Chapter I Introduction A. Background of Study | Termite is a common name for numerous species of social insects that can damage wooden structures such as furniture or houses. Of about 2000 known species‚ most are distributed in tropical countries and some inhabit the temperate regions of North and South America; two have become established in southern Europe. Termites are known also as white ants‚ a misnomer based on superficial similarities in the appearance and habits of these
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1 Introduction: Arsenic is a ruthless killer in Bangladesh’s drinking water is making millions of people sick and may be causing as many as 3‚000 deaths each year. That killer--naturally occurring arsenic in the water drawn from family wells--appears to have been released through a process involving crop irrigation‚ at least in one part of the country. At a research site in the southern part of Bangladesh‚ scientists calculated that irrigation pumping‚ which began in the last several decades‚ has
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POTENTIAL TARGET FOR HIV ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY ABSTRACT HIV was discovered to be a life threatening disease in 1983‚ since then scientist have been progressively trying to develop antiretroviral therapy. Many drugs have been introduced to fight against HIV‚ but each of the drug have some level of toxicity or drug resistance to it‚ Which is why novel targets have been identified that can serve as antiretroviral therapy. Potential targets are explored from all the stages in HIV life cycle here
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Mushroom A mushroom (or toadstool) is the fleshy‚ spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus‚ typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom‚ Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota‚ Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe)‚ a cap (pileus)‚ and gills (lamellae‚ sing. lamella) or pores on the underside of the cap. "Mushroom" describes a variety of gilled
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a virus that causes respiratory tract infections. The Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)‚ discovered in 1956‚ is capable of causing a broad spectrum of illnesses. In 1956‚ Morris and colleagues initially isolated RSV from chimpanzees with upper respiratory tract (URT) infections as the causative agent of most epidemic bronchiolitis cases. Subsequently‚ Channock et al (1956) associated this agent with bronchiolitis and lower respiratory
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SSM 2013-‐14 3 The Correlation between HER-2 Status and Brain Metastases in Trastuzumab-treated Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer Ka-Kiu Claire Fung Literature Review: Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Project Convenor: Dr J A Smith Word Count: 3223 words C a n d i d a t e N u m b e r : 2 0 7 7 Ka-Kiu Claire Fung Abstract It is widely known that patients with HER-2-positive advanced breast cancer are at particularly
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CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction It is no secret that greens are good for the body but surprisingly‚ despite their large number of nutritional advantages‚ they are one of the most under-consumed foods in the average person ’s diet. There is such a wide variety of green vegetable with different textures and tastes that including one or more as part of a balanced diet need no longer be a point of contention. They can easily be incorporated in recipe favorites‚ are inexpensive
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Review Article p53: Structure‚ Function and Therapeutic Applications Ling Bai and Wei-Guo Zhu1 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology‚ Peking University Health Science Center‚ Beijing‚ China [L. Bai‚ W.-G. Zhu]; Department of Biotechnology‚ Guilin Medical College‚ Guilin‚ China [L. Bai] Since the p53 tumor suppressor gene has been found to be mutated in more than 50% of human cancers‚ it has attracted the interest of numerous researchers. The capacity of p53 for multiple biological
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Designation: F 2212 – 08e1 Standard Guide for Characterization of Type I Collagen as Starting Material for Surgical Implants and Substrates for Tissue Engineered Medical Products (TEMPs)1 This standard is issued under the fixed designation F 2212; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of original adoption or‚ in the case of revision‚ the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A superscript epsilon (e) indicates an
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Advanced Drug Formulation Design to Optimize Therapeutic Outcomes DRUGS AND THE PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES A Series of Textbooks and Monographs Executive Editor James Swarbrick PharmaceuTech‚ Inc. Pinehurst‚ North Carolina Advisory Board Larry L. Augsburger University of Maryland Baltimore‚ Maryland Harry G. Brittain Center for Pharmaceutical Physics Milford‚ New Jersey Jennifer B. Dressman Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt‚ Germany Anthony J. Hickey University of
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