.