It has been suggested that ice cores may preserve detectable enhancements of some terrestrially rare radioisotopes, Be, Al, Cl, resulting from a near-Earth core-collapse supernova(SN) [1]. Both Be and Cl are also produced by atmospheric cosmic ray spallation and hence are influenced by processes that modulate the Earth’s cosmic ray flux. Previous studies [2], [3] have suggested that enhancement...

a Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Louisville, Louisville 40292, KY, United States b Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames 50011, IA, United States c Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Louisville, Louisville 40292, KY, United States d Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, University of Louisville, Louisville 40292, KY, U...

objectives: the aim of the present study was to evaluate protective effect of royal jelly on sperm parameters, testosterone level, and malondialdehyde (mda) production in mice. materials and methods: thirty-two adult male nmri mice weighing 30±2 g were used. all the animals were divided into 4 groups. control group: received saline 0.1 ml/mouse/day orally for 30 days. royal jelly group (rj): re...

OBJECTIVE This study tested the hypothesis that a standardized dose of jelly beans could be used as an alternative sugar source to the 50-g glucose beverage to screen for gestational diabetes mellitus. STUDY DESIGN One hundred sixty pregnant women at 24 to 28 weeks' gestation were recruited for a prospective study to compare 2 sugar sources for serum glucose response, side effects, preference...

Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand Department of Chemistry, Center of Membrane Sciences, and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, 121 Chemistry-Physics Building, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA Department of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA D...

Five preparations used as analgesics or lubricants in surgical, obstetrical, gynecological, and investigative procedures were tested for their effect on the isolation of Chlamydia trachomatis. Three lignocaine preparations and a lubricating jelly containing 2% phenol were inhibitory to chlamydiae. In contrast, K-Y lubricating jelly was relatively nontoxic to chlamydiae. Since K-Y jelly also had...

In the first paper of this series, it was shown that gelatinization of starch was necessary to enhance jelly strength of fish meat jelly (Kamaboko), and that starch added in Kamaboko , though gelatinized, chiefly existed in the jelly as granules and partly dispersed into meat as amylose. In the present paper, amylose and amylopectin, the two components of starch , were isolated by an improved S...

Background. Royal jelly is a milky material secreted by the pharyngeal glands of young worker bees , which when fed as a sole nutrient to larvae causes the development of sexual mature queen bees. The unusual nature of this material has prompted different investigations into its biological/pharmacological/microbiological properties. As an part of the biological activity of royal jelly, an inves...

Adaptation to environmental stress requires genome-wide changes in gene expression. Histone modifications are involved in gene regulation, but the role of histone modifications under environmental stress is not well understood. To reveal the relationship between histone modification and environmental stress, we assessed the effects of inhibitors of histone modification enzymes during salinity s...