Wetland ecosystems have reduced ambient levels of various organic and metallic compounds, although their effectiveness on agricultural pesticides is not well documented. Five stations within each of two 10 x 50 m constructed wetlands (two vegetated, two nonvegetated) were selected to measure the fate and effects of methyl parathion (MeP). Following a simulated storm event (0.64 cm of rainfall),...

Inadvertent occlusion of the anterior choroidal artery during aneurysm clipping can cause a disabling stroke in minutes. We evaluate the clinical utility of direct cortical motor evoked potential (MEP) monitoring during aneurysm clipping, as a real-time assessment of arterial patency, prior to performing indocyanine green videoangiography.   Direct cortical MEPs were recorded in seven patients ...

DLE: discoid lupus erythematosus MEP: milia en plaque INTRODUCTION Milia are small benign superficial keratinous cysts, measuring 1 to 4 mm in diameter. Milia can be primary, appearing spontaneously, or secondary to trauma, skin disease, or medication. Milia en plaque (MEP) is a rare form of this condition characterized by numerous aggregated milia on an erythematous plaque. Discoid lupus eryth...

A simple and rapid detection of short tandem repeat (STR) markers was studied as a screening test for individual identification of cattle. DNAs were extracted from eight commercial beef samples by a proteinase K-boil method followed by purification with 2-propanol precipitation. Five STR markers, known to be highly polymorphic, were amplified by PCR and analyzed both by a conventional sequencin...

The activation of left and right cerebral cortex induced by motion of upper limb during Mirror Therapy: MT: was studied by measuring motorevoked potential (MEP) using trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Subjects were 10 neurologically healthy right handed males, age 21.9 ± 1.17 and their surface muscle potential was measured using surface muscle electrical potential meter at their right f...

The 2-C-methyl-d-erythritol 4-phosphate (MEP) pathway is responsible for the biosynthesis of many crucial secondary metabolites, such as carotenoids, monoterpenes, plastoquinone, and tocopherols. In this study, we isolated and identified 10 MEP pathway genes in the important aromatic plant sweet osmanthus (Osmanthus fragrans). Multiple sequence alignments revealed that 10 MEP pathway genes shar...

The metabolic cross-talk between the mevalonate (MVA) and the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathways was analyzed in spike lavender (Lavandula latifolia Med) on the basis of 13CO₂-labelling experiments using wildtype and transgenic plants overexpressing the 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl CoA reductase (HMGR), the first and key enzyme of the MVA pathway. The plants were labelled in the presence o...

Corticospinal motor pathways were monitored with motor evoked potentials (MEPs) elicited by transcranial magnetic stimulation in 13 patients with radiologically confirmed hypertensive intracerebral hemorrhage and varying degrees of hemiparesis. The electromyographic responses of the thenar muscles were recorded. The motor weakness of the upper extremity was assessed at initial monitoring and 3 ...

This work presents the nanoindentation and XPS results of a newly-developed biomaterial of titanium TNZ alloy after different surface treatments. The investigations were performed on the samples AR (as received), EP (after a standard electropolishing) and MEP (after magnetoelectropolishing). The electropolishing processes, both EP and MEP, were conducted in the same proprietary electrolyte base...

Proper knowledge of the wind characteristics of a site is of fundamental importance in estimating wind energy output from a selected wind turbine. The present paper focuses on assessing the suitability and accuracy of the fitted distribution function to the measured wind speed data for Baburband site in Sindh Pakistan. Comparison is made between the wind power densities obtained using the fitte...