Over a four-year period 21 cases of solitary ulcer syndrome (SUS) were studied for their clinical, histological, and mucus secretion patterns and compared with histological and mucus secretion patterns of 78 cases of non-specific proctitis collected over the same period. Normal mucus composition was found in non-specific proctitis while abnormalities of mucins with predominance of sialomucins w...

Sucrose synthase (Sus; EC 2.4.1.13) is a key enzyme of sucrose metabolism in plant cells, providing carbon for respiration and for the synthesis of cell wall polymers and starch. Since Sus is important for plant cell growth, insights into its structure, localization, and features are useful for defining the relationships between nutrients, growth, and cell morphogenesis. We used the pollen tube...

Energy harvesting (EH) from Radio Frequency (RF) sources is considered a promising solution for future wireless technologies in terms of efficiency and battery lifetime, specially for applications that do not consume a lot of energy such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This paper investigates a multiband EH schemes under cognitive radio interweave framework. All secondary users are conside...

Cotton is the most important textile crop as a result of its long cellulose-enriched mature fibers. These single-celled hairs initiate at anthesis from the ovule epidermis. To date, genes proven to be critical for fiber development have not been identified. Here, we examined the role of the sucrose synthase gene (Sus) in cotton fiber and seed by transforming cotton with Sus suppression construc...

Schizophrenia is a complex mental disorder caused by an interplay between genetic and environmental factors, including early postnatal stressors. To explore this issue, we use two rat lines, apomorphine-susceptible (APO-SUS) rats that display schizophrenia-relevant features and their phenotypic counterpart, apomorphine-unsusceptible (APO-UNSUS) rats. These rat lines differ not only in their gna...

Sucrose synthase (Sus) (EC 2.4.1.13) is a key enzyme for the sugar accumulation that is critical to form fruit quality. In this study, extensive data-mining and PCR amplification confirmed that there are at least six Sus genes (CitSus1-6) in the citrus genome. Gene structure and phylogeny analysis showed an evolutionary consistency with other plant species. The six Sus genes contain 12-15 exons...

UNLABELLED Gut microbes play a key role in human health and nutrition by catabolizing a wide variety of glycans via enzymatic activities that are not encoded in the human genome. The ability to recognize and process carbohydrates strongly influences the structure of the gut microbial community. While the effects of diet on the microbiota are well documented, little is known about the molecular ...

In order to comply with Brazilian Syllabus requirements, some schools of Pharmacy included Rural Internships (RI) in the curriculum as a way of familiarizing students with the Unified Health System (SUS), thereby permitting the interaction of the students with pharmaceutical practices. This work assesses the knowledge about SUS and pharmaceutical activities of students who have taken the RI sub...

Cooperative spectrum sensing (CSS) can improve the spectrum sensing performance by introducing spatial diversity in cognitive radio networks (CRNs). However, such cooperation also introduces the delay for reporting sensing data. Conventional cooperation scheme assumes that the cooperative secondary users (SUs) report their local sensing data to the fusion center sequentially. This causes the re...

Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron uses starch as a source of carbon and energy. Early steps in the pathway of starch utilization, such as starch binding and starch hydrolysis, are encoded by sus genes, which have been characterized previously. The sus structural genes are expressed only if cells are grown in medium containing maltose or higher oligomers of glucose. Regulation of the sus structural g...