Search results for "LONG"

Effect of CCC and pH on shoot elongation in Sedum rubrotinctum R.T. Clausen

2002

Sedum rubrotinctum plants grown during winter in a glasshouse had decreased leaf density and increased internode length as well as loss of red coloring, leading to diminished ornamental value. Treatment with growth retardant (2-chloroethyl)trimethyl ammonium chloride (CCC) reduced internode length as well as the number of internodes. Concomitant changes of ethylene production and peroxidase activity were found in CCC-treated plants. Substrate pH had a significant effect on the growth of S. rubrotinctum. This leads to the conclusion that increase of shoot growth during winter period could be reversed by means of growth retardant CCC and acidification of substrate.

Relation of fruit color, elongation, hardness, and volume to the infestation of olive cultivars by the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae

2012

The susceptibility of olive cultivars to the olive fruit fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) (Diptera: Tephritidae), has seldom been studied. This article examines factors associated with olive fruit fly infestation of 16 commonly planted Sicilian olive cultivars. Total infestation data were simultaneously correlated with categorical and quantitative factors using ordinal logistic regression. When all factors were included in the analysis, year, sampling date, cultivar, and fruit color were highly significant, but the quantitative factors fruit volume, fruit elongation, and fruit hardness were not. When the analysis was repeated excluding cultivar, all quantitative factors were significant, and e…

Review of the Long-Term Safety of a Human Pasteurized C1 Inhibitor Concentrate

2012

Drosophila melanogaster overexpression FAS live longer

2018

FAS and FAS ligand is critical in the control of the extension of extrinsic pathway of apoptosis. In previous studies we have performed transcriptomics peripheral blood cells from centenarians, octogenarians and young persons and we found over expression in centenarians of the FAS receptor. To confirm the role of FAS ligand in longevity across animal species, we have generated Drosophila melanogaster that over expresses this gene using the GAL4-UAS technique. The results show that flies overexpressing FAS increase maximal longevity in twelve percent and average longevity in six percent. Therefore, we confirm that FAS is related to longevity flight.

Efectos del ejercicio físico y la administración de alopurinol sobre biomarcadores musculares y cardiovasculares. El ejercicio físico como promotor d…

2014

El ejercicio físico agotador produce radicales libres que están implicados en el daño muscular y renal en deportes individuales (maratón, ciclismo, halterofilia). Hace algo más de medio siglo que se comprobó que el músculo esquelético contiene radicales libres. Existen evidencias de que la actividad muscular intensa puede desembocar en un estrés oxidativo que se manifiesta en un aumento en la oxidación del glutatión, oxidación de proteínas, oxidación del ADN y lipoperoxidación. El ejercicio físico cuando se realiza hasta el agotamiento causa estrés oxidativo. En este sentido encontramos una correlación lineal entre el cociente glutatión oxidado y reducido y el cociente lactato-piruvato. Exi…

Non-Coding RNA Networks as Potential Novel Biomarker and Therapeutic Target for Sepsis and Sepsis-Related Multi-Organ Failure.

2022

According to “Sepsis-3” consensus, sepsis is a life-threatening clinical syndrome caused by a dysregulated inflammatory host response to infection. A rapid identification of sepsis is mandatory, as the extent of the organ damage triggered by both the pathogen itself and the host’s immune response could abruptly evolve to multiple organ failure and ultimately lead to the death of the patient. The most commonly used therapeutic strategy is to provide hemodynamic and global support to the patient and to rapidly initiate broad-spectrum empiric antibiotic therapy. To date, there is no gold standard diagnostic test that can ascertain the diagnosis of sepsis. Therefore, once sepsis is suspected, t…

Cloning of an alkane hydroxylase system in a long chain n-alkane- degrader Gordonia sp.

2008

Five Gram-positive GC rich n-alkane degraders were isolated from a long-term accidentally contaminated beach in Sicily and identified as one Nocardia, two Rhodococcus and two Gordonia strains (Quatrini et al., 2008 J. Appl. Microbiol. 104:251-9). All the isolates were able to grow on long and very long chain n-alkanes up to C36. Diverging alkane-hydroxylase encoding genes (alkB) were detected by PCR using degenerated primers in all the strains. Multiple sequences were obtained from the Nocardia strain while only one alkB gene was detected in Rhodococcus and Gordonia. The aim of this work is to genetically characterize the alk cluster in one of the two Gordonia strains called SoCg. Pulsed Fi…

Data from: Factors associated with first- versus second-generation long-acting antipsychotics prescribed under ordinary clinical practice in Italy

2019

Background. For many years, long-acting intramuscular (LAI) antipsychotics have been prescribed predominantly to chronic and severe patients, as a last resort when other treatments failed. Recently, a broader and earlier use of LAIs, particularly second-generation LAIs, has been emphasized. To date, few studies attempted to frame how this change in prescribing took place in real-world practice. Therefore, this study aimed to describe the clinical features of patients prescribed with LAIs, and to explore possible prescribing differences between first- and second-generations LAIs under ordinary clinical practice in Italy. Methods. The STAR Network "Depot" Study is an observational, longitudin…

Regular Strength and Sprint Training Counteracts Bone Aging: a 10- year Follow-up in Male Masters Athletes

2021

According to cross-sectional and interventional studies, high-intensity strength and impact-type training provide a powerful osteogenic stimulus even in old age. Longitudinal evidence on the ability of high-intensity training to attenuate age-related bone deterioration is currently lacking, however. This follow-up study assessed the role of continued strength and sprint training on bone aging in 40- to 85-year-old male sprinters (n=69) with long-term training background. pQCT-derived bone structural, strength and densitometric parameters of the distal tibia (5% distal-proximal tibia length) and tibial midshaft (50% length) were assessed at baseline and after 10 years. The groups of well-tra…

A Reconsideration of the Role of Forward-Market Arbitrage in Keynes’s and Hicks’s Theories of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

2014

International audience; This paper develops the relationship between Hicks’s and Keynes’s writings on the theory of the term structure of interest rates, and shows in detail how Hicks built on and extended Keynes’s account. According to this theory, the level of the long-term interest rate is determined by expectations of future short-term rates. Keynes’s thinking contained several notions – such as the preferred habitat of lenders, the theory of forward markets, and risk-premiums – which Hicks used to give a more complete theory of the term structure of interest rates. Besides implementing these notions in his own theory, Hicks introduced the concepts of the preferred habitat of borrowers,…