In the calculation of non-leptonic weak decay rates, a “mismatch” arises when the QCD evolution of the relevant weak hamiltonian down to hadronic scales is performed in unquenched QCD, but the hadronic matrix elements are then computed in (partially) quenched lattice QCD. This mismatch arises because the transformation properties of penguin operators under chiral symmetry change in the transiti...

The plant light-harvesting complex of photosystem II (LHC-II) collects and transmits solar energy for photosynthesis in chloroplast membranes and has essential roles in regulation of photosynthesis and in photoprotection. The 2.5 A structure of pea LHC-II determined by X-ray crystallography of stacked two-dimensional crystals shows how membranes interact to form chloroplast grana, and reveals t...

Metabolome characterisation is a powerful tool in oncology. To obtain a valid description of the intracellular metabolome, two of the preparatory steps are crucial, namely washing and quenching. Washing must effectively remove the extracellular media components and quenching should stop the metabolic activities within the cell, without altering the membrane integrity of the cell. Therefore, it ...

Mycotoxin (aflatoxins) contamination of peanuts is a great concern for human health. A total of 72 samples of unripe, roasted, and salty peanuts were collected randomly from Pothohar plateau of Pakistan for the assessment of aflatoxin. Samples were dried, ground and extracted by acetonitrile (84%). The filtered extracts were cleaned up by MycoSep-226 and analyzed by high performance liquid chro...

A nonsurgical experimental system for detection of malignant tissue in the posterior ocular segment has been developed. A choroidal amelanotic malignant melanoma in rabbits served as a tumor model. Fluorescence of an hematoporphyrin derivative which is concentrated by malignant tissue was observed and measured simultaneously, using a modified binocular indirect ophthalmoscope. Clinical evaluati...

A 79-year old man presented with chest pain and fatigue. He was found to have anemia (hemoglobin 8.8 g/dL) and leukocytosis (white blood cell count 244x10/L) with a predominance of lymphocytes (94%). Flow cytometric study and flourescence in situ hybridization analysis of the peripheral blood lymphocytes were consistent with a diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma. A peripheral smear obtained from ...

ce has become one of the most powerful methods for assessing photosynthetic performance in plant physiological experiments (Horton and Bowyer, 1990; Krause and Weis, 1991). This has resulted almost entirely from the development of methods to distinguish photochemical and nonphotochemical quenching of fluorescence. Moreover, it is now clear that the process of nonphotochemical quenching itself i...

Solid-state self-quenching processes of highly efficient Ir(III) phosphorescent emitters are investigated by the measurement of thin film photoluminescence quantum efficiency and transient lifetime as a function of doping concentration in a host matrix. The radiative decay rate constant is found to be independent from the average distance between dopant molecules (R), and the concentration-quen...

Background Metabolomics, aiming at the quantification of all extracellular and intracellular metabolites, is a valuable tool for characterizing, understanding and manipulating the physiology of mammalian cells. While extracellular metabolite analysis is well established, required quenching and extraction procedures for intracellular metabolite analysis in mammalian suspension cells are not yet ...

     Resonance light scattering (RLS) intensity of silver nanoparticles in the presence of sodium dodecylsulphate was quenched on addition of sulfasalzine. The quenching extent was shown to be proportional to the sulfasalazine concentration. Effect of different parameters such as pH, volume and kind of buffer, silver nanoparticles concentration, sodium dodecylsulphate (SDS) concentration, and w...