Microplastics are pollutants with uncertain behaviors; they have mysterious impacts on marine environments. The present study is the first investigation of microplastic distribution in surface water inner Gulf Thailand. This collected 100–200 L from 25 different sampling locations. were visually counted and identified by Fourier-transform infrared microscopy. results revealed that average total...

Taxanes represent a new class of antineoplastic agents that are being evaluated in several malignant tumors; they have been shown to induce a high remission rate and to prolong survival in ovarian cancer patients. However, CA-125 has been suggested to be an unreliable marker for monitoring response to paclitaxel therapy. Therefore, we were interested in whether taxanes may directly modulate CA-...

The interaction of cholera toxin and a number of toxin derivatives, containing different proportions of light and heavy toxin-composing subunits (L and H), with mouse lymphocytes was studied. Experiments with [(125)I]toxin showed that a single cell can rapidly, within minutes, bind up to 40,000 molecules of toxin, the association constant was estimated to 7 +/- 4 x 10(8) liters/mol, and binding...

A concept of channel-resolved multianalyte immunoassay (MAIA) and a semi-automated flow-through chemiluminescent (CL) MAIA system coupled with magnet-captured technique were proposed for rapid quantitation of different analytes in a single run. Using alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carcinoma antigen 125 (CA 125) as model analytes. They were firstly incubated in the m...

Although there is general agreement that L-glutamate can produce a depolarizing inward current to account for the hyperpolarizing (OFF) bipolar cell response, the conductance mechanism underlying the depolarizing (ON) response has been difficult to establish satisfactorily. To investigate the ionic bases of the center responses, we studied the whole-cell currents controlled by L-glutamate and i...

Abstract Salinity is one of the major abiotic challenges influencing plant productivity worldwide. To examine the response of two alfalfa cultivars (Bami and Hamedani) to six levels of water salinity (0, 25, 50, 75, 100, 125 mM L-1 NaCl), a glasshouse experiment was conducted at the College of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran in 2008. The results showed that in Bami (which appeared...

Correspondence To the Editor: Neurolymphomatosis (NL) is a clinical disorder that presents with peripheral neuropathy due to lymphomatous infiltration of the nerves. NL is generally associated with B-cell lymphomas, and T‑cell lymphoma is extremely rare. Nasal type extranodal natural killer (NK)/T‑cell lymphoma (ENKL) is a rare lymphoma associated with Epstein‑Barr virus (EBV), which is more co...

Seok Min Jin and Richard J. Youle* Biochemistry Section, Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Center Drive, 10-5D37 Bethesda, MD USA *Author for correspondence ([email protected]) Journal of Cell Science 125, 795–799 © 2012. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd doi:10.1242/jcs.093849 This article is part of a...