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... ically stable, ACTH-responsive, steroid-secreting, clonal cell line that expresses high levels of ACTH- Receptors, closely mimicking fasciculate cells from the normal adrenal cortex. Y1, along of the last forty years, ... See full document

... Embryos and portions of young and mature vegetative organs (root, rhizome, leaf and scape) were dehydrated in an ethyl series and then they were embedded in historesin (Leica Historesin Embedding Kit, Nussloch, ... See full document

... In shade plants, the water parenchyma has seven to nine layers of isodiametric and dorso-ventrally elongated cells in the base and in the middle of the leaves; and fi ve to seven laye[r] ... See full document

... In this paper, on the one hand, we obtain vanishing theorems of two classes of complete manifolds that satisfy weighted Poincaré inequalities (Theorems 2.2 and 2.7). At the same time, we apply Theorem 2.2 to minimal ... See full document

... collected and the solvent evaporated under reduced pressure. The lipid fraction was dried to constant weight in an oven at 60°C. Total lipids was also quantified according to the methodology of Bligh and Dyer ... See full document

... Figure 3 - Curve of the expected size of sample units (Average sample number) for the test sequential probability ratio to total population of adult Bemisia tuberculata (Hemipt[r] ... See full document

... Many studies performed with plants resulted in the development of natural antioxidant formulations. However, there is not enough scientific information about antioxidant properties of various plants, especially those ... See full document

... for an oviposition site and, therefore, the female’s choice is based on "vocalization quality" (Ryan 1980), (2) the vocalization of the male within the bromeliad indicates bromeliad characteristics of ... See full document

... Although the cytotoxic activity of acetogenins has already been described, the high level of this activity observed in these compounds confirms their potential for being used in anti-cancer therapy. Regarding ... See full document

... After an extensive revision of the literature and the herbarium material available, this species is recorded for the first time to the State of Rio Grande do ... See full document

... the current velocities due to increasing amplitude of the tide, which contributes to expansion of the mixing process. Conversely, when there is a decrease in current velocity, the advective process generates a greater ... See full document

... be an important method for investigating the toxic and mutagenic effects of chemical substances (Andrade et ...of an organ such as the root is intimately dependent on the increase in the number of cells and ... See full document

... 2955, FUNED 2959, and of both sides in FUNED 2948, FUNED 2949, FUNED 2952, FUNED 2953 and FUNED 2960; in these specimens the temporal contacts the postocular dorsally, third supralabial ventro-anteriorly, postsupralabial ... See full document

... Observed by SEM (Fig. 2) the spores are verrucate-tuberculate on the proximal face. Single or fused ridges are seen on the distal face. On ridge surfaces, the micro-ornamentation is verrucate-tuberculate, similar to that ... See full document

... High content screening systems such as the Ar- rayScan VTI from Cellomics and the ImageXpress UL- TRA from Molecular Devices are a more sophisticated approach in measuring cell viability. These instruments represent a ... See full document

... Data from the present study shows an influence of the microalgae species and density on the egg production in the copepod Acartia tonsa. At low microalgae densities, a low egg production was observed for the three ... See full document

... A presença de altos níveis de metais pesados envolve riscos à saúde humana e pode induzir doenças crônicas. Este trabalho relata a contaminação metálica causada por pilhas de escória siderúrgica acumulada durante mais de ... See full document

... Fig. 1 – (a) Phylogenetic analysis of Schistosome serpins. The thirteen serpins were aligned using MUSCLE and a bootstrapped maximum likelihood tree was generated using PhyML 3.0. The percentage branch bootstrap support ... See full document

... is an additional parameter to be evaluated, especially in mass rearing that is becoming increasingly common, for the production and commercialization of parasitoids and predators in programs for Biological ... See full document

... However, the transfusion volume was frequently smaller than the desired because of the limited amount of blood available from one donor. Multiple trans- fusions were avoided in order to decrease the risk for transfusion ... See full document