... conclusion, the typical acidbase picture of ARF of critical illness is one of mild acidemia due to moderate metabolic acidosis Such acidosis is the result of the net balance of acidifying forces due ... understanding of the nature of the acidbase disorders of ARF in critically ill patients To achieve this goal, we sought to define and quantify acidbase disorders in these patients by applying ... Other factors affecting acidbase balance To define the unique acidbase characteristics of ARF patients, we used two control groups The matched control group consisted of 40 ICU patients without...
... Identification and CharacterizationofGroup and Group 21 in S medanensis and Cross Comparison of a Panel of 11 Group and Group 21 Allergens 6.1 Introduction 135 6.2 Results 137 ix 6.2.1 Group and Group 21 ... 6.5 SDS-PAGE profile of a panel ofGroup and Group 21 proteins including Ale o 5, Der p 5, Lep d and Gly d 148 Figure 6.6 Frequencies of IgE-binding toward a panel of 11 Group and Group 21 allergens ... Inhibition of Blo t byGroup and Group 21 inhibitors from B tropicalis, D farinae, D pteronyssinus, L destructor and A ovatus using three sera 154 Figure 6.9 Inhibition of Blo t 21 byGroup and Group...
... the particles can be explained by the specific adsorptionof ions to particular crystal surface, therefore, inhibiting the growth of these faces by lowering their surface energy [32,33] This study ... size of particles constituting the product The details of the effect of sulfate on the formation of WO3 nanocrystal are not clear up to date However, it is known that the anisotropic growth of ... the yield of the rod-like nanostructures increase with increasing the amount of the salt As a result, the presence of an appropriate amount of Na2SO4 plays a key role in the formation of the h-WO3...
... the internal amino -acid sequence was determined by sequencing the N-terminal part of a peptide fragment obtained by tryptic digestion of the protein Cloning and sequencing of the insecticidal ... of microgram quantities of protein utilizing the principle of protein-dye binding Anal Biochem 72, 248–254 Laemmli, UK (1970) Cleavage of structural proteins during the assembly of the head of ... followed by 30 cycles of 94 °C for 15 s, 50 °C for 30 s, and 68 °C for The second-round PCR was performed using U KOD -Plus- polymerase, 50 ng each of the first-round PCR products, 15 pmol of the...
... identified by the primary code followed by a letter (e.g OC0603_a and OC0603_b; cf Tab 3, and Additional file 1) This analysis revealed a total of 2,302 OCs, of which 1764 (52.7% of the total number of ... between and 40 ESTs Comparison of chicory ESTs with sequences of other species allowing the formation of contigs Direct determination of the number of genes represented by the 2,302 OCs identified ... proportion of the annotated genes represented by single ESTs (1,461 of 2,077, i.e 70%) (Fig 3) seems to indicate an efficient normalisation of the libraries; only 3% of the genes were represented by...
... a temperature of 22-24°C The C group received an intra-gastric injection of corn oil (1 ml/kg) twice a week Liver fibrosis was induced in the F groupby intra-gastric injection of CCl4 (1 ml/kg ... a groupof images and discriminating between two groups based on these features, directly or via mathematical recombination of features Information concerning the performance and limitations of ... The liver sections of the C group had a normal histological appearance (Figure 1b) The fibrotic changes in sections from group F were visible by eye and were seen as strands of collagen deposition...
... bimetallic catalysts were evaluated in D-glucose hydrogenation Chapter is the details of synthesis of the mesoporous carbon microfiber supported Ru catalystsby Chapter Introduction using alumina microfibers ... carboxylic acids Depending on the acidity of these surface groups and the pH of the solution in which the support is suspended, the surface can be either positively or negatively charged When the surface ... syntheses of RuC catalystsbyusing H-form zeolite HY and ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15 as templates are discussed The catalytic performances of the RuC catalysts were compared with other Ru-C catalysts...
... for scattering of a plane wave by a cylinder 13 1.10 Properties of different orders of the scattering coefficient In the case of a lossless cylinder, scattering coefficients of all orders can ... vii List of Figures xi Introduction 1.1 Optical Properties of Nanoscaled Objects 1.1.1 Optical Constants of Noble Metals 1.1.2 Surface Plasmon Resonances of Metallic ... transmission properties of silicon nanorods, the control of shifting the frequencies of the plasmon resonances by coated nanostructures, and the potential applications of plasmonic materials,...
... synthesis of the wide bandgap of TiO2, the small particle size of 10 to approximately 20 nm, the wide surface area of TiO2, and the porosity As stated above, these can increase the adsorptionof dye, ... ATN nanofibers can be observed at the surfaceof the film, so the nanofiber-added TiO2 film has an advantage to having higher adsorptionof dye molecules and also supports the penetration of the ... I-H: Characterization and morphology of prepared titanium dioxide nanofibers by electrospinning J Nanosci Nanotechnol 2010, 10:3402-3405 17 Li D, Xia Y: Fabrication of titania nanofibers by electrospinning...
... decision surface in the input space, is given by T wo x + bo = (1) The set of vectors is said to be optimally separated by the hyperplane if it is separated without error and the margin of separation ... process of adaptive neural filters has a long computational time since the learning structure is based on the architecture of threshold decomposition; that is, the learning data at each level of threshold ... decomposition architecture Assuming (18) Byusing the threshold decomposition architecture, WOS filters can be implemented by threshold logic That is, the output of WOS filters is defined as Yi = K −1...
... south-west of Asia between (29-37 N), (39-48 E), thus it occupies the northeast corner of the Arab world, Iraq overlooking across the south coast of the Arabian Gulf for distance of 60km, bordered by ... emission of dust Geographic location of the regions that emit particles of dust and thus cause the phenomenon of dust storm in the study area (Iraq) has been determined, the determination of these ... cause the emission of dust particles and thus the occurrence of this phenomenon within the study area These images represent the beginning of dust storms (start point reigns of dust) because it...
... of Glu, glycosylation of Ser or Thr, bromination of Trp, sulfation of Tyr, cyclization of N-terminal Gln, and epimerization of several different residues It is quite rare for such a variety of ... structure of conomarphin was similar to those of other conotoxin cDNAs The cDNA-encoded precursor of conomarphin consisted of a conserved M-superfamily signal peptide of 25 residues, a proregion of ... 4), so that the rest of the peptide chain of l-Phe13-conomarphin extends roughly along the axis orientation of the C-terminal helix The structures of several d-amino acid- containing peptides have...
... fatty acids That groupof acyl residues consists of fatty acid pairs The first acid in each pair is shorter (e.g 3-OH-i-13:0) while the second one is longer (e.g 3-OH20:0) Analysis of lipid A by ... The presence of GalA was unequivocally confirmed by GC-MS analysis of trimethylsilil ethers of methyl glycosides liberated from lipid A by methanolysis (Fig 1) The 31P-NMR spectrum of the crude ... chain fatty acids These are ester-linked to the lipid A The second groupof fatty acids needs strong liberation conditions [32] This group comprises all 3-hydroxyl and 4-oxo fatty acids, which...
... constituent of the repeating unit of an EPS produced by a Gram-positive lactic acid bacterium Due to the novel composition of the EPS produced by S thermophilus 8S, the genetics and biochemistry of the ... 6-O-(3¢,9¢-dideoxy-D-threo-D-altro-nononic acid- 2¢-yl)-a-D-glucopyranose [10] The structural elucidation of the repeating unit of the EPS revealed the attachment of a Glcp residue by a glycosidic linkage to O-7¢ of Sug Taking ... spectrum (mixing time 300 ms) of n-EPS, recorded in D2O at 64 °C Diagonal peaks of the anomeric protons, of H-4 of residues A and C, H5 of residue E, and H-3¢a,3¢b,9¢ of residue D are indicated...
... case of r11c, however, seven out of 12 amino acids at the C-terminus of r11a are not conserved, including the amino acid to be modified (Phe in the case of r11a compared with Leu in the case of ... with a gradient of 0–60% solvent B90 over 120 at a flow rate of mLÆmin)1 (B) Elution of the bioactive fraction marked by an arrow in (A) using a C18 analytical column and a gradient of 30–40% solvent ... of the I-gene superfamily of conotoxins provides a potentially much more diverse sequence database in which to explore the factors required for epimerization of an l-amino acid to a d-amino acid...
... AJ311175, respectively Computer analyses of nucleic -acid and amino -acid sequences were performed using the GCG software package programs from the Genetic Computer Group (Version 10; Madison, WI, USA), ... Nucleic Acids Res 26, 456–461 20 Ruoff, B., Johansen, S & Vogt, V.M (1992) Characterizationof the self-splicing products of a mobile intron from the nuclear rDNA of Physarum polycephalum Nucleic Acids ... splicing of the ribosomal RNA precursor of Tetrahymena: involvement of a guanosine nucleotide in the excision of the intervening sequence Cell 27, 487–496 27 Michel, F & Westhof, E (1990) Modelling of...
... Acid Methyl Esters Mix (47080-U, SUPELCO, USA); and kinds of long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) These standards were used to obtain 56 kinds of fatty acids Therefore, the contents of each fatty acid ... fatty acid were calculated based on the quantity of lipid, the content ratios of all the fatty acids, and the ratio of each fatty acid RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Characteristics of carbon stable isotope ... found about 30 kinds of fatty acids in the leaves and stems and about 36 kinds of fatty acids in the roots and rhizomes of Z japonica We focused on the fatty acid content of Z japonica , because...
... amount of the hydrophobic surface area Surface area calculations for the pentamer give a total surface ˚ ˚ area of $ 81 000 A2 with 30% ($ 24 000 A2) as contact area Thus, a large amount of the ... affinity of the penton base for the fiber and virtually no release of fiber once bound, adenovirus modulates fiber attachment by a two-step fiber-binding process that is independent of the conformation of ... and characterizationof adenovirus type vertex capsomer (penton base) Virology 92, 125–138 Pettersson U & Hoglund S (1969) Sructural proteins of adenoviruses Purification and characterization of...
... proteins or other sugars Base treatment specific for hydrolysis of the O-acetyl groups of sialic acids without cleavage of peptide bonds [6] considerably reduced the ability of BSM and bovine thyroglobulin ... site of the lectin was sialic acid on the surfaceof erythrocytes The binding specificity of crab lectin Inhibition studies with various sugars was helpful in deducing the binding specificity of ... binding of lectin to BSM–agarose Lectin was eluted with EB containing 10 mM EDTA, and mL fractions collected on ice in polypropylene tubes containing 100 lL of 100 mM CaCl2 at a rate of 0.3 mLÆmin)1...