The capacity of roots to sense soil physicochemical parameters plays an essential role in maintaining plant nutritional and developmental functions under abiotic stress. These conditions generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) in plant tissues causing oxidation of proteins and lipids among others. Some plants have developed adaptive mechanisms to counteract such adverse conditions such as symbio...

BACKGROUND this study examines the linguistic features that may influence the occurrence of speech boundaries in fluent and stuttering individuals. AIM the study seeks to examine the influences of tone and position in a word on the occurrence of speech boundaries in stuttering and fluent adolescents and adults. METHOD one hundred and twenty individuals took part in this study, both male and...

Calmodulin-like neuronal Ca-binding proteins (NCBPs) are expressed primarily in neurons and contain a combination of four functional and nonfunctional EF-hand Ca-binding motifs. The guanylate cyclase-activating proteins 1±3 (GCAP1±3), the best characterized subgroup of NCBPs, function in the regulation of transmembrane guanylate cyclases 1±2 (GC1±2). The pairing of GCAPs and GCs in vivo depends...

Sir, Worldwide, most multiply antibiotic-resistant (MAR), and particularly carbapenem-resistant, Acinetobacter baumannii causing infections belong to global clone 1 (GC1) or global clone 2 (GC2). Though there have been incidences where a different clonal group was predominantly responsible for an epidemic outbreak, MAR isolates that are not members of these clones have been observed to cause in...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D-binding protein (DBP) genetic polymorphisms have been associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). DBP has an indirect role in macrophage activation; thus it was hypothesised that DBP is present in the airway and contributes to lung disease by this mechanism. METHODS 471 PiZZ subjects with α1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) were genotyped for tag single nuc...

Vitamin D is known for maintaining Ca homeostasis and bone structure, and may also decrease susceptibility to chronic and infectious diseases. However, data on vitamin D status and its predictors among Southeast Asian populations are limited. We evaluated the distribution and determinants (genetic and environmental) of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) concentrations among 504 middle-aged and...

In this research, Li1.25Mn0.125Ni0.125Co0.5O2 Nano powders, were synthesized using sol-gel method at different temperatures, lithium nitrate, manganese nickel cobalt nitrate as raw materials. Thermal and thermal gravimetric of TGA/DTA, characterization structure properties samples prepared by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) performed. Also, with scheme, i...

The repressive role of p53 on the human mitotic centromere-associated kinesin (MCAK) core promoter from ‒266 to +54, relative to the transcription start site, has been determined. The MCAK mRNA and protein levels were 2.1- and 3.0-fold higher, respectively, in HCT116 (p53‒/‒) than in HCT116 (p53+/+) cells. Enforced down-regulation of p53 levels either in HCT116 (p53+/+) cells by p53 RNAi treatm...