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Marine Pharmacology: Potentialities in the Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Osteoporosis and Alzheimer's Disease
Several molecules isolated from various marine organisms (microorganisms, algae, fungi, invertebrates, and vertebrates) are currently under study...
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Bioprocess Engineering Data on the Cultivation of Marine Prokaryotes and Fungi
The temperature/pressure dependency of marine prokaryotes and fungi, in terms of their growth behaviour as well as their potential to produce new...
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Stochastic “Mirror Symmetry Breaking” via Self-Assembly, Reactivity and Amplification of Chirality: Relevance to Abiotic Conditions
Theories of prebiotic life suggest that homochirality emerged in Nature in abiotic times via deterministic or chance scenarios. This chapter deals...
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Applications of Evolutionary Computation in Structure Determination from Diffraction Data
Evolutionary algorithms are finding increasing use in the study of a wide range of different types of diffraction data. In this chapter, we review...
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The Application of Multi-Parameter Flow Cytometry to Monitor Individual Microbial Cell Physiological State
The development of multi-parameter flow cytometric techniques in our laboratories has led to a functional classification of the physiological state...
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Development of Culture Techniques of Keratinocytes for Skin Graft Production
The in vitro cultures of human tissues have attracted a great deal of medical attention as a promising technique for repairing defective tissues in...
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Large-Scale Micropropagation System of Plant Cells
Plant micropropagation is an efficient method of propagating disease-free, genetically uniform and massive amounts of plants in vitro. The scale-up...
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Regulation of Cephalosporin Biosynthesis
The filamentous fungus Acremonium chrysogenum is the natural producer of the β-lactam antibiotic cephalosporin C and is as such used worldwide in...
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Control of Fluxes Towards Antibiotics and the Role of Primary Metabolism in Production of Antibiotics
Yield improvements in antibiotic-producing strains have classically been obtained through random mutagenesis and screening. An attractive alternative...
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Regulation of oxidative stress response and antioxidant modification in Corynebacterium glutamicum
As an efficient and safe industrial bacterium, Corynebacterium glutamicum has extensive application in amino acid production. However, it often faces...
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Zinc Supplementation Reduces ROS Production and Prevents MDMA-Induced Apoptosis in TM3 Leydig Cells via the Inhibition of Pro-Apoptotic Proteins
MDMA can cause serious adverse effects on vital organs such as the heart, brain, and liver. Additionally, MDMA consumption can also potentially cause...
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Investigation of medicinal plant processing waste for electricity generation through biomethanation
One of the waste-to-energy conversion technologies is the use of waste from the processing of medicinal plants to create biogas, which may then be...
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Soft ionization mechanisms in flexible µ-tube plasma—elucidation of He-, Ar-, Kr-, and Xe-FµTP
The soft ionization mechanism of helium-based plasma seems to be understood while it still remains challenging in argon-based plasma, although many...
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Fluorescence Studies on the Binding Affinity and Determination of Vitamin B12 in the Presence of Fibrinogen
The binding properties between vitamin B12 (vitB12, cyanocobalamin) and fibrinogen (Fib) were investigated by UV-vis absorption and...
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Adeno-associated Virus as a Gene Therapy Vector: Vector Development, Production and Clinical Applications
Adeno-associated virus (AAV) has emerged as an attractive vector for gene therapy. AAV vectors have successfully been utilized to promote...
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Lentiviral Vectors
We review the use of lentiviral vectors in current human gene therapy applications that involve genetic modification of nondividing tissues with...
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Prototype Based Recognition of Splice Sites
Splice site recognition is an important subproblem of de novo gene finding, splice junctions constituting the boundary between coding and non-coding...
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Artificial Neural Networks for Reducing the Dimensionality of Gene Expression Data
The use of gene chips and microarrays for measuring gene expression is becoming widespread and is producing enormous amounts of data. With increasing...
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Plasmid Vaccines and Therapeutics: From Design to Applications
In the late 1980s, Vical and collaborators discovered that the injection into tissues of unformulated plasmid encoding various proteins resulted in...
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Conclusions
This chapter concludes this monograph. It starts with the summary of the progress, results, and status of the research project, followed by tasks of...