The structure of cotylenin A, a potent plant-growth stimulant with the most complex molecule in cotylenins from Cladosporium fungus sp. 501-7W, was analyzed again by HMBC experiments and X-ray crystallography of its diacetyl-dihydroderivative. The previously proposed stereostructure of cotylenin A was thus completely confirmed.

Levels of histone acetylation and phosphorylation have been contrasted in two developmental states of Drosophila melanogaster. The 0-2 h nuclei of the syncitial blastula are characterized by rapid mitoses and DNA replication, but there is very little transcription. In the 18 h embryo there is considerable transcription and the mitotic rate is much slower. It has been found that (1) histone H1 f...

IN RECENT YEARS the automated diacetyl monoxime (DAM) reaction as adapted to the AutoAnalyzer has become the method of choice in many clinical laboratories for the determination of urea in biologic fluids. The method is based on the condensation of urea with diacetyl, the latter usually being liberated from the monoxime in the presence of one of various acid reagents (1, 2). The reaction, howev...

Goat milk, a highly nutritious product is widely used in cheese making. In order to properly select suitable milk samples for production, fifty-five of raw goat’s were collected from eight farms the North-West Morocco analyze their counts various mesophilic bacteria and determining physicochemical characteristics during different seasons year. Lactic acid (LAB) isolated, identified, screened se...

Mononuclear and dinuclear ruthenium(III) complexes with bis-β-diketonato ligands (denoted by [Ru(acac)(2)(L-LH)] and [Ru(acac)(2)(L-L)Ru(acac)(2)], respectively) were synthesized, where acac, L-LH(-) and L-L(2-) denote acetylacetonato, monoprotonated and unprotonated bis-β-diketonato ligands, respectively. The following three ligands were used as the bis-β-diketonato ligand (L-L(2-)): 1,2-diace...

Adults perform better than juveniles in food-seeking tasks. Using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to probe the neural mechanisms underlying behavioral maturation, we found that adults and juveniles require different combinations of sensory neurons to generate age-specific food-seeking behavior. We first show that adults and juveniles differ in their response to and preference for food-assoc...

Onset and termination of electric stimulation may result in "make" and "break" excitation of the heart tissue. Wikswo et al. (30) explained both types of stimulations by virtual electrode polarization. Make excitation propagates from depolarized regions (virtual cathodes). Break excitation propagates from hyperpolarized regions (virtual anodes). However, these studies were limited to strong sti...