Plastids and mitochondria possess their own genomes. Although the replication mechanisms of these organellar genomes remain unclear in photosynthetic eukaryotes, several organelle-localized enzymes related to genome replication, including DNA polymerase, DNA primase, DNA helicase, DNA topoisomerase, single-stranded DNA maintenance protein, DNA ligase, primer removal enzyme, and several DNA reco...

Mononuclear cell (MNC) leukemia was identified in 26-month-old F344 rats by splenomegaly, reduced red blood cell counts, and elevated white blood cell counts. Atypical MNC were predominant in spleen and blood with acentric nuclei and red cytoplasmic granules. Pentose shunt, glycolytic, and Krebs cycle enzyme activities were elevated 2- to 11-fold in the enriched MNC fraction (Ficoll-Paque densi...

backgrounds: thyroid hormones play an important physiological role in human metabolism. erythrocyte abnormalities are frequently associated with thyroid disorder. however, they are rarely investigated and related to the subclinical and primary hypothyroidism in kashmiri patients. in this study an attempt was made to study hematological parameters in untreated and treated subclinical hypothyroid...

ponents of the i-ed cell surface, lead one to ask whether this is an isolated phenomenon omwhether tmypsinization affects red cells in other ways. This question is of additional interest because there is no known instance in which the more general l)ioperties of the i-ed cell surface are affected! by proteolytic enzymes (cf. Ballantine and Parpart,2 who found that trypsin produces no effect on ...

Red blood cell glucose metabolism was investigated in a male patient with de novo trisomy 10p. According to previous evidence, when assigning hexokinase gene locus in the 10p11 leads to pter region, a triplex dosage effect of hexokinase activity (HK) was found, while all the other erythrocyte glycolytic enzymes were in the normal values range. Red blood cell glucose utilization was 2.87 mumole/...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of dietary sodium butyrate on growth performance, intestinal microbiota, digestive enzymes, humoral immune responses and resistance against Aeromonas hydrophila in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) juveniles (39.5±1.12 g). The fish were fed diets supplemented with 0 (SB0), 1.5 (SB1.5), 2.5 (SB2.5) and 5 (SB5.0) g/kg sodium butyrate f...

This study evaluated the link between swimming endurance and condition of Atlantic cod Gadus morhua that had been fed or starved during the 16 weeks preceding the tests, and assessed whether muscle metabolic capacities explain such links. The condition factor [(somatic mass x fork length(-3))x100] of starved cod was 0.54+/-0.1 whereas that of fed cod was 0.81+/-0.1. In white and red muscle, we ...

Healing and acclimatization are critical in vegetable grafting under controlled environments. Here, we investigated the impacts of LED light qualities on morphological traits photosynthetic performance grafted tomato seedlings. Seeds tomatoes “DRW 7806 F1” “Maxifort” (Solanum lycopersicum × Solanum habrochaites) used as scion rootstock were planted 104-cell plug trays into a mixture cocopeat pe...

To characterize genetically the Muslim population of Punjab, a north–west Indian state, a biochemical genetics investigation using red cell enzyme markers was planned. For this, blood samples from a total of 992 Muslim subjects, belonging to the Sunni (803) and Shia (189) endogamous sects inhabiting Malerkotla town were collected. Haemolysates were analysed for the phenotypes of seven different...

Diphosphoglycerate mutase (DPGM) was purified to homogeneity from human erythrocytes. The enzyme and Freund adjuvant were infected into chickens and yielded a monospecific precipitating antibody. Radial immunodiffusion with this antibody was used to measure the amount of DPGM in hemolysates from human adult and cord red cells. Dog, rabbit, rat, chicken, and goat red cells all had DPGM during th...