{"title":"Craniofacial morphometric study of adult Ogoni people of Nigeria","authors":"G. Oladipo, Uzomba Gc, Alabi As, Gbarayege Bb","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00156","url":null,"abstract":"Craniofacial morphometric study is a constituent of both cranial and facial parameters such as fronto-occipital circumference, intercanthal distance, canthal index and circumference interorbital index and over the years they have showed consistent important landmark for anatomist and surgeons. In the view of1 craniofacial anthropometry is a technique used in bothphysical and clinical anthropology comprising precise and systematic measurements of the bones of the human skull.The usefulness of head circumference, intercanthal distances, canthal index and circumference interorbital index to clinicians in description diagnosis and surgical treatment of abnormal skeletal and facial patternsand manufacturing of spectacle frames and lenses cannot be overemphasized2 and their also reported the male mean canthal indices of Ijaw and Igbo tribes of Nigeria to be 37.04 and 32.59 respectively and female Ijaw as 33.11 and female Igbo as 32.51.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73129929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aero–acoustics in constricted pipe flow at low mach number","authors":"Hansen A Mansy","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00155","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00155","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80279892","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. León, J. Cerda, Gustavo Santoyo Pizano, Liliana Márquez Benavides, B. Martínez, J. Yáñez
{"title":"Bioremediation and Phytoremediation of Soils Polluted With Hydrocarbons: Assumptions and Comments","authors":"I. León, J. Cerda, Gustavo Santoyo Pizano, Liliana Márquez Benavides, B. Martínez, J. Yáñez","doi":"10.5296/JAB.V7I1.13243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JAB.V7I1.13243","url":null,"abstract":"The studies reported in the literature dealing with remediation of soils polluted with hydrocarbons (HCs) very often conclude that the soil was remediated by following some specific actions, microorganisms, plants or both. However, when affirming this, attention should be taken, since environmental regulations related to HCs as pollutants commonly differ from one country to another. In addition, some other research reports on remediation lack of a local environmental regulation, which could indicate the concentration of HCs, permitted in soils. The present short review highlights the importance of these concepts.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87988515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Leclerc, F. Letourneur, D. Davoult, A. Jolly, P. Grange
{"title":"Evidence of immune genes in the crinoïd: Antedon bifida evidence of A.bifida Igkappa gene and a FC receptor one","authors":"M. Leclerc, F. Letourneur, D. Davoult, A. Jolly, P. Grange","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00154","url":null,"abstract":"The general idea that emerged from the experiments, made in our laboratory, was that Echinodermata, as exemplified, by sea star Asterias rubens (Asterids)and by Ophiocomina nigra (Ophuirids), possessed an immune system, able to mount cellular and humoral-specific responses. After stimulation with a foreign antigen:the horse-radish peroxydase(HRP).1,2 Then,these echinodermata produced a primitive antibody, correlated to an Igkappa gene3–5 to a Fab gene,6 a Fc receptor gene.7 But a question desserves to be put: did the ancestral Echinodermata, Antedon bifida, (Crinoïd) possess such genes? It is why, in a first time, we look for IgKappa gene, Fab gene, Fc receptor gene in this crinoïd by the mean of genomic studies.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86947428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Ekwemalor, E. Asiamah, E. Eluka-Okoludoh, B. Osei, M. Worku
{"title":"Toll-Like Receptor Agonists Modulate Galectin Gene Expression in Goat Blood","authors":"K. Ekwemalor, E. Asiamah, E. Eluka-Okoludoh, B. Osei, M. Worku","doi":"10.5296/JAB.V6I2.13462","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5296/JAB.V6I2.13462","url":null,"abstract":"Pathogenesis and lack of effective therapeutics pose a threat to animal and public health. Recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPS) by Toll-like receptors is associated with gene activation. Galectins are sugar-binding proteins that play a role in pathogen-recognition and immune modulation. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of different TLR agonists on galectin gene expression and secretion in goat blood. Blood was collected from the jugular vein of BoerXSpanish goats (n=3). Blood was treated with 10 µg/ml Lipopolysaccharide, Peptidoglycan, 12.5 µg/ml of Polyinosinic-polycytidylic acid, 10 µg/ml CpG ODN (2216) and 10 µg/ml CpG ODN (2006) or PBS control. Secretion of galectin-1, -3 and -9 was measured by ELISA. Expression of LGALS-1, -2, -3, -4, -7, -8, -9, -11, -12, -14, -15, -16 was assessed using real-time PCR. Beta-actin and GAPDH served as controls. Fold change in gene expression was calculated using the 2−ΔΔCt method. Data were analyzed using SAS 9.4 statistical analysis software (p < 0.05). Expression and secretion galectins was modulated by different PAMPS (p < 0.05) and may have implications for design of therapeutics based on TLR agonists.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89950848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survival of Klebsiella pneumoniae strain borkar in pomegranate orchard soil and its tolerance to temperature and pH","authors":"Ajayasree Ts, Borkar Sg","doi":"10.15406/JABB.2018.05.00153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/JABB.2018.05.00153","url":null,"abstract":"Survival of plant pathogenic bacteria in soil depends on several factors like soil environmental condition, soil’s physical and chemical properties, soil’s texture and structure, the infected crop residues in soil and the ability of bacteria to survive all these external factors. Perpetuation of the bacteria in soil over a long period makes the soil uncultivable for that crop, helps in spread of disease and its intensities year after year and a cause for substantial yield losses.1","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83400316","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Groundwater (GW) quality for drinking by gold‒standard (GS) at high‒altitude (HA) area, “VISION 2030 G”, Taif, KSA","authors":"S. M. M Sabra, Afaf Bushara M Ismail","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86184092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Histopathology of Klebsiella pneumoniae strain Borkar inciting root bark necrosis and wilt in pomegranate","authors":"Borkar Sg, Ajayasree Ts","doi":"10.15406/JABB.2018.05.00150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/JABB.2018.05.00150","url":null,"abstract":"Soil borne plant pathogenic bacteria generally causes wilting symptoms by infecting the vascular tissues of plant root. During April 2015, the pomegranate plants in the Arid Zone Fruit Research Project, Mahatma Phule Agricultural University, Rahuri, India exhibited some unusually wilted plants. The symptoms included yellowing of leaves of one or two twigs, followed by their drooping and subsequent death of infected twigs. Subsequently other twigs also showed infection and the entire plant die within 2-3 months. The root system of infected plant shows root bark necrosis lesions spread on the root bark (Figure 1). There was no vascular infection present in the root. The wilting without vascular infection was unusual and therefore the histopathology of root infection was undertaken to assess the infection site and nature of infection in the pomegranate root.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76950074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. A. Oliveira, L. F. Coelho, N. Bernardi, J. Contiero
{"title":"Experimental design for optimization of D-lactic acid production using a UV-light selected strain","authors":"R. A. Oliveira, L. F. Coelho, N. Bernardi, J. Contiero","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00148","url":null,"abstract":"Lactic acid (LA) is an organic acid with a hydroxyl and an acid functional group.1,2 It can be produced by humans, plants, animals and microorganisms.2 It has an asymmetric carbon and it naturally occurs as two optical isomers, Dand L-LA, due to the existence of a chiral centre.1,3 It was discovered in 1780 by the experimental chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, isolated from sour milk. Currently is known as 2-hydroxypropanoic acid.4","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91389935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mechanism of generation of nerve impulse and its features of propagation along the nerve fiber cells in living systems","authors":"P. Feng, Z. Juan, Josephine jiang, N. Jia","doi":"10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.15406/jabb.2018.05.00147","url":null,"abstract":"The form of the action electric-potential in nerve membranes in the nerve cell-membranes are first described, it is, in essence, a nerve impulse and can be formed by virtue of periodic and ruled changes of non-uniform distribution of the sodium and potassium ions in the inner and surface of nerve cell-membranes. The nerve impulse can be also transported along the nerve fiber membranes under action of periodic works of sodium pump and potassium pump arising from the bio-energy released from the hydrolyses reaction of ATP molecules, which is transported by Pam’s split on along the protein molecules. The experiments verified that there is not the nerve impulse, or the action electricpotential without the works of sodium pump and potassium pump, or the bioenergy. We investigated further the properties of transport of the nerve impulse along the nerve Ferber membranes.","PeriodicalId":15033,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89391953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}