Clinical Course before and after Cataract and Glaucoma Surgery under Systemic Infliximab Therapy in Patients with Behçet's Disease

www.karger.com/cop This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Distribution for non-commercial purposes only

Effects of Aspartame on alcohol fermentation in Aspartame-added bread processing

The addition of aspartame to white bread dough affected the gas production due to baker\u27s yeast. After 3 hours of incubation, the total gas production of 3% aspartame-added dough decreased about 0.4 times that of standard dough. Gas production decreased with increasing concentrations of aspartame. On the other hand, the expansion of aspartame-added dough increased with increasing concentration of aspartame. The dough containing 3% aspartame expanded the same as standard dough. The ratio of internal gas production to total gas production increased by about 3 times that of standard dough with sugar. The addition of aspartame to white bread dough inhibited the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase. The characteristics of aspartame-added bread allows extension of the dough with gas, keeps the gas in the dough, preserves gas release, and leads to a normal loaf volume, though the addition of aspartame to white bread dough regulated alcohol fermentation of the yeast and the total gas production decreased

Utilization of Enokitake and Shiitake in fiber-bread processing and their characteristics

Bread containing 5% enokitake (Flammulina velutipes) produced manually the expanded most, however, in the case of shiitake (Lentinus edodes), the loaf volume of bread decreased with an increasing concentration of shiitake. In the case of dough without sugar, the bread containing 10% enokitake the expanded most, however, that of more than 10% enokitake decreased with an increasing concentration of enokitake. The loaf volume of shiitake bread without sugar also decreased with an increasing concentration of shiitake because shiitake strongly inhibited the growth of baker\u27s yeast. The firmness of the bread increased with an increasing concentration of enokitake or shiitake until the concentration was 30%. Fermentable sugars such as glucose, mannitol, maltose and trehalose from enokitake and glucose from shiitake were consumed with fermentation by yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) during the first 4 hours of incubation

Screening of aspartate dehydrogenase of bacteria

Fifty-two strains of bacteria cultured under aerobic conditions and 12 strains of bacteria cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high activity staining of aspartate dehydrogenase with NAD^+. Four strains of bacteria cultured under aerobic conditions and 7 strains of bacteria cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high activity staining of aspartate dehydrogenase with NADP^+. Seven strains of bacteria cultured under aerobic conditions and 4 strains of bacteria cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high specific activity of aspartate dehydrogenase with NAD^+. One strain of bacteria cultured under aerobic conditions and 5 strains of bacteria cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high specific activity of aspartate dehydrogenase with NADP^+. A strain of S. liquefaciens IFO 12979 showed highest specific activity of aspartate dehydrogenase with NAD^+ and NADP^+

Screening of Alcohol Dehydrogenase and Amylase of Microorganisms

Twenty strains of bacteria and 10 strains of basidiomycetes cultured under aerobic conditions, and 3 strains of bacteria and 7 strains of yeasts cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high alcohol dehydrogenase activity. Seven strains of bacteria and 4 strains of basidiomycetes cultured under aerobic conditions and 1 strain of yeast cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high amylase activity

Screening of Amine Dehydrogenase of Microorganisms

Screening of amine dehydrogenase from bacteria, yeasts and molds was done. In this paper, we report on histamine dehydrogenase and benzylamine dehydrogenase. Screening of amine dehydrogenase was carried out following the replica method. Twenty-nine microorganisms were grown on histamine plates under aerobic conditions. Ten microorganisms were grown on histamine plates under anaerobic conditions. On the other hand, sixteen microorganisms and two microorganisms were grown on benzylamine plates under aerobic and anaerobic conditions, respectively. No molds were grown on benzylamine plates

Screening of Fibrinolytic Enzymes of Microorganisms

Screening of fibrinolytic enzymes from bacteria, yeasts, molds and basidiomycetes was done. All bacteria except Serratia plymuthica IFO 3055 had fibrinolytic activity under aerobic or anaerobic culture conditions. Yeasts cultured under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions dissolved fibrin. All molds cultured under anaerobic conditions dissolved fibrin. On the other hand, fibrinolytic activity of Pleurotus sp. was higher in basidiomycetes

Screening of Lactate Dehydrogenase and Curd Rennet of Microorganisms

Twenty strains of bacteria and 5 strains of basidiomycetes cultured under aerobic conditions and 9 strains of bacteria cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high lactate dehydrogenase activity. One strain of basidiomycete cultured under aerobic conditions and 7 strains of yeasts cultured under anaerobic conditions demonstrated high curd rennet activity. The pHs cultured under aerobic and anaerobic conditions were between 6.1 and 7.1

Results of the search for inspiraling compact star binaries from TAMA300's observation in 2000-2004

We analyze the data of TAMA300 detector to search for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact star binaries with masses of the component stars in the range 1-3Msolar. In this analysis, 2705 hours of data, taken during the years 2000-2004, are used for the event search. We combine the results of different observation runs, and obtained a single upper limit on the rate of the coalescence of compact binaries in our Galaxy of 20 per year at a 90% confidence level. In this upper limit, the effect of various systematic errors such like the uncertainty of the background estimation and the calibration of the detector's sensitivity are included.Comment: 8 pages, 4 Postscript figures, uses revtex4.sty The author list was correcte

Cultural characteristics of Laetiporus sulphureus, producing an anti-thrombin substance

The clotting time for thrombin of the culture broth from Laetiporus sulphureus was more than 44 times that of the control (2% malt extract medium), whereas the culture broths of all other strains exhibited lower anti-coagulative activity. In experiments on the utilization of carbon sources, the mycelial growth of L. sulphureus was rapid with glucose as the sole carbon source. Casamino acid was the best source for the strain. Thiamine was required for the mycelial growth of L. sulphureus. The optimum temperature for efficient mycelial growth was recorded at 30℃. The initial pH 4 to 5 was the most favorable for L. sulphureus for growth