Aims: To compare the vitamin D status of 34 children, 9–24 months old, living in an area of Delhi renowned for high levels of atmospheric pollution (Mori Gate), with a comparable age matched group of children from a less polluted (Gurgaon) area of the city. Methods: Serum concentrations of calcium, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), parathyroid hormone (PTH), 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), and 1,25-di...

ylesterase activity. B. mori JHE was sensitiye to 3-octylthio-1,1,1-trifluoro-2-propanone (OTFP), which was developed as a selective inhibitor for lepidopteran JHE, and relatively insensitive to diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP), an inhibitor of serine esterases but not of all JHEs. AMRity purification with a trifluoromethyl ketone ligand was more eMc;ent for purMcation of B. mori JHE than DEAE...

Correspondence to Kazutoshi Mori: [email protected] Y. Kamiya’s present address is Graduate School of Engineering and EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. Abbreviations used in this paper: ERmanI, ER mannosidase I; gpERAD, ERassociated glycoprotein degradation; KO, knockout; M9, Man9GlcNAc2; M8B, Man8GlcNAc2 isomer B; M1,6E, 1,6-mannose exposed; ...

Abnormalities in the circadian clock system are known to affect the body's metabolic functions, though the molecular mechanisms responsible remain uncertain. In this study, we achieved continuous knockdown of B. mori Period (BmPer) gene expression in the B. mori ovary cell line (BmN), and generated a Per-KD B. mori model with developmental disorders including small individual cells and slow gro...

Decay and rot are established motifs in art history. They address transience disgust, as well contemplation, devotion humility through the tradition of Memento Mori. In contrast to pure motific depictions decay, Finnish artist Toni R. Toivonen (*1987) arranges deceased animals creates works, which organic components such fur, muscles, flesh blood decompose until dissolution. Organic decompositi...

AIMS To compare the vitamin D status of 34 children, 9-24 months old, living in an area of Delhi renowned for high levels of atmospheric pollution (Mori Gate), with a comparable age matched group of children from a less polluted (Gurgaon) area of the city. METHODS Serum concentrations of calcium, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), parathyroid hormone (PTH), 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), and 1,25-di...

The domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) was domesticated from wild silkworm (Bombyx mandarina) more than 5,000 years ago. During domestication, body color between B. mandarina and B. mori changed dramatically. However, the molecular mechanism of the silkworm body color transition is not known. In the present study, we examined within- and between-species nucleotide diversity for eight silkworm ...

Due to growing interest in alternative and sustainable high-quality feed sources for the livestock industry, we carried out a study determine optimal inclusion levels of two insect species (Gryllus bimaculatus Bombyx mori) ruminants, as well evaluating their impacts on rumen fermentation characteristics methane production. An experiment was performed using an vitro model 24 h with ruminant diet...

The hemolymph chymotrypsin inhibitor b1 (CIb1) of silkworm, Bombyx mori, plays an important role in innate immunity. In order to study its encoding gene CIb1, five heterogeneous promoter fragments of 844 bp, 682 bp, 516 bp, 312 bp and 82 bp in length were cloned from genomic DNA of the p50 silkworm strain. Characterization of the CIb1 promoter was performed in vitro using the firefly luciferase...

This paper presents for the first time an extended Mori-Tanaka approach aimed at identifying little-explored piezoelectric response of unidirectional nanoporous composites with energetic surfaces. The interface is simulated using generalized Gurtin-Murdoch coherent model considering nonvanishing in-plane surface stress and electric displacement. analytical solutions Eshelby’s inhomogeneity prob...