the activity concentration of gross alpha and gross beta particles in four samples of borehole drinking water consumed in ibrahim badamasi babangida university (ibbu), lapai, niger state-nigeria was measured, using a portable single channel gas free proportional counter (mpc2000b-dp) detector. this study focused on cancer related problems and the bio-data of the environment was discussed as wel...

In vivo complex formation of activated protein C with protein C inhibitor (APC-PCI) and with alpha 1-antitrypsin (APC-alpha 1AT) following infusion of 0.25 or 1.0 mg APC/kg in 1 hour into baboons was studied using immunoblotting and sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)s. Before APC infusion, detectable plasma levels (about 30 ng/mL) of APC-alpha 1AT complex were found in the baboo...

Desacetyl-alpha-MSH is more abundant than alpha-MSH in the brain, the fetus, human blood, and amniotic fluid, but there is little information on its ability to interact with melanocortin receptors. The aim of this study is to compare and contrast the ability of desacetyl-alpha-MSH and alpha-MSH to couple melanocortin receptors stably expressed in HEK293 cells, to the protein kinase A (PKA) sign...

Background: Tumor necrosis factor alpha is a proinflammatory cytokine and  as  polyvalent initial response of inflammatory cells which facilitated through the creation of coronary atherosclerosis . It also seems that the polymorphism and susceptibility to atherosclerosis is related to TNF-α gene promoter. The purpose of this study was to investigate single nucleotide polymorphis...

We consider a proper coloring of plane graph such that no face is rainbow, where rainbow if any two vertices on its boundary have distinct colors. Such said to be anti-rainbow. A quadrangulation G in which all faces are bounded by cycle length 4. In this paper, we show the number colors anti-rainbow does not exceed $$3\alpha (G)/2$$ , $$\alpha (G)$$ independence G. Moreover, minimum degree 3 or...

A cDNA expression library of Trichoderma reesei RutC-30 was constructed in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Two genes, abf1 and bxl1, were isolated by screening the yeast library for extracellular alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase activity with the substrate p-nitrophenyl-alpha-L-arabinofuranoside. The genes abf1 and bxl1 encode 500 and 758 amino acids, respectively, including the signal sequences...

We prospectively compared a single-tube multiplex polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for detecting alpha-thalassemia with our current approach using 452 blood samples. Initial evaluation of 89 specimens revealed sensitivity and specificity, respectively, for the hemoglobin H inclusion body test (HbH prep) vs PCR for detecting alpha0-thalassemia carriers of 0.79 and 0.96 and for a mean corpuscular ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between alpha angle and herniation pit on MRI in asymptomatic hip joints and their associations with demographic variables. MATERIALS AND METHODS Hip MRI of 185 asymptomatic hip joints of 105 adults (age 18 to 80 years) from September 2011 through December 2012 were retrospectively studied. Alpha angles were measured on oblique axial MR images by 2 observ...