(1) Background: Root traits play important roles in acclimating to water and phosphorus (P) shortages. However, the relative importance of root size efficiency under these conditions is unknown. (2) Methods: This study investigated role water- P-limited environments. Three soybean genotypes with contrasting sizes were grown tall cylindrical pots compare grain yield, density, nutrient-uptake eff...

The effects of kainic acid (KA) on neurogenesis in the developing rat hippocampus were investigated. Neonatal [postnatal day (P) 7] rats received a single bilateral intracerebroventricular infusion of KA (50 nmol in 1.0 microl) or vehicle. At P14, P25, P40, and P60, the spatial and temporal relationships between the neurodegeneration and neurogenesis induced by KA were explored using terminal d...

Previously, we detected, by monoclonal antibody, three Moloney murine sarcoma virus (Mo-MSV)-activated intracellular transformation-associated proteins (TAP), (P66, P63, and P60) in several Mo-MSV-transformed rat cell lines (Chan et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun., 134: 1223-1230, 1986) and found the release of TAP into the extracellular medium with a change from three intracellular polypep...

Interleukin 5 (IL-5) is a multifunctional cytokine that regulates the proliferation and differentiation of hematopoietic cells including B cells and eosinophils. The murine IL-5 acts on target cells via an IL-5 specific high-affinity receptor (Kd approximately 150 pM) that has been proposed to be composed of at least two membrane polypeptide chains. The p60 component recognized by anti-murine I...

Protein p60 encoded by the iap gene is regarded as an essential gene product of Listeria monocytogenes. Here we report, however, the successful construction of a viable iap deletion mutant of L. monocytogenes EGD. The mutant, which produces no p60, shows abnormal septum formation and tends to form short filaments and hooked forms during logarithmic growth. These abnormal bacterial cells break i...

Human-monocyte-derived dendritic cells (MoDC) are very efficient in the uptake of Listeria monocytogenes, a gram-positive bacterium which is an important pathogen in humans and animals causing systemic infections with symptoms such as septicemia and meningitis. In this work, we analyzed the influence of blood plasma on the internalization of L. monocytogenes into human MoDC and compared the upt...