Co-composting of raw manure with other organic sources has recently gained the attention scientific community. In present study, and manures enriched humic substances (Humac) or biochar were co-composted to improve their physico-chemical properties. We conducted an experiment including variants consisting soil amended (M), + Humac (M H), B), unamended (control). Soil physico-chemical, biologica...

Seven contrasting feedstocks were subjected to slow pyrolysis at low (300 or 350°C) and high temperature (550 or 600°C), and both biochars and the corresponding feedstocks tested for short-term ecotoxicity using basal soil respiration and collembolan reproduction tests. After a 28-d incubation, soil basal respiration was not inhibited but stimulated by additions of feedstocks and biochars. Howe...

Pattern recognition receptors (PRR), Toll-like receptors (TLR), and nucleotide-oligomerization domain-containing proteins (NOD) play critical roles in mediating inflammation and modulating functions in white adipocytes in obesity. However, the role of PRR activation in brown adipocytes, which are recently found to be present in adult humans, has not been studied. Here we report that mRNA of TLR...

The conversion of bio-wastes to useful products such as biochar provide a suitable option not only minimize the mass wastes, but also use soil amendment. In present study, food waste (FWB) and agricultural derived (AB), either alone or in combination (FWB + AB), were tested for their effects on microbiological characteristics (soil enzymes, basal well substrate-induced respiration), plant growt...

BACKGROUND Adipose-derived stem/stromal cells (ASCs) isolated from the stromal vascular fraction are a source of mesenchymal stem cells that have been shown to be beneficial in many regenerative medicine applications. ASCs are an attractive source of stem cells in particular, due to their lack of immunogenicity. This study examines differences between mitochondrial bioenergetic profiles of ASCs...

The experiments to be described here were designed primarily to determine the threshold of the normal human respiratory and circulatory systems to anoxemia. In addition, data were also obtained which related to other basic problems in respiration and circulation: the magnitude and variability of response of large numbers of normal men to inhalation of low oxygen mixtures, the existence of tonic...

Respiratory rates and patterns were studied in 23 patients with acute brain stem infarction using impedance pneumography. Autopsy was obtained in six of eight fatal cases. Pontine lesions were present in all patients, with coexistent infarction of midbrain in four and of medulla in nine. Respiratory rate and pattern abnormalities observed included Cheyne-Stokes respiration, Cheynb-Stokes varian...

• Temperature and light responses of CO 2 efflux of Fagus sylvatica (beech) currentyear stems were measured for 1 yr to estimate their annual carbon balance. • Gas exchanges were determined using infrared gas analysis. Seasonal patterns of a fluorescence parameter (( F v / F m ) max ), nitrogen and chlorophyll contents were also assessed in stems and leaves, using standard techniques. • Basal r...

The respiratory activity parameters of various types alluvial soils with different residual content oil products were studied. inhibitory effect on basal respiration in re-cultivated was not found. substrate-induced most remained at the control level or decreased slightly. Soils differed significantly degree resistance their microbial pool to products. microflora is able overcome negative effec...

The traditional IBP formulation of the energy budget is unsuitable for many marine organisms, partly because it sets production and respiration as alternative sinks when in reallty they are linked but also because it fails to recognise the heterogeneous nature of respiratory demand. The vanous components of total respiration reflect separate demands for ATP which are hkely to differ in their re...