In the soft coral Sinularia leptoclados, 30 molecular species belonged to 4 glycerophospholipid classes, including 8 ethanolamine (PE), 13 choline (PC), 3 serine (PS) and 6 inositol (PI) were identified. PE 18:1e/20:4, PC 18:0e/20:4, PS 18:0e/24:5 PI 18:0/24:5 are most abundant with value of 69.94%, 45.57%, 68.55% 68.18%, respectively. The PE, PC, classes reported contain alkylacylphospholipid;...

We consider closed topological 4-manifolds M $M$ with universal cover S 2 × ${S^2\times {S^2}}$ and Euler characteristic χ ( ) = 1 $\chi (M) 1$ . All such manifolds π ≅ Z / 4 $\pi =\pi _1(M)\cong {\mathbb {Z}/{4}}$ are homotopy equivalent. In this case, we show that there four homeomorphism types, propose a candidate for smooth example is not homeomorphic to the geometric quotient. If \cong \ma...

s of papers 11 42 Phosphorus efficacy of an E. coli phytase in young chicks. N.R. Augspurger*1, D.M. Webel2, X.G. Lei3, and D.H. Baker1, 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2United Feeds, Inc., Sheridan, IN, 3Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Three assays were done to investigate the phosphorus (Pi)-releasing efficacy of an E. coli phytase (ECP, produced by Phytex LLC), relative to Natup...

The balance of T-cell proliferation, anergy and apoptosis is central to immune function. In this regard, co-receptor CTLA-4 is needed for the induction of anergy and tolerance. One central question concerns the mechanism by which CTLA-4 can induce T-cell non-responsiveness without a concurrent induction of antigen induced cell death (AICD). In this study, we show that CTLA-4 activation of the p...

BACKGROUND A specific inspiratory muscle 'warm-up' (IWU) prior to assessment of maximal inspiratory mouth pressure (PI(max)) may reduce the number of measurements required to obtain reproducible, representative estimates of PI(max). The influence of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) upon this phenomenon is unknown. OBJECTIVE Compare the impact of an IWU on the between- and within-day reliabil...

Using data samples collected with the BESIII detector operating at BEPCII storage ring, we measure cross sections of $e^{+}e^{-}\rightarrow\pi^{+}\pi^{-}D^{+}D^{-}$ process center-of-mass energies from 4.190 to 4.946 GeV a partial reconstruction method. Two resonance structures are seen and parameters determined fit section line shape. The first observe has mass (4373.1 $\pm$ 4.0 2.2) MeV/$c^2$...

The purpose of the present study was to determine whether isohydric changes in HCO3 concentration and Pco 2directly affect apical Na-dependent Pi(Na-Pi) cotransport in OK cells (opossum kidney cell line). Cells were kept at either 44 mM NaHCO3/10% CO2, pH 7.4 (high-HCO3/CO2condition), or 22 mM NaHCO3/5% CO2, pH 7.4 (low-HCO3/CO2condition) (for 14-24 h). Incubation in lower HCO3/CO2concentration...

Results Histology was positive for high-grade cancer in 27/50 patients. Lesions deemed to be suspicious for cancer (PI-RADS score 4 and 5) had a positive predictive value of 83% (25/30), and were located correctly in 88%. Lesions deemed to be benign (PI-RADS score 1/2) had a negative predictive value of 80% (8/10). Equivocal lesions (PI-RADS score 3) were histologically higher grade (Gleason 3+...

Legionella pneumophila is an opportunistic intracellular pathogen that causes sporadic and epidemic cases of Legionnaires' disease. Emerging data suggest that Legionella infection involves the subversion of host phosphoinositide (PI) metabolism. However, how this bacterium actively manipulates PI lipids to benefit its infection is still an enigma. Here, we report that the L. pneumophila virulen...