In this study, a novel succinic acid producing bacterium was isolated from cow bovine rumen. Two bacteria’s are found to give better results for the production of succinic acid from the isolated colonies. Different synthetic carbon sources such as glucose, sucrose, fructose, dextrose, starch and cellulose and different crude carbon sources such as rice straw, sorghum stalk, baggase and sugar mi...

ZnO nanorods with different sizes and shapes have been successfully synthesized via a simple hydrothermal route, using zinc acetate and Cetyltriammonium bromide (CTAB) as the reactants. The thick films of as prepared ZnO were prepared by screen-printing technique in desired pattern. The films are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission elect...

In this study, aerobic digestion of tannery industry wastewater was carried out using mixed culture obtained from common effluent treatment plant treating tannery wastewater. The effect of pH, temperature, inoculum concentration, agitation speed and initial substrate concentration on the reduction of organic matters were found. The optimum conditions for COD reduction was found to be pH 7 (60%)...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small noncoding RNAs that function as master regulators of posttranscriptional gene expression with each miRNA negatively regulating hundreds of genes. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) is a mitogenic lipid present within the ovarian tumor microenvironment and induces LPA receptor activation and intracellular signaling cascades like ERK/MAPK, leading to enhanced cellular prolif...

Introduction: A promising myeloperoxidase-sensing MRI agent, bis-5-hydroxytryptamide-diethylenetriamine-pentaacetate gadolinium [bis5HT-DTPA(Gd)] has been recently used for magnetic resonance imaging of in vivo myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity. In the presence of MPO, bis-5HT-DTPA(Gd) can be radicalized to form oligomers and bind to matrix proteins, resulting in increased spin-lattice relaxation ...

Insecticides are the most common strategy used for the management of mosquitoes. Changes in ambient temperature can alter the toxicity of insecticides to ectothermic organisms. Studies show organophosphate insecticides exhibit a positive correlation between ambient temperature and mortality for many insect species, and carbamate insecticides exhibit a slightly negative correlation between ambie...

We describe a novel strategy for in situ fabrication of hierarchical Fe3O4 nanoclusters-GAs. Fe3O4 NCs-GAs deliver excellent rate capability (the reversible capacities obtained were 1442, 392 and 118 mA h g(-1) at 0.1C, 12C and 35C rates), and a high reversible capacity of 577 mA h g(-1) over 300 cycles at the current density of 5.2 A g(-1) (6C).

UNLABELLED The structures of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharides (CPSs) are essential for defining the antigenic as well as genetic relationships between CPS serotypes. The four serotypes that comprise CPS serogroup 35 (i.e., types 35F, 35A, 35B, and 35C) are known to cross-react with genetically related type 20, 29, 34, 42, or 47F. While the structures of CPS serotype 35A (CPS35A...

Flocculation is one of the principal steps in biodiesel production from microalgae. Eight different flocculants were analysed for their efficiency of flocculation of marine microalga, Nannochloropsis oculata. Maximum flocculation was observed as 93.80 and 87.33% with FeCl3 and Fe2(SO4)3 at a concentration of 0.4 and 0.6g/L respectively at 180min. Zinc salts achieved second maximum efficient flo...