INTRODUCTION Peutz-Jeghers (PJ) syndrome is a rare familial disorder with the autosomal transmission characterized by multiple intestinal polyps, mucocutaneous pigmentation and increased incidence of various malignancies. Some clinical manifestations of PJ syndrome may be associated with the serotonin secretion from the enterochromaffin cells (EC). OBJECTIVE Since no data have been reported s...

Piñon–juniper (PJ) fire regimes are generally characterised as infrequent high-severity. However, PJ ecosystems vary across a large geographic and bio-climatic range and little is known about one of the principal PJ functional types, PJ savannas. It is logical that (1) grass in PJ savannas could support frequent, low-severity fire and (2) exclusion of frequent fire could explain increased tree ...

Photosystem I (PSI) is a reaction center associated with oxygenic photosynthesis. Unlike the monomeric reaction centers in green and purple bacteria, PSI forms trimeric complexes in most cyanobacteria with a 3-fold rotational symmetry that is primarily stabilized via adjacent PsaL subunits; however, in plants/algae, PSI is monomeric. In this study, we discovered a tetrameric form of PSI in the ...

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Pulicaria jaubertii (PJ) is a medicinal plant used as synthetic antioxidant and traditional medicine due to its bioactive compounds. The objective of this study was investigate the effects PJ on carcass traits breast meat quality parameters broiler chickens. Two hundred forty male broilers (1 day old) were divided into four groups (0, 3, 6, 9 g PJ/kg basal diet). Performance indicators evaluate...

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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 Goals, Organization of the Project, and Timeline . . . . . 820 Summary of Main Recommendations Regarding Diagnosis and Management by the Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Task Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 Clinical Recognition of AAT Deficiency . . . . . . . . . . 820 Genetic Testing for AAT Deficiency . ....

Adenosine (ADO) is an inhibitory neuromodulator that can increase nociceptive thresholds in response to noxious stimulation. Inhibition of the ADO-metabolizing enzyme adenosine kinase (AK) increases extracellular ADO concentrations at sites of tissue trauma and AK inhibitors may have therapeutic potential as analgesic and anti-inflammatory agents. ABT-702 is a novel and potent (IC(50) = 1. 7 nM...

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 Goals, Organization of the Project, and Timeline . . . . . 820 Summary of Main Recommendations Regarding Diagnosis and Management by the Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Task Force . . . . . . . . . . . . . 820 Clinical Recognition of AAT Deficiency . . . . . . . . . . 820 Genetic Testing for AAT Deficiency . ....

objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of pomegranate juice (pj) on the paraoxonase and arylesterase activity of human serum paraoxonase( pon1). material and method: fifty patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus consumed 200 ml of pj daily for a period of 6 weeks. blood was collected from the patients before and after pj consumption after 12 h of fasting. blood sugar, tot...