AIM The present study was undertaken to standardize a convenient method for isolation and purification of β-lactoglobulin (β-lg) from cow milk keeping its antigenicity intact, so that the purified β-lg can be used for detection of cow milk protein intolerance (CMPI). MATERIALS AND METHODS Raw milk was collected from Gir breed of cattle reared in Haringhata Farm, West Bengal. Milk was then con...

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of low levels of glutathione on post-thawed buck sperm quality. In this experiment, different concentrations of glutathione [0 (LG-0), 0.5 (LG-0.5), 1 (LG-1), 1.5 (LG-1.5), and 2 (LG-2) mM] were added in a soybean lecithin-based extender. A total of 16 ejaculates from four bucks were collected and pooled. Each pooled sample was divided into five...

The star formation histories of Local Group (LG) dwarf galaxies and more distant potential LG members are reviewed. Problems in defining the spatial extent of the LG and membership are briefly discussed. The morphological types found in the LG are presented, and it is suggested that we see continuous evolution from low-mass dwarf irregulars (dIrrs) to dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) in the LG....

Lactating rats exhibit stable individual differences in pup licking/grooming (LG) over the first week postpartum. Such naturally occurring variations in maternal behavior are associated with differences in estrogen-inducible oxytocin receptors in the medial preoptic area (MPOA) of the hypothalamus. We compared levels of ER and ER mRNA in the MPOA of lactating High or Low LG mothers as well as i...

As an element of the lacrimal apparatus, the lacrimal gland (LG) produces the aqueous part of the tear film, which protects the eye surface. Therefore, a defective LG can lead to serious eyesight impairment. Up to now, little is known about LG morphogenesis and subsequent maturation. In this study, we delineated elements of the cellular and molecular events involved in LG formation by using thr...

BACKGROUND In 1985, two independent reports highlighted a novel subtype of chronic inflammation in the gastric mucosa, characterized by the intraepithelial lymphocytic infiltration (ILI) both in the surface and the foveolar epithelium. The disease, subsequently called lymphocytic gastritis (LG) is a rare form of gastritis (0.8%-1.6% of cases), with unclear pathogenesis. More recently, LG was re...

The thermodynamic properties of a SU(3) gauge theory without quarks are calculated using a string formulation for 1.2Tc ≤ T ≤ 3Tc. The results are in good agreement with the lattice data. We also comment on SU(N) gauge theories. PACS numbers: 12.38.Lg, 12.90.+b MPP-2007-72

The LCS of two rooted, ordered, and labeled trees F and G is the largest forest that can be obtained from both trees by deleting nodes. We present algorithms for computing tree LCS which exploit the sparsity inherent to the tree LCS problem. Assuming G is smaller than F , our first algorithm runs in time O(r · height(F ) · height(G) · lg lg |G|), where r is the number of pairs (v ∈ F,w ∈ G) suc...

We introduce space-efficient plane-sweep algorithms for basic planar geometric problems. It is assumed that the input is in a read-only array of n items and that the available workspace is Θ(s) bits, where lgn ≤ s ≤ n · lg n. In particular, we give an almost-optimal algorithm for finding the closest pair among a set of n points that runs in O(n/s+n·lg s) time. We give a simple algorithm to enum...

BACKGROUND Adipose-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (Ad-MSCs) are a promising tool for advanced cell-based therapies. They are routinely obtained enzymatically from fat lipoaspirate (LP) as SVF, and may undergo prolonged ex vivo expansion, with significant senescence and decline in multipotency. Besides, these techniques have complex regulatory issues, thus incurring in the compelling requirem...