d-Fenfluramine (d-Fen) has been demonstrated to alter body temperature (BT), decrease 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and decrease 5-HT plasma membrane transporters (PMT) in rats. Therefore, experiments were designed to test whether a correlation existed between elevated BT and brain 5-HT depletions. It was hypothesized that d-Fen would induce hyperthermia if the environmental temperature was elevat...

Xanthomonas oryzae pv.oryzae (Xoo) causes the serious bacterial blight disease of rice. Xoo secretes a repertoire of plant cell wall degrading enzymes (CWDEs) like cellulases, xylanases, esterases etc., which act on various components of the rice cell wall. The major cellulases and xylanases secreted by Xoo have been identified and their role in virulence has been determined. In this study, we ...

The 146-kDa Pasteurella multocida toxin (PMT) is the main virulence factor to induce P. multocida-associated progressive atrophic rhinitis in various animals. PMT leads to a destruction of nasal turbinate bones implicating an effect of the toxin on osteoblasts and/or osteoclasts. The toxin induces constitutive activation of Gα proteins of the G(q/11)-, G₁₂/₁₃- and G(i)-family by deamidating an ...

Multilevel determinants of sedentary behavior (SB), including constructs couched within evidence-based psychological frameworks, can contribute to more efficacious interventions designed to decrease sitting time. This study aimed to: (1) examine the factor structure and composition of sedentaryderived protection motivation theory (PMT) constructs and (2) determine the utility of these construct...

Protein O mannosylation is initiated in the endoplasmic reticulum by protein O-mannosyltransferases (Pmt proteins) and plays an important role in the secretion, localization, and function of many proteins, as well as in cell wall integrity and morphogenesis in fungi. Three Pmt proteins, each belonging to one of the three respective Pmt subfamilies, are encoded in the genome of the human fungal ...

Detailed Monte-Carlo simulations were used to evaluate the performance of a liquid neon scintillation detector for dark matter and low-energy solar neutrino interactions. A maximum-likelihood event vertex fitter including PMT time information was developed, which significantly improves position resolution over spatial-only algorithms, and substantially decreases the required detector size and a...

Abstract Reducing individual fossil fuel use is an important component of climate change mitigation, but motivating behaviour to achieve this difficult. Protection motivation theory (PMT) a psychological framework that outlines the conditions under which people are more likely be persuaded take specific response or action. This experimental study investigated impact six different protection the...

Abstract In this article, we give a proof for positive mass theorem (PMT) of asymptotically flat manifolds with arbitrary ends when the dimension is no greater than seven. As an application, also show PMT locally Euclidean necessary incompressible conditions.

KM3NeT (km3 Neutrino Telescope) is planned to be a deep-sea multidisciplinary observatory in the Mediterranean Sea that will provide innovative science opportunities spanning Astroparticle Physics and Earth and Sea Science. KM3NeT will consist of several hundreds of vertical structures, which carry photo-sensors and devices for calibration and environmental measurements. The photo-sensor unit i...