Rhodotorula yeasts were isolated from various local sources in Damascus, Syria, during 2012 and 2013. Fifty isolates (23 from leaves trees, 13 from different soils, 6 from different meats, 6 from dairy products, 1 pickle and 1 traditional sweet) were identified using API 20C AUX system. Isolated yeasts were classified into three Rhodotorula species: R. mucilaginosa, R. glutinis and R. minuta re...

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Garcinia lancifolia (Clusiaceae) is an unexplored medicinal plant used as stomachic, diuretic and its fruit is used to cure dysentery and diarrhoea. The acidic fruits are used to prepare juice, pickle and curries. The phytochemical analysis of different extracts of G. lancifolia leaf, stem and fruit revealed the presence of tannins, saponins, flavonoids, terpenoids, alkaloids and cardiac glycos...

We investigated the effect of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from eight samples of commercially available Nozawana-zuke, a traditional Japanese pickle, on cytokine expression by mouse spleen cell cultures. The 12 isolated strains of LAB (Nz1-Nz12), which were identified as genus Lactobacillus or Leuconostoc by the API50CHL test, enhanced the expression of interferon (IFN)-gamma with 6 h of...

Genome-wide chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) studies have brought significant insight into the genomic localization of chromatin-associated proteins and histone modifications. The large amount of data generated by these analyses, however, require approaches that enable rapid validation and analysis of biological relevance. Furthermore, there are still protein and modification targets that a...

was carried out minus gloves or previous sterilisation. On Friday morning, however, an operation was necessary, and the patient was removed to an outside hospital. The heart was not sounded before the anaesthetic?ether?was givenThe ether was administered by nurses entirelyAfter the operation, but later in the day, tea with no sugar or milk was given, and a little soup ^aS taken by the patient b...

The life cycle of angiosperms is punctuated by a dormant phase that separates embryonic and postembryonic development of the sporophyte. In the pickle (pkl) mutant of Arabidopsis, embryonic traits are expressed after germination. The penetrance of the pkl phenotype is strongly enhanced by inhibitors of gibberellin biosynthesis. Map-based cloning of the PKL locus revealed that it encodes a CHD3 ...