Background: Cryptosporidiosis is a zoonotic disease with public health importance, especially for individuals with weak immune system, such as children, elderly people and immune suppressed ones. Evaluation of the prevalence of Cryptosporidium in wild rodents such as wild brown rats could help to establish an epidemiological map of Cryptosporidiosis. The aim of the current study was to assess t...

Abstract Several agronomic waste-materials are presently being widely used as bio-adsorbents for the treatment of toxic wastes such dyes and heavy metals from industrial activities, which has resulted in critical global environmental issues. Therefore, there is a need to continue searching more effective means mitigating these effluents. Synthetic aromatic Acid Brown (AB14) dye one effluent tha...

Moth species have evolved integral membrane desaturases that exhibit a wide diversity in substrate specificity, as well as in regiospecificity and stereospecificity of the unsaturated products. We report here the cloning and expression of a single desaturase from the sex pheromone gland of the light brown apple moth, Epiphyas postvittana, that makes E11 isomers of monounsaturated (E11-16 and E1...

1. 2-Methyl[1-(14)C]octanoic acid was synthesized from 2-bromo-octane and (14)CO(2). 2. 2-Methyl[1-(14)C]octanoic acid was readily oxidized to propionic acid and carbon dioxide by mitochondrial preparations from liver, less readily oxidized by adrenal and kidney (mitochondria), and only poorly oxidized by heart, spleen and brown fat (mitochondria). 3. 3beta-Hydroxy[26-(14)C]cholest-5-en-26-oic ...

background: cryptosporidiosis is a zoonotic disease with public health importance, especially for individuals with weak immune system, such as children, elderly people and immune suppressed ones. evaluation of the prevalence of cryptosporidium in wild rodents such as wild brown rats could help to establish an epidemiological map of cryptosporidiosis. the aim of the current study was to assess t...

1. The metabolism of d-glyceraldehyde by the lens was examined. 2. When low concentrations of d-[U-(14)C]glyceraldehyde were incubated with lens extracts there was no incorporation of the label into protein; more than two-thirds of the labelled metabolites consisted of glyceric acid and glycerol, their relative proportions depending on the species. Lactic acid, a phosphate, glutathione-glyceral...

Glycerolipids and fatty acids of D. membranacea (Dictyotales) were analysed. The betaine lipid DGTA and the glycolipids MGOG, DGDG and SQDG were major components. The phospholipids PE, PG, PI and PHEG were present in minor amounts only. This lipid pattern, which is characterised by the presence of DGTA and the absence of PC, has been found exclusively in brown algae belonging to the orders Dict...

BACKGROUND Milled rice is the staple food among Filipinos and is mostly consumed three times a day. Rice as a source of iron could therefore have an important role in the existing 37% prevalence of iron-deficiency anemia in the country. Previous iron absorption studies in Filipinos from rice and rice-based meals were carried out on milled rice but no research was done on brown rice of the same ...