The finless porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) is a small cetacean whose survival is largely affected by human activity. The characteristics and structures of 3 populations in China and 4 to 5 populations in Japan have been well documented, although their history and origins remain poorly understood. In this study, nested clade phylogeographical analysis was applied to mtDNA sequences from fin...

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In the previous study (Sato, K., Miki, S., Tachibana, H., Hayashi, F., Akiyama, T., and Fukami, Y. (1990) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 171, 1152-1159), we found a synthetic peptide, termed peptide A, that inhibited the kinase activity of p60v-src. The peptide A sequence corresponds to residues 137 to 157 of p60v-src which are included in the amino-terminal portion of the src homology 2 domain...

The MDMM 2010 meeting was devoted to presentations of current computational methods and their applications in molecular modeling, the design of molecular materials, and related fields. This conference continues a tradition of alternating Polish–Czech–American meetings that have taken place in the Czech Republic and Poland since 2003. The MDMM 2010 meeting in Wrocław, Poland included the followi...

INTRODUCTION We have presented a substantial body of experiment to show that when cells from a range of different highly malignant mouse tumours are fused with cells of low tumorigenicity, the malignant phenotype is suppressed in the hybrid cell (Harris, Miller, Klein, Worst & Tachibana, 1969; Klein, Bregula, Wiener & Harris, 1971; Harris, 1971). The most decisive results were obtained with hyb...

The dextran produced by this enzymic synthesis has been ascertained by many investigators to be composed largely of ƒ¿-1,6-glucopyranosidic linkage and some of ƒ¿-1 ,4 or ƒ¿-1,3-linkages. Dextransucrase, an enzyme which converts sucrose into dextran as well as fructose approximately equivalent to sucrose as was shown in equation (a), has been found in the cell-free culture fluids of various str...

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Introduction: Chondrules are believed to have formed through some sort of heating events in the early solar system. Although several heating mechanisms have been proposed to date, no one has been widely accepted. In this work, we attempt to reveal the gross feature of the heating events, especially the heating energy input rate, which is a product of the energy given to the chondrule-forming sy...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop a method for quantifying the extent of renal dysfunction due to drug-induced nephrotoxicity using dynamic contrast-enhanced computed tomography (DCE-CT) and to investigate the protective effects of various antioxidant agents against cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum (cisplatin)-induced nephrotoxicity in rats using this method. Materials and Methods: ...