Bai, Qing-Ke Zhao, Zhen-Guo
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Biotechnology and applied biochemistry
Alzheimer's disease is one of the neurodegenerative disorders caused by neuronal degeneration and apoptosis in brain. Bacoside A and B isolated from the Bacopa monniera plant are responsible for cognitive effects. These compounds repair damaged neurons by promoting activity of kinases, synaptic activity restoration, and improvement of nerve transmi...
Badavi, Mohammad Grootveld, Martin Jafari, Fereshteh Dianat, Mahin Faraji Shahrivar, Farzaneh
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Hyperlipidemia is a common metabolic disorder in the general population, which may arise in hypothyroidism. Apelin is an endogenous ligand that acts as an adiponectin, and is involved in energy storage and metabolism. This study evaluated the effects of apelin administration per se or in combination with T4 on the serum level of thyroid-stimulating...
Raafat, Nermin Ismail, Khadiga Hawsawi, Nahed M Saber, Taisir Elsawy, Wael H Abdulmutaleb, Tariq Raafat, Ahmed Gharib, Amal F
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Breast cancer (BC) is one of the leading causes of cancer mortality in women. Glutathione S-transferase (GSTT1) is involved in activation of detoxification reactions and catalysis of chemicals conjugation with glutathione. GSTT1 genotype is a limiting factor for some environmental diseases. Epigenetic changes have an essential role in BC through in...
Besharati, Maryam Tabrizi, Mahmoud Amouzadeh Molaabasi, Fatemeh Saber, Reza Shamsipur, Mojtaba Hamedi, Javad Hosseinkhani, Saman
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Recently, there has been a growing demand to develop portable devices for the fast detection of contaminants in food safety, healthcare, and environmental fields. Herein, two biosensing methods were designed by the use of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NAD(P)H)-dependent TetX2 enzyme activity and thionine as an excellent electrochemic...
Zhan, Feng Wang, Xiang Zhang, Jun Yi, Shengyang He, Ping
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Sepsis is a clinical condition caused by an uncontrolled response to an infection, leading to acute kidney injury (AKI) and an increased risk of mortality. Although life support and antibiotic therapy are available, the mortality rate remains high in patients with sepsis. The present study investigated the therapeutic effect of glutamine on gentami...
Sharma, Babita Shukla, Pratyoosh
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Bioremediation is a promising technology for the treatment of environmental contaminants and paving new avenues for the betterment of the environment. Over the last some years, several approaches have been employed to optimize the genetic machinery of microorganisms relevant to bioremediation. Metabolic engineering is one of them that provides a ne...
Bidondo, Lucía Festari, Florencia Freire, Teresa Giacomini, Cecilia
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Biotechnology and applied biochemistry
The elucidation of glycans biological function is essential to understand their role in biological processes, both normal and pathological. Immobilized glycoenzymes are excellent tools for this purpose as they can selectively release glycans from glycoproteins without altering their backbone. They can be easily removed from the reaction mixture avo...
Mishra, Satabdi Joghee, Nidhya Nadarajan Jayaraman, Gurunathan
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Extracellular α-amylase and protease were coproduced from halo tolerant Virgibacillus dokdonensis VITP14 with banana peels (2% w/v) as substrate. The pH optima for α-amylase and protease were 6.5 and 7.0, respectively. The temperature optima of α-amylase and protease were 30 and 50 °C, respectively. Both the enzymes were active in the presence of v...
Terada, Ayane Komatsu, Daisuke Ogawa, Takahiro Flamandita, Darin Sahlan, Muhamad Nishimura, Minoru Yohda, Masafumi
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Hydrogen cyanide is an industrially important chemical, and its annual production is more than 1.5 million tons. Because of its toxicity, the cyanide-containing effluents from industries have caused many environmental problems. Among various methods to treat the contaminated soils or water, the biological degradation is regarded to be promising. We...
Ahsan, Samreen Khaliq, Adnan Chughtai, Muhammad Farhan Jahangir Nadeem, Muhammad Tahir, Assam Bin Din, Amir Alaud Ntsefong, Godswill Ntsomboh Shariati, Mohammad Ali Rebezov, Maksim Yessimbekov, Zhanibek
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The current research work was carried out to evaluate the effect of three different varieties (NARC-II, Williams 82, Ajmeri) of soybean along with single and coculture impact of Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus casei on fermented soymilk. The periodically microbial and antioxidative activities of fermented soymilk were analyzed during th...