Significant positive correlations are often observed between vitamin D concentrations and physical activity levels. Whilst this may be due to individuals who are physically active spending time outdoors (i.e. increased ...

The eighth edition of the Organic Farm Management Handbook comes out at a challenging time. Headlines are highlighting that demand for organic food may have stopped growing, but many other sectors in the economy are suffering ...

The 3' untranslated regions of a number of cDNAs from the rumen protozoal species Entodinium caudatum were studied with a view to characterising their preference for stop codons, general length, nucleotide composition and ...

Genetic mapping of quantitative traits requires genotypic data for large numbers of markers in many individuals. For such studies, the use of large single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping arrays still offers the ...

We report the structure–activity relationship of a series of coumarins as aldose reductase 2 (ALR2) inhibitors and their suppressive effect on the accumulation of galactitol in the rat lens. We evaluated their ALR2 selectivity ...

A human monocytic cell line, THP-1-S, was cultured in a serum-free medium. The effect of the culture supernatant of THP-1-S on the cytotoxicity of rTNF-alpha to three kinds of cell lines and the binding of rTNF to its ...