The molecule 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is a substrate for a heme synthesized in cells us‐ ing succinyl CoA and glycine. Initially, 5-ALA is converted to porphobilinogen (PBG), and the metabolism progresses by the action of PBG deaminase, and its product is incorporated into the mitochondria via uroporphyrinogen and coproporphyrinogen by an enzymatic reaction and transformed into protoporphy...

We determined the effects of bilateral microinjection of muscimol and excitatory amino acid receptor antagonists into the medullary lateral tegmental field (LTF) on changes in sympathetic nerve discharge (SND), mean arterial pressure (MAP), and phrenic nerve activity (PNA; artificially ventilated cats) or intratracheal pressure (spontaneously breathing cats) elicited by right atrial administrat...

Two dimensional metallic photonic band gap (PBG) structures, which have higher power handling capability, have been analyzed for their dispersion characteristics. The analysis has been performed using finite difference time domain (FDTD) method based on the regular orthogonal Yee’s cell. A simplified unit cell of triangular lattice PBG structure has been considered for the TE and TM modes of pr...

HE origin of chromosome instability and subsequent chlorophyll variegation Tin hybrid derivatives of Nicotiana tabacum (n=24) and N . plumbaginifolia (n=10) has been described by MOAV (1961) and GUPTA (1965, 1968b). It was demonstrated by (GUPTA 1968b) that the alien chromosome of N . plumbaginifolia (pbg) carrying a Ws gene (chlorophyll factor) showed instability in association with the N . ta...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease constitutes a major challenge for the health of community-dwelling population, it is essential to delay the development of atherosclerosis. However, long-term prospective studies analyzing the effect of type 2 diabetes (T2D) on central arterial stiffness are lacking, and roles of fasting and postprandial blood glucose (FBG and PBG) in this effect are controvers...

We discuss the nonlinear response of impurity two-level atoms in a pseudophotonic band gap ~PBG! to an applied laser field. It is shown that in the case when the variance of resonant dipole-dipole interaction ~RDDI! is much larger than its average value and the spontaneous emission rate, a nonequilibrium second-order phase transition occurs when the applied field strength parameter exceeds the ...

The fabrication of 3D structures with a large complete photonic bandgap (PBG) has been an important goal, since the concept was introduced two decades ago. Many proposed structures exhibit PBGs with theoretical relative widths below 5%, often too narrow for practical applications, since structural inhomogeneties may reduce the size, or even close, PBGs by introducing unwanted modes into the ban...

Photobody localization of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) phytochrome B (phyB) fused to green fluorescent protein (PBG) correlates closely with the photoinhibition of hypocotyl elongation. However, the amino-terminal half of phyB fused to green fluorescent protein (NGB) is hypersensitive to light despite its inability to localize to photobodies. Therefore, the significance of photobodies in ...

Garlic (Allium sativum L., Alliaceae), Persian shallot (Allium ascalonicum L., Alliaceae ) and Sage (Salvia officinalis L., Lamiaceae) are believed to have hypoglycemic properties and have been used traditionally as antidiabetic herbal medicines in Iran. In this study, diabetes was induced by subcutaneous injection of alloxan monohydrate (100 mg kg(-1)) to male Wistar rats. Antidiabetic effects...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Kale is a rich source of provitamin A- β-carotene. This study used intrinsically labeled kale [2H9] β-carotene to determine the effect of peanut butter on the bioconversion of kale β-carotene to vitamin A in preschool children. METHODS AND STUDY DESIGN Preschool children (n=37; age 12-36 mo) were randomly assigned to 50 g cooked kale (1.5 mg β-carotene content) with ...