The significant increase in life expectancy is closely related to the growing interest in the impact of aging on the function and appearance of the skin. Skin aging is influenced by several factors, and solar ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is considered one of the most important causes of skin photoaging. The aim of this study was to examine the anti-photoaging role of porphyra-334 from Porphyra ...

One monoclonal antibody (mAb 3F6) against coelomocytes of sea cucumber Apostichopus japonicus was developed by immunization of Balb/C mice. Analyzed by indirect immunofluorescence assay test (IIFAT), immunocytochemical assay (ICA), Western blotting and fluorescenceactivated cell sorter (FACS), mAb 3F6 showed specific for spherulocytes of A. japonicus. The mAb 3F6 recognized an antigen of molecu...

Abstract. Dubey R, Moonambeth N, Pandey AD. 2022. Taxonomy, distribution and statistical ecology of black mildew fungi reported from Maharashtra state India. Asian J For 6: 97-125. The India represents some the best non-equatorial tropical forests in world. It supports many endemic species plants, animals, microorganisms, especially Western Ghats, Moreover, a research project entitled "Foliicol...

The seasonal patterns of daylength and ultraviolet radiation (UVB and UVA) at Williamstown, Victoria, Australia were measured (October 1995-May 1996) and are considered in relation to levels of heterosides (soluble sugar compounds: D-isofloridoside, floridoside and L-isofloridoside) and sun-screen compounds (mycosporine-like amino acids: MAAs) in the intertidal red alga Bangia atropurpurea. UVB...

In the fertilization process of sea stars, sperm is activated to go through the acrosome reaction before cell fusion. We focused on induction of the acrosome reaction as a key process in fertilization. Six species of sea stars were used in this study: Asterias amurensis, Asterias rubens, Asterias forbesi, Aphelasterias japonica, Distolasterias nipon, and Asterina pectinifera. Acrosome reaction ...

Cells dissociated from swimming embryos of the starfish are able to reconstruct bipinnaria larvae. This process consists of reaggregation (stage 1), formation of the external epithelium (stage 2), development of the internal cavities which will eventually grow either into the blastocoel or the intestinal lumen (stage 3), gastrulation or fusion of the internal and the external epithelia (stage 4...

The 16,260-bp mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from the starfish Asterina pectinifera has been sequenced. The genes for 13 proteins, two rRNAs and 22 tRNAs are organized in an extremely economical fashion, similar to those of other animal mtDNAs, with some of the genes overlapping each other. The gene organization is the same as that for another echinoderm, sea urchin, except for the inversion of a 4....

In order to clarify the relationships between the first cleavage plane and the embryonic axes, early cleavage pattern of the fertilized eggs of the starfish. Asterina pectinifera was reexamined. It was ascertained that the polar bodies were formed at the site to which the germinal vesicle had closely located before the initiation of the meiotic division, and that the first cleavage plane passed...