We initiated a multi-factor global change experiment to explore the effects of infrared heat loading (HT) and water table level (WL) treatment on soil temperature (T) in bog and fen peatland mesocosms. We found that the temperature varied highly by year, month, peatland type, soil depth, HT and WL manipulations. The highest effect of HT on the temperature at 25 cm depth was found in June for th...

BACKGROUND Dexmedetomidine (dex) is commonly used in intensive care due to its effective sedation and analgesia with few adverse effects and minimal respiratory depression. However, we recently observed that exposing mouse epithelial respiratory cells to dex decreased ciliary beat frequency (CBF), suggesting dex may pose pulmonary risk. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to determine the ...

X iv :0 71 0. 05 29 v4 [ co nd -m at .s ta tm ec h] 1 3 D ec 2 00 7 Cu-Au type orderings in the staggered quadrupolar region of the fcc Blume Emery Griffiths model A. Özkan, B. Kutlu Gazi Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Fizik Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Turkey Gazi Üniversitesi, Fen -Edebiyat Fakültesi, Fizik Bölümü, 06500 Teknikokullar, Ankara, Turkey E-mail: [email protected] and bkutlu@gaz...

We tested the prediction that global warming has caused recent decreases in body weight (Bergmann’s rule) and increases in wing length (Allen’s rule) in 14 species of passerine birds at two localities in England: Wicken Fen (1968 /2003) and Treswell Wood (1973 /2003). Predicted long-term linear decreases in residual body weight occurred in four species: dunnocks (Wicken Fen), and great tits, bl...

We aimed to study the effect of fentanyl (Fen) preconditioning on cardiomyocyte apoptosis induced by ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) in rats. A total of 120 Sprague Dawley male rats (age: 3 months) were randomly divided into: sham operation group (S group), I/R group, normal saline I/R group (NS group), and fentanyl low, middle, and high dose groups (Fen1: 2 μg/kg; Fen2: 4 μg/kg; Fen3: 6 μg/kg). Hea...

D-fenfluramine (d-FEN) was once widely prescribed and was among the most effective weight loss drugs, but was withdrawn from clinical use because of reports of cardiac complications in a subset of patients. Discerning the neurobiology underlying the anorexic action of d-FEN may facilitate the development of new drugs to prevent and treat obesity. Through a combination of functional neuroanatomy...

We have recently described a new helicase, the Dna2 helicase, that is essential for yeast DNA replication. We now show that the yeast FEN-1 (yFEN-1) nuclease interacts genetically and biochemically with Dna2 helicase. FEN-1 is implicated in DNA replication and repair in yeast, and the mammalian homolog of yFEN-1 (DNase IV, FEN-1, or MF1) participates in Okazaki fragment maturation. Overproducti...

Structure-specific nucleases catalyze critical reactions in DNA replication, recombination, and repair. Recently, a structure-specific endonuclease, FEN-l, has been purified and shown to cleave DNA flap structures. Here, we describe the cloning of the murine FEN-1 gene. The nucleotide sequence of FEN-I is highly homologous to the 8accharomyces cerevisiae genes YKL510 and RAD2. We show that YKLS...

The Pto kinase confers resistance in tomato to P. syringae pv. tomato strains expressing the AvrPto protein. Physical interaction of the Pto kinase and AvrPto protein in the plant cell initiates host defense responses. The recognition event between these two proteins is very specific; AvrPto does not interact with other closely related kinases, including the Fen kinase, which shares 80% amino a...

Motivation: Of the approximately 200 proteins that have been identified for the vaccinia virus genome, many are currently listed as having an unknown function, and 7 of these are also found in all other poxvirus genomes that have been sequenced. The G5R protein of vaccinia virus is included in this list, and to date, very little is known about this essential and highly conserved protein. Conven...