Idiopathic ulcerative laryngitis (IUL) is characterized by bilateral midmembranous vocal fold ulceration, which follows upper respiratory infection with cough. In contrast, granuloma of the membranous vocal fold can occur rarely following microlaryngoscopy, presumably secondary to surgical violation of deep tissue planes. We report a novel case of noniatrogenic membranous vocal fold granulation...

Some d-amino acid functions for food production are widely known: d-alanine improves sensory evaluations of sake, beer, and fermented foods. Therefore, the application acids, alanine racemase (ALRase) in Lactobacillus sakei ZH-2, which has strong racemization, was analyzed using molecular biological methods. It had been hypothesized that ALRase coding DNA, alr, ZH-2 strain differs from those ot...

These experiments were undertaken to determine the source of alanine released by skeletal muscle and to clarify the possible relationships between this process and the degradation of branched chain amino acids, the release of glutamine, and protein turnover in this tissue. During incubation in vitro, the rat diaphragm underwent net protein breakdown and released amino acids into the medium at a...

We present an incomplete UL IUL decomposition of matrixAwhich is extracted as a by-product of BFAPINV backward factored approximate inverse process. We term this IUL factorization as IULBF. We have used ILUFF 3 and IULBF as left preconditioner for linear systems. Different versions of ILUFF and IULBF preconditioners are computed by using different dropping techniques. In this paper, we compare ...

Sonja PERREN, University of Zürich, Switzerland Lucie CORCORAN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Helen COWIE, University of Surrey, UK Francine DEHUE, Open University of Netherlands D'Jamila GARCIA, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social – IUL, Portugal Conor MC GUCKIN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Anna SEVCIKOVA, Faculty of Social Studies, ...

Six normal subjects received 10 g of alanine both orally and as a 60-min intravenous infusion. In both studies blood samples for hormones and substrates were obtained every thirty minutes for 2 1/2 hour. Significant increases in whole blood levels of threonine, serine, glutamine, proline, glycine, and alpha-amino-n-butyric acid were found, which were mainly due to increases of these amino acids...

The aim of the present research is to investigate the profile of amino acid of Chlorella vulgaris supplemented with some plant amino acid and oil extracts. The bioactive oil and amino acid from four Iranian medicinal plants, namely Oliveria decumbens, Thymus kotschyanus, Trachyspermum ammi, and Zataria multiflora were obtained. The LC-MS / MS analysis demonstrated that the major amino acids com...