Cardiac Pacing History of cardiac pacing in India dates back to late 1960s. Kar1 reported that cardiac pacing was introduced in India in 1966. Basu2 while discussing on cardiac pacemaking in Calcutta, mentions that the first pacing was performed in April 1967 at the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (IPGME&R). Bhatia et al3 started pacemaker implantation at AIIMS, New De...

A comparative study was conducted to see the mutational analysis for monounsaturated fatty acids in rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) mutant populations. By using gamma irradiation, a range of variability generated for oil content and fatty acid composition in rapeseed seeds. The induced genetic variability was analyzed for two consecutive years in two contrasting environments at elevations of 510 a...

beta-Ketoacyl-coenzyme A (CoA) synthase (KCS) catalyzes the condensation of malonyl-CoA with long-chain acyl-CoA. This reaction is the initial step of the microsomal fatty acyl-CoA elongation pathway responsible for formation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs, or fatty acids with chain lengths > 18 carbons). Manipulation of this pathway is significant for agriculture, because it is the bas...

Erucic acid (EA), a fatty acid of 22-carbon chain with one isolated double bond, has broad industrial applications. Currently, erucic acid is isolated from Crucifereae plant oils through steam splitting, namely the Colgate-Emery process, followed by fractional distillation. This two-step process involves drastic conditions, low energy efficiency, and extensive product degradation. Enzymatic app...

Enzymic activities and gene expression of oleoyl-CoA elongase were studied during seed development using two different rapeseed cultivars, high-erucic-acid rapeseed (HEAR) and low-erucic-acid rapeseed (LEAR). The overall elongase activities were maximal in HEAR between the fourth and eighth weeks after pollination (WAP) and absent in LEAR. The 3-ketoacyl-CoA synthase (condensing enzyme, CE) mRN...

13-Aminotridecanoic acid, the monomer for nylon 13, was synthesized from commercial erucic acid or its derivatives by several methods in a study to determine the method of choice, which involved oxidative ozonolysis of eruconitrile, followed by esterification before isolation to give methyl 12-cyanododecanoate. The cyano ester was then catalytically reduced and hydrolyzed, without isolation of ...

p-Ketoacyl-coenzyme A (COA) synthase (KCS) catalyzes the condensation of malonyl-COA with long-chain acyl-COA. This reaction is the initial step of the microsomal fatty acyl-COA elongation pathway responsible for formation of very long chain fatty acids (VLCFAs, or fatty acids with chain lengths >18 carbons). Manipulation of this pathway is significant for agriculture, because i t is the basis ...