The light-harvesting complex II of the purple bacteria has two strong near infrared electronic absorption bands, around 800 (B800) and 850 (B850) nm, arising from the Qy transitions of bacteriochlorophyll a. It was previously reported that under some specific acid/chaotropic conditions the B850 bacteriochlorophylls of the light-harvesting complex II of Ectothiorhodospira sp. are strongly reorga...

To investigate the seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection in domestic cats in central China, 843 serum samples were collected in Henan province between March 2015 and May 2016 and tested for IgG antibodies against T. gondii using the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). The overall seroprevalence of T. gondii was 21% (178/843). No significant difference was observed based on the se...

HUMAN OXIDIZED LDL IMMUNE COMPLEXES IN MACROPHAGES Kent J. Smith, Waleed O Twal, Farzan Soodavar, Gabriel Virella, Maria F Lopes-Virella, and Samar M Hammad From Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Microbiology and Immunology, and the Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, and the Department of Veteran Aff...