Background—Both 1and -adrenergic agonists increase the severity of global myocardial ischemic injury. We hypothesized that combined and 1-adrenergic blockade would improve initial resuscitation and postresuscitation myocardial and neurological functions. We further hypothesized that the resulting 2-actions of relatively brief duration would favor improved functions compared with the more prolon...

Drought stress is one of the major environmental constraints to crop plants including wheat worldwide. Synthetic hexaploid can act as a vehicle for improving crop tolerance against biotic and abiotic stresses. Doubled haploid population consisting of one hundred and forty individuals derived from cross of Opata and SH223 was used in the present study to identify genomic regions associated with ...

As a devastating wheat disease, Fusarium head blight (FHB) causes large losses in yield and quality. The purpose of this study was to detect the genetic loci for FHB resistance based on genome-wide association (GWAS) using two panels genotyped by Wheat 660 K SNP array 90 array. Phenotypic investigation results showed that 43.6–51.6% test varieties an infection type more than 3, indicating subst...

Adrenergic receptors are pharmacologically classified into the receptor types 1, 2, 1, 2, and 3. Structural differences and varying affinities in radioligand binding studies lead to a further classification of 1and 2-receptors into subtypes which are termed 1A (formerly 1C), 1B, and 1D (formerly 1AD), and 2AD, 2B, and 2C, respectively. mRNA expression of all but one -adrenergic receptor subtype...

A series of congenic strains were constructed in which segments of chromosome (chr) 1 from Lewis (LEW) rats were introgressed into the Dahl salt-sensitive (S) strain. Three blood pressure quantitative trait loci (QTL) were defined. Two of these (QTL 1a and QTL 1b) were closely linked in the region between 1q31 and 1q35. The third blood pressure QTL (QTL region 2) was close to the centromere bet...

One hundred twelve Shigella flexneri strain isolated from children with diarrheal disease in Somalia in 1983, 1984, 1988, and 1989 were analyzed for serotype, plasmid profile, and genetic location of antimicrobial resistance determinants. The prevalent serotypes were 4 (46% of the isolates), 1b (16%), 2a (16%), 3a (12%), and 6 (8%). Each serotype was associated with a characteristic predominant...