climate changes due to global warming is affecting world agriculture adversely. heat stress due to global warming has turned to one of the most important factors reducing quantity and quality of plants production such as tomato. despite of wide cultivation of tomato and high temperature effects on its production, unfortunately; research in this area is scarce. this study was conducted to invest...

The polyfunctional diterpene phorbol and its esters are highly susceptible to autoxidation (2, 3). The widespread use, partially in long-term experiments, of the standard tumor promotor TPA1 (Chart 1) and other phorbolor 4a-phorbol-12,13-diesters in cancer and cell research and, in particular, in studies on their metabolism and mechanism of action (4 6) prompted us to investigate in detail the ...

1División Bioquı́mica Nuclear, Comisión Nacional de Enerǵıa Atómica, Avenue del Libertador 8250, 1429 Buenos Aires, Argentina 2 Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Biologie Humaine et Moléculaire (IRIBHM), Université Libre de Bruxelles, IBMM, Biopark Charleroi Brussels South, 6041 Gosselies, Belgium 3 Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Campus Erasme,...

Mammalian chitinases belong to the glycosyl hydrolase 18 family based on structural homology and the family includes a large number of bacterial and eukaryotic chitinases. Among the mammalian chitinases, chitotriosidase (CHIT1) and acidic mammalian chitinase (AMCase) are capable of hydrolyzing the β-(1, 4)-linkage between the adjacent N-acetyl glucosamine residues of chitin. CHIT1 is one of the...

AIMS The renal lymphatics have not been fully documented in humans. The aim of this study was to clarify the morphology of the human renal lymphatic system under normal and pathological conditions by immunohistochemistry using anti-D2-40 antibody. METHODS AND RESULTS Normal and pathological renal tissues obtained at autopsy as well as nephrectomy specimens with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) were...

To determine whether speed discrimination improves when the retinal image is stabilized against the effects of eye movements, thresholds were measured under stabilized and normal viewing conditions. In the normal viewing conditions, eye movements were recorded and used to estimate retinal-image speeds. Stimulus reference speed for sinusoidal gratings varied from 0.5 to 8.0 deg/sec. Results show...

The polyfunctional diterpene phorbol and its esters are highly susceptible to autoxidation (2, 3). The widespread use, partially in long-term experiments, of the standard tumor promotor TPA1 (Chart 1) and other phorbolor 4a-phorbol-12,13-diesters in cancer and cell research and, in particular, in studies on their metabolism and mechanism of action (4 6) prompted us to investigate in detail the ...