What are the major effects of hard water on fabrics? What is the main role of the ocean currents and prevailing winds? How does pH affect the chemical form of a toxicant in water? What are the two main steps used to treat water from lakes?
How does the formation of urine help maintain the body's internal environment? What are the three major functions of the nephron? What is the major life process that the urinary system carries out? Describe three of the major functions of water in a human cell. Define or describ...
TIMP-3 inhibits all the major cartilage-degrading metalloproteases, and multiple lines of evidence indicate that it protects cartilage. Addition of the protein to cartilage-explants prevents cytokine-induced degradation, and intra-articular injection reduces cartilage damage in the rat medial meniscal tear...
For instance, the stability of actin filaments is affected by the conformational difference between actin subunits carrying ATP or ADP and those that do not (2, 3), whereas cofilin, a major actin filament severing protein, alters the twist of actin filaments (4). In addition, modification of...
In recent years, with the development of gene therapies, and especially the CRISPR/Cas system, the use of plasmids as therapeutic tools is emerging. Major drawbacks of this novel approach are the instability of nucleic acids, which are rapidly degraded by the endonucleases within the body [1],...
The rapid and devastating spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is posing a major challenge to human health. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) belongs to theCoronaviridaefamily, i.e., riboviruses characterized by a large RNA genome (26–32 kb) con...
[9], rose petals [15], walnut [16,17] or myrtle berry [18]. The antioxidant properties of such tinctures are primarily due to the beneficial chemical composition of fruits and herbs. The major bioactive compounds are especially polyphenols, responsible for their health benefits [1,2,3]. ...