The in vivo and in vitro pathogenic activities of whole cells and extracellular products of Vibrio alginolyticus for cultured gilt-head sea bream were evaluated. The 50% lethal doses ranged from 5.4 x 10(4) to 1.0 x 10(6) CFU/g of body weight. The strains examined had the ability to adhere to skin, gill, and intestinal mucus of sea bream and to cultured cells of a chinook salmon embryo cell lin...

HF radar can provide Over the Horizon detection of ships on very large oceanic areas, making use of the ionospheric refraction of radio waves. The Doppler spectrum of the sea clutter is composed of the first-order Bragg lines with a second-order continuum, as described in [1]. Normally, the Doppler shift produces by ships is small, of the same order of magnitude of the Doppler shift of the sea ...

Fucoidan is a sulfated polysaccharide that occurs at high levels in some seaweed and in the eggs of sea urchin and bodies of sea cucumbers. Uptake of fucoidan-rich food is suggested to be one of the causes of longevity in Japan. Fucoidan shows anti-coagulant, antivirus, anti-inflammatory, anti-tumor and other various favorable biological activities both in vitro and in vivo. In this study, the ...

Rapid and dramatic changes in climate and glacial conditions have taken place during the last 2.5 million years of the earth’s history. Huge ice sheets expanded and contracted periodically, at times covering large areas of North America and Europe. Global sea levels dropped and rose 100 m to 150 m in response to the growth and melting of glaciers, causing continental coast lines to move far int...

Genetic selection for an ascites-resistant line of broilers is seen as a permanent solution to the ascites problem. Ascites-resistant and ascites-susceptible lines have been developed using sire family selection based on mortality data taken from siblings reared in a hypobaric chamber (simulated 2,900 m above sea level). The relaxed line is representative of the original commercial pureline sto...

Over the past three decades, dengue fever/dengue hemorrhagic fever has been rapidly expanding in the Eastern Mediterranean Region with outbreaks documented in countries along the coastal lines of the Red Sea and Arabian Sea and in Pakistan. The paper describes the current situation in the Region and proposes specific areas for strengthening of core capacities in the short, medium and long term ...

Two new triterpene glycosides, scabraside A (1) and B (2), and a structurally known compound (3), were isolated from the sea cucumber Holothuria scabra (Holothuriidae) collected from the South China Sea. Structure of these compounds was elucidated by spectroscopic and chemical methods. The glycosides 1 and 2 exhibit the same common structural features, i. e., the presence of 12- and 17-hydroxy ...

Activity-guided isolation of the fermentation broth of the deep-sea derived fungus Acaromyces ingoldii FS121, which was obtained from the China South Sea, yielded a new naphtha-[2,3-b]pyrandione analogue, acaromycin A (1) and a new thiazole analogue, acaromyester A (2), as well as the known compound (+)-cryptosporin (3). Their structures, including absolute configurations, were determined by ex...