The present study tested two techniques for dietary supplementation of Crassostrea gigas spat with PUFA, such as arachidonic acid (AA). The first technique consisted of a preliminary enrichment and growth of an algal concentrate (T-ISO, Isochrysis sp.) with AA dissolved in an ethanol solution, the whole culture then being fed to the spat. This enrichment increased the AA weight percentage in T-...

The use of forklifts to move material is very common in large manufacturing companies. Exposure to whole body vibration from industrial vehicles such as forklifts has been associated with low back pain and also with the degeneration of intervertebral disc. Predicted health risks, associated with the operation of forklifts, based on ISO 2631-1 criteria are limited and have not yet been determine...

Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to cardiac ischemia-reperfusion (IR) injury but volatile anesthetics (VA) may alter mitochondrial function to trigger cardioprotection. We hypothesized that the VA isoflurane (ISO) mediates cardioprotection in part by altering the function of several respiratory and transport proteins involved in oxidative phosphorylation (OxPhos). To test this we used fluo...

We examined the effects of several E-ring and F-ring isoprostanes on mechanical and electrophysiological activity in porcine coronary artery. Several isoprostanes evoked concentration-dependent contractions, with 8-iso-PGE2 being the most potent (-log EC50 of 6.9 +/- 0.1); this excitatory effect has been described in detail elsewhere and was not examined further here. 8-iso-PGE2 evoked dose-dep...

The existing combinatorial methods for iso-surface computation are efficient for pure visualization purposes, but it is known that the resulting iso-surfaces can have holes, and topological problems like missing or wrong connectivity can appear. To avoid such problems, we introduce a graph-theoretical method for the computation of iso-surfaces on cuboid meshes in R. The method for the generatio...

Attached you find an SWG report on a possible new area of standardization activity: Web Collaboration At its June 2013 meeting SWG-P adopted this report, recognizing that it might still be too early to start standardization work right away. Instead we would like to get some feedback from the SC Chairmen on this report. In section 11 of the report SWG on Planning has identified a number of possi...

With a dataset of more than 600 million small RNAs deeply sequenced from mouse hippocampal and staged sets of mouse cells that underwent reprogramming to induced pluripotent stem cells, we annotated the stem-loop precursors of the known miRNAs to identify isomoRs (miRNA-offset RNAs), loops, non-preferred strands, and guide strands. Products from both strands were readily detectable for most miR...