Detection of chelatable zinc (Zn(2+)) in biological studies has attracted much attention recently, because chelatable Zn(2+) plays important roles in many biological systems. Lanthanide complexes (Eu(3+), Tb(3+), etc.) have excellent spectroscopic properties for biological applications, such as long luminescence lifetimes of the order of milliseconds, a large Stoke's shift of >200 nm, and high ...

Zeugodacus cucurbitae is an important pest of fruit and vegetable crops in tropical subtropical regions, high-temperature stress can have different effects on the development reproduction successive generations Z. cucurbitae. To clarify multigenerational short-time high temperature cucurbitae, newly emerged adults contemporary (F1 generation) next generation (F2 were exposed to short-term tempe...

The present work was aimed to prepare dried vegetarian soup supplemented with some legumes. Potatoes, hull-less barley flour, carrot, tomatoes, onion, garlic, salt, black pepper, coriander and cumin (served as F1) were used in combination with lentil, green pea and chickpea to formulate F2, F3, and F4, respectively. Chemical, physical, rheological and sensory evaluation was performed. The resul...

Zinc (Zn) availability and mobility in soils is controlled by its interaction with the soil matrix and amendments. Contradicting evidence has been reported for factors influencing Zn behavior in soils. The aim of this study was to investigate the Zn sorption in selected acid, calcareous and gypsiferous soils with different background electrolytes (Na+, K+ and H2PO4, NO3 and Cl backgrounds). Iso...

Avian influenza is a significant economic burden on the poultry industry in geographical regions where it is enzootic. It also poses a public health concern when avian influenza subtypes infect humans, often with high mortality. Understanding viral genetic factors which positively contribute to influenza A virus (IAV) fitness - infectivity, spread and pathogenesis - is of great importance both ...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary zinc (Zn), environmental temperatures and Zn×temperature interaction on growth, feathering score and mineral composition of broilers. A total of 256 d-old Avian male broiler chicks were randomly allocated to a 4×2 factorial arrangement with four corn-soybean meal basal diets (containing 44 mg Zn/kg) supplemented with 0, 40, 60 mg/kg Zn (Die...

For P ∈ F2[z] with P (0) = 1 and deg(P ) ≥ 1, let A = A(P ) be the unique subset of N such that ∑ n≥0 p(A, n)zn ≡ P (z) (mod 2), where p(A, n) is the number of partitions of n with parts in A. Let p be an odd prime number, and let P be irreducible of order p ; i.e., p is the smallest positive integer such that P divides 1+ zp in F2[z]. N. Baccar proved that the elements of A(P ) of the form 2km...

Anthropogenic sources account for much of the zinc (Zn) in the environment. Constraining the isotopic composition of anthropogenic Zn is therefore essential to understanding the environmental biogeochemical cycling of Zn isotopes. This study examines the isotopic variability in several different categories of anthropogenic Zn. Pure Znmetal and Zn dust are the rawmaterials used in many Zn-contai...

We have designed a unique strategy to obtain a zinc-salen functionalized porous polymer (Zn@SBMMP) with high zinc content (15.3 wt%) by an easy one-step, cost effective and scalable process, which shows unprecedented catalytic efficiency in the CO2 fixation reaction via cycloaddition of CO2 with epoxides. We hypothesize that a high density of Zn-Schiff base/salen units present in the porous pol...

We previously reported the development of high affinity Zn(2+) FRET sensors based on the Zn(2+)-mediated interaction between the CXXC motifs present in the copper chaperone proteins ATOX1 and WD4. By systematically substituting several of these cysteines for methionines, we constructed sensor variants that retain a high affinity for Cu(+), while effectively abolishing their ability to form stab...