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Louisiana State University
Education•Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States•
About: Louisiana State University is a education organization based out in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 40206 authors who have published 76587 publications receiving 2566076 citations. The organization is also known as: LSU & Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College.
Topics: Population, Poison control, Gene, Context (language use), Wetland
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TL;DR: The recovery of large numbers of extremely ionizing-radiation-resistant bacteria from an arid soil and not from a nonarid soil provides further ecological support for the hypothesis that the ionizing -radiation resistance phenotype is a consequence of the evolution of other DNA repair systems that protect cells against commonly encountered environmental stressors, such as desiccation.
Abstract: The ionizing-radiation-resistant fractions of two soil bacterial communities were investigated by exposing an arid soil from the Sonoran Desert and a nonarid soil from a Louisiana forest to various doses of ionizing radiation using a (60)Co source. The numbers of surviving bacteria decreased as the dose of gamma radiation to which the soils were exposed increased. Bacterial isolates surviving doses of 30 kGy were recovered from the Sonoran Desert soil, while no isolates were recovered from the nonarid forest soil after exposure to doses greater than 13 kGy. The phylogenetic diversities of the surviving culturable bacteria were compared for the two soils using 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. In addition to a bacterial population that was more resistant to higher doses of ionizing radiation, the diversity of the isolates was greater in the arid soil. The taxonomic diversity of the isolates recovered was found to decrease as the level of ionizing-radiation exposure increased. Bacterial isolates of the genera Deinococcus, Geodermatophilus, and Hymenobacter were still recovered from the arid soil after exposure to doses of 17 to 30 kGy. The recovery of large numbers of extremely ionizing-radiation-resistant bacteria from an arid soil and not from a nonarid soil provides further ecological support for the hypothesis that the ionizing-radiation resistance phenotype is a consequence of the evolution of other DNA repair systems that protect cells against commonly encountered environmental stressors, such as desiccation. The diverse group of bacterial strains isolated from the arid soil sample included 60 Deinococcus strains, the characterization of which revealed nine novel species of this genus.
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TL;DR: Hydrogen sulfide suppressed the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the enzyme that catalyzes the terminal step in alcoholic fermentation, in the roots of two wetland macrophytes, lending support to the hypotheses that ADH activity, as a mcasurc of fermcntative metabolism, is important in maintaining the root energy status of wetland plants under hypoxic-anoxic conditions.
Abstract: Hydrogen sulfide, a phytotoxin that often accumulates in anoxic marine and freshwater marsh soils, suppressed the activity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), the enzyme that catalyzes the terminal step in alcoholic fermentation, in the roots of two wetland macrophytes. This inhibition of root ADH activity with increasing sulfide concentration was associated with decreases in root total adenine nucleotide pool (ATP + ADP + AMP), the adenylate energy charge ratio (AEC), nitrogen uptake (percent recovery of rSNH,+-N) and growth (leaf elongation). These responses were species-specific with a greater negative impact in the freshwater marsh species that naturally inhabits low-sulfide environments. These findings lend support to the hypotheses that ADH activity, as a mcasurc of fermcntative metabolism, is important in maintaining the root energy status of wetland plants under hypoxic-anoxic conditions, that there is a significant negative effect of H,S on the anoxic production of energy in these roots, and that an important negative effect of H,S on plant growth is an inhibition of the energy-dependent process of N uptake.
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TL;DR: In this article, Huisman-Olff-Fresco (HOF) models were used to evaluate the shape of vascular plant responses along an elevation gradient. But, the results showed that the skewed and plateau responses are less common than symmetric responses.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used fluorescence and absorbance spectra from sulfidic cave and thermal and non-thermal surface-discharging spring waters to identify the origin and degree of organic matter humification.
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TL;DR: Investigators using mice, rats, and rabbits in biomedical experimentation should be aware of the profound effects that many of the natural pathogens of these laboratory animals may alter host physiology, rendering the host unsuitable for many experimental uses.
Abstract: Laboratory mice, rats, and rabbits may harbor a variety of viral, bacterial, parasitic, and fungal agents. Frequently, these organisms cause no overt signs of disease. However, many of the natural pathogens of these laboratory animals may alter host physiology, rendering the host unsuitable for many experimental uses. While the number and prevalence of these pathogens have declined considerably, many still turn up in laboratory animals and represent unwanted variables in research. Investigators using mice, rats, and rabbits in biomedical experimentation should be aware of the profound effects that many of these agents can have on research.
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H. S. Chen | 179 | 2401 | 178529 |
John A. Rogers | 177 | 1341 | 127390 |
Omar M. Yaghi | 165 | 459 | 163918 |
Barry M. Popkin | 157 | 751 | 90453 |
John E. Morley | 154 | 1377 | 97021 |
Claude Bouchard | 153 | 1076 | 115307 |
Ruth J. F. Loos | 142 | 647 | 92485 |
Ali Khademhosseini | 140 | 887 | 76430 |
Shanhui Fan | 139 | 1292 | 82487 |
Joseph E. LeDoux | 139 | 478 | 91500 |
Christopher T. Walsh | 139 | 819 | 74314 |
Kenneth A. Dodge | 138 | 468 | 79640 |
Steven B. Heymsfield | 132 | 679 | 77220 |
George A. Bray | 131 | 896 | 100975 |
Zhanhu Guo | 128 | 886 | 53378 |