{"title":"Effects of Different Initial pH of Modified Zarrok Medium on Large-scale Spirulina Maxima Culture","authors":"P. Sornchai, S. Iamtham","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.2.4.266-269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.2.4.266-269","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of Modified Zarrouk Medium (MZM) with different pH on Spirulina maxima culture were determined using five parameters: the growth rate, lag phase duration, nutrients (protein, carbohydrate and lipid), pigments (chlorophyll-a, betacarotene and phycocyanin), and morphology of the algae. The experiment was divided into 4 treatments. All treatment contained the same MZM; however, different initial pH of 9, 9.5, 10 and 10.5 were applied to the experimental treatment I, II, III and IV, respectively. The parameters of these treatments were compared to those of the positive control (the Zarrouk medium pH 9). The results showed that the algae grown in media treatment I could reduce the duration of lag phase and gave the highest specific growth rate (4.12 0.005 g/l), while the algae grown in media treatment IV provided the lowest specific growth rate (1.09 0.006 g/l). Regarding nutrients, the algae grown in media treatment I provided highest protein content of 71.0±0.06 % and the algae grown in media treatment III provided the highest carbohydrate content of 17.07±0.02 %. It was found that algae grown in media treatment I yielded the best in pigment contents, which were the chlorophyll-a (15.2±0.16 mg/g), betacarotene (3.16±0.32 mg/g) and phycocyanin (46.37±0.20 mg/g). The Morphological studies of algae using microscope SEM and TEM revealed that most trichome of algae grown in media treatment III and group IV were changed from helicoidal to straight.","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"87 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125365991","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}
L. Shank, Pairoje Kijjanapanich, S. Phutrakul, Nattapong Fongbua
{"title":"Characterization of Partially Purified Peroxidase from Fingerroot (Boesenbergia Rotunda (L.) Mansf.)","authors":"L. Shank, Pairoje Kijjanapanich, S. Phutrakul, Nattapong Fongbua","doi":"10.12720/jomb.4.3.170-177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/jomb.4.3.170-177","url":null,"abstract":"Peroxidase from fingerroot was partially purified and characterized for potential use in analytical applications. The procedure began with crude extract preparation, followed by ammonium sulfate fractionation and concanavalin A-sepharose 4B affinity chromatography. The fraction of protein precipitated at 20-40% saturation of ammonium sulfate possessed the highest specific activity of 7.74 units/ mg. This fraction was subsequently purified further using affinity binding of peroxidase, a glycosylated enzyme, to Concanavalin A-sepharose 4B column. The chromatographic step produced peroxidase with specific activity of 55.33 units/ mg and resulted in 19.34 fold of purification. Invetigation on optimal conditions revealed pH optimum to be at 6 and temperature optimum to be at 40 °C. After 5 hour incubation fingerroot peroxidase retained 60% of activity at pH 6 and 40 °C. Activity of the enzyme rapidly dropped at pH 2, while temperature at 70 °C and above inactivated the enzyme within the first hour. At concentration of 5 mM CaCl2, MgCl2, MnCl2, NaCl and ZnCl2 did not show notable effect on peroxidase activity, whereas CuCl2 and FeCl2 moderately inhibited the activity of peroxidase. AlCl3 and FeCl3 at 5 mM highly inhibited the activity of the enzyme up to 70%. ","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122863307","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}
A. Yunanto, Rizky Taufan Firdaus, T. Triawanti, E. Suhartono
{"title":"Salivary Antioxidative Index in Newborns at Risk of Sepsis as Novel Parameter for Early-Onset Neonatal Sepsis","authors":"A. Yunanto, Rizky Taufan Firdaus, T. Triawanti, E. Suhartono","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.3.1.63-66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.3.1.63-66","url":null,"abstract":" Ab stract—Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome in the first months of infant life due to a systemic response caused by the presence of pathogenic microorganisms or their products in the blood. Sepsis promotes the unbalanced production of oxidant and anti-oxidant subs","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126509715","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}
Yusaku Nishi, K. Horio, Kentaro Saito, M. Habu, K. Tominaga
{"title":"Discrimination of Oral Mucosal Disease Inspired by Diagnostic Process of Specialist","authors":"Yusaku Nishi, K. Horio, Kentaro Saito, M. Habu, K. Tominaga","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.2.1.57-61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.2.1.57-61","url":null,"abstract":"A discrimination of oral mucosal diseases is very important in clinical site. Therefore, a development of a screening support system for oral mucosal diseases which supports the diagnosis of clinical dentist is required. In this paper, a discrimination method based on fuzzy inference using four attributes (existence of vitiligos, bulges, granular patterns, and reddening) for oral mucosal diseases is proposed. As the results of the experiment, the discrimination rates of squamous cell carcinoma, leukoplakia and lichen planus were 87%, 70% and 87%, respectively. The results suggest that the proposed method is effective in discriminating oral mucosal diseases. ","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114219406","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":"Dual Carbon Fermentation for the Production of Inducible Cellobiohydrolase by Recombinant Aspergillus Niger","authors":"N. Othman, J. Jahim, A. Murad, F. Bakar","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.3.2.93-97","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.3.2.93-97","url":null,"abstract":" Abstract—This study investigates the use of two carbon sources in fermentation for the production of cellobiohydrolase (CBH), an adaptive or inducible enzyme. Selection of carbon source was first done using single substrate cultivation between glucose, maltose and lactose using recombinant A. niger PY11. This recombinant microorganism will produce CBH in high quantity, with maltose acting as its main inducer. Glucose and maltose were selected in dual carbon fermentation, as glucose produce highest biomass 0.32g/ml at day 4 th and maltose produce 0.42g/ml biomass at day 9 th . Cultivation of A. niger was done for dual carbon containing sugar glucose and maltose with concentration ratio 1:1. Cultivation with medium containing maltose was done for comparison between single carbon and dual carbon. For dual carbon cultivation, highest biomass form at day 7 th at 0.44g/ml while specific enzyme activity reached 10.54 U/g at day 8 th . For single substrate, highest biomass production was recorded at day 9 th with 0.41g/ml.while specific enzyme activity at day 7 th at 4.02 U/g. Index Terms—cellobiohydrolase (CBH), dual carbon cultivation, recombinant Aspergillus niger. static surface liquid culture. (SSCL)","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123534964","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":"Protein Remote Homology Detection by Combining Profile-based Protein Representation with Local Alignment Kernel","authors":"Bin Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Ruifeng Xu, Buzhou Tang","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.3.1.17-22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.3.1.17-22","url":null,"abstract":"Protein remote homology detection has attracted a great deal of interest as it is one of the most important problems in bioinformatics. Profile-based methods recently achieve the state-of-the-art performance. A key step to improve the performance of these methods is to find a suitable approach to use the evolutionary information in the profiles. In this study, we propose the profile-based protein representation to extract the evolutionary information from frequency profiles. In this approach, the frequency profiles calculated from the multiple sequence alignments outputted by PSI-BLAST are converted into several profile-based proteins and then the local alignment kernel (LA) is combined with these profile-based proteins for the prediction. Our experiments on a well-known benchmark show that the proposed approach can significantly improve the predictive performance.","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123271412","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}
T. A. Wihastuti, D. Sargowo, Setyawati Soeharto, T. Heriansyah, Grace R. Widyasih
{"title":"Vasa Vasorum Angiogenesis through Increased Levels of H2O2, HIF-1α, NF-κB and INOS: In Vivo Study of Atherosclerosis","authors":"T. A. Wihastuti, D. Sargowo, Setyawati Soeharto, T. Heriansyah, Grace R. Widyasih","doi":"10.12720/jomb.4.5.342-349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/jomb.4.5.342-349","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123622675","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}
Farehah Z. A. Nur, I. Norli, Norfariha M. N Siti, A. I. Siti, R. Renuka
{"title":"Ammoniacal Nitrogen Removal in Semiconductor Wastewater by Sequence Batch Reactor Using Bacteria Inoculum from WormTea","authors":"Farehah Z. A. Nur, I. Norli, Norfariha M. N Siti, A. I. Siti, R. Renuka","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.3.4.241-244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.3.4.241-244","url":null,"abstract":"Two condition of treatment (aerobic and anaerobic) environment in SBR were applied. Three isolated bacteria from worm tea have been used in the semiconductor wastewater treatment; there are Bacillus pumilus, Micrococcus lutues and Staphylococcus warnaeri. The SBR were monitored 30 days, using synthetic semiconductor wastewater in the treatment which contained high concentration amount of NH3N, 1000mg/L. The results showed efficiencies of removal of ammoniacal nitrogen by Staphylococcus warneri is 97.2% which remained NH3N 30 mg/L, Bacillus pumilus is 60.7% and Micrococcus lutues is 79.2% respectively, and the highest microbial density of S. warneri was about 3.02 (optical density).","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129381653","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":"Incidence of Breast Cancer in a Primary Hospital in Relation to ABO Blood Groups System","authors":"S. Abobaker, M. Kamil","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.3.1.74-77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.3.1.74-77","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to investigate the association of ABO blood group system with breast cancer in a primary hospital in Penang. Moreover the study was conducted to assess the utility of ABO blood group as a preclinical marker. The study sample consisted of 70 and 140 cancer and controlled subjects respectively. Factors such as blood group, age, ethnic group were examined in 70 female subjects of breast cancer. Blood samples were taken from 140 healthy subjects to examin the distribution of ABO blood group types with different Malaysian races. Incidence in cancer patients is high with blood group A and AB compared with control group; however the association was not statistically significant. For blood group B and O were lower in cancer patients compared to control healthy group and the association was statistically significant. The results also indicated that blood type should be considered along with other risk factors to understand the patient’s risk. Conclusion: Blood group A is highly associated with breast cancer (30.0%), in contrast to the other blood groups.","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130264300","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}
J. P. Sendaydiego, J. Gorospe, A. Torres, R. Amparado, C. Demayo
{"title":"Describing Wing Shape among Culex Quinquefasciatus Say (Diptera: Culicidae) Detected Positive and Negative for Filaria Using Relative Warp Analysis","authors":"J. P. Sendaydiego, J. Gorospe, A. Torres, R. Amparado, C. Demayo","doi":"10.12720/JOMB.3.1.50-54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12720/JOMB.3.1.50-54","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined populations of Culex quinquefasciatus in filariasis-endemic communities of Misamis Oriental, Philippines. C. Quinquefasciatus, has been of interest to public health since it was identified as a vector of filariasis in the Philippines in 1995. In surveillance and control programs, problems in identification is encountered as it requires some specialized skill and a well preserved set of specimen which is sometimes difficult to acquire. It is for these reasons that alternative method of identification and discrimination of Culex individuals has been desired to resolve problems related with vector species diversification and identification. In this study, geometric morphometric approach was used to test the hypothesis that there exists some variation in the wing shape pattern of C. Quinquefasciatus identified as positive and negative of filaria based on the landmarks' position on the wings. To illustrate ordination of the shapes' consensus, the mean shape of the two populations was measured by a relative warp ordination plot using the software tpsRelw version 1.46. Results of the relative warp analysis showed significant variation between the two populations. The four extracted significant relative warps account for a total of 68.54% variation in wing geometry pattern. Variations were observed in the wing apex and base. These variations may have genetic basis or maybe mere reflections of phenotypic plasticity brought about by the changing environmental conditions. ","PeriodicalId":437476,"journal":{"name":"Journal of medical and bioengineering","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127842427","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}