The endangered marsh herb, Caldesia grandis, is native to China. We investigated the spatial structure of the genetic variation of three populations of C. grandis using RAPD markers and spatial autocorrelation analysis, based on the method of equal distance interval. A total of 157 individuals were sampled from four patches collected from the region of Hunan and Yunnan Provinces, China. A...

Proopiomelanocortin (POMC) cDNA was cloned from sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) pituitary gland. A 743 nucleotide sequence was obtained coding for the following sequences flanked by sets of proteolytic cleavage sites: ACTH (Ser(88)-Met(127)), alpha-MSH (Ser(88)-Gly(102)), CLIP (Pro(106)-Met(127)), beta-LPH (Glu(131)-Gln(208)), gamma-LPH (Glu(131)-Ser(175)), beta-MSH (Asp(159)-Ser(175)), and bet...

Injury to red blood cell (RBC) membrane by oxidative stress is of clinical importance in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) which leads to oxidative stress (OE) during disease progression. Here, we studied the impact of this stress on injury to RBC membrane. Blood samples from both healthy volunteers (HV, n = 11) and controlled COPD patients (n=43) were divided according to their GOLD...

Soybean is known for its high protein content, which the reason why it widely used as one of main food sources humans and animals. In order to increase soybean yield, farmers tend use foliar mineral fertilizer plant growth regulator this crop. Furthermore, a starter application into soil without may cause low yield contents soybean. The aim investigation was estimate effects different fertilize...

Abstract Background Incidence of pulmonary aspergillosis is rising worldwide, owing to an increased population immunocompromised patients. Notable potential the route has been witnessed in antifungal delivery due distinct advantages direct lung targeting and first-pass evasion. The current research reports biomimetic surface-active lipid-polymer hybrid (LPH) nanoparticles (NPs) voriconazole, em...

A special homotopy continuation method, as a combination of the polyhedral homotopy and the linear product homotopy, is proposed for computing all the isolated solutions to a special class of polynomial systems. The root number bound of this method is between the total degree bound and the mixed volume bound and can be easily computed. The new algorithm has been implemented as a program called ...

Cushing's syndrome, caused by ectopic ACTH production during Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, raises difficult therapeutic problems. We report a case of clinical and biological efficacy of long acting somatostatin (SMS) in this condition. In a short term study with 200 micrograms SMS bid, symptoms of hypercorticism disappeared while cortisol and ACTH serum concentrations fell below the normal values...

For n ≥ 2, let Bn denote the unit ball in R, and for p ≥ 1 let L denote the Banach space of p-summable functions on Bn. Let L p h(Bn) denote the subspace of harmonic functions on Bn that are p-summable. When n = 2, we often write D instead of B2, and we let A denote the Bergman space of analytic functions in L. Let ω be a function in L. We are interested in finding the best approximation to ω i...

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In what are now the warm deserts of American Southwest, direct effects changing climate on plant distributions typically viewed as principal driver vegetation changes that followed late Pleistocene–Holocene transition (LPH). However, at a semi-arid site in eastern Mojave Desert, to modern, shrub-dominated desert scrub xeric, south-aspect hillslopes occurred only after erosion relatively thick s...