Brassicaceae crops display strong hybrid vigor, and have long been subject to F1 hybrid breeding. Because the most reliable system of F1 seed production is based on cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS), various types of CMS have been developed and adopted in practice to breed Brassicaceae oil seed and vegetable crops. CMS is a maternally inherited trait encoded in the mitochondrial genome, and the ...

Fig. S1. Immunoblot analysis using purified human laminin-332. Lane 1 is for IgG autoantibodies of anti-laminin-332 MMP control, lane 2 for IgG autoantibodies of normal control, lane 3 for patient IgG autoantibodies, and lane 4 for patient IgA autoantibodies. Both IgG and IgA from the patient reacted with the 165-kDa and 145-kDa forms of α3 subunit, as well as the 105-kDa γ2 subunit of laminin-...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the biopharmaceutical behavior of colistin methanesulfonate (CMS) with special focus on colistin presystemic formation after CMS nebulization in rats. CMS was administered (15 mg x kg(-1) of body weight) either intravenously for systemic pharmacokinetic studies (n = 6) or as an intratracheal nebulization for systemic pharmacokinetic studies (n = 5) or for C...

SHEILA PEREIRA DE ANDRADE, CEZAR FILHO ROCHA, EDMAR PEREIRA VICTOR-JUNIOR & WILIAN VAZ-SILVA 2 1Centro Tecnológico de Engenharia, Ltda., Rua 254, 146, Setor Coimbra, 74.535-440, Goiânia, GO, Brazil 2Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás PUC Goiás, Departamento de Biologia. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Ambientais e Saúde. Rua 235, n. 40, Bloco L, Setor Universitário, 74.605-010, Goi...

To study the prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus infection, Hepatitis C Virus infection and Syphilis (T. Pallidum) in HIV positive patients. This crosssectional study was conducted on 332 HIV positive patients who presented to Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Hospital ,Rohini, New Delhi from December2007 to March 2010 .The prevalence of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and and Syphilis in HIV positive patients in a...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular function and pulmonary circulation in chronic mountain sickness (CMS) patients with rest and stress echocardiography compared with healthy high-altitude (HA) dwellers. BACKGROUND CMS or Monge's disease is defined by excessive erythrocytosis (hemoglobin >21 g/dl in males, 19 g/dl in females) and severe...

Laminin 332, composed of the α3, β3 and γ2 chains, is an epithelial-basement membrane specific laminin variant. Its main role in normal tissues is the maintenance of epithelial-mesenchymal cohesion in tissues exposed to external forces, including skin and stratified squamous mucosa. After being secreted and deposited in the extracellular matrix, laminin 332 undergoes physiological maturation pr...

Currently available induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPS-CMs) do not ideally model cellular mechanisms of human arrhythmic disease due to lack of a mature action potential (AP) phenotype. In this study, we create and characterize iPS-CMs with an electrically mature AP induced by potassium inward rectifier (IK1) enhancement. The advantages of IK1-enhanced iPS-CMs include the...

Chemical or enzymatic cross-linking of casein micelles (CMs) increases their stability against dissociating agents. In this paper, a comparative study of stability between native CMs and CMs cross-linked with genipin (CMs-GP) as a function of pH is described. Stability to temperature and ethanol were investigated in the pH range 2.0–7.0. The size and the charge (ζpotential) of the particles wer...