OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of two different doses of parenteral aminoacid supplementation on postnatal growth in Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW) infants receiving partial parenteral nutrition (PPN). DESIGN Double blinded randomized controlled trial. SETTING Level 3 NICU between February 2008 to February 2010. PARTICIPANTS 150 inborn babies with birthweight between 900-1250 g, irrespec...

BiDaS is a web-application that can generate massive Monte Carlo simulated sequence or numerical feature data sets (e.g. dinucleotide content, composition, transition, distribution properties) based on small user-provided data sets. BiDaS server enables users to analyze their data and generate large amounts of: (i) Simulated DNA/RNA and aminoacid (AA) sequences following practically identical s...

1. trans-4-Hydroxy-r,-proline is epimerized to &+hydroxy-n-proline under the conditions generally used for the hydrolysis of proteins for analyses of amino acids. 2. The cis epimer elutes from a column of UR-30 resin on a Beckman amino acid analyzer at the same time as threonine and hence would be undetected. 3. About 8% of the trans-4-hydroxy-L-proline in collagen can be epimerized to c&4-hydr...

Two genes encoding for aminoglycoside-(3)-N-acetyltransferases (AAC(3)s) of different substrate patterns, present in multiresistance plasmids of hospital strains of Serratia marcescens and Escherichia coli isolated from urine, have been cloned and characterized. The first, aacC1 with AAC(3)I activity, contained a 531 base pair open reading frame which encodes a polypeptide of 177 aminoacids and...

In the present paper, the controversial hypothesis suggesting ancient grains might show lower immunogenic properties and therefore the possibility to introduce them in the diet of wheat-sensitive people, including celiac patients, was investigated. The immunogenic potential of the ancient durum wheats Graziella Ra and Kamut was studied by comparison to the durum accessions Cappelli, Flaminio, G...

Binary liquid mixtures of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium glutamate acid ([bmim][glu]) with alkanols (1-propanol, isobutanol and 1,2-propanediol) are studied in the full composition range as a function temperature using combined experimental computational chemistry approach. Experimental thermophysical information well derived excess mixing properties allowed to characterize these complex terms dev...

BiDaS is a web-application that can generate massive Monte Carlo simulated sequence or numerical feature data sets (e.g. dinucleotide content, composition, transition, distribution properties) based on small user-provided data sets. BiDaS server enables users to analyze their data and generate large amounts of: (i) Simulated DNA/RNA and aminoacid (AA) sequences following practically identical s...