This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes on livestock farms in Korea and determine their serotypes and genetic correlations. Twenty-five livestock farms in Korea (central: 15, south west: 7, south east: 3) were visited 2-3 times, and 2,018 samples (feces: 677, soil: 680, silage: 647, sludge: 14) were collected. Samples were enriched in LEB (Listeria enrichment broth...

630 Second-generation antisense oligonucleotides: structure-activity relationships and the design of improved signal-transduction inhibitors K.-H. Altmann*, D. Fabbrot, N. M. Dean$, T. Geigert, 6. P. Mania$, M. Mullert and P. Nickling *Ciba-Geigy Ltd., Central Research Laboratories, RI060 2.34, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland, tCiba-Geigy Ltd , Pharmaceutical Division, Department of Oncology, CH-400...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) is a significant global public health problem that has seen substantial increase in the number of affected individuals recent decades. In murine model T2D (db/db), we found several abnormalities, including aberrant intracellular calcium concentration ([Ca2+]i), decreased glucose transport, increased production reactive oxygen species (ROS), elevated levels pro-inf...

Endothelial dysfunction, with impaired bioavailability and/or bioactivity of the vasoprotective molecule, nitric oxide, appears to be a vital step in initiation atherosclerosis. Several studies have shown that dietary nitrate/nitrite can significant benefits on human cardiovascular homeostasis. Although serum nitrite concentrations reach micromolar levels, physiological significance normal tiss...

endothelial nitric oxide synthase (enos) produces nitric oxide (no) from l-arginine and is important for the maintenance of cardiovascular homeostasis. congestive heart failure (chf) generally results in increased pulmonary blood flow and if untreated leads to pulmonary hypertension and end stage heart failure. we therefore hypothesized that increased pulmonary flow without changes in pressure ...

Background: This is a case-control study to determine the relationship between endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) gene -786T/C polymorphism in women with unexplaiend recurrent abortion in comparison with healty women.Materials and Methods: 95 women with history of at least 2 unexplaiend recurrent abortion in the reproductive age range 20-35 years as patients group and 95 healty women (age...

Abstract Objectives Aside from the activity of gaseous transmitter molecule nitric oxide (NO) and cyclic GMP producing enzyme soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) in human penile erectile tissue, intracellular receptor proteins activated by binding have been considered to play a significant role erection process. In animal models, down-regulation GMP-dependent/binding protein kinase I (cGKI) has link...

Endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) plays a critical role in regulating and maintaining healthy cardiovascular system. The importance of eNOS can be emphasized from the genetic polymorphisms gene, uncoupling dimerization, its numerous signaling regulations. activity on cardiac myocytes, vasculature, central nervous system are discussed. effects sympathetic autonomic (SANS) parasympathetic ...