Serglycin (SG) proteoglycans (PG) are predominantly located intracellularly in secretory vesicles of hematopoietic cells such as macrophages, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), monocytes, basophils, neutrophils and mast cells (MCs). These PGs are characterized by their protease-resistant serine and glycine-rich core and also by their covalently attached negatively charged glycosaminoglycans (GAG) ...

OBJECTIVES To assess the validity, feasibility and acceptability of standard gamble (SG) and time trade-off (TTO) assessments in a multiethnic Asian population. METHODS Through in-depth interviews performed among Chinese, Malay, and Indian Singaporeans (education >or= 6 years), we assessed validity of SG/TTO methods for eliciting health preferences by hypothesizing that 1) SG/TTO scores for t...

Pharmacologically active stem of the oriental herbal adaptogen, Siberian ginseng, was employed for the ecofriendly synthesis of Siberian ginseng silver nanoparticles (Sg-AgNPs) and Siberian ginseng gold nanoparticles (Sg-AuNPs). First, for metabolic characterization of the sample, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry analysis (indicated the presence of eleutherosides A and E), total p...

Semenogelin (Sg), the major protein of the human semen coagulum, is present at high concentrations in seminal vesicle secretions. It is degraded by the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) to generate peptides of various biological activities that were found on and inside spermatozoa. Our aim was to determine the effect of Sg on capacitation, which is the series of transformations that spermatozoa m...

The current studies were undertaken to assess the ability of humoral immune response in breeding hens and the protective immunity provided by administration of purified Salmonella gallinarum (SG) porins to the progeny. Two hundred and ten broiler breeder hens, 53 weeks old, were divided into three groups and subcutaneously immunized via multiple sites at 0 and 10 days with either: a) 10 μg SG p...

Potential antioxidant effect of processed ginseng (sun ginseng, SG) on oxidative stress generated by tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP) was investigated in HepG2 cells. 3-(4,5-Dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide assay and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage test demonstrated that SG dose-dependently prevents a loss of cell viability against t-BHP-induced oxidative stress. Also, ...

The first phase of this s tudy was the production of contemporary straightbred (SB) and reciprocal crossbred (F 1 ) bulls by mating Angus (A) bulls to A and Santa Gertrudis (SG) cows and SG bulls to SG and A cows. Of the bulls produced during the 4-yr period, those used for breeding included 15 A, 15 SG, 8 A x SG and 8 SG x A. For 205-d weight and weight /day of age (W/DA) postweaning, A X SG h...

The moduli space Sg of smooth spin curves parameterizes pairs [C, η], where [C] ∈ Mg is a curve of genus g and η ∈ Pic(C) is a theta-characteristic. The finite forgetful map π : Sg → Mg has degree 22g and Sg is a disjoint union of two connected components S+ g and S− g of relative degrees 2g−1(2g +1) and 2g−1(2g − 1) corresponding to even and odd theta-characteristics respectively. A compactifi...