A general saturation equation is derived which is shown to describe a wide variety of nutrient-response relationships in higher organisms. Iterative multiple linear regression analysis is used to obtain least squares estimates of the constants defining theoretical nutrient-response curves. Curves thus generated accurately predict experimentally observed responses. From this treatment, response ...

Life expectancy has risen sharply in the last 50 years. We applied the classic Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics to demonstrate a novel mathematical relationship of income to childhood (aged 0-5 years) and adult (aged 15-60 years) survival. We treat income as a substrate that is catalyzed to increase survival (from technologies that income buys) for 180 countries from 1970 and 2007. Michaelis-Me...

Urease inhibitors possess a wide application in agriculture, clinical science and understanding of enzyme kinetics. These inhibitors play a significant role in reducing the loss of nitrogen from urea fertilizer in the form of volatile ammonia and, thus, improve the utility of urea based fertilizers. Their impact as an effective drug against urease producing bacterial infection is well documente...

Here, we present a Microsoft Windows application that has been written to emulate a microplate reader. After scanning a standard 96-well microplate, color gradations in the slots can be analyzed quantitatively and be used for the estimation of enzyme kinetics, binding assays or concentration determination. In a test, series accuracy of the program was determined. We show that the returned optic...

We consider a generic stochastic model of ion transport through a single channel with arbitrary internal structure and kinetic rates of transitions between internal states. This model is also applicable to describe kinetics of a class of enzymes in which turnover events correspond to conversion of substrate into product by a single enzyme molecule. We show that measurement of statistics of sing...

Even though the efficiency of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) reaction decreases, analyses are made in terms of Galton-Watson processes, or simple deterministic models with constant replication probability (efficiency). Recently, Schnell and Mendoza have suggested that the form of the efficiency, can be derived from enzyme kinetics. This results in the sequence of molecules numbers forming ...