Sugar cane, an intermediate day plant, clearly received a stronger stimulus to flower during lengthening nights than during shortening nights. Flowering was vigorous under warm, lengthening nights (21 degrees ) but less so under cool, lengthening nights (16-17 degrees ). Warm or cool shortening nights either failed to induce flowering altogether or reduced it substantially. Under the warmer nig...

a Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., 30010 Hsinchu, Taiwan b Department of Electronics Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, 1001 Ta Hsueh Rd., 30010 Hsinchu, Taiwan c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA d Department of Electrophysics, National Chiao Tung University, 1...

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K. Pachucki,1 V. A. Yerokhin,2 and P. Cancio Pastor3, 4 Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland St. Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Polytekhnicheskaya 29, St. Petersburg 195251, Russia Istituto Nazionale di Ottica-CNR (INO-CNR), Via Nello Carrara 1, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy 4 European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) and Dipartimen...

OBJECTIVE Atherosclerosis is a chronic inflammatory process. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 (PARP), a nuclear enzyme linked to DNA repair, has been shown to be involved in atherogenesis; however, the effects on dendritic cells, T cells and serum auto-antibody levels are not fully understood. METHODS Male Apoe-/- mice on a western diet were treated with the PARP inhibitor INO-1001 (n = 15), whi...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effects of the ultrapotent poly(adenosine 5'-diphosphate-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor INO-1001 on cardiac and mesenteric function during reperfusion in an experimental model of cardiopulmonary bypass with cardioplegic arrest. DESIGN Prospective, randomized, and blinded experimental study. SETTING Research laboratory. SUBJECTS : Twelve anesthetized dogs...

The activation of the poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) plays an important role in the pathophysiology of various diseases associated with oxidative stress. We found increased amounts of poly(ADP) ribosylated proteins in diabetic kidneys of Lepr(db/db) (BKsJ) mice, suggesting increased PARP activity. Therefore, we examined the effects of two structurally unrelated PARP inhibitors (INO-1001 and...

The major toxaphene metabolites in sediment and soils (2-exo,3-endo,6-exo,8,9,10-hexachlorobornane [B6-923] and 2-endo,3-exo,5-endo,6-exo,8,9,10-heptachlorobornane [B7-1001]) were incubated with the isolated gram-negative bacterium Dehalospirillum multivorans. Within 14 d, biotransformation of B7-1001 was nearly quantitative, resulting in two penta- and six hexachlorobornanes, as well as one un...