Hong Kong Med J Vol 15 No 6 Supplement 9 December 2009 Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital Compound, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China PL Ho, WC Yam Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Queen Mary Hospital, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China KWT Tsang Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, Chin...

714 A model for active and healthy ageing with a rare genetic disease: cystic fibrosis Raphael Chiron, Davide Caimmi, Arunas Valiulis, Isabelle Durieu, Patrick Tejedor, Yam Le Cam, Mathieu Boudes, Oliver Jonquet, Timo Strandberg, Jean-Pierre Michel, Esteban de Manuel Keenoy, Pascal Demoly, Jacques Mercier, Radolphe Bourret and Jean Bousquet on behalf of MACVIA-LR European Innovation Partnership...

atrial appendage closure Shuang Li, MD, Wei Chen, MD, PhD, Shuang Li, MD, Dongdong Zhao, MD, PhD, FHRS, Kai Tang, MD, PhD, FHRS, Yat-yam Lam, MD, PhD, Yawei Xu, MD, PhD, FHRS From the Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Prince of Wales Hospital, The Chinese University of H...

Bacillus subtilis strains (CM1-CM5) isolated from culturable cowdung microflora were investigated for indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) production in nutrient broth (NB). All the strains tested produced IAA in NB; albeit in very low concentrations (0.09-0.37 mg/l). The addition of L-tryptophan (0.1 - 1.0 g/l) into NB substantially enhanced IAA production (6.1 - 31.5 folds) indicating that L-tryptophan...

BACKGROUND The rhizome of Oni-dokoro (a wild yam, Dioscorea tokoro) has extremely bitter taste and is not generally regarded edible;, however, in northern part of Japan, such as Iwate and a part of Aomori, it is used as health promoting food. To clarify the reason, we examined the biologically active compounds in the rhizome collected at Iwate and compared them from the other area in literature...

Listeria monocytogenes is widely distributed in nature and the infection listeriosis is recognized as a potential threat for human health because of its mortality rate. The objective of this study was to evaluate the growth profile and chitosan production by Mucor rouxxi UCP 064 grown in yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus L. Urban) medium. It was also to assess the anti-L. monocytogenes efficacy of t...

Light quality evaluations were conducted on yam (Dioscorea alata L. cultivar 'Oriental' ) plantlets to determine the potential usefulness of manipulation of the light environment in regulating growth. Eight-week old, in vitro grown yam plantlets were transferred to pots and treated in vivo with end-ofday (EOD) red (R) or far-red (FR) light. Also, nodal segments ofD. alata plantlets were culture...

0308-8146/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2011.09.125 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +32 2764 7234; fax: + E-mail address: [email protected] ( 1 F.R.S.-FNRS Post-Doctoral Researcher (Belgium). This study describes the development of a validated method for the quantification of rotenone in yam bean. The milled seeds were submitted to a Soxhlet dichlorom...

Studies on the Effect of Pre-planting Treatments of Corms (Minisetts) with Different Organic and Inorganic Substances on Growth and Yield of Elephant Foot Yam under Agro-climatic Condition of Chhattisgarh Plains Sarita Sahu 1 , Vijay Kumar 2 1. Scientist Horticulture, College of Agriculture & Research Station, Raigarh (C.G.), India 2. Department of Horticulture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishvavidya...