A typical symptom of postharvest chilling injury (PCI) in pineapple fruit (Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.) is internal browning (IB) near the fruit core. Since vascular bundles (VBs) are localized to this region, it was hypothesized that the VBs might be the site of IB. To test this, the anatomy and histochemistry of VBs during chilling stress in four pineapple cultivars with different levels of sen...

Lactic dehydrogenase virus (LDV) associated with transplantable line Ib lymphocytic leukemia in C58iWm mice, K36 lymphocytic leukemia in AKRiJ mice, and the Gardner lymphosarcoma in C3HIHeJ mice elicited a fatal neuroparalytic disease when injected ip into 7to g-month-old X-irradiated indicator C58 mice. LDV associated with the WEHI-3B line of transplantable myelomonocytic leukemia or the Hardi...

Small-diameter sensory neurons that are primarily nociceptors can be divided neurochemically into two populations: isolectin B(4) (IB(4))-positive nonpeptidergic neurons, and IB(4)-negative peptidergic neurons. It has been shown that IB(4)-positive neurons depend on glial-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF), whereas IB(4)-negative neurons depend on NGF for survival during postnatal development (...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the frequency of different gonococcal serovars within Edinburgh, Scotland and to describe changes that occurred in the frequency of such serovars over time. METHODS All heterosexual patients with a diagnosis of gonorrhoea confirmed on culture between January 1986 and December 1990 had their gonococcal strain serotyped. Temporal changes in the prevalence of gonorrhoea and ...

The primary goal of this study was to detect and confirm QTL on SSC6 for growth and fatness traits in 2 experimental F(2) intercrosses: Iberian x Landrace (IB x LR) and Iberian x Meishan (IB x MS), which were used in this study for the first time in a QTL analysis related to productive traits. For this purpose, single- and joint-population analyses with single and bivariate trait models of both...

Apolipoprotein A-I (ApoA-I) is functionally involved in the transportation and metabolism of lipids in vertebrates. In this study, two isoforms of apoA-Ib in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) were characterized. Sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis showed that C. carpio ApoA-Ib is relatively conserved within cyprinid fishes. During embryonic development, C. carpio apoA-Ib was first expr...

l h e light-harvesting complex (LHC) Ib pigment-proteins form the major component of the LHC I complex in higher plants. l hey comprise chlorophylls a and b, xanthophylls, and at least two polypeptide subunits of 21 and 20 kD in barley (Hordeum vulgare). We have identified two cDNA clones, LHC lb-21 and LHC lb-20, encoding the 21and 20-kD LHC Ib apoproteins, respectively. Nterminal protein sequ...

The existence of a restrained inflammatory state in schizophrenic individuals posed the question whether anti-inflammatory drugs may exert antipsychotic effects. Therefore, the effect of ibuprofen (IB) on cytokine production by human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from schizophrenic patients was examined and compared to that of healthy subjects. PBMC from 25 schizophrenic patients an...

Activin exerts its effects by simultaneously binding to two types of p rotein serine/threonine kinase receptors, each type existing in various isoforms. Using the ActR-IB and ActR-IIB receptor isoforms, we have investigated the mechanism of activin receptor activation. ActR-IIB are phosphoproteins with demonstrable affinity for each other. However, activin addition strongly promotes an interact...

Building on emerging debates the ‘dark’ and ‘bright’ side of digital globalization, calls for considering its environmental social implications in more detail, this perspective article seeks to ‘unravel’ these components ‘the age’ International Business (IB). Inspired by affordance developed Information Systems research, we offer IB scholars a new approach ‘zoom in’ (potential) role individual ...