Rhizopus oligosporus was used in the present study for the production of protease enzyme under SSF. Sunflower meal was used as by-product of oil industry incorporated with organic salts was employed for the production of protease enzyme. The main purpose of the present was to study different parameters of protease productivity, its yields and to optimize basal fermentation conditions. The optim...

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Ovidius University, 124 Mamaia Blvd, 900527 Constanta, Romania ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Emulsions are heterogeneous systems consisting of at least one liquid dispersed in another immiscible liquid phase under variable sized drops. The aim of the present study is to deter...

RATIONALE MicroRNAs (miRNAs), in particular miR-29b and miR-30c, have been implicated as important regulators of cardiac fibrosis. OBJECTIVE To perform a proteomics comparison of miRNA effects on extracellular matrix secretion by cardiac fibroblasts. METHODS AND RESULTS Mouse cardiac fibroblasts were transfected with pre-/anti-miR of miR-29b and miR-30c, and their conditioned medium was ana...

Elevated thermal condition caused by global warming is a threat to major crops grown in India as well other Asian and tropical countries, it negatively affects the crop phenology, growth, dry-matter production yield. The present research work aims assess impact of elevated temperature on rice using three growth simulation models, namely, DSSAT, WOFOST InfoCrop. Field experimental data-set for s...

For many years, sanitarians have specified that hands be washed using warm or hot water to reduce cross-contamination risks, with various authors indicating temperatures between 38C and 48.9C. However, it has been suggested that these temperatures may contribute to skin damage when frequent handwashing is necessitated (in health care and food service). This study evaluates the bacterial reducti...

Adult neurogenesis is considered to contribute to a certain degree of plasticity for the brain. However, the effects of adult-born neurons on the brain are still largely unknown. Here, we specifically altered the expression of miR-30c in the subventricular zone (SVZ) and dentate gyrus (DG) by stereotaxic injection with their respective up- and down-regulated lentiviruses. Results showed an incr...

Precipitation of lignosulphonates from the liquor for sulfite pretreatment to overcome recalcitrance of lignocellulose (SPORL) by addition of Ca(OH)2 was investigated in this work. The experiment was conducted in a reaction temperature range of 20 to 75C for 90 minutes with Ca(OH)2 charge varying from 20 to 90 g/L and a range of liquid enrichment ratio of 1 to 5. It was found that increased Ca(...

Aberrant miRNA expression has been previously established in breast cancer and has clinical relevance. However, no studies so far have defined miRNAs deregulated in hereditary breast tumors. In this study we investigated the role of miRNAs in hereditary breast tumors comparing with normal breast tissue. Global miRNA expression profiling using Exiqon microarrays was performed on 22 hereditary br...

In this work autotrophic nitrogen removal was implemented through the combined biological processes of short-cut nitrification and anoxic ammonium oxidation (anammox) in a single sequencing batch reactor (SBR). The SBR received the effluent of an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) that treated low strength synthetic wastewater. The main challenge was to develop anammox bacteria that will be...

The PhoP-PhoQ two-component system is commonly used by bacteria to sense environmental factors. Here, we show that the PhoP-PhoQ system of Edwardsiella tarda detects changes in environmental temperature and Mg concentration, as well as regulates the type III and VI secretion systems through direct activation of esrB. Protein secretion is activated from 23C to 35C or at low Mg concentrations but...