• Silicon: Its role in vital processes 

  Tasch, Paul (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1973-03-23)

  Author pointed that there is some proof of a silicon metabolism role in "vital processes in animals or man" pointing that data on the gastropod Oncidium planatum showing that its liver contained 11.3 percent silica.

• Effect of experimentally altered food abundance on fat reserves of wintering birds 

  Rogers, Christopher M.; Heath-Coss, Rejeana (Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003-08-15)

  1. Current models of adaptive fat regulation make opposing predictions concerning the effect of increased winter food supply on size of the avian winter fat reserve. To distinguish between models, food supply was varied ...

• Toxicity of nalidixic acid on Candida albicans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Kluyveromyces lactis 

  Sobieski, Rodney J.; Brewer, Alan R. (American Society for Microbiology, 1976-09-04)

  The antibacterial drug nalidixic acid (Nal) can suppress the growth of Candida albicans at levels of the drug normally found in urine. Growth suppression increases as drug levels are increased, and Nal also causes a similar ...

• Increased production of beta-lactamase under anaerobic conditions in some strains of Escherichia coli 

  Rashtchian, Ayoub; Nouravarsani, Roya; Miller, Glendon R.; Gerlach, E.H. (American Society for Microbiology, 1979-07-25)

  A simple biological assay to detect beta-lactamase activity exhibited by selected cultures of Escherichia coli was used to test enzyme production in cells incubated aerobically and anaerobically. Anaerobic incubation ...

• Material characterization and bioanalysis of hybrid scaffolds of carbon nanomaterial and polymer nanofibers 

  Srikanth, Madhulika; Asmatulu, Ramazan; Cluff, Kim; Yao, Li (ACS, 2019-03-08)

  The interconnected porous structures that mimic the extracellular matrix support cell growth in tissue engineering. Nanofibers generated by electrospinning can act as a vehicle for therapeutic cell delivery to a neural ...

• Toxicity of nalidixic acid on Candida albicans, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Kluyveromyces lactis 

  Sobieski, Rodney J.; Brewer, Alan R. (American Society for Microbiology, 1976-09-04)

  The antibacterial drug nalidixic acid (Nal) can suppress the growth of Candida albicans at levels of the drug normally found in urine. Growth suppression increases as drug levels are increased, and Nal also causes a similar ...

• Increased production of beta-lactamase under anaerobic conditions in some strains of Escherichia coli 

  Rashtchian, Ayoub; Nouravarsani, Roya; Miller, Glendon R.; Gerlach, E.H. (American Society for Microbiology, 1979-07-25)

  A simple biological assay to detect beta-lactamase activity exhibited by selected cultures of Escherichia coli was used to test enzyme production in cells incubated aerobically and anaerobically. Anaerobic incubation ...

• Depression of lactose hydrolysis by yeasts 

  Berman, D.A; Sobieski, Rodney J. (Microbiology Society, 1977-03-02)

  To investigate the role that the known disaccharidase depression may play in the aetiology of infant gastroenteritis caused by Candida albicans, C. albicans and the rarely pathogenic Saccharomyces cerevisiae were studied ...

• Cultivation and characterization of the bacterial assemblage of epsomic Basque Lake, BC 

  Crisler, James D.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Springer Nature, 2019)

  Athalassohaline waters that are rich in divalent ions are good analogues for the chemical environments of Mars and the ocean worlds. Sulfate salts, along with chlorides, are important in Mars regolith with Ca, Fe, Mg, and ...

• Bacterial growth in saturated and eutectic solutions of magnesium sulphate and potassium chlorate with relevance to Mars and the ocean worlds 

  Wilks, Jonathan M.; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2019-01-28)

  Liquid water on Mars might be created by deliquescence of hygroscopic salts or by permafrost melts, both potentially forming saturated brines. Freezing point depression allows these heavy brines to remain liquid in the ...

• Ganganomala Saltini Ratcliffe, Jameson, and Zorn, a new genus and species of Anomalini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae) from Bangladesh and Nepal, with a revised circumscription of the tribe 

  Ratcliffe, Brett C.; Jameson, Mary Liz; Zorn, Carsten (Coleopterists Society, 2018-12-28)

  Ganganomala saltini Ratcliffe, Jameson, and Zorn, a new genus and new species of Anomalini (subtribe Anomalina), is described fromBangladesh and Nepal. To place the new genus within the context of the tribe and subtribe, ...

• A rangewide herbarium-derived dataset indicates high levels of gene flow in black cherry (Prunus serotina) 

  Konrade, Lauren A.; Shaw, Joey; Beck, James B. (Wiley, 2019-01-08)

  Isolation by Distance (IBD) is a genetic pattern in which populations geographically closer to one another are more genetically similar to each other than populations which are farther apart. Black cherry (Prunus serotina ...

• Hierarchy theory reveals multiscale predictors of Arkansas darter (Etheostoma cragini) abundance in a Great Plains riverscape 

  Wellemeyer, Juju C.; Perkin, Joshuah S.; Jameson, Mary Liz; Costigan, Katie H.; Waters, Ryan (John Wiley and Sons, 2019-01-14)

  Landscape ecology and its emphasis on relationships between spatial heterogeneity, scale, and ecological processes can be applied to manage stream ecosystems as riverscapes. Hierarchy theory, a central tenet of riverscape ...

• The mechanical and pharmacological regulation of glioblastoma cell migration in 3D matrices 

  Kaphle, Pranita; Li, Yongchao; Yao, Li (Wiley, 2019-04)

  The invasion of glioblastoma is a complex process based on the interactions of tumor cells and the extracellular matrix. Tumors that are engineered using biomaterials are more physiologically relevant than a two-dimensional ...

• Particulate and ion forms of cobalt–chromium challenged preosteoblasts promote osteoclastogenesis and osteolysis in a murine model of prosthesis failure 

  Yang, Shuye; Zhang, Kai; Jiang, Jianhao; James, Bonface; Yang, Shang-You (Wiley, 2018-10-25)

  This study investigated the interactive behavior of the particulate and ion forms of cobalt–chromium (Co–Cr) alloy challenged preosteoblasts during the process of prosthetic implant loosening. Preosteoblasts were challenged ...

• The combination of induced pluripotent stem cells and bioscaffolds holds promise for spinal cord regeneration 

  DeBrot, Ashley; Yao, Li (Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2018-10-01)

  Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) are debilitating conditions for which no effective treatment currently exists. The damage of neural tissue causes disruption of neural tracts and neuron loss in the spinal cord. Stem cell ...

• Dental pulp stem cell-derived chondrogenic cells demonstrate differential cell motility in type I and type II collagen hydrogels 

  Yao, Li; Flynn, Nikol (Elsevier, 2018-06)

  BACKGROUND CONTEXT: Advances in the development of biomaterials and stem cell therapy provide a promising approach to regenerating degenerated discs. The normal nucleus pulposus (NP) cells exhibit similar phenotype to ...

• In vivo and in vitro impact of carbohydrate variation on human follicle-stimulating hormone function 

  Bousfield, George R.; May, Jeffrey V.; Davis, John S.; Dias, James A.; Kumar, T. Rajendra (Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-05-09)

  Human follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) exhibits both macro-and microheterogeneity in its carbohydrate moieties. Macroheterogeneity results in three physiologically relevant FSH beta subunit variants, two that possess a ...

• Deciphering the sexual diploid members of the Boechera suffrutescens complex (Brassicaceae, Boechereae) 

  Morin, David P.; Alexander, Patrick J.; Beck, James B.; Windham, Michael D.; Bailey, C. Donovan (PENSOFT PUBL, 2018-05-02)

  Boechera is a model genus that is of particular interest for understanding apomixis due to the presence of numerous apomictic diploid lineages that are tightly correlated with hybridisation events. Boechera includes many ...

• Nitrogen-fixation activity and the abundance and taxonomy of nifH genes in agricultural, pristine, and urban prairie stream sediments chronically exposed to different levels of nitrogen loading 

  Santos-Caton, Ingrid R.; Caton, Todd M.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2018-05)

  Small streams exert great influences on the retention and attenuation of nitrogen (N) within stream networks. Human land use can lead to increased transport of dissolved inorganic N compounds and downstream eutrophication. ...

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