The hepatocyte contains a battery of membrane transporters in the sinusoidal and canalicular membrane that guarantee the regulated import and export of nutrients, messengers and toxic compounds. In the canalicular membrane, a number of important ABC (ATP binding cassette) transporters are located. Three of these primary active transporters, BSEP (bile salt export pump, ABC B11), MDR3 (multidrug...

This study utilized site-specific peat hydrophysical properties (inverse of air-entry pressure, α; pore size distribution index, n; saturated hydraulic conductivity, Ks; and tortuosity, L) as inputs into the HYDRUS 1-D computer model for quantifying moss moisture stresses on Irish peatlands. The computed using pedotransfer functions obtained from laboratory measured bulk density (BD) % organic ...

Fur animal farming was initiated during the 1890s on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Farmed silver foxes descend from animals caught from the wild on the island. Finnish fur farming increased during the post war period and in mid-1980s, there were about 6000 fur animal farms, mostly located in Southern Ostrobothnia (Fig.), producing about 8 million fur animals yearly. Currently, there are appro...

almonds are self incompatible, the incompatibility being controlled by a multi allelic (s-alleles) single gene. the incompatibility alleles were studied in 96 samples of wild almonds and related prunus species from 10 taxonomic groups. polymerase chain reactions were carried out with six primer sets including: three degenerate primer pairs (paconsi-f(fam)/em-pc1consrd, paconsi-f(fam)/em-pc3cons...

1. Gagneux S, Wirth T, Hodgson A, Ehrhard I, Morelli G, Kriz P, et al. Clonal groupings in serogroup X Neisseria meningitidis. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8:462–6. 2. del Castillo CM, Vázquez JA, Romero J, Pascual A. Infections by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup X in Spain. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2003;9:964–5. DOI: 10.1046/ j.1469-0691.2003.00685.x 3. Chen C, Zhang TG, Wu J, Chen LJ, Liu JF, Pang X...

Bois noir, an economically important disease of grapevine yellows that causes significant economic losses in wine production, is associated with ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma solani’ and transmitted to grapevines by cixiids Hyalesthes obsoletus Reptalus panzeri. Polyphagous planthopper Dictyophara europaea, commonly found natural habitats, harbors phytoplasmas from distinct groups alternative vector ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to investigate the function of Zinc finger protein 488 (ZNF488) in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). MATERIALS AND METHODS The endogenous expression of ZNF488 in NPC tissues, normal nasopharyngeal epithelium tissues and NPC cell lines were detected by quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. ZNF488 over-expressing and knock-down NPC cel...

This is the third paper in a series (Olah, T. V., Olson, H. M., Glitz, D. G., and Cooperman, B. S. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 4795-4800; Olson, H. M., Olah, T., Cooperman, B. S., and Glitz, D. G. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 4801-4806) describing the use of 2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP) derivatives of Escherichia coli 30 S ribosomal proteins to locate the positions of these proteins within the 30 S sub...