Aflatoxins are toxic and carcinogenic polyketide metabolites produced by fungal species, including Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus. The biosynthesis of aflatoxins is modulated by many environmental factors, including the availability of a carbon source. The gene expression profile of A. parasiticus was evaluated during a shift from a medium with low concentration of simple sugars, yeast e...

The present study investigated the effect of crude extracts from yacon leaves, obtained by aqueous cold (YC) or hot (YH) extraction, or hydroethanolic extraction (YE), on glycemia of the diabetic (induced by streptozotocine, 50 mg/kg, ip) and nondiabetic rats. The animals were treated orally with the extracts (400 mg/kg) or water for 3, 7, 10, and 14 days. After this period, the animals were an...

Ping-Ping Lv ([email protected]) Ye Meng ([email protected]) Min Lv ([email protected]) Chun Feng ([email protected]) Liu Ye ([email protected]) Jing-Yi Li ([email protected]) Dan-Qin Yu ([email protected]) Yan Shen ([email protected]) Xiao-Lin Hu ([email protected]) Qian Gao ([email protected]) Shan Dong ([email protected]) Xian-Hua Lin ([email protected]) Gu-Feng Xu (xu...

The impacts of sea-level rise (SLR) on coastal ecosystems have attracted worldwide attention in relation to global change. In this study, the salt marsh model for the Yangtze Estuary (SMM-YE, developed in China) and the Sea Level Affecting Marshes Model (SLAMM, developed in the U.S.) were used to simulate the effects of SLR on the coastal salt marshes in eastern China. The changes in the domina...

This paper presents a novel method for continuous inter-dependent outputs prediction that predicts each of the multiple output variables based not only on the input but also on the rest of the outputs. We do so by using for each output kernel regression functions that are a convex combination of two kernels: the first kernel defined over the input and the second over the remaining outputs. We p...

Our previous study demonstrated that yuzu has an anti-platelet effect in rat blood. In the present study, we examined whether the anti-platelet effect of yuzu can be extended to human blood by investigating its ability to inhibit aggregations induced by various agonists in human platelet rich plasma (PRP). This study also investigated the underlying mechanism of yuzu focusing on ADP granule sec...

The neutrino driven wind during a core collapse supernova is an attractive site for r-process nucleosynthesis. The electron fraction Ye in the wind depends on observable neutrino energies and luminosities. The mean antineutrino energy is limited by supernova SN1987A data while lepton number conservation constrains the ratio of antineutrino to neutrino luminosities. If Ye, in the wind, is to be ...

Yeast extract powder (YE powder) is particularly used in culture media for the cultivation of microorganisms found in milk or other dairy products. The present study was intended to explore the influence of biofield energy treatment on the physicochemical and spectral properties of YE powder. The study was accomplished in two groups; first group was remained as control, while another was subjec...