Aims: To compare the vitamin D status of 34 children, 9–24 months old, living in an area of Delhi renowned for high levels of atmospheric pollution (Mori Gate), with a comparable age matched group of children from a less polluted (Gurgaon) area of the city. Methods: Serum concentrations of calcium, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), parathyroid hormone (PTH), 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), and 1,25-di...

ylesterase activity. B. mori JHE was sensitiye to 3-octylthio-1,1,1-trifluoro-2-propanone (OTFP), which was developed as a selective inhibitor for lepidopteran JHE, and relatively insensitive to diisopropyl fluorophosphate (DFP), an inhibitor of serine esterases but not of all JHEs. AMRity purification with a trifluoromethyl ketone ligand was more eMc;ent for purMcation of B. mori JHE than DEAE...

Correspondence to Kazutoshi Mori: [email protected] Y. Kamiya’s present address is Graduate School of Engineering and EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. Abbreviations used in this paper: ERmanI, ER mannosidase I; gpERAD, ERassociated glycoprotein degradation; KO, knockout; M9, Man9GlcNAc2; M8B, Man8GlcNAc2 isomer B; M1,6E, 1,6-mannose exposed; ...

Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) is a well-studied Lepidopteran model system because of its morphology, life cycle, and economic importance. Many scientists have placed importance on enhancing the economic traits of B. mori because it's larvae, silkworms, are vital in the production of silk. In this study, the effect of bovine milk on B. mori growth was tested. Bovine milk contains seve...

Decay and rot are established motifs in art history. They address transience disgust, as well contemplation, devotion humility through the tradition of Memento Mori. In contrast to pure motific depictions decay, Finnish artist Toni R. Toivonen (*1987) arranges deceased animals creates works, which organic components such fur, muscles, flesh blood decompose until dissolution. Organic decompositi...

AIMS To compare the vitamin D status of 34 children, 9-24 months old, living in an area of Delhi renowned for high levels of atmospheric pollution (Mori Gate), with a comparable age matched group of children from a less polluted (Gurgaon) area of the city. METHODS Serum concentrations of calcium, alkaline phosphatase (ALP), parathyroid hormone (PTH), 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D), and 1,25-di...

Engineered nucleases are artificial enzymes able to introduce double stranded breaks at desired genomic locations. The double stranded breaks start the error-prone repair process of non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), which eventually leads to the induction of mutations at target sites. We showed earlier that ZFNs and TALENs are able to induce NHEJ mutations in the B. mori genome. In order to op...

The domesticated silkworm (Bombyx mori) was domesticated from wild silkworm (Bombyx mandarina) more than 5,000 years ago. During domestication, body color between B. mandarina and B. mori changed dramatically. However, the molecular mechanism of the silkworm body color transition is not known. In the present study, we examined within- and between-species nucleotide diversity for eight silkworm ...

We study the birational properties of hypersurfaces in products of projective spaces. In the case of hypersurfaces in P × P, we describe their nef, movable and effective cones and determine when they are Mori dream spaces. Using this, we give new simple examples of non-Mori dream spaces and analogues of Mumford’s example of a strictly nef line bundle which is not ample.

the present study deals with the oral supplementation with (50, 100 and 150 ?g/ml) synergetic effect of potassium and magnesium chloride on the fat body glycogen, protein, total lipids and haemolymph trehalose, protein of fifth instar larvae of bombyx mori l (lepidoptera: bombycidae). the observed parameters significantly increased in all the treated groups when compared with those of the corre...