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The 35 kb circular genome (plDNA) of the Plasmodium falciparum apicoplast replicates by the bidirectional ori/D-loop mechanism. PlDNA replication was previously shown to initiate within the inverted repeat (IR) region of the apicoplast genome [Williamson DH, Preiser PR, Moore PW, McCready S, Strath M, Wilson RJM (Iain). The plastid DNA of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum is replicated...

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Of note, the randomized controlled trials that showed a benefit from glucose control have tested only one and the same BGL target (4.4 to 6.1 mmol/l [80 to 110 mg/dl]) [2,3]. In addition, in these trials conventional insulin treatment was administered only when the BGL was >12 mmol/L (215 mg/dl), with insulin infusion gradually decreased and stopped when the BGL fell to <10 mmol/l (180 mg/dl). ...

Methylene blue (MB) is a cationic thiazine dye with the chemical name tetramethylthionine chloride. It has a characteristic deep blue color in the oxidized state, but the reduced form, leukomethylene blue (LMB), is colorless. Methylene blue has been widely used in a variety of clinical settings to identify anatomic (Manhes et al., ’94; Sills and Zinkham, ’94; Barber et al., ’95) and pathologic ...

Stec EM, Vannucci SJ, Smith QR: Blood-brain barrier glucose transporter: effects of hypoand hyperglycemia revisited. J Neurochem 1999; 72:238–47 42. Preiser J-C: Restoring normoglycemia: Not so harmless. Critical Care (London, England) 2008; 12:116 43. Wilson M, Weinreb J, Hoo GWS: Intensive insulin therapy in critical care: A review of 12 protocols. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:1005–11 44. Krinsley ...

The polynomial sets {Y"(x; k)} and { Z"(x; &)}, discussed by Joseph D. E. Konhauser, are biorthogonal over the interval (0, oo) with respect to the weight function x a e~ x , where a > — 1 and A: is a positive integer. The object of the present note is to develop a fairly elementary method of proving a general multilinear generating function which, upon suitable specializations, yields a number...

Howles, Philip N., Grant N. Stemmerman, Cecilia M. Fenoglio-Preiser, and David Y. Hui. Carboxyl ester lipase activity in milk prevents fat-derived intestinal injury in neonatal mice. Am. J. Physiol. 277 (Gastrointest. Liver Physiol. 40): G653–G661, 1999.—Carboxyl ester lipase (bile saltstimulated lipase) is a pancreatic enzyme capable of hydrolyzing esters of cholesterol and fat-soluble vitamin...