Nucleotide News

This area of our website is for those visitors who want to keep up-to-date with all the latest nucleotide related developments. Including news on the latest scientific papers and research publications as they are released it will also keep you in the know about worldwide events, exhibitions and seminars relating to the world of Nucleotides.

For returning visitors this section acts as a very handy overview of the updates and new additions to our site, To make sure you don’t miss a thing!


New Additions to the Site

19 February, 2010

We are always on the lookout to keep the site up-to-date but we cannot be aware of everything that’s out there so we also rely heavily on your help to point us in the right direction.

If anyone knows of any papers or published works that they think deserve inclusion in our collection please get in touch. Submit the link for approval via the contact area of our site and we'll give you a mention here.

This month we have added some short sections on Nucleotides and Infants, Nucleotides and Intestinal Health and Nucleotides and Immunity. If anyone has more to add please drop me an email on gnelson(at)nucleotides4health.org .

Thanks again to everyone who gets in touch, for whatever reason. Interaction and knowledge-sharing was always a big part of the idea behind Nucleotides for Health in the hope that more research and investigation is conducted into the subject.

A list of the papers that have been added in recent weeks appear below:

Gastrointestinal Publications:

Christofi, F. L. Purinergic receptors and gastrointestinal secretomotor function Purinergic Signalling (2008) 4:213–236

Kimura,Y., Turner, J. R., Braasch,D. A. and Buddington R. K., Lumenal adenosine and AMP rapidly increase glucose transport, Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 289: G1007–G1014, 2005

Nutritional Publications:

Evans M. E., Tian, J., Gu, L. H., Jones D. P., and Ziegler, T. R. Dietary Supplementation With Orotate and Uracil Increases Adaptive Growth of Jejunal Mucosa After Massive Small Bowel Resection in Rats Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 29, No. 5, 315-321 (2005)

Michaelidoua A. and Steijns J. Nutritional and technological aspects of minor bioactive components in milk and whey: Growth factors, vitamins and nucleotides International Dairy Journal, Volume 16, Issue 11, November 2006, Pages 1421-1426

Perez, M. J., Sanchez-Medina, F., Torres, M., Gil, A. and Suarez, A. Dietary Nucleotides Enhance the Liver Redox State and Protein Synthesis in Cirrhotic Rats J. Nutr. 134: 2504–2508, 2004.

Rodríguez-Serrano F, Ríos A, Marchal JA, Caba O, Martínez-Amat A, Prados J, Melguizo C, Ortiz R, Perán M, Boulaiz H, Vélez C, Alvarez P, Aránega A Differentiation of Intestinal Epithelial Cells Mediated by Cell Confluence and/or Exogenous Nucleoside Supplementation.Cells Tissues Organs. 2010 Jan 14.

Added to the N4H Database 19/02/2010

A full list of papers can be found on our publications pages.

That’s all for this week. Once again, if anyone else has knowledge of anything nucleotide-related that you feel should be mentioned on these pages please don’t hesitate to get in touch via our contact section.

Until then, regards - Gordon