Tag: Biology

Influence and Mechanisms of Plant-plant Facilitation
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction Understanding and quantifying the mechanisms which influence the observed organization in plant communities is a central tenet in ecology. The common usage of the term ‘community’ i...

The Role of vitamin D in the Development of Asthma and Allergies
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: ‘The role of vitamin D in the development of asthma and allergies’ Lay abstract: Every year worldwide more and more people are told to have either asthma or food allergy, which both conditions ...

Resistance of Gram-negative Bacteria to Bile
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction The gut microbiota encompasses all the microorganisms which colonise the gut. There is in excess of four hundred bacterial species contained in the gut (Gorbach, 1996) Gram-negative anae...

Future Therapies of Aging
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction Life happens a long way from thermodynamic steady state. Its consistency is ceaselessly powerless by a wide gathering of inside and outside stressors, and, in these circumstances, things...

Effect of Aflatoxin and Protein Malnourishment on the Hepatic Lipids and Oxidative Stress
9th Dec 2019
Introduction:                                                CHAPTER ONE BACKGROUND Exposure to aflatoxin or its metabolites have been shown to play an important ro...

Impacts of Inbreeding on the Two-toed and Three-toed Sloth
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: An integrated study into inbreeding and the impacts that arise when focusing on the two-toed and three-toed sloth. ABSTRACT This report investigates the effects of habitat fragmentation and the impli...

Calcium as a Means of Reducing Risk of Low Bone Mass
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Introduction;   Calcium is a mineral. The body has more calcium than any other mineral. About 99 percent of calcium in the body is stored in the teeth and bones, this nutrient is also present in the ...

Literature Review on the Effect of Exercise on Oxygen Rates in the Human Body
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Demonstration of Knowledge and Evidence DKE #1 (Group 1): Knowledge of the heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, blood pressure, and oxygen consumption responses during sub-maximal and maximal e...

The Investigation of Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura using ADAMTS13 Inhibitor Assay
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Testing for ADAMS13 antibodies/inhibitors will allow us to further investigate why the ADMATS-13 activities are low, questioning whether its congenital and or idiopathic auto-immune....

Analysis of Brg1 in Keratinocytes During Wound Healing
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: ABSTRACT Wound healing is a highly complex mechanism involving overlapping stages which starts with a phase of inflammation followed by proliferation and reepithelization. The overall effect is to re...

Gene Engineering in Livestock Animals for the Dairy Industry
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Milk is natural occurring, one of the complete food produced and secreted by any animal. It provide a source of growth and energy and enhances the immunity of its recipient. Milk is formulated according to nutritional needs of an infant at a certain point....

Growth Rate Dispersion of Lactose in C-Chips
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract— Growth rate dispersion in lactose crystallization was not well understood. Many researches were performed such as overall growth rate dispersion contact nucleation by Shi (1989), lactose ...

Characterisation of NGN2 Neurons Harbouring a Single, Large Scale mtDNA Deletion
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: 5.1 Introduction 5.1.1 Mitochondrial mutations MtDNA mutations are an important cause of inherited disease. Point mutations, deletions and insertion mutations are the most common in human mitochondri...

Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infection of PMVECs Effect on GSAP Expression to Produce Cytotoxic Beta Amyloid
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: SPECIFIC AIMS Pseudomonas aeruginosa induces the production and release of amyloids, including beta amyloid, from pulmonary microvascular endothelial cells (PMVECs)1,2. Once released, these pathologi...

Pathways Regulating VEGF Activity During the Decidualisation of Endometrial Stromal Cells
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: 1.1 The endometrium and the menstrual cycle 1.1.1 The human endometrium The endometrium is the mucosal lining of the uterus and it is a unique and dynamic multi-layered tissue consisting of a functio...

Carbonate Substitution in the Mineral Component of Bone
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Carbonate substitution in the mineral component of bone: Discriminating the structural changes, simultaneously imposed by carbonate in A and B sites of apatite Abstract: The mineral component of bon...

Isolating Listeria Monocytogenes in Food Sample
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Report 4# Listeria monocytogenes Introduction Listeria monocytogenes is a gram positive, facultative anaerobe and a non-spore forming bacterium that is extensively spread in several environments and ...

The endosymbiosis conundrum:
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract Polyploidization is a common characteristic of highly reduced endosymbiont genomes but how and why it emerges in early stages of endosymbiosis is little understood. One recent example of end...

Development of Soy Protein Isolate/Montmorillonite Biocomposites Obtained by Injection Moulding
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Abstract The development of biocomposites requires a deep knowledge of physical, chemical and functional properties of biopolymers and fillers used. Soy protein, in combination with glycerol and mon...

Does Generalised Reciprocity Explain the Evolution of Cooperation in the Trinidadian Guppy?
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Does generalised reciprocity explain the evolution of cooperation in the Trinidadian guppy (Poecilia reticulata)? Abstract Generalised reciprocity is a cognitively simple cooperation mechanism whereb...

Developmental Plasticity in Evolution of B Cells
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Table of content Aabstract 2 Introduction 3 The adaptive immunity system  3 B cell development 7 Evolution of the development of B cells within the gnathostomes 7 Identification of adaptive Immun...

Genomic DNA: Determining Its Quantity and Quality, Polymerase Chain Reaction and Molecular Tools
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: The aim of this three day workshop was to isolate this gene of interest from a culture of E. coli using a kit based method. The quality and quantity of DNA extracted was to be determined using spectrophotometry....

Effects of Neurotoxicants and Anti-depressants on the Behaviour and Metabolism of Zebrafish Larvae
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: The aim of this study is to recognise the impacts of neurotoxins on the behaviour and metabolic activity of zebrafish larvae, to find a correlation between the changes at sub-lethal levels, before ecological death occurs....

Microbial Fuel Cell with Biosensors
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: MICROBIAL FUEL CELL WITH BIOSENSORS ABSTRACT For a consistent growth in economy and human progress, the energy and water are inevitable. The population explosion and industrialization led to high e...

Role of Bioinformatics Analysis and Databases in Determination of Function of Proteins with Unknown Functions (PUF)
9th Dec 2019
Introduction: Orphan genes are the genes, that doesn’t have any comparable homologues in other lineages. In other words, genes can be called orphan when they are unique to a species (or in some cases unique to a ...