The green revolution fulfilled the food demand of crowded millions. From the time of green revolution to till date high yielding and fertilizer responsive varieties have evolved to increase the production per unit area. To improve the productivity only major nutrients are concentrated almost in all crops. Though the importance of micronutrient realized during past decades in most of the crops b...

Congenital complement deficiency has been described in disseminated Neisseria infections. Its occurrences in humans with other kinds of infections have not been described. In the past, CH50 determinations have been used to detect these deficiencies, but this procedure is time consuming and cumbersome. A method of determining the presence of late component deficiencies or defects is described wh...

Vitamin B12 (cobalamin, Cbl, B12) is an indispensable water-soluble micronutrient that serves as a coenzyme for cytosolic methionine synthase (MS) and mitochondrial methylmalonyl-CoA mutase (MCM). Deficiency of Cbl, whether nutritional or due to inborn errors of Cbl metabolism, inactivate MS and MCM leading to the accumulation of homocysteine (Hcy) and methylmalonic acid (MMA), respectively. In...

Radioisotope studies of bilirubin turnover, ferrokinetics, and red cell survival ((51)Cr) in a patient with erythrocyte PK deficiency have provided evidence for prompt reticulocyte sequestration and destruction by the reticuloendothelial system. More mature erythrocytes appeared to survive well despite their deficiency of PK. PK-deficient reticulocytes, dependent upon oxidative phosphorylation ...

Interaction between microbial community and invading Escherichia 1 coli O157:H7 in soils from vegetable fields 2 Zhiyuan Yao, Haizhen Wang # , Laosheng Wu, Jianjun Wu, Philip C Brookes, Jianming 3 Xu # 4 5 Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, Zhejiang Provincial Key 6 Laboratory of Subtropical Soil and Plant Nutrition, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China 7 8 ...

Twenty-four male weanling rats were randomly divided into two treatment groups, namely a copper-adequate (8 mg Cu/kg diet) or a copper-deficient (0.85 mg Cu/kg diet) group. Feed and distilled, deionized water were provided ad libitum. After 7 weeks, plasma lipid, protein and apolipoprotein concentrations of high density lipoproteins (HDL) and subfractions of HDL were determined. Significant ele...

Department of Surgery, Katuri Medical College and Hospital, Guntur-5222019, Andhra Pradesh, India. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT Krishna river flows over a distance of more than 700 (seven hundred) kms covering three states i.e.; Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. Thus the water content ...

Many studies have determined that AQP1 plays an important role in edema formation and resolution in various tissues via water transport across the cell membrane. The aim of this research was to determine both if and how AQP1 is associated with cardiac ischemic injury, particularly the development of edema following myocardial infarction (MI). AQP1+/+ and AQP1-/- mice were used to create the MI ...