Brazil nuts (Bertholletia excelsa H.B.K.) are considered a high nutritious food. Apart from carbohydrates, lipids, sulphur proteins and minerals, Brazil nuts are known to be rich in selenium Se (Barclay et al., 1995; Coutinho et al., 2002, Souza et al., 2004, Pacheco and Scussel, 2007). Despite of that, when their shell are cracked either when pods fall on the ground, or during pod opening for ...

Bioremediation involves microbial metabolism of harmful substances. This study was undertaken to enhance oilspill bioremediation through the addition of sodium sulfate, sodium nitrate, and sodium phosphate to samples containing Pseudomonas fluorescens and Bacillus subtilis. Since these bacteria often utilize nitrates during cellular respiration and nitrate ammonification, respectively, it was h...

Background: Industrial fermentation typically uses complex nitrogen substrates which consist of mixture of amino acids. The uptake of amino acids is known to be mediated by several amino acid transporters with certain preferences. However, models to predict this preferential uptake are not available. We present the stoichiometry for the utilization of amino acids as a sole carbon and nitrogen s...

RENAL INTERSTITIAL FIBROSIS IS A MAJOR FEATURE OF BALKAN ENDEMIC NEPHROPATHY (BEN) G. A. Müller, M. Zeisberg, F Strutz Dept. of Nephrology & Rheumatology, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, 37075 Göttingen, Germany Balkan Nephropathy is a common renal disease in the Balkan region which often leads to endstage renal failure. The pathogenesis of this disease is still unknown, however, the pathwa...