Subinhibitory concentrations (sub-MICs) of antibiotics, although not able to kill bacteria, can modify their physico-chemical characteristics and the architecture of their outermost surface and may interfere with some bacterial functions. This study investigated the ability of sub-MIC piperacillin/tazobactam (P/T) to interfere with the bacterial virulence parameters of adhesiveness, cell-surfac...

Accumulating evidence strongly implicates the transcriptional coactivator peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α) in the pathophysiology of multiple neurological disorders, but the downstream gene targets of PGC-1α in the brain have remained enigmatic. Previous data demonstrate that PGC-1α is primarily concentrated in inhibitory neurons and that PGC-1α is required f...

Though heavy metal such as mercury is toxic to plants and microorganisms, the synergistic activity between them may offer benefit for surviving. In this study, a mercury-reducing bacterium, Photobacterium spp. strain MELD1, with an MIC of 33 mg x kg(-1) mercury was isolated from a severely mercury and dioxin contaminated rhizosphere soil of reed (Phragmites australis). While the whole genome se...

Sera of 12 patients with quinine/quinidine-induced thrombocytopenia showed drug-dependent antibody binding to glycoprotein (GP) Ib-IX complex. The reaction with GPIb-IX complex of 11 of these 12 sera was strongly inhibited by the complex-specific monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) AK1 and SZ1. The exception was a quinine-induced serum designated BU. The reaction of the six quinidine-induced sera was...

An object belonging to a class is a of if it does not belong to any subclass of . An object is a of a class if it is a direct member of or is a direct member of some subclass of . One of the advantages of object-oriented data models [BM93] compared to other data models is that they support a direct representation of real-world domains. These models directly represent the structure and behavior ...

Abstract. Petrophysical properties are a key element for reservoir characterization but also interpreting the results of various geophysical exploration methods or well logs. Furthermore, petrophysical commonly used to populate numerical models and often critically governing model results. Despite common need detailed properties, data still very scarce not available area interest. both online r...

The theory of c-frames and c-Bessel mappings are the generalizationsof the theory of frames and Bessel sequences. In this paper, weobtain several equivalent conditions for dual of c-Bessel mappings.We show that for a c-Bessel mapping $f$, a retrievalformula with respect to a c-Bessel mapping $g$ is satisfied if andonly if $g$ is sum of the canonical dual of $f$ with a c-Besselmapping which  wea...