BACKGROUND In soybean somatic embryo transformation, the standard selection agent currently used is hygromycin. It may be preferable to avoid use of antibiotic resistance genes in foods. The objective of these experiments was to develop a selection system for producing transgenic soybean somatic embryos without the use of antibiotics such as hygromycin. RESULTS When tested against different a...

SrCl2 x 6 H2O has been shown to act as an efficient catalyst for the conversion of aldehydes or ketones into the corresponding gem-dihydroperoxides (DHPs) by treatment with aqueous H2O2 (30%) in acetonitrile. The reactions proceed under mild and neutral conditions at room temperature to afford good to excellent yields of product.

Incomplete malaria control efforts have resulted in a worldwide increase in resistance to drugs used to treat the disease. A complex array of mutations underlying antimalarial drug resistance complicates efficient monitoring of parasite populations and limits the success of malaria control efforts in regions of endemicity. To improve the surveillance of Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance, we...

Thrombin and factor Xa, two important procoagulant enzymes, have been prime targets for regulation of clotting through the direct and indirect mechanism of inhibition. Our efforts on exploiting the indirect mechanism led us to study a carboxylic acid-based scaffold, which displayed major acceleration in the inhibition of these enzymes [J. Med. Chem.2005, 48, 1269, 5360]. This work advances the ...

Inward rectification, an important determinant of cell excitability, can result from channel blockade by intracellular cations, including Ca2+. However, mostly on the basis of indirect arguments, Ca2+-mediated rectification of inward rectifier K+ current (IK1) is claimed to play no role in the mammalian heart. The present study investigates Ca2+-mediated IK1 rectification during the mammalian v...

Bu araştırmada 11-13 yaş basketbolcularda üst gövde, alt gövde ve tüm gövdeye uygulanan statik germe egzersizlerinin postüral kontrole etkisini tespit etmek amaçlandı. Çalışmaya ortalaması 11,44 ± 0,89 yıl, boy uzunluğu 158,25 7,79 cm, vücut ağırlığı 54,19 12,30 kg spor deneyimi 2,34 1,17 yıl olan 16 erkek basketbol oyuncusu gönüllü olarak dahil edildi. Katılımcılar farklı günlerde 4 ayrı deney...

Easily prepared nanoZnO was found to be as an efficient catalyst in the synthesis of 1,4-DHPs via four-component reaction of 1,3-dicarbonyls, aldehydes and ammonium carbonate in water at 60 °C. The prepared nanoZnO was characterized by XRD and FT-IR analysis, while the determined specific surface area of nano catalyst by BET method was 33 m2/g.

Easily prepared nanoZnO was found to be as an efficient catalyst in the synthesis of 1,4-DHPs via four-component reaction of 1,3-dicarbonyls, aldehydes and ammonium carbonate in water at 60 °C. The prepared nanoZnO was characterized by XRD and FT-IR analysis, while the determined specific surface area of nano catalyst by BET method was 33 m2/g.