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... 2.2 Amino Acids, Proline, and Amides It has been reported that amino acids (such as alanine, arginine, glycine, serine, leucine, and valine, the nonprotein amino acids citrulline and ornithine ... osmolytes in plants subject to salt stress are GB, b-alaninebetaine, prolinebetaine, choline-O-sulphate, hydroxyprolinebetaine, and pipecolatebetaine (Ashraf and Abiotic Stress Responses in Plants: ... is suppressed and the expression of a certain set of genes including the luminal binding protein gene BiP is induced The underlying mechanisms of UPR in yeasts and mammals have been well researched...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... as the dominant osmoregulating compounds Glycinebetaine, the most common compatible solute, has also been found in A marina (Ashihara et al., 1997) The active oxygen species including superoxide, ... few interesting features The transfer of B gymnorrhiza from water to any higher salinity, resulted in an immediate increase in transpiration We suggest that this is a response aimed at increasing ... normalized to total protein in the sample To investigate the effect of salt on enzyme activity, protein extracted from the same leaf was divided into five reaction mixtures containing 0, 250, 500, 1000...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:20

... most by water stress in Katherine seedlings Stressed Tennant Creek seedlings maintained a higher proportion of dry weight in leaves and least in stems and, in fertilised seedlings, those from Tennant ... Lohnes, lings (Fig 3) Water stress reduced leaf area most in Katherine seedlings (Fig 4), and the provenances also differed in stress-induced changes in the partitioning of dry matter into roots, ... seedlings assumed the most linear leaf shape (most negative in Fig 6) Leaf shape was affected most by nutrient stress in Tennant Creek and Petford seedlings, and by water stress in Katherine seedlings...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... tests in which the earlier tasting vs not tasting were compared in the three FNG groups c Finnish Easter pudding d Finnish specialty cheese e Eastern Finnish Easter pudding f Nutritionally modifed ... foods were included: BenecolR margarine that had recently been launched in Finland as a cholesterol lowering ``functional'' food; LoR reduced calorie chocolate bar (also manufactured in Finland); ... Finnish origin and is an essential part of the Greek Catholic Easter celebration Turkey meat has been available in Finland mainly during the past decade Meat balls are very familiar to the Finns,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... institutions, including legislation, agencies and administration, decision-making procedures, arrangements for planning and coordination, programmes aiming to respond to floods are in place in ... organizations venturing into micro-finance, training and mobilization in intervention programmes to reduce disaster risk For example, in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 that caused ... identifying domestic institutional coping capacity against floods, to tracking performance of flood risk reduction institutions in a variety of national contexts and explaining success and failures in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 10:15

... cases, occupying 30.7% in beginning of a question whereas it can be at the front or the end in English; however, in Vietnamese there are 84 cases, accounting for Vietnamese 56% In summary, there ... Synthesizing the findings and drawing conclusions 3.3 DESCRIPTION OF POPULATION AND SAMPLE - Putting forward some implications for the teaching and The study focuses on 150 samples in English ... situation investigates how people give and receive compliments in Australian Wierzbicka remarks that compliments are usually intended to make others feel good and are performed for maintaining "good interpersonal...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:19

... Research underlie the observed changes in reproduction remain largely unexplained An ongoing infrared (IR) warming experiment in a subalpine meadow in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado has enabled observations ... would result in an increase in respiration and/or a decrease in photosynthesis, resulting in greater relative C costs of producing flowers In contrast, we hypothesized that IR warming effects on ... multiple consequences of increased infrared forcing for individual plant species as well as ecosystem processes The warming treatment causes earlier snowmelt in the spring, increases soil temperature,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... water-logging was deoxygenated by bubbling with N2 , in order to maintain the O2 concentration below mg L−1 O2 was measured in the free water and in piezometric tubes installed in the middle of each pot ... Q robur Water-logging resulted in an increased variability in PDC and ADH activities among individuals of both species, for PDC this variability being larger in Q robur than in Q petraea 3.4 Activities ... Seedlings were grown in a greenhouse in L pots containing a peat/sand mixture (2/1 v/v) from March to June 2003 Fifty-one, four months old seedlings from each species were submitted to waterlogging...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... 20−40 cm Watering was suspended for 80 randomly-chosen individuals of each species, whereas the remaining 10 were kept well watered Beginning three weeks after the suspension of watering, every ... watering, but this response differed between the two species (Fig 1, Tab II) Mortality began at much higher Ψm in N nitida than in N Fv/Fm, ∆F/Fm and qP declined gradually with increasing drought in ... “water-saving” Quercus spp had higher WUE than “water– spending” Pistacia spp., but only during drought Photoinhibition, represented by a decrease in Fv/Fm [14], was gradual in N nitida, whereas in...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... determined, at least in part, by winter and spring desiccation of needles when the soil is frozen This has been attributed to an incomplete development of the needle cuticle during the short growing ... altitudinal range have been recorded in alpine Pinus sylvestris and Pinus cembra [14] A better understanding of tree physiology at the treeline is needed in order to predict possible future scenarios ... in each tree using cm continuously-heated sap flowmeters [12] Sensors were inserted into the xylem (NW aspect) at 1.5–2 m Measurements were taken every minute, averaged and stored every 15 minutes...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... paralleled declines in stomatal conductance On 12 of the 15 sample days, seedlings growing in hypoxic nutrient solution maintained lower transpiration rates than control seedlings Similar to ... increase in LWR when established in hypoxic nutrient solution, but the other species showed an increase in LWR and SWR When established in hypoxic nutrient solution, Q nigra and Q phellos maintained ... h intervals beginning at 0600 hours, and finishing at 2000 hours on days during the last week of the experiment On each selected seedling, one fully expanded leaf on a predetermined flush was...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... response in W- than in W was + Postweaning gain in generation 15 was 25.83 g in the W line and 13.20 g in the W- line Cumulative response measured as deviation from the control line was higher in W ... generations 1-15 in figure Changes in 1st litter size following selection for 6-week body weight were much larger in the W- line (- 4.85 mice) than in the W + line (0.75 mice) Actually, changes in W measured ... reduction in the percentage of fertile matings in the low line compared with the high line has been described in some cases (LEGATES, 1969 ; FALCONER, 1973) contributing to the difference in selection...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... resistance training programs using constant rest intervals (CI) (2-min) and decreasing rest intervals (DI) (2-min decreasing to 30-sec) between sets, during eight weeks of resistance training performed ... supplementation in a training program using decreasing rest intervals between sets and exercises to a program using constant rest intervals In strength-type regimens, the recommended rest interval of 2-5 minutes ... rest interval group; DI = decreasing rest interval group * Statistically significant difference (p ≤ 0.0001) between pre-training and post-training these results [15] indicated that a training...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... catecholamines in defining the concept of physiological reserve rather than in terms of preload or cardiac reserve Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... due to the tissue’s inability to produce the physiological answer, or both To conclude, according to the ubiquitous character of catecholamine sensitivity, we should think in terms of cellular ... vessel level using α stimulation, and at the metabolic level using β2 stimulation It remains unknown, however, whether this disturbed answer to catecholamine response is due to a signaling problem...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... PAOP ≥ 18 mmHg) to maintain cardiac filling pressures at 12 mmHg or above Continuous intravenous noradrenaline was administered if MAP fell below 70 mmHg and titrated to maintain MAP above 65 mmHg ... to proteomics: Unrevealing the komplexity of acute kidney injury in sepsis In Yearbook of Intensive care and emergency medicine Edited by: Vincent JL Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag; 2008:568-578 ... significantly increased over time in septic animals, while intrathoracic blood volume was well maintained (baseline 23 (22 to 24), 22 hours of sepsis 24 (19 to 34) ml/ kg) The increased CO resulted in a...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... 41 IU/L), leading to lamivudine interruption at M30 because, at that time, the benefit of maintaining dual therapy was not proven With adefovir Figure HBV viral load and alanine aminotransferases ... line probe assay (InnoLipa-DR2-assay, InnoGenetics, Ghent, Belgium), following the manufacturer's instructions This second genotyping assay was performed because of its sensitivity in detecting ... with the clinical setting in which successful rescues with tenofovir or entecavir against adefovir-resistant HBV have been reported [3,4,19] Thus, at the beginning of the second-line dual therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... affected households included gearing up passive and active labor market programs, strengthening social assistance, maintaining or increasing minimum pensions, and in a few instances ensuring access to ... took in the wake of shocks to increase incomes or reduce expenditures (see figure O.4) Strategies to increase household disposable incomes included increasing labor supply, borrowing or drawing ... reduced earnings working same or more hours reduced earnings working less hours Source: Azam 2010 Note: The denominator is workers working in the last period (current workers not working in the retrospective...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 19:27

... 2010a) There is interest in developing vaccines targeting antigens upregulated in latency, such as the DosR‐regulated proteins (Lin and Ottenhoff, 2008) A multi‐stage vaccine combining early antigens ... to increase in vaccinated individuals following BCG vaccination (Black, 2002), but these responses start waning by 9 months after neonatal vaccination (Burl, 2010) This method of testing BCG‐ induced T cell immunity is also commonly used in research with murine models ... vaccination at birth, especially in TB endemic areas, but alternative vaccination policies exist (Fine, 1999) In the United Kingdom (UK) and some nations in Europe, BCG is administered once during...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... phenotyping, intracellular and extracellular cytokine profiling in ageing mice 6.4.1 T cell surface marker phenotyping 6.4.2 Cytokine profiling assay: Intracellular and extracellular cytokines 6.4.3 ... longer lifespan, including increased insulin sensitivity, reduced insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-I) levels, increased activated protein kinase (AMPK) and PGC-1 activity, increased mitochondrial ... activities, along with inhibition of phosphodiesterase leading to an increase in the amount of cyclic nucleotide and inhibition of protein kinases involved in cell signalling [157] RSV has been...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:20

... protein kinase and woundinduced protein kinase, two MAPKs in group A, were activated by inoculation with the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) [10] Their orthologs in other plant species, including MPK3 ... and MPK6 in Arabidopsis (group A MAPKs), SIMK and SAMK in alfalfa, and LeMPK1 ⁄ (Lycopersicon esculentum SA-induced protein kinase) and LeMPK3 (L esculentum woundinduced protein kinase) in tomato, ... abiotic stresses (A) Virus infection-induced H2O2 accumulation detected by DAB staining (B) Abiotic stress-induced H2O2 and OÀ accumulation detected by DAB staining and NBT staining, respectively WT,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20