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Background The current study aims at evaluating the analgesic, anti-pyretic and anti-inflammatory properties of methanolic extract of the stem, bark and leaves of Launaea sarmentosa and Aegialitis rotundifolia roxb. Results The AELS and AEAR extract presented a significant (***p < 0.001) dose ...
Background In the last years, the importance of independent validation of the prediction ability of a new gene signature has been largely recognized. Recently, with the development of gene signatures which integrate rather than replace the clinical predictors in the prediction rule, the focus has been ...
Resveratrol shows beneficial effects in inflammation-based diseases like cancer, cardiovascular and chronic inflammatory diseases. Therefore, the molecular mechanisms of the anti-inflammatory resveratrol effects deserve more attention. In human epithelial DLD-1 and monocytic Mono Mac 6 cells resveratrol ...
Recent advances in genotyping-by-sequencing have enabled genome-wide association studies in nonmodel species including those in aquaculture programs. As with other aquaculture species, rainbow trout and steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) are susceptible to disease and outbreaks can lead to significant ...
An NMR-based metabolomic approach in aquatic ecosystems is valuable for studying the environmental effects of pharmaceuticals and other chemicals on fish. This technique has also contributed to new information in numerous research areas, such as basic physiology and development, disease, and water pollution. ...
Abstract Tanintharyi Nature Reserve Project, also known as TNRP is the first collaborative project between Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry, Union of Myanmar and our company PETRONAS together with Total E&P Myanmar since 2004. The TNRP encompasses an area of 1,700sq km and is located ...
Abstract Peregrino is an offshore oil field (block BM-C-7) located east of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the southwest part of the Campos Basin area. The oil field was discovered in 2004. Statoil Oil and Gas, Brazil has been operating the Peregrino Feld since 2008. The unconsolidated reservoir (Carapebus ...
Abstract In a number of mature gas fields in the Southern North Sea there are several multilateral open-hole completions that have proven to give significant solids/pebble production problems. Since the onset of production six out of seven total multilateral open-hole gas wells had to be shut in because ...
Abstract Total E&P Indonesie (TEPI) is the main gas producer in Indonesia which produces around 1900 MMscf/d of gas. One of the challenges is to maintain its production plateau under liquid loading issue. Almost half of TEPI gas production comes from liquid-loaded wells, representing 85% of total ...
Improvement in de novo assembly of large genomes is still to be desired. Here, we improved draft genome sequence quality by employing doubled-haploid individuals. We sequenced wildtype and doubled-haploid Takifugu rubripes genomes, under the same conditions, using the Illumina platform and assembled ...
Pufferfish accumulate tetrodotoxin (TTX) mainly in the liver and ovary. This study aims at investigating the effect of TTX accumulation in the liver of cultured specimens of torafugu Takifugu rubripes on the hepatic gene expression by microarray analysis on Day 5 after the intramuscular administration ...
Vibrios are associated with a broad diversity of hosts that produce antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) as part of their defense against microbial infections. In particular, vibrios colonize epithelia, which function as protective barriers and express AMPs as a first line of chemical defense against pathogens. ...
The sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) occupies a basal position during the evolution of deuterostomes and is also an important aquaculture species. In order to identify more immune effectors, transcriptome sequencing of A. japonicus coelomocytes in response to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) challenge ...
Summary In recent years, the potential impacts from anthropogenic sound on marine life, including from geophysical operations, have received increasing attention and scrutiny from government regulators, environmental non-governmental organizations, fishing associations, media outlets and the public. ...
Summary Since 2012 Apache Alaska Corporation (Apache) has been issued three successive Incidental Harassment Authorizations (IHA’s) for seismic exploration operations in Cook Inlet, Alaska by the United States National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). Prior to this, under the stipulations of a Letter ...
Background Since 2009, large-scale Streptococcus agalactiae infections have broken out in cultured tilapia farms in China, resulting in considerable economic losses. Screening of the surface proteins is required to identify virulence factors or protective antigens involved in piscine S.agalactiae infections ...
Background The salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, is an ectoparasite of salmonids that causes huge economic losses in salmon farming, and has also been causatively linked with declines of wild salmonid populations. Lice control on farms is reliant upon a few groups of pesticides that have all shown ...
Haemoglobin is the iron-containing oxygen-transport metalloprotein that is present in the red blood cells of all vertebrates. In recent decades, there has been substantial interest in attempting to understand the structural basis and functional diversity of avian haemoglobins. Towards this end, purification, ...
Background Rhynchocypris oxycephalus is a cold water fish with a wide geographic distribution including the relatively warm temperate regions of southern China. It also occurs in second- and third-step geomorphic areas in China. Previous studies have postulated that high-altitude populations of R. ...
Pneumatic speargun for spearfishing and method of loading and firing a pneumatic speargun for spearfishing, which speargun comprises a cylinder (1) having a head (10) at its front and a body with a hand grip (11) at its back, having a slide guide (2) for a spear (7) and having a reservoir (3) for a ...