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Purification, Kinetic Properties and Antitumor Activity of L-Glutaminase from Penicillium brevicompactum NRC 829

Ali Mohamed Elshafei, Mohamed Mohamed Hassan1, Nadia Hussein Ali, Mohamed Abd-Elmontasr Abouzeid, Dalia Ali Mahmoud & Dina Helmy Elghonemy · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2013

Aim: The aims of the present study were to purify and characterize L-glutaminase from Penicillium brevicompactum NRC 829; and to evaluate the antitumor activity of the purified enzyme against different tumor human cell lines. Study Design: Testing of antitumor activity of L-gluta...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BMRJ/2014/5098

Isolation, Characterization and Protein Profiling of Lead Resistant Bacteria

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Juthika Das, Saheli Chatterjee, Pratiti Choudhuri & Agniswar Sarkar · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2013

Aims: To isolate lead resistant bacteria from industrial effluent and characterize them by biochemical tests, effect of physical and chemicals factors on their growth and protein profiling of the isolates on with or without metal stress. Study Design: Cross-sectional study of rel...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BMRJ/2014/5862

Molecular Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance Gene Cassettes Associated with Class 2 Integron in Salmonella Serovars Isolated in Iran

Bahareh Rajaei, Nahid Sepehri Rad, Farzad Badmasti, Mohamad Reza Razavi, Mohammad Reza Aghasadeghi, Raheleh Saboohi, Taraneh Rajaei, Arfa Moshiri, Mehdi Nejati, Ahmad Reza Bahremand & Seyed Davar Siadat · Microbiology Research Journal International · 2013

Aim:Salmonella is an important food-borne pathogen in humans and a broad range of animals. Antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella spp. is a serious health problem in human and veterinary medicine worldwide. The aim of this study was to detect integrons, the natural recombination...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BMRJ/2014/4639

Component Criticality Analysis: An Efficient Approach towards Minimizing the Risks of System Software Failure

Md. Mesbah-Ul-Awal, Muhammad Sheikh Sadi & Saikat Das · Physical Science International Journal · 2013

Component based approach mitigating the risk of system failure has been proposed by detecting of the most critical components which’s malfunction leads the software system towards failure and refactoring them. Individual components have their own chances of occurring fault and th...

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Employing Gaussian Apodization Technique in Fiber Bragg Gratings: A Simulation Study

M. Mahdi Shahidi, Ali A. Orouji, SO. Mohammadi & Nasrin Salehi · Physical Science International Journal · 2013

Nowadays, by increasingly using the Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) in communication industry, Fiber Bragg Gratings (FBGs) are extensively used in various telecommunication and sensors because of adjustable properties of Bragg wavelength and their bandwidth. In this artic...

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Traveling Wave Solutions of the Fourth Order Boussinesq Equation via the Improved (G'/G) Expansion Method

Ahata Shamul Alam, M. M. Zaman & Sayeda Sultana · Physical Science International Journal · 2013

In this article, the fourth order Boussinesq equation is investigated to generate many new traveling wave solutions via the improved (G'/G) -expansion method. In the method the second order linear ordinary differential equation with constant coefficients is used. Also, the result...

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Genetic Analysis of Salt Tolerance in Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.)

M. Nakhaei, A. Baghizadeh, G. Mohammadi-Nejad & P. Golkar · Annual Research & Review in Biology · 2013

Aim: The mode of agronomic traits inheritance was investigated in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) in salt stress as a new report in this study. Place and Duration of Study: This experiment was carried out in Agricultural Research Farm of Shahid Bahonar University at Ekhtiarab...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/ARRB/2014/5909

A Generalized Non-Stationary 4-Point b-ary Approximating Scheme

Pakeeza Ashraf & Ghulam Mustafa · Journal of Advances in Mathematics and Computer Science · 2013

A generalized non-stationary 4-point b-ary approximating subdivision scheme is presented for even integer b≥2. Lagrange trigonometric polynomial plays a key role in computation of mask of the generalized scheme. The proposed schemes can be considered as non-stationary counterpart...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/BJMCS/2014/4120

Effects of Micronutrients on Serum Antioxidant Status of Glaucoma Patients: A Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-masked Pilot Study

Alice L. Yu, Ozana Moraru, Carl Erb & Ulrich Welge-Lussen · Ophthalmology Research: An International Journal · 2013

Aims: Glaucoma is a chronic eye disease, which is associated with progressive optic neurodegeneration and concomitant visual field defects. Besides an elevated intraocular pressure, recent studies have suggested that other risk factors such as oxidative stress may play an importa...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/OR/2014/5926

Vitamin D Deficiency may be a Risk Factor for Ophthalmopathy in Patients with Graves’ Hyperthyroidism But Not Hashimoto's Thyroiditis

Hooshang Lahooti, Bryan Wise, H. Tjiang, Bernard Champion & Jack Wall · Ophthalmology Research: An International Journal · 2013

Aims: Apart from its key role in bone metabolism vitamin D plays a role in immune function, cancer prevention and autoimmunity induction. Vitamin D insufficiency (25-50 nmol/L) and deficiency (serum level < 25 nmol/L) are very common in the West Sydney and Blue Mountains areas...

Open access Research Article 10.9734/OR/2014/4795