A laboratory-scale evacuated tube solar collector (ETSCs) has been developed and tested for unloading conditions in Lanzhou, China. clear sky cloudy have tested. Heat is generally considered instantaneous because it a function of multiple factors, like ambient temperature radiation. The results show day with maximum average value temperature, outlet, inlet, radiation 12 -60C, 56 310C, 69 340C, ...

Presence of pathogens within a eukaryotic cell is apt to generate stress. Such stress eventually leads to host defense responses, which includes, but is not limited to, apoptosis induction and subsequent destruction of the host cell and the pathogen. Obligate intracellular pathogens such as Chlamydia trachomatis are dependent on the survival of the host cell owing to their unique replication ni...

Forty-one cases of Cushing's Disease affecting both equine and canine patients were treated with an identical mixture of two homeopathically prepared remedies (ACTH 30c and Quercus robur 30c), and the clinical improvements seen in the cases assessed. Homeopathy has been described as a medicine that can only be prescribed on the basis of individual symptoms shown, fitting the remedy to the patie...

The KNUC25 strain isolated from over-fermented whole Chinese cabbage kimchi was examined for its physiological characteristics using API 50 CHL system assay and identified as Lactobacillus paraplantarum by analysis of whole-cell protein SDS-PAGE pattern assay and similarity of 16S rDNA sequence. L. paraplantarum KNUC25 had a broad antimicrobial activity spectrum from Gram positive to Gram negat...

Since the response to chemoradiotherapy in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer is heterogeneous, valid biomarkers are needed to monitor tumor response. Circulating microRNAs are promising candidates, however analyses of circulating microRNAs in rectal cancer are still rare. 111 patients with rectal cancer and 46 age-matched normal controls were enrolled. The expression levels of 30 mic...

The present study is concerned with the production of antitumor antibiotic by Streptomyces capoamus in batch fermentation. Antibiotic activity was tested against Bacillus subtilis by cylinder plate method. Different culture media were screened and M3 medium consisting of glucose (10.0 g/L), yeast extract (1.0 g/L), meat extract (4.0 g/L), peptone (4.0 g/L) and NaCl (2.0 g/L) was found to be the...

Quinols (5a-c) generate the corresponding aryloxenium ions (6a-c) reversibly at pH 1.0 (0.1M HClO4, 30C) although they are stable for a duration of at least 2-3 weeks at pH 4.6 and pH 7.1 at 30C. Kinetics of decomposition of the parent quinols has been monitored by HPLC in the presence and absence of a trapping agent, Br. In the presence of Br, both bromo adduct and dienonephenol rearranged pro...

Inactivation of the von-Hippel Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor gene occurs in 90% of human clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCC) and leads to the stable expression of the hypoxia-inducible factors HIF1α and HIF2α. The constitutive expression of HIF1α in a majority of VHL-deficient tumors is counterintuitive, given that HIF1α functions as a tumor suppressor in ccRCC, whereas HIF2α clearly enhan...

Development of an efficient treatment for triple-negative breast cancer is an urgent issues. Compounds from plant extracts are a potential source of novel cancer treatment. Isolinderalactone, a kind of sesquiterpenoids compound, was purified from the root of Lindera strychnifolia and Neolitsea daibuensis and shows anti-inflammatory and anticancer capacity. In the present study, isolinderalacton...

The ability of the bacterium, Rhodococcus UKM-P, to degrade phenol was studied in shake flask culture. The effect of the cultivation parameters (temperature, pH, type and concentration of nitrogen source and salt concentration) on growth of the bacterium and phenol degradation was evaluated. The highest cell growth and the amount of phenol degraded (0.5 g/L) were observed in optimized cultivati...