... hermaphrodite pig showing testis (T), epididymis (E), ovary (O), uterine horns (H), body of uterus (B) and urinary bladder (U) Fig Section of ovotestis of a hermaphrodite pig showing presence of seminiferous ... H&E stain ×140 Fig Section of uterus of a hermaphrodite pig showing degeneration of endometrial lining (El) with some of the normal endometrial glands (Eg) H&E stain ×70 of luteal cells in the ... observed in the pigs with inguinal hernia [9] Section of uterine horn and body showed degeneration of uterine epithelium with normal endometrial glands (Fig 4) The circular and longitudinal layers...
... overt increase in D2 activity [7] In contrast, fasting has shown to evoke a more robust increase in D2 mRNA as well as activity levels [7] A starvation-induced rise in D2 can be excluded in our ... Horvath TL: Fasting-induced increase in type II iodothyronine deiodinase activity and messenger ribonucleic acid levels is not reversed by thyroxine in the rat hypothalamus Endocrinology 1998, ... lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced type iodothyronine deiodinase (D2) activation in the mediobasal hypothalamus (MBH) is independent of the LPS-induced fall in serum thyroid hormone levels Brain Res 2005,...
... growth in a confined wild boar population Journal of Mountain Ecology, 3: 64-65 Maillard D., Fournier L (2004): Timing and synchrony of births in the wild boar (Sus scrofa Linnaeus, 1758) in a ... main breeding period Gethoffer et al (2007) indicates that 60% of juveniles which did not become pregnant in the main breeding season (November and December) will become pregnant in the spring ... found in this study In southern Europe, the distribution of farrowing is different during the year in a part of studies, or the time period is longer than that found in our study In Spain and...
... alleles could be segregating in different populations involved in the hybrid offspring LDLA In this study, linkage disequilibrium (LD) information was included when calculating the IBD matrices However, ... 24–28 h post mortem Loin Minolta L*, a* and b* (LOINL, LOINA and LOINB) were taken on the fresh cut surface of a 2.5-cm chop removed from the sirloin end using a Minolta CR 300 (Minolta, Osaka, Japan) ... made it possible to detect QTL segregating in the paternal line (e.g HAMB), the maternal lines (e.g Ham) or in both (e.g pHu) Combining association and linkage information among haplotypes slightly...
... Parkin, PINK1, DJ-1 and HtrA2 activity remains to be determined Parkin can be phosphorylated by a number of kinases including casein kinase 1, protein kinase A, protein kinase C [86] and cyclin-dependant ... inactivation of Drosophila PINK1 using RNAi suggested that PINK1 maintains neuronal survival by protecting neurons against oxidative stress [79] In mammalian cell culture, PINK1 protects against ... Interestingly, susceptibility to rotenone toxicity is increased in neurons from Parkin-null mice [39] PINK1 suppression using small interfering RNA decreased cell viability and significantly increased...
... Grain seedling seedling Isopentenyladenine Isopentenyladenosine Isopentenyladenosine monophosphate Isopentenyladenine-9-glucoside Zeatin Zeatin riboside Zeatin ribotide Zeatin-9-glucoside Zeatin ... seedlings The measured values are summarized in Table The total cytokinin content in the grains was approximately threefold lower than in young seedlings The increase was mainly observed in the ... leaves Seedling green leaves Epidermis (seedlings) Seedling apex Genomic DNA Grains Drought-stressed seedlings Drought-stressed seedlings Puccinia-infected leaf Grains Seedlings Fusarium-infected...
... PrP sequences Amino acid numbering starts from the initiator methionine Gaps inserted to optimize alignments are indicated by dashes Numbers in parentheses in the alignments indicate the length ... of interest because in terms of function, the fish intestine is highly regionalized both in the larva and in the adult [38] The posterior segment of the fish intestine is the absorption site of intact ... system [41,42], and in epithelial cells lining the digestive tract lumen [43,44] Considering the importance of the intestinal barrier in the process of oral prion infection, this finding might help...
... converted to violaxanthin In plants, carotenoids are mainly involved in photosynthesis as accessory pigments, in photoprotection (quenching and xanthophylls cycle) and in the formation of abscisic ... [23] in grass PSYs, differences in the N-terminus as well as the C-terminus of the two proteins may result in differences in their plastid localization Transcription analysis of the two genes using ... Psy2 genesin the coding sequence region The two genes were shown to have a highly conserved structure, with seven exons being almost identical and six introns being much more variable in sequence...
... Genotyping by real-time PCR Fig Plasma cortisol levels in the three Angora genotypes (n = 10 per group) following intravenous insulin injection Plasma glucose levels are shown in the inset The ... and an increase in plasma cortisol levels in response to insulin injection (Fig 6) However, although the decrease in plasma glucose was similar for all groups, the amplitude of the response in cortisol ... physiological effect of this novel finding was investigated by testing goats of each genotype for their ability to produce cortisol in response to intravenous insulin injection The results of this study...
... candidate genes corresponding to missing enzymes in this pathway There are two paths from l-lysine to glutarate in the lysine-degradation pathway: l-lysine fi 5-amino pentanamide fi 5-amino pentanoate ... protein HtpG succinate dehydrogenase (A subunit) (EC 1.3.99.1) probable cytochrome c pyrroloquinoline quinone biosynthesis protein A hypothetical protein hypothetical protein branched chain amino ... the lysine-degradation pathway in P aeruginosa We filled in some of the enzyme genesin the lysinedegradation pathway, for example, by predicting PA0266 as a putative 5-aminovalerate aminotransferase...
... Spener F (2002) Insights into ¨ binding of fatty acids by fatty acid binding proteins Mol Cell Biochem 239, 45–54 31 Borchers T & Spener F (1993) Involvement of arginine ¨ in the binding of heme ... mammalian FABP1 during zebrafish embryogenesis The distinct patterns of expression for the fabp1b (in the intestine) and fabp10 (in the liver) genesin the developing zebrafish combined represent the ... established in the intestine during the late fetal stage The mRNA concentration in the intestine increases sharply by three- to four-fold within 24 h of birth and increases another two-fold during the...
... conserved in a bc-crystallin fold The residues shown in grey indicate the side chains and backbone sites that are involved in calcium binding [24] The residues in the conserved tyrosine corners are in ... single domain fold The stability of these two proteins is highly dependent on calcium binding [25] The typical domain motives contain a ‘tyrosine corner’ in the domain centre as seen in proteins ... FEBS N Pinchai et al in Protein S (7) or spherulin 3a (2) NKA48 (1) differs from all of these proteins by not containing a tyrosine in a corresponding position In contrast to NKA48, spherulin 3a...
... specific binding was determined by the relative intensity of ethidium bromide fluorescence when compared to the input control Our data show that the RAR binding was almost undetectable in vitamin A-deficiency ... controls, while in acute hypervitaminosis the binding was significantly higher These changes in the RAR–DNA binding is not due to different levels of the retinoic acid receptor induced by the treatment, ... of p53 protein was significantly increased in the liver and lung from vitamin A-deficient rats that in controls c-Jun protein was significantly decreased in vitamin A-deficient rats In the liver...
... independent of TATA-binding-protein-associated factors and initiator-binding proteins Mol Cell Biol 17, 2973–2984 32 Weis, L & Reinberg, D (1992) Transcription by RNA polymerase II: initiator-directed ... of this region, 12 putative Sp1 binding sites are present In addition, the promoter B region contains numerous putative transcription factor binding sites including GATA-boxes, Oct-1, ets-1, AP-1, ... from exon In fact, transcript A starts within this intron 2, 94 bp upstream of the start of exon Similarly, sequences upstream of exon either serve as intron (intron 0), or are retained in the processed...
... Intracellular lipid-binding proteins and their genes Annu Rev Nutr 17, 277–303 Schaap FG, van der Vusse GJ & Glatz JFC (2002) Evolution of the family of intracellular lipid binding proteins in ... partial amino acid sequencing of an amphibian liver fatty acid binding protein Biochem Cell Biol 74, 109–115 ´ ´ ´ Cordoba OL, Sanchez EI & Santome JA (1999) The main fatty acid-binding protein in the ... fatty acidbinding proteins: their function and physiological significance Prog Lipid Res 35, 243–282 16 Ong DE, Newcomer ME & Chytil F (1994) Cellular retinoid-binding proteins In The Retinoids:...
... with increasing pH, from 5.5 to 7.2, resulting in a marked decrease of the affinity for this cofactor In contrast, LDH showed a hyperbolic kinetic response to increasing concentrations of NADH independently ... limit) during the first half of glucose utilization, indicating that the kinetic parameters determined for LDHB in vitro not apply in vivo On the other hand, NADH increased progressively during the ... of strain MG1363 in which the ldh gene was inactivated by a single crossover maintained by erythromycin selection [9]) From the conjugation, transconjugants were selected showing rifampicin, streptomycin...
... hydrogenase genes [25] In Rhodopseudomonas palustris CGA009, the photosystem is synthesized in the dark due to a single point mutation in the helix–turn–helix DNA binding motif of PpsR, rendering it inactive ... coli: streptomycin (50), ampicillin (100), kanamycin (50), gentamycin (20), erythromycin (50); for T roseopersicina: streptomycin (5), kanamycin (20), gentamycin (5) erythromycin (50) Conjugation ... with the HupT ⁄ HoxJ kinase in vitro [4] The role of the N-terminal part of the kinase, containing a PAS domain, was established in signal transduction between the RH and the kinase [6,7] Addition...
... 1.5-fold induction in BpRc1 cells, suggesting that these genes were induced by hypoxia in an Arnt-dependent manner The remaining 24 genes demonstrated a greater than 1.5fold induction in both cell lines, ... FK506 binding protein (59 kDa) (FKBP4), proteasome (prosome, macropain) subunit, a type (PSMA3), guanine nucleotide binding protein, a 11 (GNA11), splicing factor, arginine ⁄ serine-rich (SRp20) ... Finally, we investigated the role of HIF-1a in regulating the expression of these genesin response to hypoxia by analyzing murine preadipoctyes 3T3-L1, in which HIF-1a was knocked down by infection...
... Disease in the Newborn Hypothyroidism in Children Hyperthyroidism in Children Thryoid Nodules Thyroid Physiology of the Fetus and Newborn • • • • • Normal Thyroid Development Thyroid Status in Premature ... Premature Infants Transplacental Passage of Thyroid Ab Newborn Screening Congenital Hypothyroidism Thyroid Development • Orignates from thyroid diverticulum and ultimobranchial bodies • Ontogeny influenced ... results • Lower rise in preterm infants Cord Blood Thryoid Levels • Influenced by gestational age • Progressive increase with approach to term Thyroid Status in Premature Infants • Relative immaturity...
... al Glucosinolate biosynthesis genesin Brassica rapa Fig Biosynthesis pathways of the three major groups of glucosinolates in B rapa The genes involved in each step are shown Numbers in parenthesis ... neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of Branched chain aminotransferases Fig S3 Nonrooted neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of MAM and IPMS family genes Fig S4 Nonrooted neighbor-joining phylogenetic ... Nonrooted neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of glucosyltransferase family genes Fig S8 Nonrooted neighbor-joining phylogenetic tree of flavin-containing monooxygenase family genes FEBS Journal...