Research Article

The Role of Glutamine in the Prevention of Ultraviolet-C-Induced Platelet Activation

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Glutamine prevents UV-C-induced phosphorylation of cPLA2: the immune-precipitated cPLA2 was analyzed by immunoblotting the same blot with anti-cPLA2 or anti-P-cPLA2. The respective bar graph represents the association ratio of cPLA2 to P-cPLA2. The first column is assigned a value 1 for relative comparison. The histogram represents the results of 3 independent experiments from the same platelet collection with standard deviation. A significant decrease in P-cPLA2 is seen as against the cPLA2 when mouse platelets were incubated with glutamine before UV-C exposure. , measured by t-test.