ABSTRACT Because of the severity of heavy metal contamination and potential adverse health impact on the public, tremendous efforts have been made to purify waters containing toxic metal ions. Biosorption is presented as an alternative to traditional physicochemical means for removing toxic metals from groundwaters and wastewaters. Removal of lead from solution was studied using growing cells a...

OBJECTIVE To explore the ability of diacyl glycerol (DAG) and inositol triphosphate (IP3), two major secondary messengers in the calcium signaling pathway, in activating oocytes. MATERIAL AND METHODS Oocyte cumulus complex obtained from superovulated Swiss albino mice were incubated in M16 medium with liposome-encapsulated 1,2-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycerol (LEDAG) and/or IP3 for 3 h. Strontium chlo...

N-body simulations have shown that the dynamical decay of the young (∼ 1 Myr) Orion Nebula cluster could be responsible for the loss of at least half of its initial content of OB stars. This result suggests that other young stellar systems could also lose a significant fraction of their massive stars at the very beginning of their evolution. To confirm this expectation, we used the Mid-Infrared...

AB S TRACT We used the University of New South Wales Infrared Fabry-Perot (UNSWIRF) to investigate the photodissociation region (PDR) associated with the `elephant trunk' features in the M16 H ii region (the Eagle nebula). Images were made in the H2 1±0 S(1) and 2±1 S(1) lines at 2.122 and 2.248mm, respectively, and in the H i Br g line at 2.166mm. The trunk-like features have an average H2 num...

Nardilysin (NRDC) is a metalloendopeptidase of the M16 family. We previously showed that NRDC activates inflammatory cytokine signaling, including interleukin-6-signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) signaling. NRDC has been implicated in the promotion of breast, gastric and esophageal cancer, as well as the development of liver fibrosis. In this study, we investigated the r...

Transposon mutagenesis with the Enterococcus faecalis transposon Tn917 is a genetic approach frequently used to identify genes related with specific phenotypes in gram-positive bacteria. We established an arbitrary PCR for the rapid and easy identification of Tn917 insertion sites in Staphylococcus epidermidis with six independent, well-characterized biofilm-negative Tn917 transposon mutants, w...

Gene expression was measured during t10c12-CLA-induced body fat reduction in a polygenic obese line of mice. Adult mice (n = 185) were allotted to a 2 x 2 factorial experiment consisting of either nonobese (ICR-control) or obese (M16-selected) mice fed a 7% fat, purified diet containing either 1% linoleic acid (LA) or 1% t10c12-CLA. Body weight (BW) by day 14 was 12% lower in CLA- compared with...

Volume Seven 1-1 ABSTRACT The removal of chromium, a highly toxic metal causing environmental pollution from dilute aqueous solution, was studied in the present work using growing and washed cells of a mutant strain of Bacillus cereus (M16) isolated from tannery waste. Particularly, the effects of pH, temperature, metal ion concentration and contact time on removal of chromium were studied. Abo...

Effects of pregnancy and mating age on rate (gain/day) and efficiency (gain/feed) of lean and fat deposition were determined in the M 16 line of mice selected for rapid postweaning weight gain. Correlated responses in M16 mice included increased lean and fat gain and efficiency. Exclusive of their litters, M 16 females had greater (P<.01) lean tissue growth and efficiency during pregnancy than ...

Bodonids and trypanosomatids are derived from a common ancestor with the bodonids being a more primitive lineage. The Neobodonida, one of the three clades of bodonids, can be free-living, commensal or parasitic. Despite the ecological and evolutionary significance of these organisms, however, many of their biological and pathological features are currently unknown. Here, we employed metatranscr...