Introduction Raisin allergy is uncommon despite worldwide cultivation of grapes, which belong to the Vitis vinifera species of the Vitaceae family. There have only been rare reports of anaphylaxis in adults related to the consumption of grapes, wine or other grape products, mostly in Europe [1-4]. In children, even fewer case reports to grape exist [5]. We report an 8-year-old patient who devel...

Grapevine leafroll disease (GLD) is an economically important virus disease affecting wine grapes (Vitis vinifera L.), but little is known about its effect on wine chemistry and sensory composition of wines. In this study, impacts of GLD on fruit yield, berry quality and wine chemistry and sensory features were investigated in a red wine grape cultivar planted in a commercial vineyard. Own-root...

BACKGROUND The phenolic composition of grapes is key when making decisions about harvest date and ensuring the quality of grapes. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the detailed phenolic composition of grapes and the agronomic parameters and hyperspectral indices, with the latter being measured via field radiometry techniques. RESULTS Good correlations were found ...

'Image scoring' occurs when person A monitors the giving behaviour of person B towards person C. We tested for 'image scoring' in chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. Subjects passively observed two types of incident: (i) a 'nice' person gave grapes to a human beggar, and (ii) a 'nasty' person refused to give. The subject witnessed both incidents in succession (but was unable to obta...

Background: One of the possible carcinogenic substances found in foods is Acrylamide (AA). This study aims to combine and innovate sea grapes (Caulerpa racemosa) extract with activated carbon into paper towels that can absorb AA levels in fried foods. Methods: The paper towel was created with composition of activated carbon: sea grapes extract: paper pulp using following formula: F0=0:0:100; F...

During recent years a large annual surplus of grapes has been produced in the United States, and the development of new grape products to take care of this increasing supply is at present an important phase of the grape industry. Because of the general interest in a fruit so abundantly grown, it seemed desirable to study the nutritive value of grapes and grape juices more extensively than had p...

We have gathered protocols of subjects in their first 30 hours of leorning LISP. The processes by which subjects write LISP functions to meet problem specifications has been modeled in a simulation program called GRAPES (Go01 Restricted Production System). The GRAPES system embodies the goal-restricted architecture for production systems as specified in the ACT* theory (Anderson, 1983). We comp...

Debra Boyd-Kimball, Rukhsana Sultana, H. Fai Poon, Hafiz Mohmmad-Abdul, Bert C. Lynn, Jon B. Klein, and D. Allan Butterfield* Department of Chemistry, Center for Membrane Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Core Proteomics Laboratory, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky Kidney Disease Program an...

EMANUEL VAMANU1*, MIHAELA ENE2, DIANA PELINESCU3, IONELA SARBU3, ADRIAN VAMANU1, SULTANA NITA4 1 University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Biotechnology, 59 Mãrãoti Blv., 011464, Bucharest, Romania 2 Horia Hulubei National Institut for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 407 Atomistilor, Magurele, 077125, Ilfov, Romania 3 University of Bucharest, Faculty of Biology, 91-9...

After 2 recent genetic studies in mice addressing the developmental origins and regenerative activity of cardiac cKit+ cells, 2 additional reports by Sultana et al and Liu et al provide further information on the expression of cKit in the embryonic and adult hearts. Here, we synthesize the findings from the 4 distinct cKit models to gain insights into the biology of this important cell type.