Cereal Chem. 77(5):551–555 Rice bran contains high amounts of beneficial antioxidants including tocopherols, tocotrienols, and oryzanols. Current rice milling technology produces rice bran from different layers of the kernel caryopsis. Under current practices, these layers are combined and then steam-extruded to form a stabilized rice bran pellet that is storage-safe prior to oil extraction. Ea...

Autoimmune diseases encompass about 85 conditions in which the patient’s own immune system attacks itself, rather than foreign, antigens and directly causes pathology. These diseases can affect virtually any site in the body and are now among the top 10 causes of morbidity in women (1). Some autoimmune diseases, such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis, Graves’ disease, and systemi...

Cereal Chem. 77(5):535–540 Observations in 1997 indicated a significant reduction in kernel bulk density and head rice yield of rice cultivar LaGrue due to blast (Pyricularia grisea). A more detailed study on rice cultivar M202 in 1998 confirmed such observations but it also showed negative effects of blast on other physical properties of rice. Rough rice from blast-infected panicles was drier ...

Cereal Chem. 78(5):625–628 Heat damage is a serious problem frequently associated with wet harvests because of improper storage of damp grain or artificial drying of moist grain at high temperatures. Heat damage causes protein denaturation and reduces processing quality. The current visual method for assessing heat damage is subjective and based on color change. Denatured protein related to hea...

•We identified two sub-groups of infant MLL-AF4-driven ALL, iALL-HOXA9, and iALL-IRX1.•The subgroups exhibit mutually exclusive expression HOXA9/HOXA10 IRX1.•The transcriptional profile iALL-IRX1 patients revealed a more aggressive disease.•The different potential therapeutic targets. Infant t(4;11) acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common in has highly nature. The have dismal prognosis,...

background: major histocompatibility complex (mhc) comprises a group of genes, which plays a central role in immune response. the exon 2 of bula-drb3 is part of the mhc class ii in buffalo that highly polymorphic, found to be associated with resistance/susceptibility to infections and also with production parameters. objectives: the purpose of the present study is to identify bula-drb3 polymorp...