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Glycerol is used as a means by which to maintain both osmotic balance and enzymatic activity. [9] D. salina preserves a high concentration of glycerol by maintaining a cell membrane with low permeability to glycerol and synthesizing large quantities of glycerol from starch as a response to high extracellular salt concentration, which is why it ...
A 2006 study suggested a nine-pass transmembrane topology with cleavage and assembly into the gamma-secretase complex prior to insertion into the plasma membrane. [9] Solution NMR studies of the C-terminal fragment showed three helices likely to traverse the membrane, [5] [10] while X-ray crystallography studies of an archaeal homolog, [11] as ...
Artemia salina is a species of brine shrimp – aquatic crustaceans that are more closely related to Triops and cladocerans than to true shrimp.It belongs to a lineage that does not appear to have changed much in
Artemia is a genus of aquatic crustaceans also known as brine shrimp or sea monkeys.It is the only genus in the family Artemiidae.The first historical record of the existence of Artemia dates back to the first half of the 10th century AD from Lake Urmia, Iran, with an example called by an Iranian geographer an "aquatic dog", [2] although the first unambiguous record is the report and drawings ...
The star-nosed mole lives in wet lowland areas and eats small invertebrates such as aquatic insects (such as the larvae of caddisflies, midges, dragonflies, damselflies, crane flies, horseflies, predaceous diving beetles, and stoneflies), terrestrial insects, [9] worms (such as earthworms, leeches, and other annelids), [9] mollusks, and aquatic crustaceans, [9] as well as small amphibians and ...
Ahead of the Super Bowl LIX rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is weighing in on both teams' chances of victory.
According to Dominique Chu, Mikhail Prokopenko, and J. Christian J. Ray, "the most important class of natural computers can be found in biological systems that perform computation on multiple levels. From molecular and cellular information processing networks to ecologies , economies and brains, life computes.
Chloral hydrate is a geminal diol with the formula Cl 3 C−CH(OH) 2.It was first used as a sedative and hypnotic in Germany in the 1870s. Over time it was replaced by safer and more effective alternatives but it remained in usage in the United States until at least the 1970s. [4]