... Progression of Liver Fibrosis In the setting of persistent hepatitis C viremia, the rate of progression of liver fibrosis varies widely There have been extensive studies focusing on the natural course of ... onset of symptoms, approximately to months after exposure Up to 30% of patients will test negative for anti-HCV at onset of their symptoms, making anti-HCV testing unreliable in diagnosis of acute ... symptoms of jaundice (p=0.03).[25] Furthermore, the long-term followup study of women infected with contaminated Rh immune globulin in Germany exhibited a rate of chronicity in 43% of those with...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:56
... triển nông thôn, tr.106-108 Ashley D.A., Doss B.D., and Bennett O.L (1965) Relation of cotton leaf area index to plant growth and fruiting, Agronomy Journal 57, pp 61-64 Gomez K Wanchai A and Gomez...
Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 14:15
Design and development of major balance of plant components in solid oxide fuel cell system
... provided by the anode off-gas given an anode off-gas temperature of less than 650 oC, a cathode off-gas temperature of less than 390 oC, and a flame barrier temperature of less than 700 oC However, ... any SOFC system, the performance of the INER SOFC system is dependent not only on the design and operating conditions of the fuel cell stack, but also on the design and operating conditions of ... Ef of an SOFC stack is defined as Ef=Power-Output/Input-Energy-(LHV), (1) where LHV is the lower heating value of the fuel In the SOFC system at INER, the stack has a potential output power of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF MORALS
... conscience than by playing the role of executors of older and higher orders (of predecessors, of the constitution, of justice, of the law, or 132 of 301 Beyond Good and Evil of God himself), or they even ... the appearance of an absolute ruler for these gregarious Europeans of this fact the effect of the appearance of Napoleon was the last great proof the history of the influence of Napoleon is almost ... sight of the real problems of morals—problems which only disclose themselves by a comparison of MANY kinds of morality In every ‘Science of Morals’ hitherto, strange as it may sound, the problem of...
Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 13:20
Overview of Plant Biotechnology from Its Early Roots to the Present
... culture, grafting of new cultivars of plants); and (6) the use of plant natural products for human needs These problems have been resolved successfully, primarily due to achievements in plant biology ... Collectively, plants make a vast array of small-molecular-weight compounds Most of these natural products are generally not essential for the basic metabolic processes of the plant but are often critical ... leave the plant, but occasionally plant compounds, some of which attract and some of which repel, are the basis for a complex type of communication between plants and animals Because of their...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
Regulating Phytonutrient Levels in Plants – Toward Modification of Plant Metabolism for Human Health
... critical functions in plants They comprise a class of lipid-soluble compounds within the isoprenoid family, which is one of the largest classes of natural products in the plant kingdom with over ... Genes and enzymes of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants Annu Rev Plant Physiol Plant Mol Biol 49: 557–583 Cunningham, F.X 2002 Regulation of carotenoid synthesis and accumulation in plants Pure Appl ... in the membranes of nearly all types of the plant plastids and accumulate to high levels in chromoplasts of many flowers, fruits, 294 I Levin Fig 12.1 A schematic presentation of the carotenoid...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
The Use of Plant Cell Biotechnology for the Production of Phytochemicals
... applications of genome sequencing of plants is functional genomics In simple words, an understanding of the function of genes and other parts of the genome is known as functional genomics It is a field of ... on the application of plant metabolic engineering that is based on a thorough knowledge of plant biochemistry and plant physiology Plant metabolism itself concerns thousands of interacting pathways ... Kirakosyan et al 2.1 Plant Cell Factories as a Source of High-Value Metabolites The presence of valuable metabolites in plants has stimulated interest on the part of industry in the fields of pharmaceuticals...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 05:20
The Natural Functions of Secondary Metabolites
... antibiotics and phytotoxins These include many phytotoxins of Pseudomonas which are crucial in the pathogenicity of these strains against plants [77] These toxins, which induce chlorosis in plant tissue ... chemotherapy, such as the promotion of growth of farm animals and plants and the protection of plants against pathogenic microorganisms Cooperation on the development of the penicillin and streptomycin ... birth of the field of biochemical engineering Following on the heels of the antibiotic products was the development of efficient microbial processes for the manufacture of vitamins (riboflavin,...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2013, 02:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo " A new natural source of Camphor from Cinnamomum longepetiolatum Costerm. apud Phamh. in Vietnam " doc
... found in Vietnam As a part of the research on the essential oils of Medicinal and Aromatic plants of the Vietnam flora, especially in the course of systematic study of Lauraceae in Vietnam, we ... odor of this oil, which was shows that this species was a new natural source of camphor To the best of our knowledge, this was the first report on the chemical composition of the leaf oil of Cinnamomum ... Acknowledgements The Authors wish to thank Assoc Prof Dr Vu Xuan Phuong, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology for plant identification, Dr Lawrence N.M...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu THE Natural HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE docx
... Chap I The Description of the Cocao-Tree Pag Chap II Of the Choice and Disposition of the Place to plant a Nursery 10 Chap III Of the Method of Planting a Nursery, and of its Cultivation, till ... prolong the Life of old Men 56 The Third Part Of the Uses of Chocolate 60 Chap I Of Chocolate in Confections 61 Chap II Of Chocolate properly so called 62 Sect I Of the Origin of Chocolate, and ... Cocao-Tree in the Woods of the Island of Martinico, whereof he was Governour This discovery was the Foundation of several others of the same kind, in the Woods of the Cape Sterre (t) of this Island And...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu NATURAL HISTORY OF THE MAMMALIA OF INDIA AND CEYLON ppt
... Genus Dipus Skull of Porcupine Family Hystricidæ Hystrix leucura 403 Dentition of Hare Sub-order Duplicidentata Side view of Grinders of Asiatic Elephant Genus Elephas Grinder of Asiatic Elephant ... Elephas Grinder of African Elephant Genus Elephas Section of Elephant's Skull Genus Elephas Skeleton of Elephant Genus Elephas Muscles of Elephant's Trunk Genus Elephas Dentition of Horse Family ... pentadactyla 480 Dentition of Dormouse (magnified) Appendix A Myoxus Appendix A Osteology of the skull of Platanista Gangetica Appendix B The Slow Loris Appendix C Osteology of the feet of Pig, or African...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu BIOCHEMICAL TARGETS OF PLANT BIOACTIVE COMPOUNDS A pharmacological reference guide to sites of action and biological effects doc
... for plants to discourage rather than kill plant- consuming organisms 1.3 Description of the tables Most of the book is comprised of tables dedicated to specific targets or groups of targets of plant ... evolution of specific day-length and temperature requirements for plant development meant adaptation of specific plants to particular latitudes Accordingly, exploitation of "useful" plants (and of domesticatable ... tables The structural diversiiy of plant defensive compounds Plant alkaloids Plantphenolics 21 Plant te9enes 33 Other plant compounds 4 Biochemistry - the chemistry of life 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Introduction...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Adding value to traditional products of regional origin - A guide to creating a quality consortium pptx
... geographical name of their area of origin, such as Bordeaux, have enjoyed certain privileges associated specifically with their place of origin Moreover, the first precursor of officially protected ... may be called a “designation/denomination of origin in another Columbian Coffee is protected under a “denomination of origin mark in its country of origin, but it had to be registered as a “protected ... the name of a traditional product of regional origin, but also certify the characteristics and attributes of the product Obviously, the registration of a traditional product of regional origin...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Insights into the structure of plant a-type phospholipase D Susanne Stumpe, Stephan Konig and Renate Ulbrich-Hofmann ¨ ppt
... site In (A), the positions of the 30 tyrosine and 15 tryptophan residues are marked by stars Structure of plant phospholipase D A B C of plant PLDf is independent of calcium ions, but the enzyme ... Structure of plant phospholipase D S Stumpe et al from the ratio of the forward scattering intensity of the sample and that of the molecular mass standard BSA The ab initio deconvolution of the ... a resolution of 0.1 nm, a response time of s, a bandwidth of nm, and a temperature of 20 °C An average of 10 scans was recorded and corrected by subtracting the baseline spectrum of the buffer...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Structure and function of plant aspartic proteinases pptx
... form of cyprosin was processed in different isoforms by the excision of the prosegment and of most of the PSI [21] Conversely to what has been found in vivo [31], heavy and light chains of the ... significance of this variation observed in APs of different kingdoms has not been established Three-dimensional structure Fig Plant aspartic proteinase precursors Comparison of the amino acid sequences of ... mechanism Plant AP precursors undergo several proteolytic cleavages to produce mature single-chain or two-chain form of the enzymes Proteolytic processing of plant APs starts with removal of the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: 1,5-Diamino-2-pentyne is both a substrate and inactivator of plant copper amine oxidases ppt
... properties of their DMAB-adducts with that of the DAPY oxidation product MS of DAPY reaction mixture Samples for ESI-IT-MS were prepared by the oxidation of mM buffered DAPY solution with an excess of ... 0.5 mL of CD3OD Determination of free primary amino groups Primary amino groups in GPAO were determined by modification of the established TNBS method [27,28] A sample of the enzyme (0.1 mL of a ... (data not shown) ESI-Q-TOF-MS analysis of the HPLC peak permitted the determination of both exact mass and elemental composition of the DAPY oxidation product An m/z value of 178.14 was obtained,...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Binding of ligands originates small perturbations on the microscopic thermodynamic properties of a multicentre redox protein pptx
... in favour of a specific binding of phosphate to cytochrome c3 [23] instead of a simple electrostatic effect of increased ionic strength at least up to 0.2 m concentration The region of positively ... proteins Fig The pH dependence of the chemical shift of haem methyl resonances 21CH3I , 181CH3II , 121CH3III and 181CH3IV , of DvHc3:Pi at 297.3 K Squares correspond to stage of oxidation, circles to ... similar with respect to chemical shifts of the signals in intermediate stages of oxidation, and that formation of the complex does not lead to a marked decrease of the spectral quality in the experimental...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Plant physiology - Chapter 17 Phytochrome and Light Control of Plant Development pptx
... protein However, many of the biological properties of phytochrome had been established earlier in studies of whole plants The first clues regarding the role of phytochrome in plant development came ... most of their Type I phytochrome (phyA) in the light as a result of a combination of factors: inhibition of transcription, mRNA degradation, and proteolysis: Phytochrome and Light Control of Plant ... structures, each of these phytochromes performs distinct roles in the life of the plant In this section we will discuss the current state of our knowledge of the ecological functions of the different...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Modulatory effects of plant phenols on human multidrug-resistance proteins 1, 4 and 5 (ABCC1, 4 and 5) potx
... in vitro effects of flavonoids in the low micromolar range and in vivo work using oral solutions of flavonoids [13,14] Many of these plant polyphenols may modulate the activities of the multidrug ... types of food consumed [9] Many of these compounds are also found in herbal medicines A number of polyphenols cause carcinogen inactivation, antiproliferation, cell-cycle arrest and inhibition of ... vegetables, fruits and many of the plant products consumed daily The average US diet supplies 200 mg of polyphenols daily; however, it is possible for an adult to ingest > g of polyphenols per day...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo " Cell suspension culture Panax ginseng C. A. Meyer: Role of plant growth regulators and medium composition on biomass and ginsenoside production " docx
... Journal of Science, Natural Sciences and Technology 26 (2010) 191-196 number of reports of ginseng cell culture were published time to time [4-6] However, there is still a need to the productivity of ... with field cultivation of ginseng A number of physical and chemical factors that could influence secondary metabolite in plant cell cultures have been found [2,7] Optimization of the hormone concentration ... Results and discussion To understand the culture characteristics of the suspended cells of ginseng in shake flask, the effect of plant growth regulators (2,4-D or IBA or NAA combination with BA...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20