Obesity is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. There has been a significant worsening of the obesity epidemic mainly due to alterations in dietary intake and energy expenditure. Alternatively, cachexia, or pathologic weight loss, is a significant problem for individuals with chronic disease. Despite their obvious differences, both processes involve hormones that regulate a...

Protein Family Biochemical Function Representative Proteins H. sapiens D. melanogaster C. elegans A. thaliana S. cerevisiae Actin Nucleators Formins associates with barbed ends, promotes nucleation Spir nucleates unbranched fi laments Spir-1, Spir-2 Spir/spire Arp2/3 complex polymerizes Y-branched fi lament networks ARP2,

This paper reviews the Hofer (1984, 1996) and Field (1985, 1994) models on relationships as regulators, suggesting that relationships regulate optimal stimulation and thereby modulate arousal levels and attenuate stress. In these models, the behavioral, physiological and biochemical rhythms of individuals become synchronized within close relationships like mother-infant and peer relationships b...

Protein family Biochemical function Representative Proteins H. sapiens D. melanogaster C. elegans A. thaliana S. cerevisiae S. pombe

shoot tips from actively growing, greenhouse maintained plants of kalanchoe blossfeldiana were cultured in vitro for shoot proliferation and root initiation on murashige and skoog (ms) basal medium supplemented with naa and ba, both in concentrations of 0.00, 0.50, 1.00 and 2.00 mg l-1. results showed that the maximum plantlets height (7.012 cm), node number (4.516), root number (8.860) and roo...

Protein family Biochemical function Representative Proteins H. sapiens D. melanogaster C. elegans A. thaliana S. cerevisiae S. pombe classical microtubule

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Two articles in this issue of Journal of Biology prompt a brief reflection on the regulation of adaptive immune responses. (I suspect many, if not most, non-immuno-logical readers may find immunology impenetrable, and I cannot promise that what follows will reassure them, so they may like to click over to something else – Articles by Semple on diabetes [1], or Garfield and Wray on the evolution...

background: fenugreek (trigonella foenum - graecum l.) is an annual medicinal plant belongs to the legume family and has anti-diabetic, anti-fertility, anticancer, anti-microbial, anti-parasitic and hypocholesterolaemic effects. objective: evaluation of growth and trigonelline /mucilage content in fenugreek under application of plant growth regulators (pgr). methods: the experiment was conducte...