KRASTANOV, A., A. GOVINDARAJAN and D. DANIEL, 2008. Studies on lipase fermentation using Candida cylindracea NRRL Y-17506 in a stired tank bioreactor. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 14: 290-299 Lipase is an enzyme of considerable commercial and industrial importance. The major applications of lipase are in the fat and oleochemical, food and dairy, textile, detergent, cosmetics, tea processing, pulp and ...

Neuropathy target esterase (NTE) is a neuronal membrane protein originally identified for its property to be modified by organo-phosphates (OPs), which in humans cause neuropathy characterized by axonal degeneration. Drosophila mutants for the homolog gene of NTE, swisscheese (sws), indicated a possible involvement of sws in the regulation of axon-glial cell interaction during glial wrapping. H...

Pretreatment of J774 mouse macrophages by the dicationic macrolide antibiotic, azithromycin (AZ), selectively inhibited fluid-phase endocytosis of horseradish peroxidase and lucifer yellow, but not phagocytosis of latex beads. AZ delayed sequestration of receptor-bound transferrin and peroxidase-anti-peroxidase immune complexes into cell-surface endocytic pits and vesicles, but did not slow dow...

A single dose of 8 or 20 Gy Co γ rays was given to C3H male mice at 4 months of age. The ultrastructural changes in mouse pituitary, thyroid and the adrenal gland due to brain irradiation were observed at 4 days to 18 months after irradiation. The pituitary microvasculature showed degenerative lesions including swollen endothelial cells and cytoplasmic blebs in the capillary sinusoids of all ir...

Relationships between hepatic lesions and chemical contaminant concentrations in sediments, stomach contents, liver tissue, and bile were statistically evaluated in three species of bottomfish, English sole (Pleuronectes vetulus), starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus), and white croaker (Genyonemus lineatus), captured from 27 urban and nonurban sites on the Pacific Coast from Alaska to southe...

Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) P102L disease is a familial form of a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) that can present with or without vacuolation of neuropil. Inefficient disease transmission into 101LL transgenic mice was previously observed from GSS P102L without vacuolation. However, several aged, healthy mice had large plaques composed of abnormal prion protein (PrP(d))....

L5178 Y murine leukemic cells do not seem to be affected by sucrose in the same manner as other mammalian cells. Although there is active uptake of sucrose with no concomitant metabolism, there is no increase in vacuolation or cell size and there is only a slight increase in acid phosphatase, acid protease and /?-glucuronidase activities. However, the glycosidases are significantly elevated in ...