The SCOOBy Lab, Department of Oceanography, Texas A1M University, College Station, TX 77843-3146, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Alaska Stable Isotope Facility: Water and Environmental Research Center/School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, Duckering Building, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, 99775-5860, USA University of Southern California, 3616 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA, 900...

Zinc oxide is a well established sensor material for detection of various organic molecules. In a quest of developing a sensor array for quality assessment of black tea, we have attempted developing pure and doped nanocrystalline zinc oxide pellet based sensors. The materials are sintered at 3500C and 5000C separately for six and three hours respectively. We obtained a highly reproducible senso...

Zymomonas mobilis is a natural ethanologen with many desirable industrial biocatalyst characteristics. In this review, we will discuss work to develop Z. mobilis as a model system for biofuel production from the perspectives of substrate utilization, development for industrial robustness, potential product spectrum, strain evaluation and fermentation strategies. This review also encompasses per...

Pulmonary responses to the air pollutant, ozone, are increased in obesity. Both obesity and ozone cause changes in systemic metabolism. Consequently, we examined the impact of ozone on the lung metabolomes of obese and lean mice. Lean wildtype and obese db/db mice were exposed to acute ozone (2 ppm for 3 h) or air. 24 hours later, the lungs were excised, flushed with PBS to remove blood and ana...

The aim of the study was to compare the effect of maximal exercise (ME) on paraoxonase (PON) and arylesterase (ARE) activity depending on lifestyle in respect to physical activity. The study was performed on 46 young men divided into two groups: sedentary (S) and physically active (PA). All participants performed ME on a treadmill. PON1 activities, FRAP, uric acid, bilirubin, TBARS, and lipid p...

This study examined acid-catalyzed mechanocatalytic pretreatment of birch sawdust without a separate impregnation step. Catalyst amount and time were the key variables. Pretreated material was mixed with water for hydrolysis (100 °C, 60 min). The efficient release total reducing sugars from is significant to path towards biofuels biochemicals. Based on results, structure surface changed as func...

OBJECTIVE To explore the antispermatogenic and testicular antisteroidogenic activities of Feronia limonia fruit pulp southern India. METHODS Fourty Wistar male albino rats (Rattus norvegicus) were equally divided into four groups. Experimental groups were administered with the ethanolic extract of Feronia limonia (F. limoni) fruit pulp at doses of 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight once daily for ...

BACKGROUND: Osteoporosis is a condition of reduced bone mineral density (BMD) which leads to increased bone fragility and a marked increase in the risk of fractures. Postmenopausal osteoporosis affects women from one to twenty years after menopause. During these years, menopausal hormonal changes cause alterations in the serum levels of various biochemicals which reflect the bone losses. OBJECT...

233 All material systems are dynamic. From subatomic particles, through atoms, to molecules and biochemicals, processes express and create complex patterns of vibrations (cycles) over time. Living systems, as conventionally defined by biology, express complex dynamic patterns of vibration over large ranges of frequencies. The human body emits dynamic patterns of thermal radiation as well as ele...

To determine if prenatal androgens prevent activation of GnRH neurons in response to estradiol stimulation, Fos colocalization with GnRH was compared in the brains of normal female lambs, normal males, and androgenized females in response to a surge-inducing dose of estradiol. Blood samples were collected every 1-2 h for 6 h before estradiol treatment up to the time of sacrifice at 17-19 h post...