ÜberPratincola maura undPratincola hemprichi

Speaker 3: Maura Furey, USA

Background: Conventional antidepressant therapy has remained virtually unchanged for the past 50 years. The discovery of the rapid and potent antidepressant effects of the NMDA receptor antagonist ketamine has kindled interest in pursuing new and novel mechanisms for the treatment of depression. The cholinergic neurotransmitter system is implicated in affective illness, whereby a cholinergic ag...

Ependymoma Author : Doctor Maura Massimino 1 Creation date : February 2004

Keywords Disease name Definition Diagnostic criteria and differential diagnosis Etiology Genetics Clinical description Prognosis Diagnostic methods Epidemiology Management Unresolved questions References Abstract Ependymoma accounts for 10% of all pediatric central nervous system tumors and originates in ventricular spaces or from residual intra-parenchymal ependymal cells. The most common loca...

The moderately halophilic bacterium Halomonas maura is a free-living diazotroph.

Halomonas maura is a moderately halophilic bacterium which lives in saline soils and synthesises an exopolysaccharide known as mauran. Strain S-31T grew in a nitrogen-free medium under an N2 atmosphere; the acetylene reduction assay proved positive under specific conditions. We identified the nifH gene in this strain by using degenerate oligonucleotides designed from highly preserved gene seque...

Halomonas maura sp. nov., a novel moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterium.

Four moderately halophilic, exopolysaccharide-producing bacterial strains isolated from soil samples collected from a saltern at Asilah (Morocco) are reported. These four strains were initially considered to belong to the genus Halomonas. Their DNA G+C contents varied between 62.2 and 64.1 mol %. DNA-DNA hybridization revealed a considerable degree of DNA-DNA similarity amongst all four strains...

Morphometric Analysis of Two Populations of Eurygaster maura (Het.: Scutelleridae) in Iran