From the Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755-4; the Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania l910& the Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, State University of New York at Bu$alo, Veterans Administration Hospital, Bu$alo, New York I.@‘OS~; and the Departmenf of Biological Sciences, North...

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Modeling impacts of management alternatives on soil carbon storage of farmland in Northwest China F. Zhang, C. Li, Z. Wang, and H. Wu State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, CAS, Xi’an, 710 075, PR China Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Science...

Matthias Weiss,1 J. A. Méndez-Bermúdez,2,3,* and Tsampikos Kottos2,4 1Cellular Biophysics Group (BIOMS), German Cancer Research Center, Im Neuenheimer Feld 580, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany 2Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, Bunsenstrasse 10, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany 3Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel 4Department of Physics, Wesleyan U...

1 Institute of Microbiology and Genetics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 2 Courant Research Centre Geobiology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 3 Federal Institute for Geosciences and Resources, 30655 Hannover, Germany 4Department of Geobiology (Geoscience Institute), Georg-August-University Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany 5 UK Centre ...

The influence of calcite and dissolved calcium on U(VI) adsorption was investigated using a calcite-containing sandy silt/clay sediment from the U. S. Department of Energy Hanford site. U(VI) adsorption to sediment, treated sediment, and sediment size fractions was studied in solutions that both had and had not been preequilibrated with calcite, at initial [U(VI)] = 10(-7)-10(-5) mol/L and fina...

Previous studies have suggested that the lnotropic effects of glucagon on the guinea pig heart, but not on the rat heart, could be dissociated from its effects on cyclic AMP formation. We compared the effects of glucagon on working rat and guinea pig hearts to reinvestigate this proposed dissociation. When administered to spontaneously beating preparations, glucagon produced •imilar increases h...

The present study examined the kinetics of glutathione (GSH) concentration during maturation and after fertilization in pig oocytes and its relevance to the ability of pig oocytes to form a male pronucleus after in vitro fertilization. The GSH concentration was significantly higher in pig oocytes matured in Waymouth medium than in pig oocytes matured in either modified (m) TCM-199 or mTLP media...

Biosynthesis of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) is initiated by an unusually complex GPI-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase (GPI-GnT) consisting of at least six proteins. Here, we report that human GPI-GnT requires another component, termed PIG-Y, a 71 amino acid protein with two transmembrane domains. The Burkitt lymphoma cell line Daudi, severely defective in the surface expression of GPI-anc...

Leptospiral lipopolysaccharide (L-LPS) has shown potency in activating toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) in pig fibroblasts (PEFs_NCC1), and causes the expression of proinflammatory cytokines. However, the stimulation by L-LPS was weak eliciting the function of TLR2 sufficiently in pig innate immunity responses during Leptospira infection. In this study, the immune response of pig embryonic fibroblas...