Dietary quality is an important limiting factor to adequate nutrition in many resource-poor settings. One aspect of dietary quality with respect to adequacy of micronutrient intakes is bioavailability. Several traditional household food-processing and preparation methods can be used to enhance the bioavailability of micronutrients in plant-based diets. These include thermal processing, mechanic...

Inoculum of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, with growing use in horticulture, is produced mainly in two technically different cultivation systems: in vivo culture in symbiosis with living host plants or in vitro culture in which the fungus life cycle develops in association with transformed roots. To evaluate the effectiveness and the infectivity of a defined isolate obtained by both production m...

Technetium is a long-lived (Tc: 213,000 year half-life) fission product found in nuclear waste and is one of the important isotopes of environmental concern. The known chemistry of technetium suggests that it should be found as pertechnetate, TcO4, in the extremely basic environment of the nuclear waste tanks at the Hanford site. However, other chemical forms of technetium are present in signif...

Despite the discovery of many ions and molecules that activate the Ca receptor, there are no known ligands that block this receptor. Reported here are the pharmacodynamic properties of a small molecule, NPS 2143, which acts as an antagonist at the Ca receptor. This compound blocked (IC50 of 43 nM) increases in cytoplasmic Ca concentrations [Ca ]i elicited by activating the Ca receptor in HEK 29...

In this study, molecular characterization of antimicrobial resistance of 116 Yersinia ruckeri strains isolated from rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) with enteric redmouth disease (ERM) in commercial fish farms in the Northern and Eastern regions of Turkey was performed. The putative Y. ruckeri strains isolated were confirmed by PCR assays specific to the 16S rRNA gene of bacterium Y. ruckeri...

S100B is a calcium-binding protein with both extracellular and intracellular regulatory activities in the mammalian brain. We have identified a novel interaction between S100B and the dopamine D2 receptor. Our results also suggest that the binding of S100B to the dopamine D2 receptor enhances receptor signaling. This conclusion is based on the following observations: 1) S100B and the third cyto...