For the majority college students in Taiwan, learning and using terminologies of a specific domain between Chinese and English interchangeably are quite a challenge. Most of the students seek for assistances from library resources or search for answers on web. Unfortunately, the students would not be able to identify the correctness of their findings, or the worse, the students cannot choose th...

Griffonia (Bandeiraea) simplicifolia I (GS I) seeds contain a family of alpha-D-galactopyranosyl-binding isolectins which strongly agglutinate Ehrlich ascites tumor cells due to the presence of this determinant sugar on their cell surface glycoproteins. Administration of GS I lectin (100 micrograms/day or 300 micrograms on alternate days, i.p.) inhibits the growth of Ehrlich tumor cells in vivo...

Das Gupta and Chopra (1937) discovered leptospirosis in India and reported first a bac,teriologically positive case from Calcutta. Since then, several proven cases of infectious jaundice have been recorded from Calcutta, Assam and Bombay by various workers, viz. Das Gupta (1938, 1939, 1941), Konar et al. (1939) and Lahiri (1941, 1943). Though the discovery aroused considerable interest, the num...

Purified human plasma fibronectin has been shown to agglutinate protease-treated red cells [Vuento, Hoppe-Seyler's Z. Physiol. Chem. 360, 1327-1333, (1979)]. The present report shows that the activity is inhibited by low concentrations of lectins and by macromolecular serum factors. Chemical modification of carboxyl groups of fibronectin strongly inhibited the activity, but modification of amin...

The lectin of Limulus polyphemus haemolymph agglutinates erythrocytes [l-4] and other cells [ 51. Neuraminic acid has been shown to be the specific ligand of this lectin. The lectin has been isolated by ultracentrifugation and preparative starch gel electrophoresis [6], by DEAE-Sephadex and gel filtration chromatography [7] and by ultracentrifugation, affinity and gel filtration chromatography ...

Yellow-head virus (YHV), a highly virulent virus of cultured penaeid shrimp, was originally isolated from the black tiger shrimp Penaeus monodon in Thailand. It was initially described as a baculovirus, but was recently reported to be a n RNA-containing virus. The present study reaffirms the genome of highly purified YHV to be an unsegmented single-stranded RNA with negative polarity and of app...

Two mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae have been isolated and characterized. The mutants were constitutively agglutinable at 36 degrees C, the temperature at which wild-type cells agglutinate only after induction by mating pheromone. The mutant cells had other properties specific for the normal alpha cell type, i.e., conjugation with a cells, response to a mating pheromone, and production of a...

Chorioallantoic fluid from fertile hens' eggs possesses the ability to agglutinate certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus when these organisms are grown in the presence of this material (Shrigley, 1945). It has also been found that fluids from eggs infected with the influenza virus (PR8) possess this agglutinating property in a significantly higher degree than do normal fertile egg fluids. It...

The F1 hybrids of NZB and several normal mouse strains are known to produce less anti-erythrocyte (Coombs) autoantibody and develop a milder hemolytic anemia than their NZB parents. We have found that serum from some (NZB x CBA)F1 mice agglutinated erythrocytes from certain Coombs-positive NZB mice, often in extremely high titer, whereas other (CBA x NZB)F1 sera agglutinated erythrocytes from d...

A haemagglutinating protein from the saline extracts of Kalanchoe crenata leaves, which agglutinate all human blood types, was purified to homogeneity by ion-exchange chromatography on a DEAE-Cellulose column followed by gel filtration on a Sephadex G-100 column. The purified protein showed one band, both in non-denaturing PAGE and SDS-PAGE. The M(r) that was determined by SDS-PAGE was 44,000 D...