8th International Congress on Amino Acids and Proteins
5-9 September, 2003, Rome (Italy)
Honorary President: Gert Lubec (Austria)        President and Organizer: Simone Beninati (Italy)
Presidents: K. Igarashi (Japan); J.B. Lombardini (USA)
Pre-registered participants

AUSTRIA
W. Gottardi
M. Nagl (Properties of N-chlorotaurine in the human defense system and its application as an antimicrobial agent in human medicine)
BANGLA-DESH
I.Kabir (Detection of tau protein in the cerebrospinal of lathyritic patients)
BRAZIL
R.A. Azevedo (1-Characterization of storage proteins of maize endosperm mutants; 2-Effect of cadmium treatment on soluble amino acids concentration and the activity of antioxidant enzymes in plants; 3- Lysine metabolism in sorghum) (POSTERS)
M.C. Cintra Gomes Marcondes (1-Effects of leucine supplemented diet on protein metabolism in young tumor bearing rats; 2-Placental cell activity in pregnant tumor bearing rats submitted to leucine supplemented diet)
CANADA
W. Chan
ENGLAND
A.Baydoun
A. Briddon
D. Gostick
S. Moncada
FRANCE
F. Bymaster (NMDA agonists and neurodegeneration)
P. Meffre
B. Mehul
GERMANY
H. Brückner
K. Burger (New routes to non-proteinogenic amino acids)
E.I. Closs
H.-J. Günther
B.D. Kretschmer
D. Leibfritz (Glutamine metabolism and osmoregulation in neural cells)
G. Munch
J. Pietzsch (Hemin (Fe3+)-mediated oxidation of proteins: pathological implications)
W.J. Schmidt
HUNGARY
J. Csapó (1-Influence of the microwave treatment on the D-amino acid content of meat; 2-Changing the free D-amino acid content of different types of cheeses influenced by the ripening period; 3-Determination of the protein of bacterial origin from the digestive system of cocks based on D-amino acid (D-Asp, D-Glu, D-Ala) content of excreta) (POSTERS)
ISRAEL
M. Youdim (Melanin and Parkinson's disease)
ITALY
E. Agostinelli
S. Beninati
S. Bettuzzi
F. Botrè
P. Calabresi
A.Cupello (Modulation of the expression of GABAA receptors in rat cerebellar granule cells in culture)
A. Lentini
B. Mondovì (Amine oxidases)
F. Santangelo (The regulation of thiols and glutathione a s a key factor of cell life: systemic effect of N-acetylcysteine on the modulation of inflammation)
M.P. Sperandeo (Functional studies of SLC7A7mutations found in patients affected by lusinuric protein intolerance)

 		JAPAN
K. Hayase
The quality of dietary protein affects urea synthesis in rats (POSTER)
K. Igarashi (1-Polyamine effect protein synthesis ; 2-Polyamine transport)
N. Nagahara (Metabolic regulation of mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase)
R. Onodera (Arginine synthesis in ruminant animals)
T. Oshima (Stabilizing effects of unusual polyamines on DNA and RNA)
LETTONIA
I.Liepina (Molecular modeling of gelsolin and gelsolin peptides binding to their conformation regulators - phosphoinositide and Ca++ ions)
NETHERLANDS
H. Blom
POLAND
M. Chorazy (Taurine chloramine modulates cytokine production by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from healthy donors and RA patients)
E. Kontny (Anti-inflammatory activities of taurine chloramine. Implications for pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis)
M. Wrobel
RUSSIA
Y.A. Zolotarev
SCOTLAND
H.M. Wallace (Polyamine analogues and cancer chemotherapy)
SPAIN
J.L. Albasanz Herrero
D. Leòn Navarro
M. Martin-Lopez (Effect of chronic glutamate administration to pregnant rats during gestation on metabotropic glutamate receptors from mothers and full-term fetuses brain.)
A.Novelli
SWEDEN
T. Archer (Amino acids and Parkinson's disease)
M. Herrera-Marschitz
SWITZERLAND
H. Langen
A. Pellegrini (Antimicrobial peptides)
T. Steinhoff (ProteinChips ® in proteomics: a platform for rapid biomarker discovery, validation and identification)
UKRAINE
N. Shtemenko (Free amino acids from different tissues and their reactivity in chelation and complex-formation with metals)
USA
J. Hlavka (Nemifitide, a novel antidepressant peptide)
R.M. Kostrzewa (L-DOPA and glutamate involvement in Parkinson's disease)
F. Leibach
J.B. Lombardini
B.K. Singh
L. Walker (Proteins in Alzheimer's disease)

Organizing Secretary A. Lentini
Department of Biology University of Rome
"Tor Vergata"Via della Ricerca Scientifica 00133 Rome - Italy
Tel/FAX -39 06 72594350 E-Mail: aminoacids@bio.uniroma2.it
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