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Article history: Available online xxx Keywords: Type 2 diabetes mellitus Paraoxonase 1 4-Nitrophenyle acetate Biomarker High density lipoprotein A B S T R A C T Aim: To evaluate the serum paraoxonase 1 activity and determine its... more
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      Biochemistry, Epidemiology, Molecular Genetics
Objective Single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) and scavenger receptor class b member 1 (SRB1) gene has been associated with impairing high-density lipoprotein (HDL) functionality as an antioxidant and shown to... more
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    • Molecular Genetics
Studiul “Reflecții și speranțe” reprezintă o invitație pentru cei interesați de peregrinări cu mintea prin universul fascinant al biologiei. Desigur, atunci când apar obstacole în calea noastră, pentru a le depăși, va trebui să... more
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      Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Background: The thin-spined porcupine, also known as the bristle-spined rat, Chaetomys subspinosus (Olfers, 1818), the only member of its genus, figures among Brazilian endangered species. In addition to being threatened, it is poorly... more
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      Genetics, Animal Science, Molecular Genetics, Rodentia
Dental caries is a major oral health problem in Saudi Arabia. The numbers are increasing and the status is worsening despite all kind of efforts to control caries. It is a multifactorial disease and little is still known about the genetic... more
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      Dental Health, Molecular Genetics
ABSTRACT Fungi is somewhere in between the micro and macro organisms which is a good source of producing biologically active secondary metabolites. Fungi have been used as tool for producing different types of secondary metabolites by... more
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      Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, Chemical Biology
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      Genetics, Brazil, Molecular Genetics, Animals
Enset (Ensete ventricosum), also known as Ethiopian banana, is a food security crop for more than 20 million people in Ethiopia. As conventional breeding of enset is very challenging, genetic engineering is an alternative option to... more
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      Molecular Genetics, Genetic Engineering, Plant Tissue culture and micropropagation
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      Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Human Genetics, Genomics
Chromosomal abnormalities are major contributors of idiopathic male infertility. Anomalies or mutations of the chromosomal DNA lead to different forms of chromosomal abnormalities. An array of functional gene expressions determines normal... more
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      Genetics, Molecular Genetics, Infertility, Chromosomal Rearrangements
ABSTRACT Banana streak virus (BSV) is an important pathogen of bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) throughout the world. We have cloned and sequenced part of the genomes of four isolates of BSV from Australia, designated BSV-RD, BSV-Cav,... more
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      Microbiology, Epidemiology, Phytopathology, Phylogenetics
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      Polymorphism, Argentina, Molecular Genetics, Spain
The White nosed coati (𝘕𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘢 𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢) it is a highly social carnivore inhabiting mainly Neotropical forests playing an important ecological role. A technique based on 454 sequencing of a library highly enriched for microsatellite repeats... more
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      Genetics, Conservation Biology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics
Indus Vedic Biotechnology is a monumental work on the Indus Valley. The Vedas are the oldest literary monuments of the world. As such they represent common heritage of the mankind on the earth. Prof. C.P. Trivedi has entered in this field... more
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Cathepsin L, a lysosomal endopeptidase, is a member of the peptidase C1 family (papain-like family) of cysteine proteinases that cleave peptide bonds of lysosomal proteins. In this study, we report a cathepsin L sequence identified from... more
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      Molecular Biology, Fisheries Biology, Molecular Genetics, Gene expression
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      Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics
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      Molecular Genetics, Plant Cell Wall
Botrytis cinerea is a plant-pathogenic fungus infecting over 200 different plant species. We use a molecular genetic approach to study the process of pectin degradation by the fungus. Recently, we described the cloning and... more
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      Molecular Genetics, Multidisciplinary, Phylogeny, Plant diseases
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      Cell Biology, Molecular Genetics
Using EST sequence information available from the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans as a starting point, we have cloned the prolidase-encoding gene, designated pepP. Introduction of multiple copies of this gene into the A.... more
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      Genetics, Kinetics, Molecular Genetics, Gene expression