This study aimed to predict the optimal carbon source for higher production of exopolysaccharides (EPS) by Lactobacillus paracasei TD 062, and evaluate effect this on monosaccharide composition EPS. We evaluated EPS capacity 20 strains L. under same conditions. further investigated which showed highest EPS-producing activity (0.609 g/L), examining associated biosynthesis pathways Genomics revea...

Andréia Gomes Bezerraa,*, Giuseppina Negria,d, Joaquim Maurício Duarte-Almeidab,d, Soraya Soubhi Smailic and Elisaldo Araújo Carlinid Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, 04023-062 São Paulo – SP, Brasil Laboratório de Farmacognosia e Produtos Naturais, Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, 35501-296 Divinópolis – MG, Brasil Departamento de Farmacologia, Univers...

1Department of Health Informatics, Federal University of São Paulo, Paulista School of Medicine, 04023-062 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of São Paulo, Paulista School of Medicine, 04039-032 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3Department of Biochemistry, University of São Paulo, 05508-000 São Paulo, SP, Brazil 4Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Pau...

Biological and epidemiological data suggest that progesterone has an important role in mammary tumorigenesis. Because the effects of progesterone require the progesterone receptor (PGR), which exists in two isoforms, PR-A and PR-B, we sought to determine whether the functional polymorphism, +331 G/A, which causes an increase in the expression of the hPR-B isoform, is related to breast cancer ri...

We examined the effects of water temperature, salinity and feeding regime on leptocephalus metamorphosis, and on daily growth increment deposition and strontium:calcium (Sr:Ca) ratios of otoliths in the Pacific tarpon Megalops cyprinoides. The tarpons at the pre-metamorphic leptocephalus stage (SI) were collected in the estuary, marked with tetracycline and then reared for 18 and 30 d in 2 inde...

Department of Vegetable Science and Floriculture, Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya Palampur, 176 062 (Himachal Pradesh), India 2 Nuclear Agriculture & Bio-technology Division (NA & BTD), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Trombay, Mumbai – 400 085 (Maharashtra), India Department of Entomology, Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya Palamp...

There exists a group of persistently faint galactic X-ray sources that, based on their location in the galaxy, high Lx/Lopt, association with X-ray bursts, and absence of low frequency Xray pulsations, are thought to be low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We present results from Chandra observations for eight of these systems: 4U 1708–408, 2S 1711–339, KS 1739–304, SLX 1735–269, GRS 1736–297, SLX ...

Glutamate is a major excitatory neurotransmitter in the vertebrate brain. Among the ionotropic glutamate receptors, a-amino-3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) glutamate receptors are the major receptors mediating excitatory fast synaptic transmission. AMPA receptors are also responsible for modifying synaptic strength through the regulation of their numbers at synapses. Their high...