Phosphatidylglycerol (PG) an important membrane phospholipid required for the synthesis of diphosphatidylglycerol (DPG) commonly known as cardiolipin (CL) was identified in the fraction of endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-derived transport vesicles which had no affinity for Golgi. The vesicles were produced in the presence of Brefeldin A (BFA), the agent known to inhibit ER-Golgi transport, and found...

The generation of induced-pluripotential stem cells- (iPSCs-) derived mesenchymal stem cells (iMSCs) is an attractive and promising approach for preparing large, uniform batches of applicable MSCs that can serve as an alternative cell source of primary MSCs. Appropriate culture surfaces may influence their growth and differentiation potentials during iMSC derivation. The present study compared ...

If true, this property would mean that there is no interesting algebraic structure. There are very few results on the arithmetic nature of these numbers, even less on their independence: it is known that π is a transcendental numbers, hence, so are all ζ(2n), n ≥ 1. It is also known that ζ(3) is irrational (Apéry, 1978), and that infinitely many ζ(2n+ 1) are irrational (further sharper results ...

The VII SERB School in Neuroscience was organized by Dr. Joby Joseph, and Dr. Kaveri Rajaraman during 9-21Dec. 2013 at the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad to encourage young neuroscientists. It was funded by SERB, Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India. Twenty two participants (Ph.D. scholars, postdoctoral fellows or young faculty members) o...

This article gives an elementary overview of the end-state of gravitational collapse according to classical general relativity. The focus of discussion is the formation of black holes and naked singularities in various physically reasonable models of gravitational collapse. Possible implications for the cosmic censorship hypothesis are outlined. based on a talk given at the XVIIIth meeting of t...