We report the discovery of two new Wolf-Rayet (WR) galaxies: Mrk 1039, and F08208+2816. Two broad WR bumps at 5808Å and 4650Å indicate the presence of WCE and WNL star population in all two sources. We also confirm the presence of WR features in Mrk 35, previously detected in a different position. The observed equivalent width of the WR bump at 4650Å and the derived number ratios of WR/(WR+O) i...

Abstract The red blood cell (RBC) antigen Wr a is low-prevalence first described in 1953 by Holman and assigned to the Diego system 1995. Because of its low prevalence, usually absent on commercial screening RBCs antibody identification panels. When Wr(a+) are available, corresponding antibody, anti-Wr , often found sera from healthy individuals, patients, pregnant women. Anti-Wr can cause both...

The maize P gene is a transcriptional regulator of genes encoding enzymes for flavonoid biosynthesis in the pathway leading to the production of a red phlobaphene pigment. Multiple alleles of the P gene confer distinct patterns of pigmentation to specific floral organs, such as the kernel pericarp and cob tissues. To determine the basis of allele-specific pigmentation, we have characterized the...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether genetic differences in muscle histochemical characteristics were related to the voluntary wheel-running activity level by using genetically fast-twitch fiber-dominant rats (FFDR) and control rats (CR). The rats were divided into four groups; sedentary CR (Sed-CR), wheel-running CR (WR-CR), sedentary FFDR (Sed-FFDR), and wheel-running F...

Clinical trials are in progress to evaluate radio- and chemoprotection by the aminothiol 2-[(3-aminopropyl)amino]ethanethiol-dihydrogen phosphate ester (WR-2721; amifostine). Phase II and III clinical studies have demonstrated that i.v. administered WR-2721 protects against the toxicities of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II) and cyclophosphamide. In preclinical murine studies, we have now furth...

Hepatic steatosis predisposes the liver to cold ischemia-warm reperfusion (CI/WR) injury by unclear mechanisms. Because hepatic steatosis has recently been associated with a lysosomal pathway of apoptosis, our aim was to determine whether this cell-death pathway contributes to CI/WR injury of steatotic livers. Wild-type and cathepsin B-knockout (Ctsb(-/-)) mice were fed the methionine/choline-d...

294/5545/1317. [3] C. Joachim and M. A. Ratner, Nanotechnology 15, 1065 (2004), URL http://stacks.iop.org/0957-4484/