INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE The usefulness of prolonged troponin-T (TnT) monitoring in outpatients with nonischemic heart failure (HF) is not clear. The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence, prognostic value and determinants of a raised TnT level. METHODS The study involved 80 outpatients (age 56+/-14 years, 69% male) with chronic stable HF (mean left ventricular ejection fractio...

Under anoxic conditions Pseudomonas sp. strain JLR11 can use 2,4, 6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) as the sole N source, releasing nitrite from the aromatic ring and subsequently reducing it to ammonium and incorporating it into C skeletons. This study shows that TNT can also be used as a terminal electron acceptor in respiratory chains under anoxic conditions by Pseudomonas sp. strain JLR11. TNT-depend...

The main contaminant at many military sites is 2,4,6trinitrotoluene (TNT). This explosive remains stable in the environment, and because it is toxic, there is an urgent need for remediation to clean up contaminated sites. Pseudomonas sp. JLR11 is a soil isolate able to use nitrate, TNT, or both as the N source under anaerobic conditions. At least two polypeptides were detected in cell-free extr...

Fetal rat skeletal muscles express a troponin T (TnT) isoform similar to the TnT isoform expressed in the embryonic heart with respect to electrophoretic mobility and immunoreactivity with cardiac TnT-specific monoclonal antibodies. Immunoblotting analyses reveal that both the embryonic and the adult isoforms of cardiac TnT are transiently expressed during the neonatal stages. In addition, othe...

TnT is an efficient statistical Parts-of-speech (POS) Tagger based on Hidden Markov Model. TnT performs well on known word sequences. But, the performance degrades with increase in the number of unknown words. In this paper, we propose a method to overcome this performance degradation using fuzzy rules. Fuzzy rule based model is designed to provide TnT with sufficient information about the tag ...

The exposure of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to environmental stress, such as that caused by the explosive 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT) can alter its gene expression. Expression analysis was conducted using a microarray composed of 3079 Chlamydomonas ESTs to characterize the broad range of responses of gene expression exposed to this common ordnance compound. TNT treatment conditions were determine...

OBJECTIVE The role of high sensitivity troponin T (hs-TnT) in the convalescence phase after an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is unknown. The authors aim to assess the prognostic utility of a single hs-TnT level at 7-week post-ACS. Second, the authors evaluated whether any serial changes in hs-TnT between the index admission and 7 weeks post-ACS had any link with the prognosis. Third, the author...

Recent published data show that transformation and sorption are key processes involved in the subsurface transport of TNT. The state-of-the-art understanding of TNT soil transformation and sorption phenomena is summarized below: There is unequivocal evidence of reductive transformation of TNT in soils. However, soil properties affecting TNT transformation are only partially understood. Edaphic ...

The present study focus on the biodegradation of trinitrotoluene (TNT) by Bacillus sp. YRE1 isolated from red effluent in free state and also cells immobilized on charcoal and polystyrene. TNT degradation was monitored weekly for 168 hours, at 262 nm. Immobilized Bacillus sp. YRE1 was checked for its ability to degrade TNT by exposing it to different temperatures. It was found that both charcoa...

We report the draft genome of Raoultella ornithinolytica TNT, a Gram-negative bacterium of the Enterobacteriaceae isolated from military soil in Belgium. Strain TNT uses nitrite released from trinitrotoluene (TNT) for growth and is a potent plant growth promoter. An analysis of its 5.6-Mb draft genome will bring insights into TNT degradation-reinforcing bioremediation applications.