1 Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 5, France 2 CNRS UMR8551, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 24 rue Lhomond, 75005 Paris, France 3 Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents, Université Lyon 1, Université de Lyon, Campus de la Doua, 69622 Villeurbanne, France 4 Université Montpellier 2, CC 074, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

The inhibitor CA-074 and its membrane-permeable derivative CA-074Me have been widely employed to study the biological function of cathepsin B. These compounds have been described as selective inactivators of cathepsin B with barely detectable action on other cathepsins. However, in this study it is demonstrated that CA-074 and CA-074Me also inactivate cathepsin L in the presence of the thiol re...

      Water flux in a young, 4-year old, cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) plantation was studied over a dry season, from November 2001 to March 2002, in the forest-savannah transition zone of Ghana, West Africa. The temperature-difference method was used over this five-month period to quantify the diurnal and day-to-day whole-tree sap flow (Qt) and hence the canopy scale transpiration (Ec). M...

The main aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of silicon (Si), ethanol (Et), ascorbic acid (AA) and citric acid (CA) on vase life of Narcissus tazetta L. cv. ‘Shahla’cut flowers. For this purpose, an experiment based on completely randomized design was conducted with Si (5, 10 and 20 mM), Et (2 and 4%), AA (100, 200 and 300 mg L-1), CA (100, 200 and 300 mg L-1) and control (distillated...

Objective- The aim of this study was to determine the first possible time for pregnancy recognition and several features of developing embryo between days 8 to 44 of pregnancy. Design- Experimental study Animals- Six healthy registered Caspian mares Procedures- Daily ultrasound examinations were conducted from days 8 to 44 (ovulation = day 0) of pregnancy to monitor the conceptus in Caspian ...

an accurate determination of evapotranspiration is required for many studies that involve estimation of the water balance. one methodology is the use of lysimeters. considering the semiarid climate of kerman province, in southeastern parts of iran, the only operating electronic weighing lysimeter in the country was used for calculating daily eto from april 2004 to march 2005 in three different ...

abstract in this study different proportions of nh4+ and no3- in the growth medium on plant growth were investigated in hydroponic greenhouse experiments. the objectives of these studies were to investigate if ammonium (nh4+) stress in cucumber, a species sensitive to nh4+ toxicity, can be alleviated by matching the nitrogen supply rate to the plant nitrogen demand. ammonium was applied at a re...