Finite control of pore size distributions is a highly desired attribute when producing porous materials. While many methodologies strive to produce such materials through one-pot strategies, oftentimes the pore structure requires post-treatment modification. In this study, modulation of pore size in cobalt-silica systems was investigated by a novel, non-destructive, self-templated method. These...

Motivated by certain conjectures regarding immanants of Jacobi-Trudi matrices, Stanley has recently defined and studied a symmetric function generalization XG of the chromatic polynomial of a graph G. Independently, Chung and Graham have defined and studied a directed graph invariant called the cover polynomial. The cover polynomial is closely related to the chromatic polynomial and to the rook...

The Golgi apparatus of plant cells is the site of assembly of glycoproteins, proteoglycans, and complex polysaccharides, but little is known about how the different assembly pathways are organized within the Golgi stacks. To study these questions we have employed immunocytochemical techniques and antibodies raised against the hydroxyproline-rich cell wall glycoprotein, extensin, and two types o...

Acetylstrophanthidin, 0.3 to 10 /xg/ml, caused contraction of helical strips of the dog cutaneous vein in an organ bath at 37°C. A latent period of 12 to 60 minutes preceded the contraction. During this time, the vein exhibited a progressive increase in response to transmural electric stimulation and added norepinephrine. As the dose of acetylstrophanthidin was increased, the latent period shor...

Flow and dynamic rheological properties of hot thickened soups for consumption by the elderly people with swallowing difficulty (dysphagia) were investigated at a serving temperature of 60°C. In this study, sea mustard soup (SMS) and dried pollock soup (DPS), which have been widely known as favorable hot soups provided in a domestic hospitals and nursing homes for dysphagic patients, were thick...

The bio-materials of four marine mangrove medicinal plants viz., Aegiceras Corniculatum (AGC), Excoecariaagallocha (EA), Rhizophoramucronata (RM) and Xylocarpusgranatum (XG) are extracted with methanol and hexane. These extracts are submitted to the antibacterial activity towards the strains:Bacillus puvuilis, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus coagulans, Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus licheniformis,...

The molecular mechanisms regulating hemicelluloses and pectin biosynthesis are poorly understood. An important question in this regard is how glycosyltransferases are oriented in the Golgi cisternae, and how nucleotide sugars are made available for the synthesis of the polymers. Here we show that the branching enzyme xyloglucan alpha,1-2 fucosyltransferase (XG-FucTase) from growing pea (Pisum s...

The functional properties, resistant starch (RS), and glycemic index (GI) of fresh noodles substituted with banana flour (BF) were investigated. When the substitution BF was increased from 0 to 40%, viscoelastic properties increased, while tensile strength elasticity decreased 53.23 26.84 gf 44.65 15.04 mm, respectively. GI reduced 77.05 62.62 RS content 5.56 23.31%. This is considered a very h...