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White spot syndrome virus (WSSV), a large enveloped DNA virus, can cause the most serious viral disease in shrimp and has a wide host range among crustaceans. In this study, we identified a surface protein, named glucose transporter 1 (Glut1), which could also interact with WSSV envelope protein, VP53A. ...
Background Few studies exist on the validity of food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) administered to elderly people. The aim of this study was to assess the validity of a short FFQ on present dietary intake, developed specially for the AGES-Reykjavik Study, which includes 5,764 elderly individuals. ...
Epitheliocystis, a disease characterised by cytoplasmic bacterial inclusions (cysts) in the gill and less commonly skin epithelial cells, has been reported in many marine and freshwater fish species and may be associated with mortality. Previously, molecular and ultrastructural analyses have exclusively ...
Environmental pressures, such as physical factors, diet and contaminants may affect interactions between microbial symbionts and their multicellular hosts. Despite obvious relevance, effects of antimicrobial contaminants on host-symbiont relations in non-target aquatic organisms are largely unknown. ...
Dendritic cells are specialized antigen presenting cells that bridge innate and adaptive immunity in mammals. This link between the ancient innate immune system and the more evolutionarily recent adaptive immune system is of particular interest in fish, the oldest vertebrates to have both innate and ...
The Fortilin (also known as TCTP) in Penaeus monodon (PmFortilin) and Fortilin Binding Protein 1 (FBP1) have recently been shown to interact and to offer protection against the widespread White Spot Syndrome Virus infection. However, the mechanism is yet unknown. We investigated this interaction in ...
Background Sea cucumbers are a special group of marine invertebrates. They occupy a taxonomic position that is believed to be important for understanding the origin and evolution of deuterostomes. Some of them such as Apostichopus japonicus represent commercially important aquaculture species in Asian ...
The aim of this paper is to describe the dolphinfish bycatch rates in the longline fisheries of the Western Mediterranean and modelling the nominal bycatch abundance and distribution of dolphinfish from the Spanish Mediterranean as a function of technical, geographical, and seasonality factors. Our ...
The main interest of this study is to assess whether uranium deposits located in the San Marcos outcrops (NW of Chihuahua City, Mexico) could be considered as a source of U-isotopes in its surrounding environment. Uranium activity concentrations were determined in biota, ground, and surface water by ...
Background: Cholera is an endemic disease in certain well-defined areas in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The west of the country, including the mega-city Kinshasa, has been free of cases since mid 2001 when the last outbreak ended. Methods and Findings: We used routinely collected ...
Summary Thousands of well-perforation jobs are executed successfully around the world each month; however, certain perforation jobs require special design considerations to minimize the risk of equipment damage, such as bent tubing and unset packers, from perforating gunshock loads. Perforating guns ...
ABSTRACT: Subsea umbilicals are used for control and operation of subsea oil and gas production facilities. Typically an umbilical consists of steel tubes, electrical cables, fiber optic cables, weight or strength elements and fillers. Super duplex stainless steel tube material has been used for almost ...
ABSTRACT: Micro FT-IR analysis was performed to the point with a 50 to 80 µm spatial resolution to verify the exact structure of a new blend thermoplastic powder coating film. Resistance to certain artificially accelerated conditions and actual outdoor exposure were examined to confirm the performance ...
ABSTRACT: Cadmium coatings have been widely used to protect ferrous substrate, mainly fasteners, against corrosion. In spite of presenting excellent properties, such as lubricity, low voluminous corrosion products, high performance and compatible cost, cadmium presents high toxicity. For this reason ...
ABSTRACT: This paper aims at designing a simple corrosion resistant vanadia based chemical conversion coatings as alternative to the commonly used process involving toxic hexavalent chromate for high strength AA2024 T3 alloy. The proposed coating is environmentally acceptable as a diluted vanadate ...
ABSTRACT: Special precautions are required for the application of marine and other coating systems on steel surfaces prepared by Ultra High Pressure Waterjetting (UHP-WJ) and having flash rust. Coating manufactures also stipulate strict guidelines and pre-conditions for the use and guarantee of their ...
ABSTRACT: Parameters, their corrosion forms and mechanisms that are important in defining the deepwater environment in relation to the reliability of offshore and subsea facilities have been studied. The aim of this research is to provide baseline information for predicting deepwater corrosion behaviour ...
ABSTRACT: The evolution of crude oil extraction and processing technology has lead to an increase in temperatures that internal linings of processing and storage vessels must withstand. The increasing temperatures may be due to the depth of the oil reserve, the techniques (such as pressurized steam) ...
ABSTRACT: In recent years, increased service life and structural monitoring requirements are often specified for major bridges which will be built in a marine environment. Previously, different measures were considered to improve the durability of these new structures. These measures included the modification ...
Background Osmotic stress transcriptional factor 1 (Ostf1) was firstly identified in tilapia in 2005. Then numerous studies have investigated its regulation and expression profile in fish gill tissues in related to osmoregulation. Generally, hyperosmotic stress induced ostf1 mRNA expression level, ...