A study on immunological responses to exposures encountered in corn farming

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:172, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20071     

Pesticide metabolism and potential for metabolic interactions

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:276–277, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20077     

Role of host susceptibility to toxicity and cancer caused by pesticides: cytochromes P450

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:184–186, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20080     

DNA replication and repair reactions relevant to the AHS

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:190–191, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20082     

The Agricultural Health Study biomarker workshop on cancer etiology. Introduction: overview of study design, results, and goals of workshop

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:169–171, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20070     

Generation of reactive intermediates

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:173–174, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20072     

Biomarkers of effects: the immune system

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:177–179, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20075     

Glutathione S-transferases as putative host susceptibility genes for cancer risk in agricultural workers

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:187–189, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20081     

Biomarkers of thyroid function, genotoxicity and agricultural fungicide use

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:175, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20073     

Paraoxonase 1 (PON1) status and risk of insecticide exposure

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:182–183, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20079     

Identification of biomarkers of arsenic exposure and metabolism in urine using SELDI technology

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:176–176, 2005; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20074     

Synaptic integration in dendritic trees

The original article to which this Erratum refers has been published in Journal of Neurobiology J Neurobiol (2005)64(1)75–90 . © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Discussion and conclusions

© 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 19:192–193, 2003; Published online in Wiley InterScience ( www.interscience.wiley.com ). DOI 10.1002/jbt.20083     

Does secondary structure determine tertiary structure in proteins?

Is highly approximate knowledge of a protein's backbone structure sufficient to successfully identify its family, superfamily, and tertiary fold? To explore this question, backbone dihedral angles were extracted from the known three‐dimensional structure of 2,439 proteins and mapped into 36 labeled, 60° × 60° bins, called mesostates. Using this coarse‐grained mapping, protein conformation can be approximated by a linear sequence of mesostates. These linear strings can then be aligned and assessed by conventional sequence‐comparison methods. We report that the mesostate sequence is sufficient to recognize a protein's family, superfamily, and fold with good fidelity. Proteins 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Morphology of the blood cells from three species of wobbegong sharks (Orectolobus species) on the east coast of New South Wales

This study is the first study to describe blood cell morphology, using light microscopy, for three species of wild‐caught wobbegong shark. Blood cell morphology was similar to that described previously in fish. Wobbegong sharks possess erythrocytes, at least three different morphological types of thrombocytes, lymphocytes, eosinophils, neutrophils, granuloblasts and monocytes. No basophils were observed in this study. Similarities and differences in morphological appearance of wobbegong shark blood cells compared to Chondrichthyes, teleosts and mammalian blood cells are discussed. Zoo Biol 0:1–10, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Enclosure choice and well‐being in giant pandas: is it all about control?

Behavioral and hormonal data were compared for four giant pandas in two management conditions: (1) panda confined to exhibit area and (2) panda given choice to move freely between exhibit and off‐exhibit bedroom areas. Pandas displayed fewer signs of behavioral agitation and lower urinary cortisol in the free choice condition. Time active did not differ between the two conditions. These results suggest that simply offering pandas free access to alternative locations can improve behavioral and hormonal variables that may be related to well‐being. Zoo Biol 0:1–7, 2005. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.     

Spiral galaxies as enantiomers: Chirality,an underlying feature in chemistry and astrophysics

Spiral galaxies are axisymmetric objects showing 2D chirality when projected onto a plane. Features in common with tetrahedral molecules are pointed out, in particular the existence of a preferred chiral modality for genetic galaxies as in amino acids and sugars. Environmental effects can influence the intrinsic chirality of originally isolated stellar systems so that a progressive loss of chirality is recognized in the Hubble morphological sequence of galaxies. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Chirality     

Facile synthesis of phosphonamidate‐ and phosphonate‐linked phosphonopeptides

A direct method for the preparation of phosphonamidate‐ and phosphonate‐linked phosphonopeptides has been developed. Using this method, both phosphonopeptides were prepared in acceptable yields directly from simple and commercially available chemicals in one‐pot reactions of benzyl carbamate, aldehydes, and methyl dichlorophosphite, followed by aminolysis with amino acid esters or alcoholysis with hydroxy esters. Copyright © 2005 European Peptide Society and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Asymmetric ring opening of terminal epoxides via kinetic resolution catalyzed by new bimetallic chiral (salen)Co complexes

The highly enantioselective hydrolytic kinetic resolution (HKR) of racemic terminal epoxides by new bimetallic chiral (salen)Co provides a operationally very simple protocol for the synthesis of enantiomerically enriched terminal epoxides (>99% ee) and diols. Optically pure chlorohydrins have been synthesized in one step by ring‐opening reactions of terminal epoxides with HCl using kinetic resolution. © 2005 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Chirality     

Interaction between the Spatiotemporal Learning Rule (STLR) and Hebb type (HEBB) in single pyramidal cells in the hippocampal CA1 Area

The spatiotemporal learning rule (STLR), proposed as a non-Hebb type by Tsukada et al. (Neural Networks 9 (1996) 1357 and Tsukada and Pan (Biol. cyberm 92 (2005) 139), 2005), consists of two distinctive factors; “cooperative plasticity without a cell spike,” and “its temporal summation”. On the other hand, Hebb (The organization of behavior. John Wiley, New York, 1949) proposed the idea (HEBB) that synaptic modification is strengthened only if the pre- and post-cell are activated simultaneously. We have shown, experimentally, that both STLR and HEBB coexist in single pyramidal cells of the hippocampal CA1 area. The functional differences between STLR and HEBB in dendrite (local)-soma (global) interactions in single pyramidal cells of CA1 and the possibility of pattern separation, pattern completion and reinforcement learning were discussed.