Phototrophic microbial mats are among the most diverse ecosystems in nature. These systems undergo daily cycles in redox potential caused by variations in light energy input and metabolic interactions among the microbial species. In this work, solid electrodes with controlled potentials were placed under mats to study the electron transfer processes between the electrode and the microbial mat. ...

Aim: The present study was carried out in 100 cattle to assess the antibody response to Haemorrhagic Septicaemia alum precipitated vaccine by Microtiter Agglutination Test (MAT), Indirect Haemaaglutination Assay (IHA) and Monoclonal Antibody based Indirect Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA). Materials and Methods: One hundred cattle from a local gaushala of Ludhiana were vaccinated with ...

BACKGROUND Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with complex pathogenic pathways involving defects in apoptosis mechanisms. Recently, mesenteric adipose tissue (MAT) has been associated with CD ethiopathology, since adipose thickening is detected close to the affected intestinal area. However, the potential role of altered apoptosis in MAT of CD has not been addressed. AIMS To evaluate apoptosi...

Incompatibility systems in which individuals bearing identical alleles reject each other favor the maintenance of a diversity of alleles. Mushroom mating type loci (MAT) encode for dozens or hundreds of incompatibility alleles whose loss from the population is greatly restricted through negative frequency selection, leading to a system of alleles with highly divergent sequences. Here, we use DN...

The purpose of this review is to characterize the preoperative assessment of meniscal allograft transplantation (MAT) candidates, to detail MAT surgical techniques, and to evaluate current clinical outcome data on MAT. The MAT candidate is typically less than 50 years old and has a history of knee injury, previous meniscus surgery, and persistent pain. Physical exam generally reveals knee pain ...

We cloned the pheromone precursor genes of Podospora anserina in order to elucidate their role in the biology of this fungus. The mfp gene encodes a 24-amino-acid polypeptide finished by the CAAX motif, characteristic of fungal lipopeptide pheromone precursors similar to the a-factor precursor of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The mfm gene encodes a 221-amino-acid polypeptide, which is related to th...

Peptidyl arms extending from one protein domain to another protein domain mediate many important interactions in biology. A well-studied example of this type of protein-protein interaction occurs between the yeast homeodomain proteins, MAT alpha2 and MAT a1, which form a high-affinity heterodimer on DNA. The carboxyl-terminal arm extending from MAT alpha2 to MAT a1 has been proposed to produce ...

background: leptospirosis is the most common zoonosis widespread in tropical and temperate countries with low social-economic status. we aimed to compare an elisa kit with an in-house elisa assay to test the serum samples of the patients who were suspicious of leptospirosis according to their clinical symptoms.   methods: a total of 282 serum samples of patients suspicious of leptospirosis admi...

Medial Axis Transform (MAT) is one of the promising tools used for the shape recognition and it poses the advantages like space and complexity reduction, ease of processing for shape recognition. MAT representation of shapes uses object centred co-ordinate system that represents bending, elongation and thickness. But MAT of the objects is very much sensitive to small perturbations of its bounda...

Two mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been isolated from normal haploid MAT alpha strains and characterized as having temperature-sensitive, pleiotropic phenotypes for functions associated with mating. At the permissive temperature, 23 degrees C, they were found to behave as normal MAT alpha haploids with respect to mating efficiency, sporulation in diploids formed with MAT a strains, se...