... merely that of inferring the values ofthe Wi variables On the other hand, estimating the proportion of fish from different populations is just the process of inferring the value of π Finally, ... that denotes the population of origin ofthe ith fish It can be thought of as a ball that is tied tothe fin ofthe fish, with the colour ofthe ball telling us where the fish comes from Under ... preparation of this book and the organization ofthe conference on Population Genetics for Animal Conservation from the Ministry of Research and Innovation ofthe Autonomous Province of Trento, the Edmund...
... particularly the striatum, can oxidize retinol to retinal, providing the first step on the way to retinoic acid [31] The brain must thus rely on the activity of other enzymes, for example ADH3 or other ... findings in adult brain tissue of all three species Discussion The distribution of ADHs in the brain is of particular interest because of their implications in the metabolism of ethanol and retinoic ... the promoter [12] In these mice, we could clearly demonstrate absence of Adh4 mRNA in the stomach epithelia – the tissue with the best characterized Adh4 expression Taken together, our results demonstrate...
... excluded The observed expression ofthe TPH gene in spleen and pituitary deserves further study to assess the possible production of serotonin by these organs Our extensive molecular analyses of AANAT ... tothe oxidation of melatonin [47,48] To summarize, mouse skin has both the capability of producing serotonin and the machinery for its extensive metabolism Data currently available suggest the ... products of NAS metabolism (for details see Discussion) to NAS would limit serotonin effects in the skin (proedema, vasodilatory, pruritogenic and proinflammatory activities) The further metabolism of...
... multiplied by 10 to obtain the demyelinated volume for that particular segment of 10 sections, and all 20 values were then summed to obtain the total volume of demyelination For animals ofthe same genotype ... according to guidelines issued by the National Institutes of Health, following procedures approved by the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare All experimental protocols were approved by the Sanford-Burnham ... attributed to several factors, including failure of OPC proliferation, failure of OPC recruitment tothe lesion, failure of OPC differentiation, and failure of OPCs or oligodendrocytes to interact with...
... control confirming the comparability ofthetwo sets of microarrays Conversely, the Ay mutation leads to a reduced expression ofthe Raly gene which was expressed at half the level of black mice in ... CodeLink software (Applied Microarrays, Tempe, AZ) appliedthe background correction GeneSpring 7.0 software (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA) was used to normalize the expression of each gene tothe median ... in the final data set After these exclusions, 52 ofthe roughly 3.3 × 104 genes analyzed with the microarrays showed statistically significant differential expression Twenty-eight ofthe differentially...
... accordance with the guidelines ofthe National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD, USA), as specified by the animal care policy of Hyogo College of Medicine Expression vector and preparation of liposomes ... analysis of cDNA for human hepatocyte growth factor Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1989, 163:967-973 Zarnegar R, Michalopoulos GK: The many faces of hepatocyte growth factor: from hepatopoiesis to hematopoiesis ... participated in the design and co-ordination ofthe study, and participated in the interpretation ofthe results T Imado and SK performed the animal study and histologic analysis HS participated in the design...
... preventing the formation ofthe C3 convertase by binding to C4b; accelerating the natural decay ofthe classical pathway C3 convertase; and as a cofactor for the serine proteinase factor I in the proteolytic ... injury in the MRL mouse is independent of Fc receptors [51], our studies showing the functional deficiency of C4 in these mice, and that the loss ofthe major negative regulator ofthe classical ... believed to be due tothe inefficiency of C3b binding tothe immune complex: only 10% of generated C3b binds tothe Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/9/5/R114 complex Loss of the...
... β-oxidation of fatty acids in the liver, the production of acetyl-CoA can exceed the capacity ofthe TCA cycle The excess acetyl-CoA is converted to β-hydroxybutyrate through ketogenesis in liver mitochondria ... and Pareto-scaled prior to analysis Pareto scaling involves weighting each ofthe variables by the square root of that variable’s variance, minimizing the impact of noise and increasing the importance ... Agonist To examine the fate ofthe increased serum β-hydroxybutyrate produced by the liver through increased fatty acid oxidation following exposure tothe PPARδ agonist, the metabolome of skeletal...
... retroposition The rates are the slopes ofthe linear functions (red lines) fitted tothe curves ofthe cumulative distributions of retrogenes All ofthe linear functions are fitted tothe part ofthe curves ... into two parts using Ks = 0.25 as the cut-off and fitted linear models to each part ofthe curves The results are shown in Table The slopes ofthe linear functions are therefore the estimates of ... method to obtain the data, they claimed that the lower rates are due tothe removal ofthe effect of gene conversion on the data However, our results show that most ofthe statistics in two- copy...
... obliges trans-regulators of one species to act on cis-elements of another species In the hybrid, by contrast, the co-existence oftwo 'hemigenomes' allows trans-factors to find their bona fide targets ... grouping of genes according either to a given function or to a specific keyword This is likely due tothe presence of more than one M spretustype transcription factor in the segments, each of them ... summary ofthe modes of regulation encountered in the IRCSs and their parent strains A summary ofthe modes of regulation encountered in the IRCSs and their parent strains Blue marks the B6 chromosome...
... one of a simply sporadic premise tothe view that both environmental and genetic factors help the onset ofthe disease 1.7.1 Aging- The cardinal factor Age is one ofthe prominent risk factors ... in the development of PD (Gorell et al., 1998) Nevertheless, the results were not consistent The major drive for the environmental factors to be the major cause of PD came from the discovery of ... on the ability of S1P to activate p-CREB, our results showed that S1P can activate P-CREB in the MPP+-treated MN9D cells The localization of Sphk2 in the mitochondria and the ability of S1P to...
... disease, the primary pathology is in the kidney [1], the major site of Gb3 synthesis in man [11], and in the heart, possibly due tothe association of Gb3 synthesis with the microvasculature GSL synthesis ... considered that the increased renal Gb3 ofthe Fabry mouse might extend tothe glomerulus to provide a model ofthe human disease In the cortex of wild-type kidney, subpopulations of renal tubules ... lL of plasma and then partitioned against ⁄ volume of water The lower phase was dried under a stream of nitrogen gas and then the residue was dissolved in chloroform The sample was applied to...
... upstream ofthe major transcription start site The presence of a CCAAT box and the absence of a TATA box seem to be one ofthe characteristics ofthe mouse integrin a3 gene We identified two transcription ... However, it remains to be identified which transcription factor ofthe Ets-family is involved in the regulation The members ofthe Ets-family of transcription factors bind to specific purine-rich ... and the sets of primers listed in Table After the PCR products were digested with KpnI and SacI, the fragments were inserted into the KpnI/SacI site of Fig Structures ofthe 5¢-flanking region of...
... relating tothe mechanism of action of ABC transporters remain obscure An important issue is the catalytic mechanism of ATP hydrolysis by thetwo NBDs, which can be further subdivided into two major ... reproducibility of our current assay; and would represent < 1% ofthe activity ofthe wild-type enzyme We then determined, by photoaffinity labeling, whether any ofthe mutations altered the apparent ... for the IC residues is starting to emerge; first the ICs appear to be important in NBD– NBD communication and transmission ofthe nucleotide state of one active site tothe other; second, the...
... CMP The side chain of R110 is a hydrogen bond donor tothe N3 atom of cytosine As the main chain carbonyl of D129, a H-bond acceptor, interacts with the terminal oxygen of S36 side chain, the ... energies ofthe original resiDG i;j due i in the native protein with the rest ofthe residues, self DDG k mutị are the changes ofthe self energies ofthe residues k that change either their ionization ... or R110 disrupts the salt bridge D132R110 and causes the partner side chain to adopt a different conformation, thereby reducing the effect ofthe mutation The other two types of relaxation are...
... injection of a total of 290 lL of 80–200 lm ofthe gp130 peptide The heat of dilution ofthe gp130 peptide into buffer was determined in control experiments and subtracted from the raw data ofthe ... surprising in view ofthe hypothesis for its mechanism proposed by Yasukawa et al [6] This requires the KIR to structurally mimic the activation loop of JAK2, so that in the absence of JAK2 the KIR would ... because ofthe higher solubility ofthe former SOCS1, based on the similarity ofthe ESS sequence to a similar region in Stat1 [8] and Stat3b [9], and suggested that the ESS and KIR form two short...
... comparative modelling The aim ofthe present work was to study the diversity of trypsins in the digestive gland of P argus, with focus on: (a) the position of lobster trypsins within the brachyurins ... structure ofthe chymotrypsin fold consisting oftwo six-stranded b-barrel domains packed against each other, with the catalytic residues (His74, Asp125, Ser218) located at the junction ofthetwo ... the rest of P argus enzymes and other crustacean strict trypsins, this enzyme could not be allocated to any ofthe brachyurins types due to amino acid substitutions found in the vicinity of the...
... to nearly half the initial amount On the other hand, the amount of glycoprotein in the medium did not differ substantially from the beginning tothe end ofthe experiment, because the medium was ... other sources We then determined the variation of amount of glycoprotein in cells As shown in Fig 5E, although the total amount of protein in cells decreased to 87% after 48 h of incubation, the ... according tothe manufacturer’s instructions Briefly, the mutant bovine DNase I cDNAs were subcloned into the pENTER 1A vector After purification ofthe plasmids, the cDNA inserts were transferred to the...
... the antibacterial activity of SSAP was examined The addition of catalase almost completely abolished the antibacterial activity of SSAP, indicating that H2O2 is the mediator ofthe activity of ... consistent with those ofthe FAD standard Figure 5B shows the mass spectrum ofthe chromophore from SSAP ESI-TOF-MS in the positive mode gave the main peak at m ⁄ z 786.32 and the ion peaks at m ... consisting of 75-kDa subunits by SDS ⁄ PAGE, partly because ofthe scarcity ofthe protein of interest In this study therefore we isolated the antibacterial protein, SSAP, from the skin mucus of S...
... ligated into lL pcDNA3.1/CT-GFP-TOPO vector in the presence of lL salt solution for at RT The accuracy ofthe entire open reading frame was checked by DNA sequencing of both strands To obtain the full ... cloning the open reading frame of rVRL-1 from rat brain RNA without the last codon for amino acid P761 and the stop codon into pcDNA3.1/CT-GFP-TOPO vector The resulting sequence was identical to GenBank ... for authentic DRG cells They showed that several features of differentiated DRG cells are present in F-11 cells, e.g release of substance P, the presence of l- and d-opioid receptors, receptors...