Abstract The development of new bio-fortified maize hybrids is crucial for achieving food security and alleviation micronutrient deficiencies. This study aims at assessing the performance pro-vitamin A identifying potential high-yielding using base index, multivariate selection rank summation index. Twenty-four one hybrid check were evaluated in rainy seasons 2018 2019 Ladoke Akintola Universit...

A newly identified gene MK is transiently expressed in early stages of retinoic acid-induced differentiation of embryonal carcinoma cells (Kadomatsu, K., M. Tomomura, and T. Muramatsu, 1988. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 151:1312-1318). MK gene has been predicted to code a polypeptide that is rich in basic amino acids and cysteine and is not related to any other peptides so far reported. In th...

Biotechnology and Bioengineering, vol. 25, issued 1983, Boyer et al., “Effect of Chemical Modi?cation of Cellulose on the Activity of a Cellulose from Aspergillus niger”, pp. 1311—1319, see especially pp. 1312 and 1313. “Biochemicals, Organic Compounds for Research and Diag nostic Reagents”, published 1990 by Sigma Chemical Com pany, see p. 1568. Advances in Biochemical Engineering, Biotechnolo...

Correction: Lysyl oxidases regulate fibrillar collagen remodelling in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (doi: 10.1242/dmm.030114) Gavin Tjin, Eric S. White, Alen Faiz, Delphine Sicard, Daniel J. Tschumperlin, Annabelle Mahar, Eleanor P. W. Kable and Janette K. Burgess An error was published in Dis. Model. Mech. (2017). 10, 1301-1312 (doi: 10.1242/dmm.030114). A reference was incorrectly cited in th...

A mixture of acrylamide (AAm) and methacrylic acid (MAA) was crosslinked onto Gum ghatti (Gg) using N, N’-methylene-bis-acrylamide (MBA) as a crosslinker and ascorbic acid (ABC) and potassium persulphate (KPS) redox pair as an initiator. Optimized reaction parameters for the graft copolymerization of Gum ghatti with AAm were time (min)=90; temperature (C)=50; pH=7.0; deionized water (ml)=10; mo...

The majority of outpatients with heart failure (HF) have chronic kidney disease (CKD) as an important comorbidity. Both glomerular filtration rate and abnormal urinary albumin excretion are major predictors of outcome in HF patients. Despite this, patients with renal dysfunction have been systematically excluded from the large randomized HF trials. There is lack of evidence for optimal treatmen...

Background—Dispersion of myocardial repolarization supports the development and maintenance of life-threatening arrhythmias. Current noninvasive approaches for detecting substrates with increased dispersion based on ECG measures (eg, QT dispersion) have shown limited success and inconsistencies. The companion article shows that, in contrast, epicardial potentials and derived measures reflect lo...

Novel strategies to control the binding of adhesion molecules belonging to the selectin family are required for the treatment of inflammatory diseases. We tested the possibility that synthetic monosaccharide analogs can compete with naturally occurring sugars to alter the O-glycan content on human leukocyte cell surface selectin-ligand, P-selectin glycoprotein ligand-1 (PSGL-1). Resulting reduc...