Plastids are the defining organelles of all photosynthetic eukaryotes. They are the site of photosynthesis and of a large number of other essential metabolic pathways, such as fatty acid and amino acid biosyntheses, sulfur and nitrogen assimilation, and aromatic and terpenoid compound production, to mention only a few examples. The metabolism of plastids is heavily intertwined and connected wit...

Objective To identify possible clinical predictors of intermittent oro-esophageal (OE) tube feeding success, and evaluate the clinical factors associated with OE tube treatment. Methods A total of 135 dysphagic patients were reviewed, who received OE tube treatment and were hospitalized in the department of rehabilitation medicine between January 2005 and December 2014. The 76 eligible cases ...

Ell3 is an RNA polymerase II transcription elongation factor that acts as a negative regulator of p53 expression, and regulates cell proliferation and survival. Recent studies by our group have demonstrated that ectopic expression of Ell3 in breast cancer cell lines enhances cell proliferation, potentiates cancer stem cell properties, and promotes 5-Fluorouracil (5-FU) resistance. In the presen...

BACKGROUND In rats, oral oleoyl-estrone (OE) decreases food intake and body lipid content. The aim of this study was to determine whether OE treatment affects the energy metabolism of pregnant rats and eventually, of their pups; i.e. changes in normal growth patterns and the onset of obesity after weaning. METHODS Pregnant Wistar rats were treated with daily intragastric gavages of OE in 0.2 ...

Foxg1, a winged-helix transcription factor, promotes the development of anterior neural structures; in mice lacking Foxg1, development of the cerebral hemispheres and olfactory epithelium (OE) is severely reduced. It has been suggested that Foxg1 acts by positively regulating the expression of growth factors, such as Fgf8, which support neurogenesis. However, Foxg1 also binds Smad transcription...

The impacts of outdoor education programs on participants remains a topic of much interest to practitioners and researchers. Hundreds of empirical pre-post studies have been conducted in an attempt to better understand the impacts. Typically, psychosocial constructs such as self-concept are measured before and after outdoor education programs. In order to summarize the results of such studies, ...

Let A be a separable unital C*-algebra and let π : A → L(H) be a faithful representation of A on a separable Hilbert space H such that π(A) ∩ K(H) = {0}. We show that OE , the Cuntz-Pimsner algebra associated to the Hilbert A-bimodule E = H⊗C A, is simple and purely infinite. If A is nuclear and belongs to the bootstrap class to which the UCT applies, then the same applies to OE . Hence by the ...