OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the sedative and anxiolytic effects of the essential oils and hydroalcoholic extract of Kelussia odoratissima Mozaff. (K. odoratissima) in mice by utilizing an elevated plus maze. The chemical composition of its essential oil was also determined. METHODS The hydroalcoholic extract or essential oil fraction from this plant were administered intrape...

Two template switches are necessary during plus-strand DNA synthesis of the relaxed circular (RC) form of the hepadnavirus genome. The 3' end of the minus-strand DNA makes important contributions to both of these template switches. It acts as the donor site for the first template switch, called primer translocation, and subsequently acts as the acceptor site for the second template switch, term...

Negligible in vivo growth of enterococci and high-level dispersion of data have led to inaccurate estimations of antibiotic pharmacodynamics (PD). Here we improved an in vivo model apt for PD studies by optimizing the in vitro culture conditions for enterococci. The PD of vancomycin (VAN), ampicillin-sulbactam (SAM), and piperacillin-tazobactam (TZP) against enterococci were determined in vivo,...

It has been proposed that key enzymes of ureagenesis and the alanine aminotransferase activity predominate in periportal hepatocytes. However, ureagenesis from alanine, when measured in the perfused liver, did not show periportal predominance and even the release of the direct products of alanine transformation, lactate and pyruvate, was higher in perivenous cells. An alternative way of analyzi...

Histamine dihydrochloride (HDC) plus IL-2 has been proposed as a novel maintenance-immunotherapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We analyzed the immunophenotype and function of natural killer (NK) cells in blood of AML patients treated after chemotherapy with HDC plus IL-2. The treatment caused a striking expansion of CD56brightCD16neg and CD56brightCD16low NK cell subpopulations. A reduced NK...

Salmeterol is approximately eight times as potent as salbutamol for systemic effects. This may be because the drug is eight times more potent on receptors or there may be differences in systemic bioavailability. The systemic effects of salbutamol are limited by its fairly high first-pass metabolism, but the oral bioavailability of salmeterol is unknown. The contribution of the swallowed fractio...

Anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria are thought to adhere to cellulose via several mechanisms, including production of a glycocalyx containing extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). As the compositions and structures of these glycocalyces have not been elucidated, variable-pressure scanning electron microscopy (VP-SEM) and chemical analysis were used to characterize the glycocalyx of the ruminal...

Two populations of membrane-bound replication complexes were isolated from poliovirus-infected HEp-2 cells by sucrose gradient centrifugation. The two fractions show similar ultrastructural features: the replication complex is enclosed in a rosettelike shell of virus-induced vesicles and contains a very tightly packed second membrane system (compact membranes). The vesicular fraction, which ban...

Human factor VIII has been isolated from a high purity factor VIII concentrate by immunoaffinity chromatography and HPLC on Mono Q gel. Two fractions of factor VIII were obtained with a specific activity of approximately equal to 7000 units/mg. The major fraction contained eight peptide chains of 200, 180, 160, 150, 135, 130, 115, and 105 kDa plus one doublet chain of 80 kDa. The minor fraction...

The quadratic sieve algorithm was used to factor a 47-digit number into primes. A comparison with Wagstaff's results using the continued fraction early abort algorithm suggests that QS should be faster than CFEA when the number being factored exceeds 60 digits (plus or minus ten or more digits, depending on details of the hardware and software).