... pressure are linked to eclampsia. Explor-ing this association will help us to gain further insight into the pathophysiology of this condition.Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have ... periodFigure 4Graph showing thevariationinthe monthly average rainfall during the study period.Graph showing thevariationinthe monthly average morning relative humidity during the study periodFigure ... conceptions occurring inthe summer sea-son, whereas there was no significant variationinthe inci-dence of preeclampsia based on the timing of delivery. In our study, we intend to establish if any...
... protons to form two molecules of water.At the same time, protons are pumped from one side of the protein tothe other [1]. As the CCO is normally inserted in the mitochondrial membrane, this pumping, ... protons are still pumped from one side of the protein tothe other. There is also a water cycle that is coupled to electron and proton transfer. Water must enter and leave the protein for the ... nm. Thetemperature in the cuvette was monitored during the assay with a T-type thermo-couple and was constant within ± 0.1 K over the course of the measurement. The rate constant on the ordinate...
... fluctuations are proposed. Seasonal indexes seem promising since they enable converting the observed germination indicators at any one time to a value characterising the entire year average (formula ... processing until the spring, testing of fresh seed lots is carried out also in summer. The aim of this study isto test the fluctuation in germination energy and germination capacity of the seed of ... then E(Y2) = ±2.9% and E( Y–year ) = ±3.5%. Inthe first case, the increase of error is really large and cannot be ignored. In contrast, inthe second case the error increase is tolerable...
... Bra-silia [3] toupto 8 Mg ha–1yr–1 in the Emasopensavannah[9]; the latter being the same one studied in this work.This indicates that nearly half of the net production is transferred tothe belowground ... were takenfrom October 1987 to October 1988 inthe Campocerrado, and from October 1990 to October 1991 in the Cerradão, by the sequential soil coring method [38]. Ev-ery other month, three ... resources andseasonal weatherpattern. In the open savannah, the belowground biomass sig-nificantly varied around 6 Mg ha–1between the dry and the rainy seasons. Inthe ecosystem free from fire the...
... 2) is so similar that with- in them no distinct subunits can be detect-ed in either the dendrogram (cluster analy-sis, fig 1) or the distribution of the discriminant ... reliabledistinctive feature. According to Flora Eu-ropaea (Tutin et al, 1964), it is up to 5 mm in pedunculate oak and between 18 and 25 mm in sessile oak. This variation ... remains, where to draw the limits of the 2 species and the intermediatestatus. By defining subjectively the valuesbetween -1.50 and 1.50 as intermediate,we arrived at the...
... amino acid(oligopeptide) residues inthe immediate vicinity of the substrate in order to estimate the contribution of eachprotein fragment tothe interaction energy of the complex.Then, the ... [41]. The modelling process was performed for a selection ofamino acid residues within the active site consisting of 10fragments, including the substrate, and comprising a total of298–312 atoms ... mentioned findings give another argumentfavouring the importance of ArgB263 in substrate binding to PA. The pronounced difference in interaction energies of the two arginine residues shows certain capability...
... very faintstaining only (Fig. 4D). The thickness of the staining is the result of the morphology of spermatozoid in Astacus. Indeed, the spermatozoid is almost devoid ofcytoplasm, andthe cell ... with two zinc-binding histidines (His343 and His347) was conserved in Asl-tACE and additional coordination was providedby the third zinc-binding ligand (Glu371), 24 aminoacid residues downstream, ... spermatogenesis cycle peryear, from spring until late summer. There are no externalsigns to indicate whether the animal isin active spermato-genesis or in a resting period and, within a tank, the...
... UK) and peroxidase-coupled avidin-biotin stainingkit (ABC kit, Vector Laboratories, UK) were used.For HE staining, the tissue sections were submerged into the hematoxylin solution (0.5% hematoxylin, ... developed and showed promising prospect in clinicaltreatment of PD, but the exact mechanism underlying this therapy is not fully elucidated. In the present study, we investigated whether the beneficial ... through the striatum containing transplants and mounted to gelatincoated slides. Adjacent sections were processed for hema-toxylin-eosin (HE) stain and immunohistochemistry. The sections were stained...
... progressively increased to determine the thresholds of the H reflex and of the Mresponse (MT) for vastus lateralis. The intensity wasthen maintained at 2 ì MT of vastus lateralis for the rest of the ... comfortablysecured in sitting position with the chest, pelvis andthe tested legbeing firmly anchored tothe Biodex chair. A. For the kneeextension task, the input axis of the dynamometer was adjusted to align ... question then arises as to whether the abnor-mal coactivation of knee and ankle extensors in the paret ic leg is related tothe malfunction of intersegmen-tal pathways linking quadriceps to soleus.This...
... deamina-tion of cytosine and can result in A:T transition mutations in one of the nascent strands [1]. Minimizing the incorpo-ration of these bases and excising those that arise prevents the ... free-living organisms have mechanisms to minimize the incorporation of uracil in their genomes. These resi-dues in DNA can arise either through misincorporation ofdUTP by DNA polymerase or the ... contributed tothe design of the experiments and analysis of the data. KAK contributed to the acquisition and interpretation of data. RWM contrib-uted tothe conception of the studies andthe criticalreview...