research and conservation of carnivores

... Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Adrian C Newton Habitat Management for Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Malcolm Ausden Conservation and Sustainable Use: A Handbook of Techniques ... Milner-Gulland and J Marcus Rowcliffe Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of Principles and Techniques Mick N Clout and Peter A Williams Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques ... Turner, and Sacha Spector Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Ian L Boyd, W Don Bowen, and Sara J Iverson Carnivore Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Adrian C Newton Habitat Management for Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Malcolm Ausden Conservation and Sustainable Use: A Handbook of Techniques ... Milner-Gulland and J Marcus Rowcliffe Invasive Species Management: A Handbook of Principles and Techniques Mick N Clout and Peter A Williams Amphibian Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques ... Turner, and Sacha Spector Marine Mammal Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques Ian L Boyd, W Don Bowen, and Sara J Iverson Carnivore Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:20

... fragility and oxidative damage of erythrocytes of zinc-deficient rats J Nutr 1997; 127: 1290–1296 Lajos N, Miki N, Sandor S Protein and non-protein sulfhydryls and disulfides in gastric mucosa and ... spectrophotometric method [20] A mixture of 200 μL of 8% sodium dodecyl sulfate, 200 μL of 0.9% thiobarbituric acid and 1.5 ml 20% acetic acid was prepared 200 μL of RBCs lysate and 1.9 ml distilled water ... the volume of ml After boiling for h, the mixture was cooled, and ml of n-butanol and pyridine (15:1) solution was added to it This mixture was then centrifuged at 5000 rpm for 15 and the absorbance...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... computer professional for more than 25 years, including 20 years of teaching computer classes for the University of New Mexico Mark has helped thousands of students and clients get more out of their ... Vista, as well as (X)HTML and Web development Working for clients and students — and just out of curiosity — Mark digs deeply into understanding and explaining how things work and why they don't always ... instructions and explanations of some of the more complicated aspects of setting up and using Windows Home Server Lastly, anyone who wants to leverage the features of Windows Home Server to protect and...

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2014, 16:48

... 1993) McGinnis and Foege (1993) summarized reports that attributed dietary factors and sedentary lifestyles with 22 to 30% of cardiovascular deaths, 20 to 60% of cancer deaths, and 30% of diabetes ... Will increasing physical activity reduce risk of disease and improve the health and wellness of women? Is physical activity as beneficial for women as research has shown it to be for men? This paper ... to alter their health risks, and that health and educational professionals must mount new efforts to develop culturally appropriate and sensitive health programs and educational materials But,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 08:20

... proportional random selection of primary and secondary sampling units (towns and sections, respectively), with the final units (individuals) being selected by means of random routes and sex- and age-based ... contributions DPC conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and draft the manuscript CAB carried out the acquisition of the data, analysis and interpretation of data She has ... Acknowledgements and funding None Author details Department of Health Science II, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain Preventive Medicine and Public Health Teaching and Research Unit, Department of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 06:20

... NMR-monitored titrations of Bacillus circulans xylanase [13] and X-ray analysis of crystals of catalytically incompetent mutants of the xylanases of Bacillus subtilis (XBS) and Aspergillus niger ... of the SBS Residues of the SBS of both XBS and XAN involved in substrate interaction were selected based on the crystal structures of XBS and XAN soaked with xylotetraose and xylopentaose, respectively ... effect of genetic engineering of the secondary binding site of the B subtilis and A niger xylanases on the screening ratio The screening ratio is defined as the ratio of activity on Xylazyme AX and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20

... pH 7.0 and °C for h, followed by SDS ⁄ PAGE The rate of ligation was estimated from percentage intensity of the band of the 57-kDa protein in a total of intensities of the 57-kDa, 38-kDa and 19-kDa ... at pH 7.0 and °C for indicated periods of time Lane c, the nicked precursor was incubated at pH 7.0 and °C for 24 h and then dialyzed overnight at °C and pH 4.0 (B) Effects of addition of different ... different amounts of the 38-kDa mature form (s) and the wild-type enzyme (d) on the rate of ligation Catalytic and substoichiometric amounts (molar ratio of 0.01 and 0.1, respectively) of these proteins...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... Oshunleti, O., Daly, J.W & Kirk, K.L (2000) Syntheses of (R )and (S)-2- and 6-fluoronorepinephrine and (R)- and (S)-2- and 6-fluoroepinephrine: effect of stereochemistry on fluorine-induced adrenergic ... ED50 of 0.02 lM, albeit it has a moderate Ki of 3.3 nM compared with the reference compound with an ED50 of 0.1 lM and a Ki of 1.2 nM However, the most convincing evidence on the ability of fluorine ... Design and synthesis of HIV-1 protease inhibitors Novel tetrahydrofuran P2/P2¢-groups interacting with Asp29/30 of the HIV-1 protease Determination of binding from X-ray crystal structure of inhibitor...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... behaviour and a low unstable inhibitory activity, and for I137A a biphasic loss of activity (Fig and Table 3) The phenotype of these substitutions is therefore different from that of N139A, T146A and ... assay and expressed as percentage of the theoretical maximum The activity was monitored over time and the rate of latency transition expressed as the functional half-life, t½ The averages and standard ... assay and expressed as percentage of the theoretical maximum The activity was monitored over time and the rate of latency transition expressed as the functional half-life, t½ The averages and standard...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... bands are stained, with two intense signals of 70 and 50 kDa, while the bands at 60 and 150 kDa vanished With oxyblot (Fig 4C), antibodies stained carbonylated proteins mainly in band ranges of ... comparable pattern of bands, although two bands of 60 and 150 kDa strongly visible at 10 months (lane 1) were absent at 27 months, and an important band of 70 kDa (lane 2) emerged in this latter ... consumption in state and in state 4, respiratory control ratio (RCR) of oxygen consumptions in states and and the ADP/O ratio were calculated Oxygen consumption in the presence of 40 lM of dinitrophenol...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... a ratio of : : 0.01 (v/v/v) and sprayed at a flow rate of lLÆmin)1 MALDI-TOF MS of LPS and free lipid A were performed on a Reflex III (Bruker-Daltonik, Bremen, Germany) in the linear TOF configuration ... C18:0, C20:0 and 3-OH-C20:0 MALDI-MS and ESI-MS analysis As a first step in the structural analysis, LPS and de-Oacylated LPS of C trachomatis serotype E was analyzed by MALDI-TOF and ESI-FT-ICR ... complex pattern of several groups of ion peaks representing molecular ions (centered around m/z 2510, 2300 and 2005) and of laser-induced fragment ions [18] representing the lipid A moiety of LPS (centered...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... acids and amino acid derivatives, and values of DGD°, measured in triplicate, are given in Table The effect of polyols on the kinetic parameters (Km and kcat) of the RNase-A mediated hydrolysis of ... reaction of the free enzyme and free substrate [29] We have therefore estimated kcat ⁄ Km values of all the reactions in the presence and absence of all classes of osmolytes It can be Fig Effect of ... Department of Science and Technology (India) and the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India) for financial support References Activity measurements In order to see the effect of an osmolyte...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... polyacrylamide gel in denaturing and reducing conditions, and by western blotting (A) Coomassie-stained bands of isolated Hpt (lane 1), standard ApoE (lane 2), standard ApoA-I (lane 3), and partially purified ... HRP-conjugated avidin and ECL Coomassiestained bands of VLDL and LDL proteins are shown in lanes and 2, respectively VLDL and LDL proteins, blotted onto the PVDF membrane and incubated with biotinylated ... volumes of P-buffer (50 mm Na2HPO4 ⁄ NaH2PO4, pH 7.4), and then loaded with mL of plasma at a flow rate of 0.2 mLÆmin)1 After washing with P-buffer at a flow rate of mLÆmin)1, a proportion of Hpt and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... analysis of the consequent hits was also performed to investigate the simultaneous improvement of the activity and stability of Symbiobacterium toebii TPL, as a better structural understanding of how ... basis of a co-improvement in stability and activity For example, the T1 ⁄ values for AS4 and AS6 were 6.7 and 11.2 °C higher, respectively, and the catalytic activities were improved by 2.8- and ... recruitment of the original characteristics of the parental mutants The wild-type protein and two mutants, AS4 and AS7, were purified to homogeneity with purification yields of over 40%, and investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... correlation of the G-C content of the paired stem regions (Watson–Crick base pairing) of the 16S rRNA genes, with the actual length of the stem, and with their Topt [15] In spite of attempts ... activities of 15% and 78%, respectively, after days [81] 4050 Crucial for the development and optimization of hightemperature biocatalysis systems is the need to gain further understanding of structural ... Hyperthermophiles are hosts for a high number of genes, many of which encode proteins of unknown function A wide range of thermostable and biologically novel enzymes for an array of potential applications is...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... of antigens on to MHC II complexes for antigen presentation [11] Intensive research efforts are currently aimed at achieving a detailed understanding of the roles of the numerous components of ... proteins and recycling late Golgi proteins [13– 16] There are two mammalian isoforms of Vps4, VPS4A and VPS4B, which both function in endocytic trafficking [17] and virus budding [9,18–20] Members of ... by immunoblotting of cell extracts (Fig 1D) The expression level of each of the Vps4p mutant proteins was comparable with that of wild-type Vps4p Thus any loss of function of the mutant proteins...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... backbone amide and carbonyl of Cys140 form hydrogen bonds with the backbone carbonyl and amide of Trp123, the side chain of which forms one wall of the active site cavity and the replacement of which ... due to a loss of the interaction between the side chains of Asn73 and Gln143 The X-ray crystal structure of hMnSOD shows that the side chain amide ˚ of Asn73 is near to (3.1 A) and possibly hydrogen ... the uncatalyzed dismutation of superoxide [32] A least-square fit of Eqn (1) to the data of Fig yields the constants given in the legend of Fig The values of kcat ⁄ Km and kcat for catalysis by...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... field and a combination of Simplex [65] and Powell algorithms [66] Coordinates of the NMR structures of the BIR2 [49] and BIR3 [50] domains were achieved from the Protein Data Bank files: 1C9Q and ... (500 lg of total protein in 100 lL of buffer C) and activated by addition of lm cytochrome c and mm dATP for 30 at 30 °C in the presence of AFP (6 lg) The reaction mixtures were cooled and incubated ... of a high level of apoptotic activation and the upregulation of IAPs in tumor tissue [8,16] Inactivation of XIAP or the cancellation of XIAP inhibition appears both necessary and sufficient for...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... chromatography and chromatofocusing, as described previously [21] Results Expression and secretion of truncated variants of GCPII To analyze the contribution of individual domains of human GCPII ... NaCl and 20 lL of the GCPII sample, were preincubated for 15 at 37 °C in a final volume of 225 lL A 25 lL mixture of 950 nM ÔcoldÕ NAAG (Sigma) and 50 nM H-labelled NAAG (51.9 CiÆmmol)1; New England ... transfected with 274/587 and 274/750 The presence of recombinant proteins in cell lysates was analyzed at 0, 4, and 12 h following the addition of inhibitors No immunoreactive bands of expected molecular...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20