An agar medium combining dulcitol fermentation, malonate utilization, and phenylalanine deamination was evaluated with 229 isolates representing 19 genera. All reactions agreed with those obtained on conventional media.

I have defined the basic requirements for the proliferation of cell lines expressing oligodendrocyte properties and for the survival of galactocerebroside-positive oligodendrocytes derived from neonatal rat brains. Conventional serum-containing medium can be replaced by 01 medium, a chemically defined medium supplemented with insulin, transferrin, sodium selenite, and biotin. Thyroid hormone is...

Background and Aims: The protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are the causative agents of various clinical diseases. Different methods of cultivation of Leishmania parasites are available. In the present study, the efficacy of the LB broth with rabbit lyophilized anti-sheep red blood cell haemolysin was evaluated in the cultivation of promastigotes of Leishmania major. Materials and Met...

The use of pH-stable media would simplify embryo vitrification and the warming of porcine embryos and might facilitate the application of embryo transfer in practice. In this work, we investigated whether a pH-stable basal medium constituted of Tyrode's lactate medium, polyvinyl alcohol, and HEPES for buffering was suitable for porcine embryo vitrification warming in place of the conventional g...

Agricultural management affects soil fertility through the frequency and type of agronomic practices such as mechanical operations, rate fertilizers, crop rotations, residue management. This study evaluated evolution chemical properties (pH; electrical conductivity; organic carbon, SOC; total Kjeldahl nitrogen, TKN; available phosphorous, PO4-P) over time in two farming systems, organically con...

Casting is considered as a major manufacturing process. Thermal analysis of a solidifying medium is of great importance for appropriate design of casting processes. The conventional governing equation of a solidifying medium is based on the Fourier heat conduction law, which does not account for the phase-lag between the heat flux and the temperature gradient. In this paper, the concept of phas...

The dispersion relations for conventional uniaxial dielectric mediums may be characterized as elliptical or elliptical–like, according to whether the medium is nondissipative or dissipative, respectively. However, under certain constitutive parameter regimes, the dispersion relations may be hyperbolic or hyperbolic–like. We investigate planewave propagation in a hyperbolic/hyperbolic–like uniax...