This study was conducted to determine length-weight and length-length relationships, relative condition factor (Krel) and Fulton?s condition factor (K) for five species including Scardinius erythrophtalmus, Carassius auratus gibelio, Cyprinus carpio, Tinca tinca and Hemiculter leucisculus belonging to Cyprinidae family. Fish sampling was carried out by gill net and fyke net in the western regio...

1. Toyoda Y, Shinohara N, Harabayashi T. Survival and prognostic classification of patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma of bone. Eur Urol. 2007;52:163–9. 2. Sheth S, Scatarige JC, Horton KM. Current concepts in the diagnosis and management of renal cell carcinoma: role of multidetector CT and three-dimensional CT. Radiographics. 2001;21:237–41. 3. Zisman A, Pantuck AJ, Dorey F. Improve...

BACKGROUND We set out to identify common genetic determinants of the length of the RR and QT intervals in 2325 individuals from isolated European populations. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed the heart rate at rest, measured as the RR interval, and the length of the corrected QT interval for association with 318 237 single-nucleotide polymorphisms. The RR interval was associated with common va...

The amount of sialic acid on the surface of the neutrophil influences its ability to interact with other cells. Neutrophil activation with various stimuli mobilizes intracellular sialidase to the plasma membrane where it cleaves sialic acid from cell surfaces. Since enhanced neutrophil adherence, spreading, deformability and motility each are associated with surface desialylation and critical t...

Recent unenclosed iron-fertilization experiments in the equatorial Pacific Ocean have shown that phytoplankton biomass can be increased substantially by the addition of iron. Analyses of size-fractionated chlorophyll indicate that much of the increase during the most recent fertilization experiment, IronEx II, occurred in the .10-mm size fraction. We used flow cytometry, combined with taxon-spe...

Earthquake fault rock indicating a coupled lubrication mechanism S. Okamoto, G. Kimura, S. Takizawa, and H. Yamaguchi Department of Earth and Planetary Science, the University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan The Institute for Frontier Research on Earth Evolution, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Natsushima 2-15, Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka-city, Kanaga...

MIR-237 IS LIKELY A DEVELOPMENTAL TIMING GENE THAT REGULATES THE L2-TO-L3 TRANSITION IN C. ELEGANS Xi Li, B.S. Marquette University, 2010 Development is regulated in both the spatial and temporal dimensions. The developmental timing pathway in C. elegans is the most extensively studied timing mechanism. Many components of the pathway are conserved across phyla. Postembryonic development of C. e...

A number of carboxyl-substituted S-blocked glutathiones have been shown to be competitive inhibitors of yeast glyoxalase I at 25 degrees C, pH 6.6. Amidation of the glycyl carboxyl group of S-(p-bromobenzyl)glutathione has no appreciable effect on binding whilst methylation reduces binding by 8.9-fold, indicating a steric constraint and the possible presence of a hydrogen bond in this region of...

Early nutritional insults may increase risk of adult lung disease. We aimed to quantify the impact of severe acute malnutrition (SAM) on spirometric outcomes 7 years post-treatment and explore predictors of impaired lung function.Spirometry and pulse oximetry were assessed in 237 Malawian children (median age: 9.3 years) who had been treated for SAM and compared with sibling and age/sex-matched...