African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (12), 2012

Contents:


Research Articles

 
Hua-qiang Li, Li-ji Jin, Fei-fei Wu, Xiao-yu Li, Jian-song You, Zhen-hui Cao, Dan Li and Yong-ping Xu

Effect of curcumin on proliferation, cell cycle, and caspases and MCF-7 cells


Abiba Ouattara Gboko, Gervais Melaine M’boh, Founzégué Amadou Coulibaly, Jean David N’Guessan, Allico Joseph Djaman and Adama Coulibaly

        Cardiovascular activity of total protein extract of Morinda morindoides (baker) Miln-Redhon on rabbit blood pressure and isolated rat heart
      

Jullyana S. Siqueira, Angelo R. Antoniolli, Carina C. Silvestre, Daniel T. Silva, Mairim R. Serafini, Alfredo D. Oliveira-Filho and Divaldo P. Lyra Jr

        Rational drug prescribing for elderly inpatients in a Brazilian hospital: A pilot study

 
Vivek Kumar Dwivedi and Manu Chaudhary

        Comparative wound healing efficacy of ampucare and becaplermin in diabetic rat

       
Yunyi Yao, Fan Li, Hua Jin, Yanshan Zhang, Jianhong Xue, Huijuan Wang, Xiaoli Zhou, Huarong Hong and Fang Chen

        The effects of salidroside on transcription factors and cell growth inhibition in human lung adenocarcinoma epithelial cells

     
Shila Jalalpour

        Antibiogram pattern in extended spectrum beta lactamase nano enzyme producing gram negative bacilli in Iranian urinary tract infection
      

Ruihua Wang, Longnian Li, Bing Wang, Tangde Zhang and Ledong Sun

        FK506-loaded solid lipid nanoparticles: Preparation, characterization and in vitro transdermal drug delivery


Y. U. Dabai, A. H. Kawo and R. M. Aliyu

        Phytochemical screening and antibacterial activity of the leaf and root  extracts of Senna italica  

   
Sangita A. Chaudhari, Jaya Peter, Jyoti M. Galgut and Sharique A. Ali

        Melanin inhibitory and melanin stimulatory effects of extracts of Chlorophytum tuberosum and Chlorophytum borivilianum on isolated fish scale melanophores

      
Robert Bartas, Jozef Kolář, Tünde Ambrus, Robertas Lažauskas, Jurga Bernatoniene and Rimantas Pečiura

        Utilization of lipid modifying agents in the Karvina district: A comparison with the Czech Republic, 2002 to 2009  

     
Meng-hua Liu, Wei Zou, Luo-di Fan, Pei-bo Li and Wei-wei Su

        Comparative protein binding of naringin and its aglycone naringenin in rat, dog and human plasma 

     
Khosro Adibkia, Mahmood Alaei-Beirami, Mohammad Barzegar-Jalali, Gobad Mohammadi and Mehdi Shafiee Ardestani

        Evaluation and optimization of factors affecting novel diclofenac sodium - eudragit RS100 nanoparticles 

       


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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (6-8), 2012

African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (6), 2012



Contents:


Review

 
Yanna Pan, Shuai He, Guoping Liao, Lijing Chen and Zhongyi Zhang

        A combination of berberine and ?-oryzanol for hyperlipidemia therapy: An hypothesis

    
Research Articles

 
Maulik Patel, Sanjay Patel, Nidhi Patel and Natvarlal Patel

        Drug eluting stent for restenosis diseases

     
Gholamhossein Hassanshahi, Ali Shamsizadeh, Roshanak Hasheminasabzavareh, Ali Asghar Pourshanazari and Alan James Dickson

        Expression of Gro (CXCL1) and SDF-1? (CXCL12) is differentially controlled by various intracellular signaling pathways in rat hepatocytes
   
 
Nurul Alia Azizan, Rashidi Ahmad, Khaleed Mohamed, Mohd Zikri Ahmad and Zaini Asmawi

        The in vivo antihypertensive effects of standardized methanol extracts of Orthosiphon stamineus on spontaneous hypertensive rats: A preliminary study

       
Miaoyun Long, Honghao Li, Mingqing Huang, Dingyuan Luo, Xinzhi Peng and Peishun Wang

        Inhibitory effect of human angiogenesis inhibitor arresten on TGF-ß1 expression in biliary endothelial cell

     
A. Samali, Rukaiyatu A. Kirim and K. B. Mustapha

        Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of some herbal teas commonly consumed in Nigeria

       
Yongzhan Bao, Shaohua Zhang and Wanyu Shi

        Percutaneous absorption effects of Chinese herbal medicine
       
K. Aykut, A. Kavala, E. Hazan, S. Sarioglu, S. Paksoy and A. Sisman

        The effect of iloprost on renal ischemia/reperfusion injury in an experimental rat model  

     
Huai Huang, Ronghao Yu, Jing Gu, Jianxin Wen and Shuilin Ye

        Therapeutic effect of hyperbaric oxygen treatment combined with pharmacotherapy for sudden deafness: A retrospective study  


Şaban Yalçin, Enver Özgencil, Hacer Serdaroglu, Şirali Oba, Serkan Enön and Sacide Demiralp

        Anesthetics modulate oxidative stress during one-lung ventilation in lung cancer patients: Comparison of target-controlled propofol infusion and desflurane

       
Chuan Ding, Muhammad Khan, Bin Zheng, Jingbo Yang, Lili Zhong and Tonghui Ma

        Casticin induces apoptosis and mitotic arrest in pancreatic carcinoma PANC-1 cells  

Mahmood Khaksary Mahabady

        The evaluation of teratogenicity of nanosilver on skeletal system and placenta of rat fetuses in prenatal period 

Rajiv K. Tonk, Sandhya Bawa, Gita Chawla, Suresh Kumar, Himanshu Gupta and Obaid Afzal

        Pyrazole incorporated 1,2-diazanaphthalene derivatives: Synthesis and in - vivo pharmacological screening as anti-inflammatory and analgesic agents 

    
Nauman Rahim Khan, Gul Majid Khan, Abdur Rahim Khan, Abdul Wahab, Muhammad Junaid Asghar, Muhammad Akhlaq and Abid Hussain

        Formulation, physical, in vitro and ex vivo evaluation of diclofenac diethylamine matrix patches containing turpentine oil as penetration enhancer  

     
Xuezheng Zhang, Ying Zhou, Luowa Shu, Xuemei Fan and Bin Ding

        Comparisons of the uses of flurbiprofen, lidocaine and dexamethasone in preventing injection pain caused by propofol  

     
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (7), 2012



Contents:


Research Articles


Zhe Cheng, Yongna Song, Jie Xia, Yan Kang, Ling-ling Dai and Yufeng Liu

        Effect of iron on the proliferation of lung adenocarcinoma cells in vitro

       
Bo Li, Yuxin Song, Hui Zhang and Wenyuan Luo

        Transcription factors and target genes relationship based method reveals  potential thermal injury related genes
       
Aslam Khan, Samra Bashir and Anwarul-Hassan Gilani

        An in vivo study on the diuretic activity of Holarrhena antidysenterica

       
MMei-kui Zhang, Shao-qing Shen, Feng-hua Xu, Ruo-zhuo Liu and Ting-ting Chen

        Protective effect of Naoshuning in a rat brain ischemia-reperfusion damage model

      
Ying-Lan Liu, Ya-Ling Zhang and Jian-Hua Fu

        Curative effects by different chemotherapeutic measures pertaining to Methotrexate on unruptured ectopic pregnancy

     
D. Pradhan, G. Tripathy and S. Patnaik

        Screening of antiproliferative effect of Limonia acidissima Linn. fruit

        extracts on human breast cancer cell lines
       

Xujuan Li, Mincong Zhou, Yufeng Li, Wangli Huang, Deqiang Li, Jinfeng Duan and Wei Cai

        Effect of Xingnaojing on somatostain and arginine vasopressin in rats with vascular dementia  

   
Shahrzad Khakpour, Marzieh Minaee, Simin Fazelipour and Shahram Zarrabian

        Effects of Citrus aurantium extract on spermatogenic cell density, antioxidant activity and testosterone level in male mice  

      
Min Wang, Xianmin Wang, Weicai Chen, Huisheng Wu, Zun Wang and Jinsong He

        Bevacizumab in combination with taxotere, carboplatin and herceptin (TCH) chemotherapy for targeted therapy of advanced-stage breast cancer: A case study

        
H. Shah Viral, Shelat Pragna and B. Shah Gaurang

        Design and evaluation of thiolated chitosan based mucoadhesive and permeation enhancing bilayered buccal drug delivery system  

  
Hongfei Liu, Shuang Shuang Shi, Changshan Sun, Xin Zhao, Sheng Shen and Hao He

        Investigation of the pharmacokinetics of a novel sustained release metformin hydrochloride suspension with ion exchange resin as carriers in  beagle dogs 

   
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (8), 2012



Contents:


Case Report

 
Lee H. M., Gill J. S., Pillai S. K. and Ng C. G.

        Rapid improvement in medically ill elderly patients treated with methylphenidate for apathy

     
Review

 
Hamed Ghavimi, Ali Shayanfar, Sanaz Hamedeyazdan, Afshin Shiva, Afagh Garjani

        Chamomile: An ancient pain remedy and a modern gout relief - A hypothesis
  

Research Articles


Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Naseer Ali Shah, Amir Muhammad Khan, Yar Muhammad Khan, Jasia Bokhari, Umbreen Rashid, Bushra Ahmad, Maria Shabbir, Naima Saeed, Shumaila Jan and Tayyaba Afsar

        Effect of various fractions of Launaea procumbens on antioxidant enzymes in rats liver: Oxidative stress induced by potassium bromate (KBrO3)

      
O. O. Ogunlana, O. E. Ogunlana and O. G. Ademowo

        Antiplasmodial activity of quinine-zinc complex and chloroquine: A comparative in vitro assessment

      
Huajiang Shao, Jianting Ma, Liping Xu, Xiuer Yang and Xuefeng Su

        Treatment of cesarean scar pregnancy complicated with massive hemorrhage

    
Alexandra Savova, Assena Stoimenova, Manoela Manova and Guenka Petrova

        Safety aspects of chronic myeloid leukemia pharmacotherapy
 

Alireza Nomani, Shamileh Fouladdel, Ismaeil Haririan, Ramin Rahimnia, Marika Ruponen, Tarane Gazori and Ebrahim Azizi

        Poly (amido amine) dendrimer silences the expression of epidermal growth factor receptor and p53 gene in vitro  

    
Salim S. Al-Rejaie, Hatem M. Abuohashish, Mohammed M. Ahmed, Abdulaziz M. Aleisa, Abdulaziz S. Alroujayee and Osama A. Alkhamees

        Immobilization stress-induced oxidative damage and its amelioration with  green and black teas  

   
Zhaowei Teng, Jinghua Lu, Guojun Wei, Yugang Liu and Xiguang Zhang

        Protective effect of erythropoietin on spinal ischemia-reperfusion injury

       
Ahmed M. Aboul-Enein, Mourad A. M. Aboul-Soud, Hamed K. Said, Hanaa F. M. Ali, Zeinab Y. Ali, Amany M. Mahdi and John P. Giesy

        Hepatoprotective effects of antioxidants against non-target toxicity of the  bio-insecticide spinosad in rats  

    
Short Communication

 
K. Upadhayaya, N. V. Stheesh Madhav and B. Abhishek

        In vitro toxicity screening of polyphyto combination using Caco-2-cell line 

       

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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (3-5), 2012

African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (3), 2012



Contents:


Research Articles



Samali A, Florence D. T., Odeniran O. A. and Cordelia O.N.

        Evaluation of chemical constituents of Phyllanthus Niruri

      
Ahmed Faisal Mutee, Salizawati Muhamad Salhimi, Farid Che Ghazali, Faisal Muti Al-Hassan, Chung Pin Lim, Kamarruddin Ibrahim and Mohd Zaini Asmawi

        Apoptosis induced in human breast cancer cell line by Acanthaster planci starfish extract compared to tamoxifen

      
Mohammad Goodarzi, Ashok Kumar Malik and Nasser Goudarzi

        Simultaneous spectrophotometric determination of nitroanilines using genetic-algorithm-based wavelength selection in principal component - artificial neural network

      
Farhat Ali Khan, Asfandyar Khan, Muneeb Ur Rehman Khattak, Naseem ullah, Muhammad Zahoor and Syed Muhammad Mukaram Shah

        Evaluation of inorganic profile and anti-nutritional values of Cocculus hirsutus


Mohamed Abdalla Estai, Farihah Suhaimi, Ahmad Nazrun Shuid, Srijit Das, Shahrum Abdullah and Ima-Nirwana Soelaiman

        Biomechanical evaluation of fracture healing following administration of Piper sarmentosum in ovariectomised rats

       
Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Naseer Ali Shah , Amir Muhammad Khan, Jasia Bokhari, Umbreen Rashid, Bushra Ahmad, Maria Shabbir, Naima Saeed, Shumaila Jan and Tayyaba Afsar

        Protective effects of various fractions of Launaea procumbens on molecular markers in rat kidney

       
Blanca Ramírez-Mendiola, Liliana Rivera-Espinosa, Juan Luis Chávez-Pacheco, Radamés Alemón-Medina, Jesús Bobadilla-Chávez, Héctor Osnaya-Martínez, Carmen Flores- Pérez, Hugo Juárez-Olguín, Janett Flores-Pérez and Raquel García-Alvarez

        Stability, content uniformity and therapeutic efficacy of sildenafil extemporaneous capsules
       

Ulku Ozbey, Ayse Seyran, Mine Erisir, Fulya Benzer and Yuksel Savucu

        Changes in nitric oxide levels and erythrocyte arginase activities in patient with Down syndrome  

      
Jianheng Zhou, Jiumao Lin, Xu Wei, Xiaoyong Zhong, Yuqing Zheng, Zhenfeng Hong and Jun Peng

        Qianliening capsule treats benign prostatic hyperplasia through regulating  the expression of sex hormones, estrogen receptor and androgen receptor         [Abstract] [Full Text] [Full Article - PDF]   pp. 173 - 180

     
Cheang Cheng Ye, Endang Kumolosasi and Chua Eng Wee n-Acetylcysteine for prevention of iodinated contrast-induced nephropathy in computed tomography angiography procedures in patients with chronic kidney disease  

        
Babak Khalili Hadad, Hadis Soltani, Sara Nouroozi and Fatemeh Navaie Cyclo[(-D-Gly3-L-Asp3)] in combination with C and D polypeptide chains of NS3; suggestion a novel nanoparticle to stimulate immune system against hepatitis C  

        
Elizabeth Naomi Anderson-Foster, Amusa Sarafadeen Adebayo and Nilza Justiz-Smith

        Physico-chemical properties of Blighia sapida (ackee) oil extract and its potential application as emulsion base  

       
Mehdi Abdoly, Alireza Farnam, Fatemeh Fathiazad, Arash Khaki, Amir Afshin Khaki, Arezoo Ibrahimi, Fatemeh Afshari and Hossien Rastgar

        Antidepressant-like activities of Ocimum basilicum (sweet Basil) in the forced swimming test of rats exposed to electromagnetic field (EMF)  

        
Nazmi SARITAŞ

        Effect of endurance exercise training on blood lipids in young men  

       
G. MURTAZA, S. AZHAR, S. NOREEN, S. A. KHAN, A. KHAN, B. NASIR, A. MUMTAZ, M. ZAMAN and M. S. U. REHMAN

        An evaluation of Pakistani pharmacy students’ knowledge of herbal medicines in Pakistan  


Barkat Ali Khan, Naveed Akhtar, Khalid Waseem, Tariq Mahmood, Akhtar Rasul, Muhammad Iqbal and Shahiq-uz-Zaman

        Visio Scan® VC98, Corneometer MPA 5 and Tewameter MPA 5  

       
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (4), 2012



Contents:


Research Articles

 
Ana Cristina S. Braga, Maria Luisa Gomes, Josefina da Silva Santos, Joelma Fonseca de Oliveira, Eric Frederico Machado, Márcia Pereira Oliveira, Sebastiao David Santos-Filho and Mario Bernardo- Filho

        Alteration of the labeling of blood constituents with technetium-99m and the morphology of red blood cells by Baccharis trimera extract

      
Ismaila Muhammad Sani and Kenneth Idowu Onifade

        Medetomidine elicit variable effects on sedative indices, hematological and physiological parameters in domestic pigeons (Columba livia)

      
Alenka Golicnik, Matej Podbregar, Mitja Lainscak, Stefan D. Anker, Zoran Grubic and Tomaz Mars

        Atorvastatin modulates constitutive and lipopolysaccharide induced IL-6 secretion in precursors of human skeletal muscle

      
Arash Khaki, S. A. M. Imani and Farhad S. Golzar

        Effects of rosmarinic acid on male sex hormones (testosterone-FSH-LH) and testis tissue apoptosis after exposure to electromagnetic field (EMF) in rats


Talaat Dabbaghi Ghaleh, Fatemeh Lalooha, Rashin Normohammadi and Omid Mashrabi

        Evaluation of maternal and neonatal results after immediate labor induction by vaginal misoprostol and expectational treatment

      
Ghulam Murtaza, Saira Azhar, Ayisha Khalid, Bushra Nasir, Muhammad Ubaid, Muhammad Khurran Shahzad, Fatima Saqib, Iftikhar Afzal, Sobia Noreen, Muhammad Tariq, Tahir Ali Chohan and Abdul Malik

        Development of in vitro-in vivo correlation for pharmacokinetic simulation

       
Wenjing Deng, Hong Lu, Xinwei Ren and Junfang Teng

        Effect of salidroside on learning and memory ability of vascular dementia rats
      

Jie Lu, Jing Wang, Zhen Li and Sohrab Rohani

        Characterization and pseudopolymorphism of L-phenylalanine anhydrous and monohydrate forms  

      

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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 6 (5), 2012



Contents:


Research Articles

 
Ranju Pal, Kundlik Girhepunje, Ashutosh Upadhayay and Thirumoorthy N.

        Antioxidant and free radical scavenging activity of ethanolic extract of the root of Morinda citrifolia (Rubiaceae)

    
Svetlana Medjedovic, Vladimir Jakovljevic, Dusica Djordjevic, Danijela Randjelovic, Zoran Koprivica, Natasa Petronijevic, Nebojsa Tasic, Miroslav Pavlovic, Zarko Vucinic, Zvonko Sundric and Dragan M. Djuric

        Prognostic value of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

    
Aşkin Ender TOPAL and Mehmet Nesimi EREN

        Comparison of effects of iloprost and pentoxiphylline on walking capacity and skin oxygenation in diabetic patients with peripheral artery disease

      
M. R. Sarookhani, A. Safari, M. Zahedpanah, M. Asiabanha Rezaei and V. Zaroushani

        Effects of 950 MHz mobile phone electromagnetic fields on the peripheral blood cells of male rabbits

  
Mortaza Dehghan and Abolghasem Sharifi Faradonbeh

        The effect of mummy on the healing of bone fractures

       
Kifayatullah Shah, Muhammad Farid Khan, Amir Badshah, Haroon Khan and Asim Urrehman

        Potassium antimony tartrate affects the chemical and metabolic status of  glutathione in human blood: Ex vivo studies

      
Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Naseer Ali Shah , Amir Muhammad Khan, Jasia Bokhari, Umbreen Rashid, Bushra Ahmad, Maria Shabbir, Naima Saeed, Shumaila Jan and Tayyaba Afsar

        Protective effect of Launaea procumbens against KBrO3 induced nephrotoxicity in rats
       

Mansoor Ahmad, MehJabeen and Noor Jahan

        Exploration of signal transduction mechanism of therapeutic action of Solanum nigrum  

      

Fang Gong, Zhen-hua Yin, Qitai Xu and Wen-yi Kang

        Hepatoprotective effect of Mitragyna rotundifolia Kuntze on CCl4-induced acute liver injury in mice  

      
Fahrettin Akyuz, Neslihan Tekin, Ozlem Aydin, Halide Edip Temel and Burhanettin Isikli

        The effect of metformin and exercise on serum lipids, nitric oxide synthase and liver nitric oxide levels in streptozotocin-nicotinamide induced diabetic rats  

      
Yu Wenyuan, Zhao Yu, Xing Yanli, Bai Xin, Fang Yuee, Zhang Lin, Ding Hao and Wang Banghe

        A preliminary study on the evaluation of a novel gene delivery vector-TACS in vitro and in vivo via co-expressing hVEGF and hBMP genes to repair critical-size rabbit bone defects  

      
Ding Li and WanChun Wang

        Can hydrogen retard the progression of osteoarthritis?  


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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (23-25), 2011

African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (23), 2011



Contents:


Case Report

 
Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Irfhan Ali, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Fahad Saleem and Mukhtar Muftah Solliman

        Addressing tuberculosis management in context of default and side effects associated with anti tuberculosis drugs: A case report from Malaysia

      
Research Articles

 
M. S. Rofiee, Z. A. Zakaria, M. N. Somchit, A. Zuraini, A. K. Arifah, L. K. Teh, M. Z. Salleh and K. Long

        Involvement of CYP450 system in hepatoprotective activity of Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI)-produced virgin coconut oils

       
Alireza Seidavi

        Classification and biochemical biodiversity of twenty silkworm varieties based on total cholesterol, triglycerides, high densit lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, total lipase and lipids

       
Angeni Bheekie, Kenechukwu Obikeze, Rafik Bapoo and Naushaad Ebrahim

        Service learning in pharmacy: Opportunities for student learning and service delivery

     
Qichun Zhang, Zhilei Qian, Linmei Pan, Huan Li and Huaxu Zhu

        The traditional Chinese medicine Huang-Lian-Jie-Du-Tang inhibits hypoxia - induced neuronal apoptosis

       
Abbas Khan, Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Imran Khan, Jamshaid Ali Khan, Muhammad Khalid Javed and Zia Ahmad

        Drug-drug interaction between ciprofloxacin and diclofenac ophthalmic drops at ocular level

       
Yong-gang Liu, Peng TAN, Fei LI and Yan-jiang QIAO

        Study on the reaction products of hypaconitine in methanol and water using electrospray ionization mass spectrometry

       
Babak Khalili Hadad and Majid Monajjemi

        Coupled Cyclo hexa peptide nano ring system drug carriers; study the stability and electrical field
       

Lu Yin, Wang Yan-hua and Wu Shao-hua

        Use of progesterone in treatment of early pregnancy for threatened abortion: A potential cause for infantile hemangioma in newborns  

      
Onesimo D. Ribeiro Jr, Luiz Carlos de Abreu, Vitor E. Valenti, José Raul Cisternas, Deise Saletti, Carla J. B. Lima, Diego N. Silvestre, Ivan R. B. Godoy, Luiz G. M. Mello, Vania B. Nascimento and Lourdes C. Martins

        Comparison between S-ketamine and clonidine in caudal analgesia 

      
Harshit R. Shah, A. Arivarasan, Pravir Kumar and Rashmi K. Ambasta

        Protective effects of transplanted bone marrow mononuclearcells (BMMNCs) in organ damage caused due tostreptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetes 

        
C. Awortwe, A. C. Sackeyfio, Dorcas Osei-Safo, K. A. Bugyei and I. J. Asiedu-Gyekye

        Dual effect of Taraxacum officinale leaves: Anticholinergic and inhibitory effect on inflammatory cells in ovalbumin-sensitized guinea-pigs 

       
Asgary Sedigheh, Moshtaghian Seyyed Jamal, Setorki Mahbubeh, Kazemi Somayeh, Rafieian-kopaei Mahmoud, Adelnia Azadeh and Shamsi Fatemeh

        Hypoglycaemic and hypolipidemic effects of pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo L.) on alloxan-induced diabetic rats 

      
Munir Anwar, Mansoor Ahmad, Mehjabeen, Noor Jahan, Omair A. Mohiuddin and Mahmood Qureshi

        Phytopharmacological assessment of medicinal properties of Psoralea corylifolia 

       
Short Communication

 
Rahmat Ali Khan, Muhammad Rashid Khan, Sumaira Sahreen, Nasir Ali Shah, Jasia Bokhari, Maria Shabbir, Umbreen Rashid and Shumila Jan

        Protective effects of Launaea procumbens against KBrO3-induced hepatic serum marker enzymes 

        

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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (24), 2011



Contents:


Research Articles

 
Shahin Gavanji, Mohammad Javad Asgari, Ramin Vaezi and Behrouz Larki

        Antifungal effect of the extract of propolis on the growth of three species of Epidermophyton flucosum, Trichophyton violaseum and Trichophyton tonsorans in laboratory environment

       
Wei Lin, Liangpu Zheng, Jinyan Zhao, Qunchuan Zhuang, Zhenfeng Hong, Wei Xu, Youqin Chen, Thomas J. Sferra and Jun Peng

        Anti-angiogenic effect of Spica prunellae extract in vivo and in vitro

       
Parivash Rahimi, Najmeh Kabiri, Sedigheh Asgary and Mahbubeh Setorki

        Anti-diabetic effects of walnut oil on alloxan-induced diabetic rats

      
Ali Rezaie, Ehsan Sepehrizadeh, Samad Rezaie, Gafor Mosavi and Mehrdad Nazeri

        Clinical and histopathologic impacts of indomethacin on healing of experimental gum injuries on rabbits

       
J. D. Habila, F. O. Shode,  G. I. Ndukwe, J. O. Amupitan and A. J. Nok

        Novel antimalarial agent (Cinnamic 3ß-hydroxyolean-12-en-28-carboxylic anhydride): Synthesis, characterization and in vivo studies

     
M. F. Mohd Fazrullah Innsan, M. Hairul Shahril, M. S. Samihah, O. Siti Asma, S. Mat Radzi, A. K. Abd Jalil and M. N. Hanina

        Pharmacodynamic properties of essential oils from Cymbopogon species


Yan-Jun Xue, Xiao-Hong Han, De-yu Chen, He Huang, Xian-Qian Li and Shi-He Shao

        Effects of recombinant MAP30 on cell proliferation and apoptosis of human esophageal carcinoma EC-1.71 cells
       

Xiaomin Zhang, Tangde Zhang, Bing Wang, Nina Tang, Ledong Sun and Quan Luo

        Preparation and characterization of human malignant melanoma ganglioside ScFv antibody conjugated quantum dot probe  

      
Naveed Ullah, Mir Azam Khan, Haider Ali, Nouman Altaf, Shakoor Ahmad, Ghayour Ahmed and Minhaj ud Din

        Importance of white flowered Mirabilis jalapa with respect to its phytochemical and antimicrobial screening 


Rebamang A. Mosa, Adebola O. Oyedeji, Francis O. Shode, Mogie Singh and Andy R. Opoku

        Triterpenes from the stem bark of Protorhus longifolia exhibit anti-platelet aggregation activity

        
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (25), 2011



Contents:


   SECOND ANNUAL REVIEW ISSUE

           
             Barkat Ali Khan, Naveed Akhtar, Haji Muhammad Shoaib Khan, Khalid Waseem, Tariq Mahmood, Akhtar Rasul, Muhammad Iqbal and Haroon Khan

                    Basics of pharmaceutical emulsions: A review

       
             Ghulam Murtaza, Amir Waseem, Nisar-ur-Rehman and Izhar Hussain

                    Alginate microparticles for biodelivery: A review 

      
             Yuvaraj D. Mandavkar and Sunil S. Jalalpure

                    A comprehensive review on Plumbago zeylanica Linn  

    
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African Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology - 5 (14), 2011

Contents:


Muhammad Ihtisham Umar, Mohammad Zaini Bin Asmawi, Amirin Sadikun, Rabia Altaf and Muhammad Adnan Iqbal

        Phytochemistry and medicinal properties of Kaempferia galanga L. (Zingiberaceae) extracts

    
Bamigbola E. A., Ibrahim M. A., Attama A. A. and Uzondu A. L.

        In vitro-in vivo correlation of four commercial brands of aspirin tablets marketed in Nigeria

       
Yun Shi, Min Yao, Lian-Guo Hou, Jing Li, Hai-Bao Zhu, Jie Liu, and Ling-Ling Jiang

        Reduction of Aß by fluvastatin associates with altered levels of AßPP and of BACE1 and ADAM10 mRNA, independent of brain total cholesterol in rats

     
Yantao Zhao, Yongzhan Bao, Wanyu Shi, Xiaodan Wang and Xiuhui Zhong

        Protective effects of baicalin on lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced  implantation failure and the uterine endometrium in mice
       

O. S. Olorunnisola and A. J. Afolayan

        In vivo anti-malaria activity of methanolic leaf and root extracts of  Sphenocentrum jollyanum Pierre

      
Ying Cui, Lingzhi Li, Jun Gu, Ting Zhang and Li Zhang

        Investigation of microemulsion system for transdermal delivery of  ligustrazine phosphate  

      
Danlami U., Odunola M. T., Magaji G. and Thomas S. A.

        The effect of chloroquine on the pharmacokinetics of chlorpropamide in  human volunteers
       

Xujuan Li, Deqiang Li, Jinfeng Duan, Junzhu Chen, Wei Cai and Voonthow Kok

        Effects of Losartan and Ramipril on the connexin expression in a rabbit  balloon injury model   

       
Seyda BERK, Bektas TEPE and Serdal ARSLAN

        Screening of the antioxidant, antimicrobial and DNA damage protection  potentials of the aqueous extract of Inula oculus-christi

       
Figueroa-Valverde L., Díaz-Cedillo F., López-Ramos M., García-Cervera E and Pool Gómez E.

        Design and synthesis of an estradiol derivative and evaluation of its inotropic  activity in isolated rat heart

       

Jafari Naveh H. R., Taghavi M. M., Shariati M., Vazeirnejad R. and Rezvani M. E.

        Both omega-3 and omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids stimulate foot wound healing in chronic diabetic rat

        
Barkatullah, Muhammad Ibrar and Naveed Muhammad

        Evaluation of Zanthoxylum armatum DC for in-vitro and in-vivo pharmacological screening


Antonio M. Saraiva, Ricardo H. A. Castro, Risonildo P. Cordeiro, Tadeu J. S. Peixoto Sobrinho, Valérium T. N. A. Castro, Elba L. C. Amorim, Haroudo S. Xavier and Maria N. C. Pisciottano

        In vitro evaluation of antioxidant, antimicrobial and toxicity properties of extracts of Schinopsis brasiliensis Engl. (Anacardiaceae)

      
Farhan Ahmad Khan, Sheikh Nizamuddin and Mohammad Tariq Salman

        Patterns of prescription of antimicrobial agents in the Department of  Otorhinolaryngology in a tertiary care teaching hospital

        

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (82), 2011

Contents:

Review


R. O. Anyasi and H. I. Atagana

Biological remediation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) in the environment by microorganisms and plants


Bing-Hua Liao, Sheng-Yan Ding, Nan Hu, Yan-Fang Gu, Xun-Ling Lu, Guo-Fu Liang, Jin Liu, Yu-Long Fan,Yan-Jie Zhai, Shun-Ping Ding and Sheng Ding

Dynamics of environmental gradients on plant functional groups composition on the northern slope of the Fu-Niu Mountain Nature Reserve


Research Articles

  
GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


JIANG Xiang-Hui, Zhu Young-Hua, Xuan Ming Liu and SHE Chao-Wen

Karyotype analysis of three Solanum plants using combined PI-DAPI staining and double fluorescence in situ hybridization with 45S and 5S rDNA probes


Farhad Ali, Jehan Bakht, Saleem Khan, Muhammad Ali, Tahir Hussain, Muhammad Ali, Wajid Khan, Bilal Muhammad Khan and Muhammad Maroof Shah

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based molecular characterization of popular wheat varieties of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KPK) region of Pakistan


Behrouz Golein, Reza Fifaei and Malek Ghasemi

Identification of zygotic and nucellar seedlings in citrus interspecific crosses by inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers


Dong-hui Cao, Xiang Gao, Jie Liu, Josphert N. Kimatu, Shu-juan Geng, Xiao-ping Wang, Jing Zhao and De-cheng Shi

Methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) reveals that alkali stress triggers more DNA hypomethylation levels in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) roots than salt stress


Saeidnia Soodabeh, Faraji Hoda, Sarkheil Pantea, Moradi-Afrapoli Fahimeh, Amin Gholamreza

Genetic diversity and relationships detected by inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis among Polygonum species growing in North of Iran


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


Puspasree Puhan and Thirunavoukkarasu, M.

Direct organogenesis of Aegle marmelos (L.) Corr. from cotyledon explants


Yan Jin, Caohao Zhang, Hui Yang, Yuhong Yang, Chengjiang Huang, Yun Tian and Xiangyang Lu

Proteomic analysis of cold stress responses in tobacco seedlings


Yinshan Guo, Yuhui Zhao, Kun Li, Zhendong Liu, Hong Lin, Xiuwu Guo and Chengxiang Li

Embryo rescue of crosses between diploid and tetraploid grape cultivars and production of triploid plants


Xibing Jiang, Yuepeng Song, Xiaojun Xi, Bin Guo, Kaifeng Ma, Zeliang Wang, Bo Li, Deqiang Zhang, Xinmin An and Zhiyi Zhang

Physiological and biochemical responses to low temperature stress in hybrid clones of Populus ussuriensis Kom. × P. deltoides Bartr


Allah Wasaya, Muhammad Tahir, Abdul Manaf, Mukhtar Ahmed, Shuaib Kaleem and Ijaz Ahmad

Improving maize productivity through tillage and nitrogen management


Huanhuan Shao, Qinghua Cao, Xiang Tao, Yinghong Gu, Mengjie Chang, Chenglin Huang, Yizheng Zhang and Hong Feng

Cloning and characterization of ATP synthase CF1 ? gene from sweet potato


Shoufeng Sha, Juncai Li, Jun Wu and Shaoling Zhang

Effect of metabolic enzyme on organic acids in developing ‘Dangshansuli’ pear leaf


Vera Stojšin, Dragana Budakov, Barry Jacobsen, Ferenc Bagi, Eva Grimme and Oliver Neher

Analysis of Rhizoctonia solani isolates associated with sugar beet crown and root rot from Serbia


J. Emanuel de A. Bojórquez-Quintal, Lucila A. Sánchez-Cach, Naivy F. Gamboa-Tec, Fausto Quintal-Tun, Yereni Minero-García, Manuel Martínez-Estévez, Carlos F. de J. Fuentes-Cerda and César De los Santos-Briones.

Effect of plant growth regulators on in vitro germination of coffee zygotic embryos


Aihua Shen, Haibo Li, Ke Wang, Hongmei Ding, Xin Zhang, Lin Fan and Bo Jiang


Sequence characterized amplified region (SCAR) markers-based rapid molecular typing and identification of Cunninghamia lanceolata


Gul Jan, Mir Ajab Khan, Aman khan, Farzana Gul Jan, Rafiullah Khan1, Mushtaq Ahmad, Atta-Ur-Rehman, Muhammad Danish, Muhammad Asif, Saimdad Khan, Muhammad Zafar and Masood Jan

An Ethnobotanical Survey on Fuel Wood and Timber plant Species of Kaghan Valley, Khyber pakhtoonkhwa Province, Pakistan


Hossein Reza Rouhi, Mohammad Ali Aboutalebian, Ali Sepehri, Fatemeh Karim and Seyed Amir Moosavi

Effect of osmopriming on antioxidant activity of Bersim clover (Trifolium alexandrinum L.)


Mouaad Amine Mazri, Ahmed Elbakkali, Mouhssine Belkoura and Ilham Belkoura

Embryogenic competence of calli and embryos regeneration from various explants of Dahbia cv, a Moroccan olive tree (Olea europaea L.)


Behzad Babazadeh Darjazi

Morphological and pomological characteristics of fig (Ficus carica L.) cultivars from Varamin, Iran


Lei Wang, Ke Zhang, Wei Huang, Wei Han and Chang-Yan Tian

Seed oil content and fatty acid composition of annual halophyte Suaeda acuminata: A comparative study on dimorphic seeds


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tawadchai Suppadit, Napassawan Sunthorn and Pakkapong Poungsuk

Use of anthocyanin extracted from natural plant materials to develop a pH test kit for measuring effluent from animal farms


Kekan Yao, Siming Song, Zhenming Zhang, Jing Xu, Rong Zhang, Jiakai Liu, Lixia Cheng and Jinglan Liu

Vegetation characteristics and water purification by artificial floating island


FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Esref IŞIK and Halil UNAL.

Some engineering properties of white kidney beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)


José Luis Montanez Soto, José Venegas González, Aurea Bernardino Nicanor and Emma Gloria Ramos Ramírez

Enzymatic production of high fructose syrup from Agave tequilana fructans and its physicochemical characterization


Yan Jin, Mu Wang, Songyi Lin, Yang Guo, Jingbo Liu and Yongguang Yin

Optimization of extraction parameters for trehalose from beer waste brewing yeast treated by high-intensity pulsed electric fields (PEF)


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY

 
Qiang Tan, Yewang Zhang and Dongzhi Wei

Characterization and stability of D-amino acid oxidase and catalase within the permeabilized recombinant Pichia pastoris cells


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

 
Tanmoy Sinha and A. Bandyopadhyay

Induction of callogenesis in Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker-Gawl, a little known medicinal plant


Yong Peng, Qing-Wang Li and Jian Li

Antitumor activity of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi total flavonoids on mice bearing U14 cervical carcinoma


Jinous Asgarpanah, Saeed Mohammadi Motamed, Avishan Farzaneh, Bahareh Ghanizadeh and Simin Tomraee

Antioxidant activity and total phenolic and flavonoid content of Astragalus squarrosus Bunge


FISHERY SCIENCE


Hadi Raeisi, Moslem Daliri, Seyed Yousef Paighambari, Mohamad Javad Shabani, Mehdi Bibak and Reza Davoodi

Length-weight relationships, condition factors and relative weight of five fish species of Bushehr waters, Northern Persian Gulf


BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Norha Saifudin, Nurina Anuar and Nazlina Ibrahim

Long-term stability of ß-galactosidase protein expression in the absence of selective growth conditions in transfected Chinese hamster ovary cell


Jinfeng Yang, Ju-Sung Kim, Hyun Ju Jeong, Hak-Hee Kang, Jun-Cheol Cho, Hun-Myeong Yeom and Myong Jo Kim

Determination of antioxidant and ?-glucosidase inhibitory activities and luteolin contents of Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat extracts


Shih-Chun Yang, Wenny M. Kao, Chyi-Jang Wu, Yenliang Kuo, Gwan-Han Shen, Chwen-Jen Shieh, Shiou-Ping Yu and Jiann-Hwa Chen

Detection and partial identification of proteins in pearls formed in Hyriopsis cumingii (Lea)


PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES


Mahrukh Sanai and Nageen Hussain

Levels of inflammatory markers (complement C3, Complement C4 and C-reactive protein) in smokers


ANIMAL SCIENCE

 
N. Najafi, A. R. Seidavi, S. Z. Mirhosseini, S. Gharahveysi, M. Mavvajpour and M. Salehi Nezhad

Analysis of genetic divergence for classification and evaluation of 37 productive performances in 54 oval cocoon strains of Iran silkworm germplasm


Hamideh Hashemipour, Vahid Khaksar and Hassan Kermanshahi

Application of probiotic on egg production and egg quality of chukar partridge


Sayyed Shahram Miraghaee, Behzad Heidary, Hossein Almasi, akbar shabani, Mazda Elahi and Mohamad Hadi Modaber Nia

The effects of Nigella sativa powder (black seed) and Echinacea purpurea (L.) Moench extract on performance, some blood biochemical and hematological parameters in broiler chickens


WORD PRESERVATION

 
Ergun Baysal

Combustion properties of wood impregnated with commercial fertilizers

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African Journal of Biotechnology - 10 (50), 2011

Contents:

Review


Xuyong Zhao and Jun Xi

The vaccines for Bovine Herpesvirus Type 1: A review


Research Articles


GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY


Morteza Kamrani, Bahram Baghban Kohnehrouz and Ashraf Gholizadeh

Cisgenic inhibition of the potato cold induced phosphorylase L gene expression and decrease in sugar contents


M. Farhadian, A. Hashemi, K. Mardani, R. Darvishzadeh and M. Ranjbari

Allelic polymorphism of 'Makoei' sheep myostatin gene identified by polymerase chain reaction and single strand conformation polymorphism


PLANT AND AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY


M. D. Hossain, M. M. Hanafi, H. Jol and A. H. Hazandy

Growth, yield and fiber morphology of kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) grown on sandy bris soil as influenced by different levels of carbon


Po-Hung Wu, Ding-Ding Huang and Doris C. N. Chang

Mycorrhizal symbiosis enhances Phalaenopsis orchid’s growth and resistance to Erwinia chrysanthemi


S. Amiri and S. K. Kazemitabar

Enhancement of callus induction and regeneration efficiency from embryo cultures of Datura stramonium by adjusting carbon sources and concentrations


Ogunsumi, Lucia Omobolanle

Attitude of farmers towards improved agricultural technologies in south-west Nigeria


Shouping Zhao, Xuzhu Ye and Jici Zheng

Lead-induced changes in plant morphology, cell ultrastructure, growth and yields of tomato


ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Babaei Semiromi, F., Hassani, A.H., Torabian, A., Karbassi, A.R. and Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, F.

Water quality index development using fuzzy logic: A case study of the Karoon River of Iran


Raúl Tapia-Tussell, Daisy Pérez-Brito, Rafael Rojas-Herrera, Alberto Cortes-Velazquez, Gerardo Rivera-Munoz and Sara Solis-Pereira

New laccase-producing fungi isolates with biotechnological potential in dye decolorization


Lotmani Brahim and Mesnoua Mohamed

Effects of copper stress on antioxidative enzymes, chlorophyll and protein content in Atriplex halimus


Shaukat Ali Abro, Xiaohong Tian, Xudong Wang, Faqi Wu and Jumoke Esther Kuyide

Decomposition characteristics of maize (Zea mays. L.) straw with different carbon to nitrogen (C/N) ratios under various moisture regimes


A. Hadeel, A. B. M. S. Hossain, Khayyat Latifa, Haitham ALNaqeb, Jama Abear and AlHewiti Norah

Bioethanol fuel production from rambutan fruit biomass as reducing agent of global warming and greenhouse gases


INDUSTRIAL MICROBIOLOGY


Ferdinandi Patrick, Godliving Mtui, Anthony Manoni Mshandete and Amelia Kivaisi

Optimization of laccase and manganese peroxidase production in submerged culture of Pleurotus sajor-caju


FOOD TECHNOLOGY


Shi-hao Zhao, Xiao-hui Liang, Dong-liang Hua, Tong-suo Ma and Hong-bing Zhang

High-yield cellulase production in solid-state fermentation by Trichoderma reesei SEMCC-3.217 using water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes)


Sunčica Kocić-Tanackov, Gordana Dimić, Jelena Lević, Ilija Tanackov and Danijela Tuco

Antifungal activities of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) extract on Fusarium species


APPLIED BIOCHEMISTRY


Hosein Abtahi, Mohammad Reza Sadeghi, Mohammad Shabani, Haleh Edalatkhah, Reza Hadavi, Mohammad Mehdi Akhondi and Saeed Talebi

Causes of bimodal melting curve:Asymmetric guanine-cytosine (GC) distribution causing two peaks in melting curve and affecting their shapes


Yong-Guo Jin, Wen-Wen Fu, and Mei-Hu Ma

Preparation and structure characterization of soluble bone collagen peptide chelating calcium


Pengwei Zhao, Ruixia Bai, Lanling Chen, Wenbing Hu, Shiyong Wen, Yan mi, Jianrong Liang, Guifang Cao, Haijun Li, Yingfeng Yang, Chenguang Du, Liping Jiang and Limin Yang

Prokaryotic expression of antimicrobial ovine ß-defensin-1 in Escherichia coli


Diya’uddeen Basheer Hasan, A. R. Abdul Aziz and Wan Mohd Ashri Wan Daud

Application of response surface methodology in process parameters optimization for phenol mineralization using Fenton’s peroxidation


Ji Tian, Hongxiang Shen, Jie Zhang, Tingting Song and Yuncong Yao

Characteristics of chalcone isomerase promoter in crabapple leaves (M.cv. ‘royalty’) and transient expression assay modified in onion epidermal cell


MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY


Salawu, O. T. and Odaibo, A. B.

The molluscicidal effects of Hyptis suaveolens on different stages of Bulinus globosus in the laboratory


Akinboro Akeem, Kamaruzaman Bin Mohamed, Mohd Zaini Asmawi and Othman Ahmad Sofiman

Mutagenic and antimutagenic potentials of fruit juices of five medicinal plants in Allium cepa L.: Possible influence of DPPH free radical scavengers



Eyong U. Eyong, Item J. Atangwho, Esien David-Oku, Margaret A. Agiang and Patrick E. Ebong

Haematological and immunological effects of co-administration of extract of Vernonia amygdalina and Azadirachta indica on normal and diabetic rats


Jian-Min Zhang, Hai-Yan Shen, Cheng-Gang Xu, Li-Li Guo, Bin Zhang, Jing-Yi Li, Ji-Dang Chen, Hui-Ying Fan and Ming Liao

Development and application of a loop-mediated isothermal ampli?cation method for rapid detection of Haemophilus parasuis


FISHERY SCIENCE


Mehmet Zulfu Coban and Dursun Sen

Examination of liver and muscle glycogen and blood glucose levels of Capoeta umbla (Heckel, 1843) living in Hazar Lake and Keban Dam Lake (Elazig, Turkey)


BIOTECHNIQUES

 
Hongli Xia, Zui Tan, Jianguo Qiao and Chuan Liang

Recovery of DNA from agarose gel by trap method


Shimin Wang, Xiaolu Li, Lili Yang, Hongzhi Wu, Sixiang Zheng, Xiyan Zhang and Lemin Zhang

Microspore culture of Zantedeschia aethiopica: The role of monosaccharides in sporophytic development



ANIMAL SCIENCE


Marko R. Cincović, Branislava Belić, Bojan Toholj, Aleksandar Potkonjak, Milenko Stevančević, Branislav Lako and Ivan Radović

Metabolic acclimation to heat stress in farm housed Holstein cows with different body condition scores


M. Khalili, A.D. Foroozandeh and M. Toghyani

Lactation performance and serum biochemistry of dairy cows fed supplemental chromium in the transition period


Madoroba, Evelyn, Gelaw, Awoke, Hlokwe, Tiny and Mnisi, Mkhevu

Prevalence of Campylobacter foetus and Trichomonas foetus among cattle from Southern Africa


Ugwu, S. O. C., Ogbu, C. C. and Ikechiuno, I. K.

Reproductive characterization of three species of Giant African land snails (GALs) in captivity


Ahmad Ziarlarimi, Mehrdad Irani, Shahabodin Gharahveysi and Zahra Rahmani

Investigation of antibacterial effects of garlic (Allium sativum), mint (Menthe spp.) and onion (Allium cepa) herbal extracts on Escherichia coli isolated from broiler chickens


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (11-12), 2011

Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (11), 2011



Contents:

Letters

John Steven Torday and Virender Kumar Rehan
A Cell–Molecular Approach Predicts Vertebrate Evolution

Mizuko Osanai-Futahashi and Haruhiko Fujiwara
Coevolution of Telomeric Repeats and Telomeric Repeat–Specific Non-LTR Retrotransposons in Insects

Alex de Mendoza and Inaki Ruiz-Trillo
The Mysterious Evolutionary Origin for the GNE Gene and the Root of Bilateria

Alexander Suh, Jan Ole Kriegs, Jürgen Brosius, and Jürgen Schmitz
Retroposon Insertions and the Chronology of Avian Sex Chromosome Evolution

Miriam Linnenbrink, Jill M. Johnsen, Inka Montero, Christine R. Brzezinski, Bettina Harr, and John F. Baines
Long-Term Balancing Selection at the Blood Group-Related Gene B4galnt2 in the Genus Mus (Rodentia; Muridae)

Kenta Sumiyama and Naruya Saitou
Loss-of-Function Mutation in a Repressor Module of Human-Specifically Activated Enhancer HACNS1


Research Articles


Rob W. Ness, Sean W. Graham, and Spencer C. H. Barrett
Reconciling Gene and Genome Duplication Events: Using Multiple Nuclear Gene Families to Infer the Phylogeny of the Aquatic Plant Family Pontederiaceae

Alexis Criscuolo and Simonetta Gribaldo
Large-Scale Phylogenomic Analyses Indicate a Deep Origin of Primary Plastids within Cyanobacteria

Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Ben Murrell, Mathieu Fourment, Simon D.W. Frost, Wayne Delport, and Konrad Scheffler
A Random Effects Branch-Site Model for Detecting Episodic Diversifying Selection

Vivek Jayaswal, Faisal Ababneh, Lars S Jermiin, and John Robinson
Reducing Model Complexity of the General Markov Model of Evolution

Sergio Lukic and Kevin Chen
Human piRNAs Are Under Selection in Africans and Repress Transposable Elements

Erick C. Castelli, Celso T. Mendes-Junior, Luciana C. Veiga-Castelli, Michel Roger, Philippe Moreau, and Eduardo A. Donadi
A Comprehensive Study of Polymorphic Sites along the HLA-G Gene: Implication for Gene Regulation and Evolution

Simona Fornarino, Guillaume Laval, Luis B. Barreiro, Jeremy Manry, Estelle Vasseur, and Lluis Quintana-Murci
Evolution of the TIR Domain-Containing Adaptors in Humans: Swinging between Constraint and Adaptation

Mayumi I. Nonaka, Kouichi Aizawa, Hiroshi Mitani, Hidemi P. Bannai, and Masaru Nonaka
Retained Orthologous Relationships of the MHC Class I Genes during Euteleost Evolution

Daniel R. G. Price, Rebecca P. Duncan, Shuji Shigenobu, and Alex C. C. Wilson
Genome Expansion and Differential Expression of Amino Acid Transporters at the Aphid/Buchnera Symbiotic Interface

Xianfa Xie, Wei-Gang Qiu, and Peter N. Lipke
Accelerated and Adaptive Evolution of Yeast Sexual Adhesins

J. Jacquemin, C. Chaparro, M. Laudié, A. Berger, F. Gavory, J. L. Goicoechea, R. A. Wing, and R. Cooke
Long-Range and Targeted Ectopic Recombination between the Two Homeologous Chromosomes 11 and 12 in Oryza Species

Cinta Zapater, François Chauvigné, Birgitta Norberg, Roderick Nigel Finn, and Joan Cerda
Dual Neofunctionalization of a Rapidly Evolving Aquaporin-1 Paralog Resulted in Constrained and Relaxed Traits Controlling Channel Function during Meiosis Resumption in Teleosts

Brendan D. O'Fallon
A Method for Accurate Inference of Population Size from Serially Sampled Genealogies Distorted by Selection

Xiaowei Jiang and Mario A. Fares
Functional Diversification of the Twin-Arginine Translocation Pathway Mediates the Emergence of Novel Ecological Adaptations

Virag Sharma, Andrew E. Firth, Ivan Antonov, Olivier Fayet, John F. Atkins, Mark Borodovsky, and Pavel V. Baranov
A Pilot Study of Bacterial Genes with Disrupted ORFs Reveals a Surprising Profusion of Protein Sequence Recoding Mediated by Ribosomal Frameshifting and Transcriptional Realignment

Vicky Merhej, Cedric Notredame, Manuela Royer-Carenzi, Pierre Pontarotti, and Didier Raoult
The Rhizome of Life: The Sympatric Rickettsia felis Paradigm Demonstrates the Random Transfer of DNA Sequences


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (12), 2011



Contents:

Research Articles

Nolan C. Kane, Michael S. Barker, Shing H. Zhan, and Loren H. Rieseberg
Molecular Evolution across the Asteraceae: Micro- and Macroevolutionary Processes

Xing-Xing Shen, Dan Liang, Jun-Zhi Wen, and Peng Zhang
Multiple Genome Alignments Facilitate Development of NPCL Markers: A Case Study of Tetrapod Phylogeny Focusing on the Position of Turtles

Astrid Collingro, Patrick Tischler, Thomas Weinmaier, Thomas Penz, Eva Heinz, Robert C. Brunham, Timothy D. Read, Patrik M. Bavoil, Konrad Sachse, Simona Kahane, Maureen G. Friedman, Thomas Rattei, Garry S. A. Myers, and Matthias Horn
Unity in Variety—The Pan-Genome of the Chlamydiae

Yannis Guillemin, Aurélie Cornut-Thibaut, Germain Gillet, François Penin, and Abdel Aouacheria
Characterization of Unique Signature Sequences in the Divergent Maternal Protein Bcl2l10

Davide Sassera, Nathan Lo, Sara Epis, Giuseppe D'Auria, Matteo Montagna, Francesco Comandatore, David Horner, Juli Peretó, Alberto Maria Luciano, Federica Franciosi, Emanuele Ferri, Elena Crotti, Chiara Bazzocchi, Daniele Daffonchio, Luciano Sacchi, Andres Moya, Amparo Latorre, and Claudio Bandi
Phylogenomic Evidence for the Presence of a Flagellum and cbb3 Oxidase in the Free-Living Mitochondrial Ancestor

Nimrod D. Rubinstein, Adi Doron-Faigenboim, Itay Mayrose, and Tal Pupko
Evolutionary Models Accounting for Layers of Selection in Protein-Coding Genes and their Impact on the Inference of Positive Selection

Nimrod D. Rubinstein, David Zeevi, Yaara Oren, Gil Segal, and Tal Pupko
The Operonic Location of Auto-transcriptional Repressors Is Highly Conserved in Bacteria

Manuela Sironi, Franca Rosa Guerini, Cristina Agliardi, Mara Biasin, Rachele Cagliani, Matteo Fumagalli, Domenico Caputo, Andrea Cassinotti, Sandro Ardizzone, Milena Zanzottera, Elisabetta Bolognesi, Stefania Riva, Yasuyoshi Kanari, Masaaki Miyazawa, and Mario Clerici
An Evolutionary Analysis of RAC2 Identifies Haplotypes Associated with Human Autoimmune Diseases

Ryan M. Ames and Simon C. Lovell
Diversification at Transcription Factor Binding Sites within a Species and the Implications for Environmental Adaptation

Jungsun Park, Zuogang Peng, Jia Zeng, Navin Elango, Taesung Park, Dave Wheeler, John H. Werren, and Soojin V. Yi
Comparative Analyses of DNA Methylation and Sequence Evolution Using Nasonia Genomes

Joel O. Wertheim and Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
Purifying Selection Can Obscure the Ancient Age of Viral Lineages

Hae-Lim Lee and Vivian F. Irish
Gene Duplication and Loss in a MADS Box Gene Transcription Factor Circuit

Rudolf J. Schilder, Anthony J. Zera, Christine Black, Mallary Hoidal, and Cody Wehrkamp
The Biochemical Basis of Life History Adaptation: Molecular and Enzymological Causes of NADP+-Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Activity Differences Between Morphs of Gryllus firmus That Differ in Lipid Biosynthesis and Life History

Anna Muszewska, John W. Taylor, Pawel Szczesny (Paweł Szczęsny), and Marcin Grynberg
Independent Subtilases Expansions in Fungi Associated with Animals


Editorial


Barry G. Hall, Francisco J. Ayala, and Marcella A. McClure
Remembrances of Walter M. Fitch


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (9-10), 2011

Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (9), 2011



Contents:

Letters

Kyriakos Felekkis, Konstantinos Voskarides, Harsh Dweep, Carsten Sticht, Norbert Gretz, and Constantinos Deltas
Increased Number of MicroRNA Target Sites in Genes Encoded in CNV Regions. Evidence for an Evolutionary Genomic Interaction

Georgette N. Kiethega, Marcel Turcotte, and Gertraud Burger
Evolutionarily Conserved cox1 Trans-Splicing Without cis-Motifs

Shohei Takuno and Hideki Innan
Selection Fine-Tunes the Expression of MicroRNA Target Genes in Arabidopsis thaliana

Andrea Blanquer and Maria-J. Uriz
“Living Together Apart”: The Hidden Genetic Diversity of Sponge Populations

Fabia U. Battistuzzi, Paul Billing-Ross, Aditya Paliwal, and Sudhir Kumar
Fast and Slow Implementations of Relaxed-Clock Methods Show Similar Patterns of Accuracy in Estimating Divergence Times

Research Articles


Samir Bhatt, Edward C. Holmes, and Oliver G. Pybus
The Genomic Rate of Molecular Adaptation of the Human Influenza A Virus

Pedro Patraquim, Maria Warnefors, and Claudio R. Alonso
Evolution of Hox Post-Transcriptional Regulation by Alternative Polyadenylation and MicroRNA Modulation Within 12 Drosophila Genomes

Héloise Bastide, Michel Cazemajor, David Ogereau, Nicolas Derome, Frédéric Hospital, and Catherine Montchamp-Moreau
Rapid Rise and Fall of Selfish Sex-Ratio X Chromosomes in Drosophila simulans: Spatiotemporal Analysis of Phenotypic and Molecular Data

Karl J. V. Nordström, Markus Sällman Almén, Monika M. Edstam, Robert Fredriksson, and Helgi B. Schiöth
Independent HHsearch, Needleman–Wunsch-Based, and Motif Analyses Reveal the Overall Hierarchy for Most of the G Protein-Coupled Receptor Families

Axel Künstner, Benoit Nabholz, and Hans Ellegren
Evolutionary Constraint in Flanking Regions of Avian Genes

Viktor Černý, Luísa Pereira, Eliška Musilová, Martina Kujanová, Alžběta Vašíková, Paola Blasi, Luisa Garofalo, Pedro Soares, Issa Diallo, Radim Brdička, and Andrea Novelletto
Genetic Structure of Pastoral and Farmer Populations in the African Sahel

Fabian J. Theis, Nadia Latif, Philip Wong, and Dmitrij Frishman
Complex Principal Component and Correlation Structure of 16 Yeast Genomic Variables

Sean Chun-Chang Chen, Trees-Juen Chuang, and Wen-Hsiung Li
The Relationships Among MicroRNA Regulation, Intrinsically Disordered Regions, and Other Indicators of Protein Evolutionary Rate

Yuchi Zheng, Rui Peng, Masaki Kuro-o, and Xiaomao Zeng
Exploring Patterns and Extent of Bias in Estimating Divergence Time from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data in a Particular Lineage: A Case Study of Salamanders (Order Caudata)

A. N. Massa, H. Wanjugi, K. R. Deal, K. O'Brien, F. M. You, R. Maiti, A. P. Chan, Y. Q. Gu, M. C. Luo, O. D. Anderson, P. D. Rabinowicz, J. Dvorak, and K. M. Devos
Gene Space Dynamics During the Evolution of Aegilops tauschii, Brachypodium distachyon, Oryza sativa, and Sorghum bicolor Genomes

Stephanie Sun, Ben J. Evans, and G. Brian Golding
“Patchy-Tachy” Leads to False Positives for Recombination

Juan S. Escobar, Sylvain Glémin, and Nicolas Galtier
GC-Biased Gene Conversion Impacts Ribosomal DNA Evolution in Vertebrates, Angiosperms, and Other Eukaryotes

Sebastian Höhna, Tanja Stadler, Fredrik Ronquist, and Tom Britton
Inferring Speciation and Extinction Rates under Different Sampling Schemes

Olivier Rey, Anne Loiseau, Benoit Facon, Julien Foucaud, Jérôme Orivel, Jean-Marie Cornuet, Stéphanie Robert, Gauthier Dobigny, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Cléa Dos Santos Ferreria Mariano, and Arnaud Estoup
Meiotic Recombination Dramatically Decreased in Thelytokous Queens of the Little Fire Ant and Their Sexually Produced Workers

Chiara Batini, Gianmarco Ferri, Giovanni Destro-Bisol, Francesca Brisighelli, Donata Luiselli, Paula Sánchez-Diz, Jorge Rocha, Tatum Simonson, Antonio Brehm, Valeria Montano, Nasr Eldin Elwali, Gabriella Spedini, María Eugenia D'Amato, Natalie Myres, Peter Ebbesen, David Comas, and Cristian Capelli
Signatures of the Preagricultural Peopling Processes in Sub-Saharan Africa as Revealed by the Phylogeography of Early Y Chromosome Lineages

Anchal Vishnoi, Praveen Sethupathy, Daniel Simola, Joshua B. Plotkin, and Sridhar Hannenhalli
Genome-Wide Survey of Natural Selection on Functional, Structural, and Network Properties of Polymorphic Sites in Saccharomyces paradoxus

Madhavi Nayar and George E. Fox
Defining 5S rRNA Structure Space: Point Mutation Data Can Be Used to Predict the Phenotype of Multichange Variants

Nicholas R. Casewell, Simon C. Wagstaff, Robert A. Harrison, Camila Renjifo, and Wolfgang Wüster
Domain Loss Facilitates Accelerated Evolution and Neofunctionalization of Duplicate Snake Venom Metalloproteinase Toxin Genes

Daniel L. Halligan, Fiona Oliver, Jack Guthrie, Kathryn C. Stemshorn, Bettina Harr, and Peter D. Keightley
Positive and Negative Selection in Murine Ultraconserved Noncoding Elements

Mathieu Groussin and Manolo Gouy
Adaptation to Environmental Temperature Is a Major Determinant of Molecular Evolutionary Rates in Archaea

Jouhyun Jeon, Hyun-Jun Nam, Yoon Sup Choi, Jae-Seong Yang, Jihye Hwang, and Sanguk Kim
Molecular Evolution of Protein Conformational Changes Revealed by a Network of Evolutionarily Coupled Residues

Sankar Subramanian
Fixation of Deleterious Mutations at Critical Positions in Human Proteins

Aline Muyle, Laurana Serres-Giardi, Adrienne Ressayre, Juan Escobar, and Sylvain Glémin
GC-Biased Gene Conversion and Selection Affect GC Content in the Oryza Genus (rice)

Benoît Moury and Vincent Simon
dN/dS-Based Methods Detect Positive Selection Linked to Trade-Offs between Different Fitness Traits in the Coat Protein of Potato virus Y

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Exploring the differences in evolutionary rates between monogenic and polygenic disease genes in human


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Christopher Sauvage, Sébastien Renaut, Eric Normandeau, Nicolas Derome, and Louis Bernatchez
Investigating the Role of Natural Selection on Coding Sequence Evolution in Salmonids Through NGS Data Mining


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Molecular Biology and Evolution - 28 (10), 2011



Contents:

Letters

Josselin Bodilis, Sandrine Nsigue Meilo, Pierre Cornelis, Paul De Vos, and Sylvie Barray
A Long-Branch Attraction Artifact Reveals an Adaptive Radiation in Pseudomonas

Oliver Piskurek and Daniel J. Jackson
Tracking the Ancestry of a Deeply Conserved Eumetazoan SINE Domain

Research Resource

Koichiro Tamura, Daniel Peterson, Nicholas Peterson, Glen Stecher, Masatoshi Nei, and Sudhir Kumar
MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

Research Articles

K. Hartnup, L. Huynen, R. Te Kanawa, L.D. Shepherd, C.D. Millar, and D.M. Lambert
Ancient DNA Recovers the Origins of Maori Feather Cloaks

Haiwei Luo, Robert Friedman, Jijun Tang, and Austin L. Hughes
Genome Reduction by Deletion of Paralogs in the Marine Cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus

Célestine M. Atyame, Frédéric Delsuc, Nicole Pasteur, Mylene Weill, and Olivier Duron
Diversification of Wolbachia Endosymbiont in the Culex pipiens Mosquito

Jessica W. Leigh, Klaus Schliep, Philippe Lopez, and Eric Bapteste
Let Them Fall Where They May: Congruence Analysis in Massive Phylogenetically Messy Data Sets

Shinichiro Hayashi, Didier Rocancourt, Margaret Buckingham, and Frederic Relaix
Lack of In Vivo Functional Compensation Between Pax Family Groups II and III in Rodents

Stacey D. Smith and Mark D. Rausher
Gene Loss and Parallel Evolution Contribute to Species Difference in Flower Color

Zélia Ferreira, Belen Hurle, Jorge Rocha, and Susana Seixas
Differing Evolutionary Histories of WFDC8 (Short-Term Balancing) in Europeans and SPINT4 (Incomplete Selective Sweep) in Africans

Zhen-Xia Chen, Yong E. Zhang, Maria Vibranovski, Jingchu Luo, Ge Gao, and Manyuan Long
Deficiency of X-Linked Inverted Duplicates with Male-Biased Expression and the Underlying Evolutionary Mechanisms in the Drosophila Genome

Renchao Zhou, Shaoping Ling, Wenming Zhao, Naoki Osada, Sufang Chen, Meng Zhang, Ziwen He, Hua Bao, Cairong Zhong, Bing Zhang, Xuemei Lu, David Turissini, Norman C. Duke, Jian Lu, Suhua Shi, and Chung-I Wu
Population Genetics in Nonmodel Organisms: II. Natural Selection in Marginal Habitats Revealed by Deep Sequencing on Dual Platforms

Simon Renny-Byfield, Michael Chester, Ales Kovařík, Steven C. Le Comber, Marie-Angele Grandbastien, Marc Deloger, Richard A. Nichols, Jiri Macas, Petr Novák, Mark W. Chase, and Andrew R. Leitch
Next Generation Sequencing Reveals Genome Downsizing in Allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum, Predominantly through the Elimination of Paternally Derived Repetitive DNAs

Jeremy D. DeBarry and Jessica C. Kissinger
Jumbled Genomes: Missing Apicomplexan Synteny

Romulo Segovia, Walker Pett, Steve Trewick, and Dennis V. Lavrov
Extensive and Evolutionarily Persistent Mitochondrial tRNA Editing in Velvet Worms (Phylum Onychophora)

Austen R.D. Ganley and Takehiko Kobayashi
Monitoring the Rate and Dynamics of Concerted Evolution in the Ribosomal DNA Repeats of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Using Experimental Evolution

Yangyun Zou, Wei Huang, Zhenglong Gu, and Xun Gu
Predominant Gain of Promoter TATA Box after Gene Duplication Associated with Stress Responses

Oleg Balanovsky, Khadizhat Dibirova, Anna Dybo, Oleg Mudrak, Svetlana Frolova, Elvira Pocheshkhova, Marc Haber, Daniel Platt, Theodore Schurr, Wolfgang Haak, Marina Kuznetsova, Magomed Radzhabov, Olga Balaganskaya, Alexey Romanov, Tatiana Zakharova, David F. Soria Hernanz, Pierre Zalloua, Sergey Koshel, Merritt Ruhlen, Colin Renfrew, R. Spencer Wells, Chris Tyler-Smith, Elena Balanovska, and The Genographic Consortium
Parallel Evolution of Genes and Languages in the Caucasus Region

Katherine E. Helliwell, Glen L. Wheeler, Kyriacos C. Leptos, Raymond E. Goldstein, and Alison G. Smith
Insights into the Evolution of Vitamin B12 Auxotrophy from Sequenced Algal Genomes

Kamil A. Lipinski, Olga Puchta, Vineeth Surendranath, Marek Kudla and Pawel Golik
Revisiting the Yeast PPR Proteins—Application of an Iterative Hidden Markov Model Algorithm Reveals New Members of the Rapidly Evolving Family

Jonathan M. Mudge, Adam Frankish, Julio Fernandez-Banet, Tyler Alioto, Thomas Derrien, Cédric Howald, Alexandre Reymond, Roderic Guigó, Tim Hubbard, and Jennifer Harrow
The Origins, Evolution, and Functional Potential of Alternative Splicing in Vertebrates

Susan L. Young, Daniel Diolaiti, Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Inaki Ruiz-Trillo, Robert N. Eisenman, and Nicole King
Premetazoan Ancestry of the Myc–Max Network


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Pakistan Journal of Botany - 43 (6), 2011

Contents:

1. Screening of salinity tolerant jute (Corchorus capsularis & C. olitorius) genotypes via phenotypic and physiology-assisted procedures
Hongyu Ma, Ruifang Yang, Zhankui Wang, Tian Yu, Yuying Jia, Hanyan Gu, Xiansheng Wang and Hao Ma

2. Growth and ions (Na+, K+ and Cl-) accumulating pattern of some Brassica genotypes under saline– sodic field condition
Muhammad Ubaidullah Shirazi, Muhammad Tahir Rajput, Muhammad Athar Khan, Muhammad Ali, Shaikh M. Mujtaba, Aisha Shereen, Saba Mumtaz and Mukhtiar Ali

3. Comparative salinity responses among tomato genotypes and rootstocks
Golgen Bahar Oztekin and Yuksel Tuzel

4. Salt tolerance of Physalis during germination and seedling growth
Ertan Yildirim, Huseyin Karlidag and Atilla Dursun

5. Pre-sowing application of ascorbic acid and salicylic acid to seed of pumpkin and seedling response to salt
Noman Rafique, Syed Hammad Raza, Muhammad Qasim and Naeem Iqbal

6. Seed priming improves salinity tolerance of wheat varieties
Yousaf Jamal, Mohammad Shafi, Jehan Bakht and Mohammad Arif

7. Response of barley genotypes to salinity stress as alleviated by seed priming
Shazma Anwar, Mohammad Shafi, Jehan Bakht, Muhammad Tariq Jan and Yousaf Hayat

8. Assessment of salt tolerance of some newly developed and candidate wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cultivars using gas exchange and chlorophyll fluorescence attributes
Hina Kanwal, Muhammad Ashraf and Muhammad Shahbaz

9. Sodium chloride tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.) at early seedling growth: Genotypic variability, identification and selection
Abdus Salam, Zulfiqar Ali and Muhammad Aslam

10. Enhanced proline synthesis may determine resistance to salt stress in tomato cultivars
Syed Ghias Ali, Abdur Rab, Naqib Ullah Khan and Khalid Nawab

11. Use of low quality groundwater for reclamation of saline-sodic soil by growing rice and wheat crops
M.J. Qamar, A. Ghafoor, G. Murtaza, Saifullah and M.Z. Rehman

12. Genetic variability and correlation analysis of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) accessions
Muhammad Mohibullah, Malik Ashiq Rabbani, Shah Jehan, Zakiullah, Adnan Amin and Ghazanfarullah

13. Population genetics of invasive weed Mimosa pigra L. (Mimosoideae) in Thailand
Pairot Pramual, Suttira Khumkratok and Komgrit Wongpakam

14. Genetic stability evaluation of Quercus suber L., somatic embryogenesis by RAPD analysis
Pedro Fernandes, Armando Costa Cristina Rocha and Conceiçao Santos

15. Assessment of heritability estimates for some yield traits in winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)
Muhammad Khalid, Iftikhar Hussain Khalil, Farhatullah, Abdul Bari, Mohammad Tahir, Shahid Ali, Sajjad Anwar, Amjad Ali and Muhammad Ismail

16. Genetic divergence in sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) landraces based on qualitative and quantitative traits
Fazal Akbar, M. Ashiq Rabbani, Zabta Khan Shinwari and Shah Jehan Khan

17. Identification of resistance source in potato germplasm against PVX and PVY
Nadeem Ahmad, M. Aslam Khan, Nasir Ahmad Khan, R. Binyamin and M. Azam Khan

18. Genetic divergence and association among polygenic characters in Gossypium hirsutum L.
Maryam Bibi, Naqib Ullah Khan, Fida Mohammad, Rozina Gul, Abdul Aziz Khakwani and Obaid Ullah Sayal

19. Impact of industrial effluents on germination and seedling growth of Lens esculentum varieties
Azra Yasmin, Sofia Nawaz and Syeda Maria Ali

20. Three new combinations in the genus Cephalophilon (Meisn.) Spach (Polygonaceae)
Muhammad Qaiser and Anjum Perveen

21. Further insights and new combinations in Aylostera (Cactaceae) based on molecular and morphological data
Stefano Mosti, Nadeesha Lewke Bandara and Alessio Papini

22. Factors influencing seed germination of wild onion and chickpea cultivars
M.I. Khan, G. Hassan, I. Khan, M. Saeed, A.A. Khakwani, M. Idrees And K. Nawab

23. Relationship between germination and seed size in alpine shrubs in Tibetan plateau
Wu Gao-Lin, Li Wei and Du Guo-Zhen

24. Evaluating the potential of seed priming techniques in improving germination and early seedling growth of various rangeland grasses
Ihsan Qadir, Z.H. Khan, R.A. Khan and Irfan Afzal

25. Allelopathic effects of Acacia tortilis (Forssk.) Hayne subsp. raddiana (SAVI) Brenan in North Africa
Zouheir Noumi and Mohamed Chaieb

26. Effect of adding inorganic, organic and microbial fertilizers on seed germination and seedling growth of sunflower
M. Jalaluddin and Maria Hamid

27. Effect of GA and ABA on germination behavior of black raspberry (Rubus coreanus Miquel) seeds
Shafiq Rehman, Heh-Ran Choi, Muhammad Jamil and Song Joong Yun

28. Floristic composition, communities and ecological characteristics of weeds of wheat fields of Lahor, district Swabi, Pakistan
Zaman Sher, Farrukh Hussain, Lal Badshah and Muhammad Wahab

29. Surveillance of microbial indicators and physicochemical parameters to investigate pollution status of Lahore canal
Arifa Tahir, Fariha Kanwal and Bushra Mateen

30. Pollen flora of Pakistan –LXVIII. Dipsacaceae
Anjum Perveen and Muhammad Qaiser

31. Determination of macro-and micro-nutrients and nutritional prospects of six vegetable species of Mardan, Pakistan
Javid Hussain, Najeeb ur Rehman, Abdul Latif Khan, Hidayat Hussain, Ahmed Al-Harrasi, Liaqat Ali, Farhana Sami, and Zabta Khan Shinwari

32. Over expression of rice phytochrome A in Arabidopsis: diverse role in multiple physiological responses
Chunfeng Chen, You Chen, Qing Zhang, Benwen Chen, Chengwei Yang and Ya Qin Wang

33. Aminolevulinic acid-induced changes in yield and seed-oil characteristics of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) plants under salt stress
Nudrat Aisha Akram, Muhammad Ashraf and F. Al-Qurainy

34. Ecophysiological responses of rice (Oryza sativa L.) to hexavalent chromium
Maqsood Ahmad, A. Wahid, Sheikh Saeed Ahmad, Zahid Ali Butt and Maryum Tariq

35. Effects of soil proprieties on water and mineral nutrition of Beta macrocarpa Guss.
Sameh Sassi-Aydi, Samir Aydi, Kamel Hessini, Chedly Abdelly, Mokhtar Lachaâl and Abdelaziz Soltani

36. Role of nitrate nutrition in alleviation of the adverse effects of drought stress on maize cultivars: Biomass production and antioxidative capacity
Lixin Zhang, Kai Wang, Xifeng Zhang, Lixia Lu, Yunfei Li, Mei Gao, Cuiyun Wang, Jinjiang Hu and Zongsuo Liang

37. Fraction of intercepted radiation of cotton responds to irrigation and integrated plant nutrition
Muhammad Saleem, Mahmood-ul-Hassan, Syed Sarwar Alam and Asif Javaid

38. Bio-reactive properties of citrus waste: an investigation of antioxidant and tyrosinase inhibitory activities
Musarrat Akhtar, Lubna Iqbal, Mehreen Lateef, Bushra Nawab, Muhammad Saleem and Nighat Afza

39. Morpho-physiological comparison of cut rose cultivars grown in two production systems
Iftikhar Ahmad, M. Shafique Khalid, M. Aslam Khan and M. Saleem

40. Influence of defoliation and deblossoming on the vegetative and reproductive growth of guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv. ‘Gola’
Ahmad Sattar Khan, Muhammad Rehman Gul Khan, Aman Ullah Malik, Basharat Ali Saleem, Ishtiaq Ahmad Rajwana and Iftikhar Ahmad

41. Seminal root of maize varieties in relation to reduction in the substrate moisture content
Asad Shah, Rabia Gohar, S. Khalid and Mohammad Akmal

42. Impact of boron fertilization on dry matter production and mineral constitution of irrigated cotton
Niaz Ahmed, Muhammad Abid, Fiaz Ahmad, Muhammad Aman Ullah, Qaisar Javaid and Muhammad Arif Ali

43. Effect of phosphorus fertigation in wheat on different soils varying in CaCO3 levels
Muhammad Yousuf Memon, Javaid Ahmad Shah, Parvez Khan, Muhammad Aslam and Nizamuddin Depar

44. In vitro evaluation of anthelmintic activity of essential oils of different parts of Skimmia laureola (DC.) Zucc. ex Walp., Var. Nair
Ferhat Mehmood, Muhammad Qasim, Zaheer-ud-Din Khan, Naeem Iqbal, Shahid Mehmood and Phool Shahzadi

45. Optimizing water and nitrogen requirements in maize (Zea mays L.) under semi-arid conditions of Pakistan
Hafiz Mohkum Hammad, A. Ahmad, F. Azhar, T. Khaliq, A. Wajid, W. Nasim and W. Farhad

46. Effect of mineral nitrogen fertilization on growth characteristics of lucerne under induced water deficiency stress
Viliana Vasileva, Ognyan Kostov, Emil Vasilev and Mohammad Athar

47. Relationship of plant available sulphur with soil characteristics, rainfall and yield levels of oilseed crops in Pothwar Pakistan
Rizwan Khalid, Khalid Saifullah Khan, Zahid Akram, Rahmatullah Qureshi and Muhammad Gulfraz

48. In vitro growth of Melaleuca alternifolia Cheel in bioreactor of immersion by bubbles
Gessiel Newton Scheidt, André Luís Lopes Da Silva, Yohana De Oliveira, Jefferson Da Luz Costa, Luiz Antonio Biasi and Carlos Ricardo Soccol

49. Effect of ethanolic plant extracts on three storage grain pests of economic importance
Farkhanda Manzoor, Ghazala Nasim, Sadia Saif and Saadiya Asma Malik

50. Grain yield stability in chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) across environments
Ahmad Bakhsh, Lal Hussain Akhtar, Shahid Riaz Malik, Asif Masood, Sh. Muhammad Iqbal and Ramatullah Qureshi

51. Accumulation of heavy metals by lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) irrigated with different levels of wastewater of Quetta city
Abdul Kabir Khan Achakzai, Zahoor Ahmed Bazai and Safdar Ali Kayani

52. Crop burning practice-a threat to arbuscular mycorrhizal biodiversity
Ghazala Nasim

53. Effect of maturity on comparative nutritive value and fermentation characteristics of maize, sorghum and millet silages
Sohail Hassan Khan, Atiya Azim, Muhammad Sarwar and Abdul Ghafar Khan

54. Isolation and characterization of peptide(s) from Pisum sativum having antimicrobial activity against various bacteria
Saima Rehman and Azra Khanum

55. Isolation and characterization of Ralstonia solanacearum from infected tomato plants of Soan Skesar valley of Punjab
Zubeda Chaudhry and Hamid Rashid

56. Peroxidase, polyphenol oxidase activity, protein profile and phenolic content in tomato cultivars tolerant and susceptible to Fusarium oxsyporum f.sp. lycopersici
Gyanendra Kumar Rai, Rajesh Kumar, J. Singh, P.K. Rai and S.K. Rai

57. The effects of seed treatments with fungicides on stem rot caused by Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc., in peanut
Davut Soner Akgul, Hulya Ozgonen and Ali Erkilic

58. Removal of Pb(II), Cu(II) and Cd(II) from aqueous solution by some fungi and natural adsorbents in single and multiple metal systems
Amna Shoaib, Taskeen Badar and Nabila Aslam

59. Production of cellulases from Alternaria sp. MS28 and their partial characterization
Muhammad Sohail, Aqeel Ahmad and Shakeel Ahmed Khan

60. Phytotoxic potential of bark extracts of Acacia nilotica and Syzygium cumini against Parthenium hysterophorus
Khalid Mehmood, Hafiz M. Asif, Rukhsana Bajwa, Shazia Shafique and Sobiya Shafique

61. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) associated with the rhizosphere of Mentha arvensis L., and M. longifolia Huds.
Tanvir Burni, Farrukh Hussain and M. Sharief

62. Evaluation of rice germplasm against Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae causing bacterial blight
Muhammad Afzal Akhtar, Fida Mohammad Abbasi, Habib Ahmad, Muhammad Shahzad, Mehr Ali Shah and Azhar Husain Shah

63. Cytotoxic potential of fungi associated with rhizosphere and rhizoplane of wild and cultivated plants
Shamim A. Qureshi, Hira, Viqar Sultana, Jehan Ara and Syed Ehteshamul-Haque

64. Assessment of antibacterial activity of in vitro and in vivo grown garlic (Allium sativum L.)
Aneela Fatima, Tauqeer Ahmad, Shaista J. Khan, Farah Deeba and Nasreen Zaidi

65. Demographic studies of Ipomoea sindica Stapf., a desert summer annual
Seemi Aziz and Syed Shahid Shaukat

66. Biological characterization of Pakistani isolates of cucumber mosaic cucumovirus (CMV)
Shomaila Iqbal, Muhammad Ashfaq and Hussain Shah

67. Bioconversion of drifted seaweed biomass into organic compost collected from the Karachi coast
Tooba Haq, Farooq Ahmed Khan, Razia Begum and Alia Bano Munshi

68. Bioactive assessment of selected marine red algae against Leishmania major and chemical constituents of Osmundea pinnatifida
H. Sabina and R. Aliya

69. Taxonomic study of some euglenoid algae along G.T. road between Shahdara and Gujranwala
A. Zarina, Syed Tariq-Ali, Masud-ul-Hasan and Mustafa Shameel

70. The dinoflagellate genus Prorocentrum (Prorocentrales, Prorocentraceae) from the North Arabian Sea
Sadaf Gul and S.M. Saifullah


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New Phytologist - 193 (3), 2012

Contents:

Putting a bifunctional motor to work: insights into the role of plant KCH kinesins
Dixit, Ram


The first glance into the Glomus genome: an ancient asexual scandal with meiosis?
Rosendahl, Soren


Computational models of plant development and form
Prusinkiewicz, Przemysław; Runions, Adam


Genetic evidence for natural product-mediated plant-plant allelopathy in rice (Oryza sativa)
Xu, Meimei; Galhano, Rita; Wiemann, Philipp; Bueno, Emilio; Tiernan, Mollie; Wu, William; Chung, Ill-Min; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Tudzynski, Bettina; Sesma, Ane; Peters, Reuben J.


A novel actin-microtubule cross-linking kinesin, NtKCH, functions in cell expansion and division
Klotz, Jan; Nick, Peter


Plant Aurora kinases play a role in maintenance of primary meristems and control of endoreduplication
Petrovská, Beáta; Cenklová, Věra; Pochylová, Žaneta; Kourová, Hana; Doskočilová, Anna; Plíhal, Ondřej; Binarová, Lenka; Binarová, Pavla


A novel role for histone methyltransferase KYP/SUVH4 in the control of Arabidopsis primary seed dormancy
Zheng, Jian; Chen, Fengying; Wang, Zhi; Cao, Hong; Li, Xiaoying; Deng, Xin; Soppe, Wim J. J.; Li, Yong; Liu, Yongxiu


Accelerating the domestication of trees using genomic selection: accuracy of prediction models across ages and environments
Resende, M. F. R.; Munoz, P.; Acosta, J. J.; Peter, G. F.; Davis, J. M.; Grattapaglia, D.; Resende, M. D. V.; Kirst, M.


Oxidative stress is a consequence, not a cause, of aluminum toxicity in the forage legume Lotus corniculatus
Navascués, Joaquín; Pérez-Rontomé, Carmen; Sánchez, Diego H.; Staudinger, Christiana; Wienkoop, Stefanie; Rellán-Álvarez, Rubén; Becana, Manuel


Evidence of foliar aluminium accumulation in local, regional and global datasets of wild plants
Metali, Faizah; Salim, Kamariah A.; Burslem, David F. R. P.


Variation in grain arsenic assessed in a diverse panel of rice (Oryza sativa) grown in multiple sites
Norton, Gareth J.; Pinson, Shannon R. M.; Alexander, Jill; Mckay, Susan; Hansen, Helle; Duan, Gui-Lan; Rafiqul Islam, M.; Islam, Shofiqul; Stroud, Jacqueline L.; Zhao, Fang-Jie; McGrath, Steve P.; Zhu, Yong-Guan; Lahner, Brett; Yakubova, Elena; Guerinot, Mary Lou; Tarpley, Lee; Eizenga, Georgia C.; Salt, David E.; Meharg, Andrew A.; Price, Adam H.


Methylated arsenic species in plants originate from soil microorganisms
Lomax, Charlotte; Liu, Wen-Ju; Wu, Liyou; Xue, Kai; Xiong, Jinbo; Zhou, Jizhong; McGrath, Steve P.; Meharg, Andrew A.; Miller, Anthony J.; Zhao, Fang-Jie


Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie
Craine, Joseph M.; Wolkovich, Elizabeth M.; Gene Towne, E.; Kembel, Steven W.


Image spectroscopy and stable isotopes elucidate functional dissimilarity between native and nonnative plant species in the aquatic environment
Santos, Maria J.; Hestir, Erin L.; Khanna, Shruti; Ustin, Susan L.


Nitrogen inputs accelerate phosphorus cycling rates across a wide variety of terrestrial ecosystems
Marklein, Alison R.; Houlton, Benjamin Z.


Genders in Juniperus thurifera have different functional responses to variations in nutrient availability
Montesinos, D.; Villar-Salvador, P.; García-Fayos, P.; Verdú, M.


Rare pits, large vessels and extreme vulnerability to cavitation in a ring-porous tree species
Christman, Mairgareth A.; Sperry, John S.; Smith, Duncan D.


Computational fluid dynamics models of conifer bordered pits show how pit structure affects flow
Schulte, Paul J.


Evidence for a freezing tolerance-growth rate trade-off in the live oaks (Quercus series Virentes) across the tropical-temperate divide
Koehler, Kari; Center, Alyson; Cavender-Bares, Jeannine


High but not dry: diverse epiphytic bromeliad adaptations to exposure within a seasonally dry tropical forest community
Reyes-García, C.; Mejia-Chang, M.; Griffiths, H.


The transcriptome of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices (DAOM 197198) reveals functional tradeoffs in an obligate symbiont
Tisserant, E.; Kohler, A.; Dozolme-Seddas, P.; Balestrini, R.; Benabdellah, K.; Colard, A.; Croll, D.; Da Silva, C.; Gomez, S. K.; Koul, R.; Ferrol, N.; Fiorilli, V.; Formey, D.; Franken, Ph.; Helber, N.; Hijri, M.; Lanfranco, L.; Lindquist, E.; Liu, Y.; Malbreil, M.; Morin, E.; Poulain, J.; Shapiro, H.; van Tuinen, D.; Waschke, A.; Azcón-Aguilar, C.; Bécard, G.; Bonfante, P.; Harrison, M. J.; Küster, H.; Lammers, P.; Paszkowski, U.; Requena, N.; Rensing, S. A.; Roux, C.; Sanders, I. R.; Shachar-Hill, Y.; Tuskan, G.; Young, J. P. W.; Gianinazzi-Pearson, V.; Martin, F.


Treating seeds with activators of plant defence generates long-lasting priming of resistance to pests and pathogens
Worrall, Dawn; Holroyd, Geoff H.; Moore, Jason P.; Glowacz, Marcin; Croft, Patricia; Taylor, Jane E.; Paul, Nigel D.; Roberts, Michael R.


Contrasting relationships between species diversity and genetic diversity in natural and disturbed forest tree communities
Wei, Xinzeng; Jiang, Mingxi


Male flowers are better fathers than hermaphroditic flowers in andromonoecious Passiflora incarnata
Dai, Can; Galloway, Laura F.


Environmental aridity is associated with cytotype segregation and polyploidy occurrence in Brachypodium distachyon (Poaceae)
Manzaneda, Antonio J.; Rey, Pedro J.; Bastida, Jesús M.; Weiss-Lehman, Christopher; Raskin, Evan; Mitchell-Olds, Thomas


Spatially resolved analysis of small molecules by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometric imaging (MALDI-MSI)
Peukert, Manuela; Matros, Andrea; Lattanzio, Giuseppe; Kaspar, Stephanie; Abadía, Javier; Mock, Hans-Peter


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New Phytologist - 193 (4), 2012


Contents:

The New Phytologist Tansley medal 2011
Dolan, Liam

A molecular guide to the taxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi
Young, J. Peter W.

Safe sex in plants
Stephenson, Andrew G.

Water release through plant roots: new insights into its consequences at the plant and ecosystem level
Prieto, Iván; Armas, Cristina; Pugnaire, Francisco I.

The emerging importance of the SPX domain-containing proteins in phosphate homeostasis
Secco, David; Wang, Chuang; Arpat, Bulak A.; Wang, Zhiye; Poirier, Yves; Tyerman, Stephen D.; Wu, Ping; Shou, Huixia; Whelan, James

Understanding biological timing using mechanistic and black-box models
Dalchau, Neil

Exploiting natural variation to uncover candidate genes that control element accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana
Conn, Simon J.; Berninger, Philipp; Broadley, Martin R.; Gilliham, Matthew

Lateral root initiation: one step at a time
De Smet, Ive

Oomycete and fungal effector entry, a microbial Trojan horse
Kale, Shiv D.

Allometric covariation: a hallmark behavior of plants and leaves
Price, Charles A.; Weitz, Joshua S.

Association genetics of the loblolly pine (Pinus taeda, Pinaceae) metabolome
Eckert, Andrew J.; Wegrzyn, Jill L.; Cumbie, W. Patrick; Goldfarb, Barry; Huber, Dudley A.; Tolstikov, Vladimir; Fiehn, Oliver; Neale, David B.

Gene flow and simulation of transgene dispersal from hybrid poplar plantations
DiFazio, Stephen P.; Leonardi, Stefano; Slavov, Gancho T.; Garman, Steven L.; Adams, W. Thomas; Strauss, Steven H.

Nuclear and chloroplast DNA phylogeography reveals vicariance among European populations of the model species for the study of metal tolerance, Arabidopsis halleri (Brassicaceae)
Pauwels, Maxime; Vekemans, Xavier; Godé, Cécile; Frérot, Hélene; Castric, Vincent; Saumitou-Laprade, Pierre

Nocturnal stomatal conductance responses to rising (CO2), temperature and drought
Zeppel, Melanie J. B.; Lewis, James D.; Chaszar, Brian; Smith, Renee A.; Medlyn, Belinda E.; Huxman, Travis E.; Tissue, David T.

Hydraulic conductance of leaves correlates with leaf lifespan: implications for lifetime carbon gain
Simonin, Kevin A.; Limm, Emily B.; Dawson, Todd E.

Dynamic trajectories of growth and nitrogen capture by competing plants
Trinder, Clare; Brooker, Rob; Davidson, Hazel; Robinson, David

Inferring dispersal patterns of the generalist root fungus Armillaria mellea
Travadon, Renaud; Smith, Matthew E.; Fujiyoshi, Phillip; Douhan, Greg W.; Rizzo, David M.; Baumgartner, Kendra

Phylogenetic reference data for systematics and phylotaxonomy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from phylum to species level
Krüger, Manuela; Krüger, Claudia; Walker, Christopher; Stockinger, Herbert; Schüßler, Arthur

Activation of defense against Phytophthora infestans in potato by down-regulation of syntaxin gene expression
Eschen-Lippold, Lennart; Landgraf, Ramona; Smolka, Ulrike; Schulze, Sebastian; Heilmann, Mareike; Heilmann, Ingo; Hause, Gerd; Rosahl, Sabine

The major volatile organic compound emitted from Arabidopsis thaliana flowers, the sesquiterpene (E)-ß-caryophyllene, is a defense against a bacterial pathogen
Huang, Mengsu; Sanchez-Moreiras, Adela M.; Abel, Christian; Sohrabi, Reza; Lee, Sungbeom; Gershenzon, Jonathan; Tholl, Dorothea

he effect of genetically enriched (E)-ß-ocimene and the role of floral scent in the attraction of the predatory mite Phytoseiulus persimilis to spider mite-induced volatile blends of torenia
Shimoda, Takeshi; Nishihara, Masahiro; Ozawa, Rika; Takabayashi, Junji; Arimura, Gen-ichiro

Divergent evolution of oxidosqualene cyclases in plants
Xue, Zheyong; Duan, Lixin; Liu, Dan; Guo, Jie; Ge, Song; Dicks, Jo; ÓMáille, Paul; Osbourn, Anne; Qi, Xiaoquan

Pollinators cause stronger selection than herbivores on floral traits in Lobelia cardinalis (Lobeliaceae)
Bartkowska, Magdalena P.; Johnston, Mark O.

Tracing the origin and evolutionary history of plant nucleotide-binding site-leucine-rich repeat (NBS-LRR) genes
Yue, Jia-Xing; Meyers, Blake C.; Chen, Jian-Qun; Tian, Dacheng; Yang, Sihai

Durable strategies to deploy plant resistance in agricultural landscapes
Fabre, Frédéric; Rousseau, Elsa; Mailleret, Ludovic; Moury, Benoit

The endo-1,4-ß-glucanase Korrigan exhibits functional conservation between gymnosperms and angiosperms and is required for proper cell wall formation in gymnosperms
Maloney, Victoria J.; Samuels, A. Lacey; Mansfield, Shawn D.

High genetic diversity in a remote island population system: sans sex
Karlin, Eric F.; Hotchkiss, Sara C.; Boles, Sandra B.; Stenoien, Hans K.; Hassel, Kristian; Flatberg, Kjell I.; Shaw, A. Jonathan

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