... Comparison of Diagnostic MethodsfortheDetectionof Parasites in Fish and disadvantages, depending on the purpose and target of study For parasitological investigation, the classical methods (the ... microscope Stretching of these metacercariae was done by hot formalin for two minutes Then, they were kept in Eppendorf tubes with neutral formalin (4%) Diagnosis of parasitic infections * Diagnosis ... saline pH 7.0) The internal organs were exposed after a vertical incision was made from the anal opening to the Before any dissection, the exterior ofthe fish was observed under the dissecting...
... 8.2) and the mixture was incubated at 37°C for 15 inthe presence of mM H2O2 and mM FeCl2 At the end ofthe incubation, mL of thiobarbituric acid 0.375% in 0.2 N HCl was added to the incubation ... analyses were performed using the GraphPad Prism software (version 5.0 for Windows; GraphPad Software Inc., La Jolla, CA) Quantification ofreactiveoxygenspecies To measure the amount of free radicals ... ofreactiveoxygen and nitrogen speciesIn vitro generation ofreactiveoxygen and nitrogen species by neutrophils in contact with PM2.5 A In vitro production ofreactiveoxygen and nitrogen species...
... assistance in providing information regarding the cocoa industry in Vietnam and inthe establishment of solar driers and fermenting boxes at their demonstration farm sites in Ben Tre Province HARVESTING ... darken in colour during drying as the majority of browning reactions will occur during this process DRYING OF COCOA Drying of cocoa is an important step in cocoa processing as some ofthe reactions ... on the percentage of fully brown beans inthe cut test 6: The effect of spreading of beans for two hours, prior to placement in boxes, on fermentation temperatures 7: The effect of spreading of...
... Okjin Kim Table Comparison of different protocols forthedetectionof canine herpesvirus DNAs in paraffin sections by in situ hybridization Labelsb Protease Kc Hybridizationd 100 Titer of inoculated ... proteinase K pre-treatment, and overnight hybridization The practicality of digoxigenin-labeled probe is better than those of biotin-labeled probe inthe hybridization assay forthedetectionof ... enzyme-concentrations, the time of hybridization and hybridization probes, were compared in formalin fixed and paraffin embedded CHV-infected cells The optimum result was obtained using digoxigenin-labeled...
... SBEIIa-D(A201T) the amino acid change induced by the EMS treatment is located inthe region ofthe N-terminal domain ofthe glycogen branching enzyme family, reported to be essential forthe size ofthe ... product showed the inclusion ofthe intron V, whereas the smaller one was found to contain a deletion ofthe first seven nucleotides of exon VI The presence ofthe intron V inthe longer transcript ... mutations inthe genome ofthe target organism, although in polyploids the presence of multiple copies of a gene has represented a major limitation inthedetectionof interesting phenotypes for valuable...
... unitsÆmg protein)1, with unit of SOD activity being defined as the amount of proteins causing half-maximal inhibition ofthe rate of NBT reduction GST activity was assayed inthe supernatant of cell ... Determination of intracellular reactiveoxygenspecies as function of cell density Methods Enzymol 352, 91–100 44 Zuo, L & Clanton, T.L (2002) Detectionofreactiveoxygen and nitrogen speciesin ... normally inthe absence of mtDNA These findings are in line with results found in hepatoma-derived Hep1q0 cells [16] ROS When DCF signal was assessed as a direct index of ROS, all ofthe q0 cells...
... 2009) 22 The idea is that where the location ofthe unmapped read may span the breakpoint ofthe CNV SR analysis has the advantage of being able to pinpoint the location ofthe breakpoints Assembly-based ... STATISTICAL METHODSFORTHEDETECTION AND ANALYSES OF STRUCTURAL VARIANTS INTHEHUMAN GENOME TEO SHU MEI A THESIS SUBMITTED FORTHE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY NUS GRADUATE SCHOOL FOR INTEGRATIVE ... that the costs associated with down-handling, storing and analysis ofthe data could be more than the production ofthe data There is still a need forthe development of new statistical/bioinformatics...
... stenosis from the individual centers included inthe meta-analysis The boundaries ofthe box are Tukey’s hinges The median is identified by the line inside the box The length ofthe box is the interquartile ... measured by the MCG device The resulting mathematically integrated patterns ofthe abnormal indexes are then compared for their degree of abnormality to the abnormal index patterns inthe reference ... according to whether the patients had prior revascularization The boundaries ofthe box are Tukey’s hinges The median is identified by the line inside the box The length ofthe box is the interquartile...
... Identification of C8-modified deoxyinosine and N2- and C8-modified deoxyguanosine as major products ofthein vivo reaction of N-hydroxy-6-aminochrysene with DNA and the formation ofthe adducts in isolated ... recommend the Ames test using these sensitive strains (especially YG1041 and/or YG1042) in combination with the standard tester strains (TA98 and TA100 series), in order to detect the mutagenicity of ... ogttST::Cmr) strain (deficient in O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase) sensitive to alkylating chemicals These strains were kindly supplied by Dr T Nohmi ofthe National Institute of Health Sciences...
... of 95 ml) The A280 to A260 ratio ofthe UV-absorbing peak indicated it was composed mainly of nucleic acid Inthe profile ofthe NaOH-extracted polymer (B), the elution volume (80 ml) of saccharide ... shaking, absorbance at 660 nm (A660) was measured for min, and the relative A660 against the control test was calculated every minute using the following formula: The relative A660 = A660 of flocculating ... respectively); in contrast, the steaming-extracted polymer included a larger amount of saccharides (24.6%) compared to the other methodsThe SDS-extracted polymer included a small amount of material other...
... with MDP (100 lgÆmL)1) for h results in significant increase in UCP2 expression (3.6-fold, P < 0.05) On the other hand, analysis ofthe kinetics of induction of UCP2 protein in MDP-treated macrophages ... [28] These findings agree with the hypothesis [29] that an increase inthe mitochondrial membrane potential would slow the transport of electrons through the respiratory chain, increasing the time ... induction ofin ammatory responses [22] Despite a long-standing interest inthe field of muramyl peptides, the impact of these molecules at the mitochondrial level has not yet been examined Recently the...
... carcinomas Ofthe 50 clinically visible lesions, 20 stained positively with toluidine blue and of these were carcinomas One ofthe clinically detected carcinomas was dye-negative Therefore, out of ... clinical examination and case-finding, even in primary care In experienced hands toluidine blue staining may be useful inthe evaluation of oral lesions and as an adjunct inthe surveillance of ... respectively One ofthe weaknesses of this study is the small sample size In addition, the majority ofthe lesions examined appear to be ofthe Class I type, rather than Class II lesions for which the technology...
... licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing In downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy The ISO Central Secretariat ... information concerning the strain(s) and whether it is an outbreak or in food 10 Expression of results In accordance with the results ofthe interpretation, indicate the presence or absence of ... this culture for examination forthe H-antigens, proceeding according to 9.5.4.2, but using one drop ofthe anti-H serum (5.3) instead ofthe saline solution If agglutination occurs, the reaction...
... patterns (the lack of their long-range order and their heterogeneity may explain the poor re¯ection hump obtained in XRD) Typically, as seen inthe ®gure, a region containing ca Ê 6.93 A inter-planar ... when the temperature ofthe Ag catalyst is increased to 250 8C, the sensitivity ofthe WO3 sensor kept at 150 8C 71 increased by three times Without heating the Ag catalyst or bypassing the gas ... the concentration of NO and NO2 gases because ofthe low concentration, one ofthe roles ofthe Ag is apparent to provide surface forthe conversion of NO to NO2 according to the literature [18]...
... to the gene encoding the PsbQ¢ extrinsic protein, which is required for effective binding ofthe PsbV and PsbU proteins inthe red lineage, and to the gene encoding the PsbQ extrinsic protein, ... plant species Among the extrinsic proteins, the 33 kDa protein (PsbO) which plays an important role in maintaining the stability and activity ofthe manganese cluster is present in all ofthe oxygenic ... positions inthe evolution of oxygenic photosynthetic organisms In this study, we examined the distribution ofthe extrinsic proteins in these organisms using antibodies raised against PsbV,...
... spins By linearity ofthe Fourier transform thedirect relation between the peak integral and the number of spins ofthe corresponding chemical group holds forthe spectrum of superposed lines ... real, the oscillating imaginary part ofthe sum in general leads to a small imaginary part of Qn The maximum ofthe real part ofthe sum is N times higher than the amplitude ofthe oscillating ... organized the continuation ofthe research unit after the DFG funding as well as Prof Kasper, Prof Kind, Prof Nirschl, and Prof Elsner Prof Nirschl, Prof Kind, Prof Wilhelm, and Prof Elsner contributed...
... forthedirect methods, including the closest UEP method, the PEBS method, and the controlling UEP method in Chapters through 13 The central theme ofthe theoretical foundation is knowledge of ... nonlinear in nature Their nonlinear behaviors are difficult to predict due to (1) the extraordinary size ofthe systems, (2) the nonlinearity inthe systems, (3) the dynamic interactions within the ... prefault SEP and the system state at the time of fault clearing using the step-by-step numerical integration ofthe fault-on system Inthe second step, thedirectmethods directly determine, without...
... QPCR assays While all ofthesamples were positive forthe single copy OSM gene, only six ofthe thirty macaques were positive forthe presence of an RV2 rhadinovirus In all of these six cases, both ... range ofthe assay the MfaRV2 and 72% (r2 = 0.929) forthe PcyRV2, however, the low levels of virus in these samples made it difficult to accurately determine the efficiencies, as indicated by the ... using the sum ofthe errors ofthe viral and OSM copy number determinations, as described in Materials and Methods * These results, while positive for both duplicates, were outside ofthe linear...
... Determination ofthe moments of inertia ofthehuman body and its limbs Berlin: Springer-Verlag; 1988 Eberhart H, Inman V: Fundamental studies ofhuman locomotion and other information relating ... to minimize skin movement artifact by optimal weighting ofthe markers according to their degree of deformation Another extension ofthe basic PCT corrects for error induced by segment deformation ... skin The movement ofthe markers is typically used to infer the underlying relative movement between two adjacent segments (e.g knee joint) with the goal of precisely defining the movement of the...
... QPCR assays While all ofthesamples were positive forthe single copy OSM gene, only six ofthe thirty macaques were positive forthe presence of an RV2 rhadinovirus In all of these six cases, both ... range ofthe assay the MfaRV2 and 72% (r2 = 0.929) forthe PcyRV2, however, the low levels of virus in these samples made it difficult to accurately determine the efficiencies, as indicated by the ... using the sum ofthe errors ofthe viral and OSM copy number determinations, as described in Materials and Methods * These results, while positive for both duplicates, were outside ofthe linear...