BACKGROUND Analysis of global changes in gene transcription and translation by systems-based genomics and proteomics approaches provides only indirect information about protein function. In many cases, enzymatic activity fails to correlate with transcription or translation levels. Therefore, a direct method for broadly determining activities of an entire class of enzymes on a genome-wide scale ...

Interactions of a facultative anaerobic bacterial isolate named Paenibacillus sp. JG-TB8 with U(VI) were studied under oxic and anoxic conditions in order to assess the influence of the oxygen-dependent cell metabolism on microbial uranium mobilization and immobilization. We demonstrated that aerobically and anaerobically grown cells of Paenibacillus sp. JG-TB8 accumulate uranium from aqueous s...

Objectives: In Europe and the United States, cancer is a major cause of death among children aged 5–14 years. The role of environmental exposure to pesticides in carcinogenesis, although strongly postulated, is still unknown. Pesticides have been used since the early days of modern agriculture. They are biologically active compounds, which may pose health risk during or after their use. Materia...

Data from epidemiological studies have demonstrated that genetics is an important risk factor for schizophrenia. Disturbances of serotonergic brain pathways have been implicated in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Some studies have suggested that the efficacy of atypical antipsychotics on schizophrenia treatment may be related to the serotonin 2A receptor (5-HT2A), and that serotonergic dr...

Address correspondence to: Ilia Oquendo-Jiménez, PhD, School of PharmacyMedical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, P.O. Box 365067, San Juan, PR 00936-5067. Tel: (787) 758-2525 Ext. 5437 • Fax (787) 767-2796 • Email: ilia. [email protected] Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia worldwide. In Hispanic populations there are few validated tests for the acc...

1 Interest of active posturography to detect age-related and early Parkinson’s disease 1 related impairments in mediolateral postural control 2 Cédrick T. Bonnet, Arnaud Delval, and Luc Defebvre 3 Dr. Cédrick T. Bonnet is member of: Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et 4 Pathologies, CNRS, Université Lille, France (e-mail: [email protected]; tel: 03 20 5 44 62 81; fax: 03 2...

In this report we compare the papers [AKM + 03] and [ETL03]. We show that the two proposed systems realize different goals with the same or similar underlying technics. • Source data of interest [ETL03] takes web pages containing HTML tables of interest for a given application domain as the input whereas [AKM + 03] considers unstructured text from webpages for the knowledge extraction process. ...

In order to study the culicine mosquito fauna (Diptera: Culicidae: Culicinae) of the Shadegan wetland in southern Khouzestan Province of Iran, sampling was carried out using hand catch, total catch, and New Jersy light traps, from October 2008 to March 2009. A total of 2664 culicine mosquitoes were captured. Three genera and five species were identified, including Culex pipiens L., Cx. tritaeni...

Amphipods constitute an abundant part of Icelandic deep-sea zoobenthos yet knowledge of the diversity of this fauna, particularly at the molecular level, is scarce. The present work aims to use molecular methods to investigate genetic variation of the Amphipoda sampled during two IceAGE collecting expeditions. The mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) of 167 individuals originally as...

Notes on the life of Adolf Lindenbaum, a complete bibliography of his published works, and selected references to his unpublished results. Mathematics Subject Classification. 01A60, 01A70, 01A73, 03-03.