Breeding programs in oriental river prawn populations would benefit from a knowledge of heritabilities for growth-related traits to assess their potential genetic improvement. This study reports the results heritability estimation and evaluation epistatic interactions (Macrobrachium nipponense). The showed that estimates (h2) were low medium magnitude, ranging between 0.10 (±0.02) 0.22 (±0.01) ...

The introduction of interfacially polymerized (IP) polyamide thin-film composite (TFC) membranes in the 1980s revolutionized reverse osmosis desalination industry. However, IP-derived TFCs have not achieved industrial success for gas separation applications due to presence membrane defects their dry state. In this work, we report defect-free crosslinked prepared from para-substituted aromatic a...

Human organic cation transporters (hOCTs) are expressed in organs of drug absorption and elimination and play an important role in the uptake and elimination of xenobiotics. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the substrate and inhibitory activity of the H2-receptor antagonists ranitidine and famotidine toward hOCTs and to determine the hOCT isoforms involved in the absorption and elimina...

Fragmentation and isomerization of methylamine (CH3NH2(+)), methanol (CH3OH(+)), and methyl fluoride (CH3F(+)) cations by short, intense laser pulses have been studied by ab initio classical trajectory calculations. Born-Oppenheimer molecular dynamics (BOMD) on the ground-state potential energy surface were calculated with the CAM-B3LYP/6-31G(d,p) level of theory for the cations in a four-cycle...

The ubiquitin system plays an important role in endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-associated degradation of proteins that are misfolded, that fail to associate with their oligomerization partners, or whose levels are metabolically regulated. E3 ubiquitin ligases are key enzymes in the ubiquitination process as they recognize the substrate and facilitate coupling of multiple ubiquitin units to the prot...

Background Children with moderate/severe Eczema frequently develop sensitisations to several foods leading to specific elimination diets. A positive test to nuts is often considered a potential risk for anaphylaxis. Dietary restriction and a constant fear of potential anaphylaxis has a significant impact on patients of life. Component Resolved diagnosis is not yet widely available in the UK and...

In the endosomes of APCs, the MHC class II-like molecule H2-M catalyzes the exchange of class II-associated invariant chain peptides (CLIP) for antigenic peptides. H2-O is another class II-like molecule that modulates the peptide exchange activity of H2-M. Although the expression pattern of H2-O in mice has not been fully evaluated, H2-O is expressed by thymic epithelial cells, B cells, and den...

We show the existence of (H2 0 (Ω)×L2(Ω), H2 0 (Ω)×H2 0 (Ω))-global attractors for plate equations with critical nonlinearity when g ∈ H−2(Ω). Furthermore we prove that for each fixed T > 0, there is an (H2 0 (Ω) × L2(Ω), H2 0 (Ω) × H2 0 (Ω))T -exponential attractor for all g ∈ L2(Ω), which attracts any H2 0 (Ω)×L2(Ω)-bounded set under the stronger H2(Ω)×H2(Ω)-norm for all t ≥ T .