Thioacetamide (TA) is converted into a hyperacetylating agent which causes hepatic necrosis, regeneration, cirrhosis and cancerous transformation. One of the most characteristic toxicities of TA in rat is observed with a 50 mg/kg per day which induces nucleolar enlargement different from that in regenerating liver. From TA-treated liver, the nucleoli were isolated and characterized for an alter...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Flow cytometry (FCM) is extensively used to estimate DNA ploidy and genome size in plants. In order to determine nuclear DNA content, nuclei in suspension are stained by a DNA-specific fluorochrome and fluorescence emission is quantified. Recent studies have shown that cytosolic compounds may interfere with binding of fluorochromes to DNA, leading to flawed data. Tannic acid...

Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are genetic modules composed of a pair of genes encoding a stable toxin and an unstable antitoxin that inhibits toxin activity. They are widespread among plasmids and chromosomes of bacteria and archaea. TA systems are known to be involved in the stabilization of plasmids but there is no consensus about the function of chromosomal TA systems. To shed light on the ro...

the effects of mandarin scions on peel components and juice quality parameters were investigated in this study. peel flavor components were extracted by using cold-press and eluted by using n-hexane. then all analyzed by gc-fid and gc-ms. total soluble solids, total acids, ph value, ascorbic acid as well as density and ash were determined in juice obtained from mandarin scions. twenty-seven, tw...

Abstract The effects of Ta and Zr content on the stability, elastic properties electronic structure Ti-Zr-Ta alloy phase were studied by first principles calculation method based density functional theory. Moreover, was fabricated spark plasma sintering (SPS) using spherical Ti powder,Ta powder, powder produced rotation electrode process (PREP). Afterward, temperature, microstructure mechanical...

Strength deficits associated with eccentric contraction-induced muscle injury stem, in part, from impaired voltage-gated sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) release. FKBP12 is a 12-kD immunophilin known to bind to the SR Ca(2+) release channel (ryanodine receptor, RyR1) and plays an important role in excitation-contraction coupling. To assess the effects of eccentric contractions on FKBP12 conte...

Maize leafbladeless1 (lbl1) encodes a key component in the trans-acting short-interfering RNA (ta-siRNA) biogenesis pathway. Correlated with a great diversity in ta-siRNAs and the targets they regulate, the phenotypes conditioned by mutants perturbing this small RNA pathway vary extensively across species. Mutations in lbl1 result in severe developmental defects, giving rise to plants with radi...

A compact electron cyclotron wave resonance (ECWR) source has been developed for the high rate deposition of hydrogenated tetrahedral amorphous carbon (ta-C : H). The ECWR provides growth rates of up to 900 AÊ /min over a 400 diameter and an independent control of the deposition rate and ion energy. The ta-C : H was deposited using acetylene as the source gas and was characterized in terms of i...

Wheat, pretreated by 60Co gamma irradiation, was dried by hot-air with irradiation dosage 0-3 kGy, drying temperature 40-60 °C, and initial moisture contents 19-25% (drying basis). The drying characteristics and dried qualities of wheat were evaluated based on drying time, average dehydration rate, wet gluten content (WGC), moisture content of wet gluten (MCWG)and titratable acidity (TA). A qua...

The present study aimed to evaluate the drying quality of three tomato cultivars (Amoroso, Berlinto and Messina) at low final-moisture content. Tomatoes were cut into slices and hot-air-dried from 92% (wet basis) to 12% final moisture content at 55 degrees C, 65 degrees C and 75 degrees C at 1.5 m/sec air flow. Color, total soluble solids (TSS), titratable acidity (TA) and ascorbic acid (AA) co...