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Background Pregnant women are an especially important population to monitor for environmental exposures given the vulnerability of the developing fetus. During pregnancy and lactation chemical body burdens may change due to the significant physiological changes that occur. Developmental exposures to ...
Pollution of surface water with heavy metals from industrial activities especially those from scrap yard has caused a major threat to human life exposing man to series of hazard, diseases, disability and consequently death. This study focuses on water quality indices of Owode-Onirin and Lafenwa scrap ...
Understanding of species interactions within mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; ~ 30–150 m) lags well behind that for shallow coral reefs. MCEs are often sites of fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) for a variety of species, including many groupers. Such reproductive fish aggregations represent temporal ...
Abstract Clinical biochemistry has long been utilized in human and veterinary medicine as a vital diagnostic tool, but despite occasional studies showing its usefulness in monitoring health status in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.), it has not yet been widely utilized within the aquaculture industry. ...
Chinese soft-shelled turtle (Pelodiscus sinensis) is commercially cultured in East and Southeast Asia for its nutritional and medicinal values. In this study, we identified interleukin-1β (IL-1β) from Chinese soft-shelled turtle. The full-length cDNA of Pelodiscus sinensis IL-1β (tIL-1β) consists of ...
Background Vibrio alginolyticus is ubiquitous in marine and estuarine environments. In 2012–2013, SXT/R391-like integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) in environmental V. alginolyticus strains were discovered and found to occur in 8.9 % of 192 V. alginolyticus strains, which suggests that V. alginolyticus ...
Understanding underwater optics in natural waters is essential in evaluating aquatic primary production and risk of UV exposure in aquatic habitats. Changing environmental conditions related with global climate change, which imply potential contrasting changes in underwater light climate further emphasize ...
Background MicroRNAs (miRNAs) represent a second regulatory network that has important effects on gene expression and protein translation during biological process. However, the possible role of miRNAs in the early stages of fish sex differentiation is not well understood. In this study, we carried ...
Reproduction in most fish is seasonal or periodic, and the spawning occurs in an appropriate season to ensure maximum survival of the offspring. The sequence of reproductive events in an annual cycle is largely under the control of a species-specific endogenous timing system, which essentially relies ...
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.
A method and an apparatus for conditioning meat such that the further processing is optimized wherein the meat with a first temperature between -35 to -18 ºC is introduced into a conditioner. Inside the conditioner a gas is circulated and by means of said gas the temperature is raised in the meat to ...
The present invention relates to an improved anti-fungal composition, to a process for preparing it and to its use as a preservative.
An apparatus for slaughtering fishes, which kills the fish by taking it from the operculum to be positioned in a stunning position and cutting the gills only, without causing any visible damage to the exterior, where said apparatus comprises: transverse positioning means that receives the fish, hold ...
By using transglutaminase with calcium chloride or magnesium chloride as active ingredients, food raw materials such as meat pieces can be sufficiently adhesion-molded without using a protein material.
A product for cooking a food in oil and/or fat is provided. An adjusted pH protein suspension is produced in an aqueous or dry form and comprises myofibrillar proteins and sarcoplasmic proteins substantially free of myofibrils and sarcomeres. The amount of oil and/or fat absorbed by the food during ...
A device for cutting balls from foodstuff and comprising: a cutting ring; a bracket rotatably holding the cutting ring and arranged for being pushed into foodstuff with the cutting ring; and a shaft to which the cutting ring is attached and carrying a handle.
A method of deriving a path of contact of a face gear with a pinion gear includes positioning the pinion gear, shifting the pinion gear from either towards or away from the face gear along a rotational axis, deriving a first relationship between a rotational angle of the pinion gear and a fluctuation ...
It is an object of the present invention to improve drawbacks in conventional technology and provide a fiber-reinforced composite material having both an excellent static strength property and impact resistance, and an epoxy resin composition for obtaining the fiber-reinforced composite material. More ...
The invention is directed to a fishing reel. The fishing reel comprises a reel body (1), a rotating member (3) rotatably supported by the reel body (1), a one-way clutch (5) prohibiting the rotation of the rotating member (3) in one direction and that is fitted to the rotating member, a rotor (11) connecting ...
Storage device for fishing rod (2) at the line (3), the fishing rod (2) being removable and comprising a main strand (4) equipped with a reel (8) for winding the line (3) and at least one removable secondary strand (5, 6) configured to engage the main strand (4) to mount the fishing rod (2), the apparatus ...