Bacteriological contamination of water and associated risk

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY Introduction This chapter describes the research design and methodology used to provide data to investigate the research questions. The research was executed in three phases: Phase 1...

Dynamic expression and antigenic variation of secretory proteins

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Evolution of vector-pathogen interactions Defence against pathogen invasion has driven the evolution of a basic innate immune system in ticks. This immune system has been reviewed extensively before (e.g. Taylor, 2006; Kopáček et...

Labwork and Data-cleaning 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chapter 3 Labwork and Data-cleanin Introduction Through the process of meiosis, offspring inherit genetic characteristics from their parents by inheriting fractions of their parents’ deoxyribonucelic acid (DNA). DNA carries genetic information in the...

Modeling portal drained viscera and liver fluxes of essential amino acids in dairy cattle

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chapter 3: Modeling portal drained viscera and liver fluxes of essential amino acids in dairy cows Abstract The objective of this work was to predict essential amino acid (EAA) use and release by...

The human vagina & associated microorganisms

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Vaginal infections Although the vaginal mucosa is considered a tightly balanced barrier against pathogen invasion, one million people nonetheless acquire sexually transmitted infections (STI) every day, according to the world health organisation (WHO;...

Isolation and Characterisation of EV (and Cell) Molecular Contents

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Isolation of RNA To extract RNA from cells, an aforementioned cell pellet from an aliquot of a 1 litre YPD culture was thawed on ice and 500 μl of TRIzol (Invitrogen, Thermo Fisher...

Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction & Characterisation of Diatomaceae Proteins and other Constituents

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Ultrasound Treatment N. laevis was kindly provided as a dewatered biomass from Photonz Co. (13 Bruce McLaren Rd., Henderson 0612, Auckland, New Zealand). The dewatered biomass was freeze-dried and kept in the dark...

Case studies of Bioprospecting and biopiracy in Africa2.4 Bioprospecting as Biopiracy

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER THREE THE TRIPS AGREEEMENT AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR AFRICAN BIODIVERSITY AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE INTRODUCTION This chapter aims at analysing the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO’s) agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...

Using the two-hybrid system for the identification of binding partners of SNAREs and secretory proteins

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » CHAPTER 2 SIGNALING PATHWAYS REGULATING PROTEIN SECRETION FROM THE SALIVARY GLANDS OF UNFED FEMALE Ornithodoros savignyi INTRODUCTION  General anatomy of tick salivary glands The salivary glands are the largest glands in the tick’s...

Determination of protein and lipid denaturation and water holding capacity

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Raising of animals and feedlot procedures: All the animals received a Revalor® H growth implant in accordance with general feedlot practices in South Africa. The animals were housed in pens holding 10 animals...