Current bioremediation techniques for petroleum-contaminated soils are designed to remove contaminants as quickly and efficiently as possible, but not necessarily with postremediation soil biological quality as a primary objective. To test a simple postbioremediation technique, we added earthworms (Eisenia fetida) or wheat (Triticum aestivum) straw to petroleum land-farm soil and measured biolo...

This report refers to a body of investigations performed in support of experiments aboard the Space Shuttle, and designed to counteract the symptoms of Space Adapatation Syndrome, which resemble those of motion sickness on Earth. For these supporting studies we examined the autonomic manifestations of earth-based motion sickness. Heart rate, respiration rate, finger pulse volume and basal skin ...

The analysis of the state destructive block in gray forest soils Novosibirsk region was carried out. Forest, meadow under pasture and vegetable agrocenosis were selected as objects study. Soil-zoological soil-microbiological methods used work. biomass soil microorganisms, basal respiration, metabolic coefficient, species richness total numbers oribatid mites studied. Strong changes studied para...

We analyzed the effect of different tillage systems under land-use histories, on biological properties soil during one year. The experiment was carried out at a Petrocalcic Argiudoll Tres Arroyos (Buenos Aires, Argentina). specific aim to describe and compare organic carbon (SOC), basal respiration (BR) activities enzyme dehydrogenase, urease acid-phosphomonoesterase zero conventional soils pas...

Background: To date, impact of varicocelectomy on semen parameters is controversial mainly because clear preoperative selection criteria of patients to be submitted to varicocele surgery are still lacking. A comprehensive review on varicocele pathophysiology, and indications to varicocelectomy according to controlled studies and methanalises from literature and the Guidelines of the Scientific ...

BACKGROUND SIFD (Sideroblastic anemia with B-cell immunodeficiency, periodic fevers, and developmental delay) is a novel form of congenital sideroblastic anemia associated with B-cell immunodeficiency, periodic fevers, and developmental delay caused by mutations in the CCA-adding enzyme TRNT1, but the precise molecular pathophysiology is not known. RESULTS We show that the disease causing mut...

Introduction Mutations in TNFR1 cause the familial autosomal-dominant autoinflammatory disorder TNF receptor-associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS). Most TRAPS-associated mutations in TNFR1 disrupt normal receptor function and cause retention of the mutant protein in the ER. Cells expressing mutant TNFR1 have enhanced MAP Kinase activation at baseline and hyper-responsiveness to innate immune sti...