Centaurea cyanus, belonging to the Asteraceae family, is an arable weed species encountered mainly in fields with cereals, sugar beet, and maize. The high genetic variability of C. cyanus has been recently reported; however, little known about its sequence context herbicide resistance. resistance was found against acetolactate synthase (ALS) inhibitors, but no ALS information concerning mechani...

In the present review a large amount of experimental and clinical studies on ALS are discussed in an effort to dissect common pathogenic mechanisms which may provide novel information and potential therapeutic strategies for motor neuron degeneration.Protein clearing systems play a critical role in motor neuron survival during excitotoxic stress, aging and neurodegenerative disorders. Among var...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive motor neuron degenerative disease that has no effective treatment up to date. Drug discovery tasks have been hampered due to the lack of knowledge in its molecular etiology together with the limited animal models for research. Recently, a motor neuron disease animal model has been developed using β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (L-BMAA), a neurotox...

Disease progression in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is characterized by degeneration of motoneurons and their axons which results in a progressive muscle weakness and ultimately death from respiratory failure. The only approved drug, riluzole, lacks clinical efficacy so that more potent treatment options are needed. We have identified rho kinase (ROCK) as a target, which can be manipulat...

Papaver rhoeas biotypes displaying multiple herbicide resistance to ALS inhibitors and synthetic auxin herbicides (SAH) are spreading across Europe. In Spain, enhanced metabolism imazamox was confirmed in one population, while cytochrome-P450 (P450) based 2,4-D another two. The objectives of this research were further confirm the presence P450 mediated and, if so, whether a putative common is r...

objective: approximately three-fourths of women experience an episode of vaginal candidiasis. candida albicans(c. albicans) is the etiological agent in over 80% of cases. c. albicans has numerous virulence factors such as the agglutinin-like sequence (als) genes which code the large glycoprotein family that has a role in the adherence of candida. the present study aims to evaluate expressions ...