BACKGROUND It has been known that hypertension is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD). CVD is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in developed and developing countries. Elevation of blood pressure (BP) increases the adverse effect for cardiovascular outcomes. Prevention of increased BP plays a crucial role in a reduction of those outcomes, leading to a decrease in...

Introduction Passerelle is a plug-in developed for Protégé to support Sesame. It provides Protégé users with the possibility to connect their ontologies with Sesame architecture in order to store and query resource description framework (RDF) data from Protégé [1]. We have identified a lack of a strong query language in the previous versions of Protégé (versions preceding Protégé 3.0), which we...

Sesamin, the major lignan found in sesame, has been shown to increase vitamin E levels by inhibiting its metabolism via the cytochrome P450 isozyme CYP4F2. CYP4F2 and CYP4A11 are the predominant human isoforms that synthesize 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE) from arachidonic acid. Considerable evidence suggests that 20-HETE may play a role in the pathogenesis of hypertension. We hypoth...

in order to evaluate the effect of intercropping with replacement and additive series for hemp (cannabis sativa l.) and sesame (sesamum indicum l.), a field experiment was conducted during growing season 2006-07 at the agricultural research station of ferdowsi university of mashhad, iran. a randomized complete block design with three replications was used. treatments included different combinat...

This article deals with the study of antiwear and antifriction properties of bitter rapeseed oil and sesame oil and their blends containing numerous amounts of benzoic acid at variable temperatures. The experimental results indicate that bitter rapeseed oil exhibits good antiwear and antifriction properties as compared to sesame oil under the same experimental conditions. The addition of benzoi...

Sesame [2] is an RDF framework with support for RDF Schema inferencing. Its main features include querying in three languages (SeRQL, RDQL, RQL), parsing and writing in several serialization syntaxes, support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and SQL server as well as in-memory. It can be deployed as an RDF database, with persistence in an RDBMS, or as a Java library for embedded use in application...

Results Celery: four studies reported on the prevalence of celery allergy in Europe, which ranged between 2.8-11.1% based on sensitisation, and 5.5% for self-reported celery allergy. In terms of the rest of the world, only one study in Taiwan reported sensitisation rates of 1.8%. Lupin: no population-based studies examined the prevalence of lupin allergy worldwide. Mustard: only one study (cond...

Perceived Peanut 2.4 (1.6, 3.2) 0.7 (0.5, 0.9) 1.1 (0.9, 1.3) Tree nut 1.6 (1.0, 2.3) 1.2 (0.9, 1.5) 1.3 (1.0, 1.6) Fish 1.0 (0.3, 1.8) 0.6 (0.4, 0.8) 0.7 (0.5, 0.9) Shellfish 1.4 (0.6, 2.1) 1.9 (1.5, 2.2) 1.7 (1.4, 2.0) Sesame 0.1 (0.0, 0.3) 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) 0.2 (0.1, 0.3) Milk 0.7 (0.3, 1.1) 0.7 (0.5, 0.9) 0.7 (0.5, 0.9) Adjusting for nonresponse bias corrects overestimates of food allergy prev...

SUMMARY Characterizing genetic diversity through genotyping short amplicons is central to evolutionary biology. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies changed the scale at which these type of data are acquired. SESAME is a web application package that assists genotyping of multiplexed individuals for several markers based on NGS amplicon sequencing. It automatically assigns reads to loci...

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) seeds have been grown in tropical regions throughout the world since prehistoric times. Sesame seed, a rich source of protein, is one of the fi rst crops processed for oil production. Its non-culinary application includes its use as an ingredient in soap, cosmetics, lubricants and medicines. Sesame seeds also contain two unique substances: sesamin and sesamolin known...