The synthetic polyether polyethylene glycol (PEG) with a molecular weight of 20,000 was anaerobically degraded in enrichment cultures inoculated with mud of limnic and marine origins. Three strains (Gra PEG 1, Gra PEG 2, and Ko PEG 2) of rod-shaped, gram-negative, nonsporeforming, strictly anaerobic bacteria were isolated in mineral medium with PEG as the sole source of carbon and energy. All s...

Hypothesis tests for the presence of new sources of Poisson counts amidst background processes are frequently performed in high energy physics (HEP), gamma ray astronomy (GRA), and other branches of science. While there are conceptual issues already when the mean rate of background is precisely known, the issues are even more difficult when the mean background rate has non-negligible uncertaint...

Patients with glucocorticoid-remediable aldosteronism (GRA) possess a chimeric gene resulting from fusion of the genes encoding steroid aldosterone synthase and 11 beta-hydroxylase. In the adrenal zona fasciculata, this may lead to ectopic expression under ACTH control of aldosterone synthase activity and increased formation of cortisol C18 oxidation products. We assessed mineralocorticoid and ...

Me tá te se é uma re a ção atra en te para a con ver são de óle os e gor du ras em pro du tos quí mi cos úte is. Assim, a me tá te se de és te res de áci dos gra xos in sa tu ra dos (cons ti tu in tes bá si cos de óle os e gor du ras) é uma rota con ve ni en te para a sín te se de diés te res in sa tu ra dos, que po dem ser usa dos como in ter me diá ri os na pro du ção de po lí me ros e na quí...

BACKGROUND Ulcer type and non-ulcer type interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndromes (IC/BPS) are considered different disease entities. Thus, intravesical botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) treatment outcomes could differ for each entity. OBJECTIVES To evaluate and compare the treatment outcomes of BoNT-A injections for treatment of each IC/BPS type. STUDY DESIGN Prospective interventional study....