The plant-specific NAC transcription factors play important roles in plant response to drought stress. Here, we have compared the expression levels of a subset of GmNAC genes in drought-tolerant DT51 and drought-sensitive MTD720 under both normal and drought stress conditions aimed at identifying correlation between GmNAC expression levels and drought tolerance degree, as well as potential GmNA...

On retrieval of lidar extinction profiles using Two-Stream and Raman techniques I. S. Stachlewska and C. Ritter Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Telegrafenberg A43, 14473 Potsdam, Germany Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 7, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland Received: 8 July 2009 – Accepted: 14 September 2009 – Published: 28 September 2009 Co...

We investigated and compared the toxicity profile, as well as possible neuroprotective effects, of some antiepileptic drugs in cultured rat hippocampal neurons. We used two novel carbamazepine derivatives, (S)-(-)-10-acetoxy-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenz[b, f]azepine-5-carboxamide (BIA 2-093) and 10, 11-dihydro-10-hydroxyimino-5H-dibenz[b,f]azepine-5-carboxamide (BIA 2-024), and compared their effect...

ATCA H i and radio continuum observations of the peculiar southern galaxy IC 2554 and its surroundings reveal typical signatures of an interacting galaxy group. We detected a large H i cloud between IC 2554 and the elliptical galaxy NGC 3136B. The gas dynamics in IC 2554 itself, which is sometimes described as a colliding pair, are surprisingly regular, whereas NGC 3136B was not detected. The H...

Lukasz Swiech,1 Magdalena Blazejczyk,1,2 Malgorzata Urbanska,1 Patrycja Pietruszka,1 Bjorn R. Dortland,3 Anna R. Malik,1 Phebe S. Wulf,3,4 Casper C. Hoogenraad,3,4 and Jacek Jaworski1 1Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neurobiology, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 02-109 Warsaw, Poland, 2Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, 3Department of Ne...

S. M. Oliveira Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal and MedicalConsult, SA, Campo Grande, 56-88A, 1700-093 Lisbon, Portugal N. J. Teixeira Faculdade de Ciências Médicas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campo Mártires da Pátria, 130, 1169-056 Lisbon, Portugal and Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Institu...

Fourier-transform-limited extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation (bandwidth approximately < 300 MHz) tunable around 91 nm is produced by use of two-photon resonance-enhanced four-wave mixing on the Kr resonance at 94 093 cm(-1). Noncollinear phase matching ensures the generation of an XUV sum frequency 2 omega1 + omega2 that can be filtered from auxiliary laser beams and harmonics by an adjustable...

Nonrelativistically forbidden, single-photon transition rates between low lying states of the helium atom are rigorously derived within quantum electrodynamics theory. Equivalence of velocity and length gauges, including relativistic corrections is explicitly demonstrated. Numerical calculations of matrix elements are performed with the use of high precision variational wave functions and compa...

1Microbial Ecology and Biogeochemistry, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Université Paris 6 CNRS UMR 7093, Station Zoologique, BP 28, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France 2Ecosystèmes lagunaires, UMR 5119 CNRS-IFREMER-IRD, Université Montpellier II, Case 093, Place E. Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France 3Laboratoire Microorganismes: Génome et Environnement UMR CNRS 6...

Marta Makara-Studzińska, Anna Koślak: Independent Laboratory of Psychical Health, Medical University of Lublin, Poland. Correspondence address: Marta Makara-Studzińska Independent Laboratory of Psychical Health, Medical University of Lublin, 15 Chodzki Str., 20-093 Lublin, Poland. E-mail: [email protected] This article has not been aided by any grant Depression symptoms among pat...