The moth orchid is an important ornamental crop. It is very sensitive to high light irradiation due to photoinhibition. In this study, young orchid tissue culture seedlings and 2.5″ potted plants pretreated under blue light (BL, λmax = 450 nm) at 100 µmol m-2 s-1 for 12 days (BL acclimation) were found to have an increased tolerance to high l…[Read more]

However, RP modulated the toxicogenic effects of antineoplastic tested both in the CBMN test (P less then 0.05), at the concentrations of 1, 10 and 100 IU/mL; as in the comet assay (P less then 0.001) at the concentration of 100 IU/kg for the index and frequency of genotoxic damage. The accumulated results suggest that RP reduced the action of…[Read more]

Dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors increase endogenous glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). We hypothesized that genetic variation in the gene encoding the GLP-1 receptor (GLP1R) could affect the metabolic response to DPP-4 inhibition. To evaluate the relationship between the GLP1R rs6923761 variant (G-to-A nucleic acid substitution) and…[Read more]

In near-infrared imaging and spectroscopy, high-fidelity modeling of photon transport for dense polydisperse colloidal suspensions is crucial. We developed photon transport models using the radiative transfer equation (RTE) with the dependent scattering theory (DST) at volume fractions up to 20%. The polydispersity and interference effects…[Read more]