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Functional Genomics of Wood Quality and Properties
(2003-11)Genomics promises to enrich the investigations of biology and biochemistry. Current advancements in genomics have major implications for genetic improvement in animals, plants, and microorganisms, and for our understanding ... -
Voluntary stuttering suppresses true stuttering: A window on the speech perception–production link
(2004-02)In accord with a proposed innate link between speech perception and production (e.g., motor theory), this study provides compelling evidence for the inhibition of stuttering events in people who stutter prior to the ... -
Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing Induced by Short Interfering RNAs in Cultured Transgenic Plant Cells
(2004-05)Short interfering RNA (siRNA) is widely used for studying post-transcriptional gene silencing and holds great promise as a tool for both identifying function of novel genes and validating drug targets. Two siRNA fragments ... -
Emerging Genomic and Proteomic Evidence on Relationships Among the Animal, Plant and Fungal Kingdoms
(2004-05)Sequence-based molecular phylogenies have provided new models of early eukaryotic evolution. This includes the widely accepted hypothesis that animals are related most closely to fungi, and that the two should be grouped ... -
Comparative impacts of two major hurricane seasons on the Neuse River and western Pamlico Sound ecosystems
(2004-06-22)Ecosystem-level impacts of two hurricane seasons were compared several years after the storms in the largest lagoonal estuary in the U.S., the Albemarle–Pamlico Estuarine System. A segmented linear regression flow model ... -
Cloning of somatolactin alpha and beta cDNAs in zebrafish and phylogenetic analysis of two distinct somatolactin subtypes in fish
(2004-09-01)Somatolactin (SL) is a pituitary hormone belonging to the growth hormone/prolactin superfamily, with recognizable homologues in all fish taxa examined to date. Although sequences from most fish share reasonably high sequence ... -
Comparative Genomics and Evolution of Proteins Associated with RNA Polymerase II C-Terminal Domain
(2005-11)The C-terminal domain (CTD) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II provides an anchoring point for a wide variety of proteins involved in mRNA synthesis and processing. Most of what is known about CTD-protein interactions ... -
Comparative evaluation of two severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) vaccine candidates in mice challenged with SARS coronavirus
(2006-03-01)Two different severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) vaccine strategies were evaluated for theirability to protect against live SARS coronavirus (CoV) challenge in a murine model of infection.A whole killed (inactivated ... -
Benthic community response to ice algae and phytoplankton in Ny Ålesund, Svalbard
(2006-04-03)We assessed the digestibility and utilization of ice algae and phytoplankton by the shallow, subtidal benthos in Ny Ålesund (Kongsfjord) on Svalbard (79°N, 12°E) using chlorophyll a(chl a), essential fatty acids (EFAs) and ... -
Bedside tool for predicting the risk of postoperative dialysis in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
(2006-11-06)Estimation of an individual patient’s risk for postoperative dialysis can support informed clinical decision making and patient counseling. -
Compact operators and nest representations of limit algebras
(2007-01-04)In this paper we study the nest representations $ \rho: \mathcal{A} \longrightarrow \operatorname{Alg} \mathcal{N}$ of a strongly maximal TAF algebra $ \mathcal{A}$, whose ranges contain non-zero compact operators. We ... -
Characterization and Expression of the Nuclear Progestin Receptor in Zebrafish Gonads and Brain
(2010-01-01)The zebrafish nuclear progestin receptor (nPR; official symbol PGR) was identified and characterized to better understand its role in regulating reproduction in this well-established teleost model. A full-length cDNA was ... -
Characterization of Wet-Heat Inactivation of Single Spores of Bacillus Species by Dual-Trap Raman Spectroscopy and Elastic Light Scattering
(2010-03)Dual-trap laser tweezers Raman spectroscopy (LTRS) and elastic light scattering (ELS) were used to investigate dynamic processes during high-temperature treatment of individual spores of Bacillus cereus, Bacillus megaterium, ... -
Combination of Raman tweezers and quantitative differential interference contrast microscopy for measurement of dynamics and heterogeneity during the germination of individual bacterial spores
(2010-09-01)Raman tweezers and quantitative differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy are combined to monitor the dynamic germination of individual bacterial spores of Bacillus species, as well as the heterogeneity in this ... -
Comparative Study of the Roles of AhpC and KatE as Respiratory Antioxidants in Brucella abortus 2308
(2010-10)Brucella strains are exposed to potentially toxic levels of H2O2 both as a consequence of their aerobic metabolism and through the respiratory burst of host phagocytes. To evaluate the relative contributions of the sole ... -
Divergent roles of superoxide and nitric oxide in liver ischemia and reperfusion injury
(2011)Liver ischemia and reperfusion-induced injury is a major clinical complication associated with hemorrhagic or endotoxin shock and thermal injury as well as liver transplantation and resectional surgery. Data obtained from ... -
Diet-induced muscle insulin resistance is associated with extracellular matrix remodeling and interaction with integrin α<inf>2</inf>β <inf>1</inf>in mice
(2011)OBJECTIVE: The hypothesis that high-fat (HF) feeding causes skeletal muscle extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling in C57BL/6J mice and that this remodeling contributes to diet-induced muscle insulin resistance (IR) through ... -
A multi-sensor approach to examining the distribution of total suspended matter (TSM) in the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System, NC, USA
(2011)For many coastal waters, total suspended matter (TSM) plays a major role in key biological, chemical and geological processes. Effective mapping and monitoring technologies for TSM are therefore needed to support research ... -
From imitation to innovation: A study of China's drug R&D and relevant national policies
(2011)Research & Development (R&D) plays an increasingly important role in China's pharmaceutical industry. To gain a competitive edge in the global pharmaceutical market, the current national strategy of China forcefully pushes ...