CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND LIPOXYGENASE ACTIVITY OF SOYBEAN (GLYCINE MAX L. MERRILL.) GENOTYPES, SPECIFIC FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION, WITH DIFFERENT TEGUMENT COLOURS

Chemical composition and lipoxygenase activity of soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill.) genotypes, specific for human consumption, with different tegument colours

Abstract Recently, in Brazil, coloured-tegument soybean cultivars have been developed, such as those with brown and black teguments.Soybeans with black teguments have been widely used for decades due to their health benefits and their use in oriental folk medicine as a result of the presence of phytochemicals.They have been recognized as health-pro

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Dopamine modulates the rest period length without perturbation of its power law distribution in Drosophila melanogaster.

We analyzed the effects of dopamine signaling on the temporal organization of rest and activity in Drosophila melanogaster.Locomotor behaviors were recorded using a video-monitoring system, and the amounts of movements were quantified by using an image processing program.We, first, confirmed that rest bout durations followed long-tailed (i.e., powe

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Cancer as a System Dysfunction

In this paper, we describe a system dynamics model that views cancer as a dysfunction of the cellular system rather than as an ailment of cells.Our experiments with the model replicate the propagation of the ailment and the impacts of the treatments.It presents a concept that deviates from Barstool the pervasive view of cancer as a cell malfunction

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Psychological distress and life satisfaction among Black working adults in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted Black Americans.Rates of hospitalization, mortality, and morbidity increased and racial inequities in unemployment, job benefits, and working conditions widened.This study identifies specific factors associated with the well-being of Black adults in the U.S.workforce one year into the pa

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Clostridioides difficile toxin B subverts germinal center and antibody recall responses by stimulating a drug-treatable CXCR4-dependent mechanism

Summary: Recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) results in significant morbidity and mortality.We previously established that CDI in mice does not protect against reinfection and is associated with poor pathogen-specific B cell memory (Bmem), recapitulating our observations with human Bmem.Here, we demonstrate that the secreted toxin Tc

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