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Production of waste hair in the leather manufacturing industry is increasing every year due to the adoption of hair-save unhairing
techniques, leaving the tanners with the problem of coping with yet another solid by-product. Numerous potential strategies
for hair utilisation have been proposed. However, the use of hair waste as agricultural fertiliser is one of its most promising
applications due to the high nitrogen content of hair. Agricultural value of hair can be increased by composting. This paper
deals with the composting of hair from the unhairing of bovine hide. Results indicated that hair cannot be either composted
on its own or co-composted with de-inking sludge, a chemical complementary co-substrate. However, good results were obtained
when co-composted with raw sludge from a municipal wastewater treatment plant at hair:raw sludge weight ratios 1:1, 1:2 and,
1:4 in lab scale and pilot plant scale composters. In all cases, a more stable product was achieved at the end of the process.
Composting in the pilot plant composter was effectively monitored using Static Respiration Indices determined at process temperature
at sampling (SRI
T
) and at 37°C (SRI37). Notably, SRI
T
values were more sensitive to changes in the biological activity. In contrast, Respiratory Quotient (RQ) values were not
adequate to follow the development of the process. 相似文献
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Michela Baccini Eva-Maria Bachmaier Annibale Biggeri Mark V. Boekschoten Freek G. Bouwman Lorraine Brennan Robert Caesar Saverio Cinti Susan L. Coort Katie Crosley Hannelore Daniel Christian A. Drevon Susan Duthie Lars Eijssen Ruan M. Elliott Marjan van Erk Chris Evelo Mike Gibney Carolin Heim Graham W. Horgan Ian T. Johnson Thomas Kelder Robert Kleemann Teake Kooistra Martijn P. van Iersel Edwin C. Mariman Claus Mayer Gerard McLoughlin Michael Müller Francis Mulholland Ben van Ommen Abigael C. Polley Estelle Pujos-Guillot Isabel Rubio-Aliaga Helen M. Roche Baukje de Roos Manuela Sailer Giulia Tonini Lynda M. Williams Nicole de Wit 《Genes & nutrition》2008,3(3-4):147-151
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Dridi S Ververken C Hillgartner FB Arckens L Lutgarde A Van der Gucht E Cnops L Decuypere E Buyse J 《American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology》2006,291(1):R138-R147
Cerulenin, a natural fatty acid synthase (FAS) inhibitor, and its synthetic analog C75 are hypothesized to alter the metabolism of neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate ingestive behavior to cause a profound decrease of food intake and an increase in metabolic rate, leading to body weight loss. The bulk of data exclusively originates from mammals (rodents); however, such effects are currently lacking in nonmammalian species. We have, therefore, addressed this issue in broiler chickens because this species is selected for high growth rate and high food intake and is prone to obesity. First, we demonstrate that FAS messenger and protein are expressed in the hypothalamus of chickens. FAS immunoreactivity was detected in a number of brain regions, including the nucleus paraventricularis magnocellularis and the nucleus infundibuli hypothalami, the avian equivalent of the mammalian arcuate nucleus, suggesting that FAS may be involved in the regulation of food intake. Second, we show that hypothalamic FAS gene expression was significantly (P < 0.05) decreased by overnight fasting similar to that in liver, indicating that hypothalamic FAS gene is regulated by energy status in chickens. Finally, to investigate the physiological consequences of in vivo inhibition of fatty acid synthesis on food intake, we administered cerulenin by intravenous injections (15 mg/kg) to 2-wk-old broiler chickens. Cerulenin administration significantly reduced food intake by 23 to 34% (P < 0.05 to P < 0.0001) and downregulated FAS and melanocortin receptors 1, 4, and 5 gene expression (P < 0.05). However, the known orexigenic (neuropeptide Y, agouti gene-related peptide, orexin, and orexin receptor) and anorexigenic (pro-opiomelanocortin and corticotropin-releasing hormone) neuropeptide mRNA levels remained unchanged after cerulenin treatment. These results suggest that the catabolic effect of cerulenin in chickens may be mediated through the melanocortin system rather than the other neuropeptides known to be involved in food intake regulation. 相似文献
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Arne Kuepper Niall M McLoughlin Saskia Neubacher Alejandro Yeste-Vzquez Estel Collado
Camps Chandran Nithin Sunandan Mukherjee Lucas Bethge Janusz M Bujnicki Roland Brock Stefan Heinrichs Tom N Grossmann 《Nucleic acids research》2021,49(22):12622
The design of high-affinity, RNA-binding ligands has proven very challenging. This is due to the unique structural properties of RNA, often characterized by polar surfaces and high flexibility. In addition, the frequent lack of well-defined binding pockets complicates the development of small molecule binders. This has triggered the search for alternative scaffolds of intermediate size. Among these, peptide-derived molecules represent appealing entities as they can mimic structural features also present in RNA-binding proteins. However, the application of peptidic RNA-targeting ligands is hampered by a lack of design principles and their inherently low bio-stability. Here, the structure-based design of constrained α-helical peptides derived from the viral suppressor of RNA silencing, TAV2b, is described. We observe that the introduction of two inter-side chain crosslinks provides peptides with increased α-helicity and protease stability. One of these modified peptides (B3) shows high affinity for double-stranded RNA structures including a palindromic siRNA as well as microRNA-21 and its precursor pre-miR-21. Notably, B3 binding to pre-miR-21 inhibits Dicer processing in a biochemical assay. As a further characteristic this peptide also exhibits cellular entry. Our findings show that constrained peptides can efficiently mimic RNA-binding proteins rendering them potentially useful for the design of bioactive RNA-targeting ligands. 相似文献
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Teresa Biermann MD Dorothee Estel Wolfgang Sperling Stefan Bleich Johannes Kornhuber Udo Reulbach 《Chronobiology international》2013,30(6):1137-1143
The hypothesis of lunar influence on suicide remains widespread, despite the fact that little scientific evidence to substantiate it. We conducted a population‐based study to assess the influence of the lunar phases on suicides according to age, sex, and chosen method. The study included all suicides in Middle Franconia between 1998 and 2003. From a population‐based sample of 3351 events, the files of 3054 suicides (1949 males and 1105 females) were complete for the study variables. Data were categorized by lunar phase, sex, age, and chosen method—“violent” vs. “non‐violent” acts. No significant relationship was detected between the full, absent, and moon's interphases and suicide incidence. Nevertheless, there was a weak association between the absent moon and choice of a non‐violent suicide method in men aged less than the median of 40.2 yrs. There was no evidence of a relationship between suicide and lunar phase. Some explanations for this phenomenon are discussed. 相似文献
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Iglesias-Guimarais V Gil-Guiñon E Gabernet G García-Belinchón M Sánchez-Osuna M Casanelles E Comella JX Yuste VJ 《The Journal of biological chemistry》2012,287(10):7766-7779
Apoptotic cell death is characterized by nuclear fragmentation and oligonucleosomal DNA degradation, mediated by the caspase-dependent specific activation of DFF40/CAD endonuclease. Here, we describe how, upon apoptotic stimuli, SK-N-AS human neuroblastoma-derived cells show apoptotic nuclear morphology without displaying concomitant internucleosomal DNA fragmentation. Cytotoxicity afforded after staurosporine treatment is comparable with that obtained in SH-SY5Y cells, which exhibit a complete apoptotic phenotype. SK-N-AS cell death is a caspase-dependent process that can be impaired by the pan-caspase inhibitor q-VD-OPh. The endogenous inhibitor of DFF40/CAD, ICAD, is correctly processed, and dff40/cad cDNA sequence does not reveal mutations altering its amino acid composition. Biochemical approaches show that both SH-SY5Y and SK-N-AS resting cells express comparable levels of DFF40/CAD. However, the endonuclease is poorly expressed in the cytosolic fraction of healthy SK-N-AS cells. Despite this differential subcellular distribution of DFF40/CAD, we find no differences in the subcellular localization of both pro-caspase-3 and ICAD between the analyzed cell lines. After staurosporine treatment, the preferential processing of ICAD in the cytosolic fraction allows the translocation of DFF40/CAD from this fraction to a chromatin-enriched one. Therefore, the low levels of cytosolic DFF40/CAD detected in SK-N-AS cells determine the absence of DNA laddering after staurosporine treatment. In these cells DFF40/CAD cytosolic levels can be restored by the overexpression of their own endonuclease, which is sufficient to make them proficient at degrading their chromatin into oligonucleosome-size fragments after staurosporine treatment. Altogether, the cytosolic levels of DFF40/CAD are determinants in achieving a complete apoptotic phenotype, including oligonucleosomal DNA degradation. 相似文献
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Christopher Sinadinos Jordi Valles‐Ortega Laura Boulan Estel Solsona Maria F. Tevy Mercedes Marquez Jordi Duran Carmen Lopez‐Iglesias Joaquim Calbó Ester Blasco Marti Pumarola Marco Milán Joan J. Guinovart 《Aging cell》2014,13(5):935-945
Glycogen is a branched polymer of glucose and the carbohydrate energy store for animal cells. In the brain, it is essentially found in glial cells, although it is also present in minute amounts in neurons. In humans, loss‐of‐function mutations in laforin and malin, proteins involved in suppressing glycogen synthesis, induce the presence of high numbers of insoluble polyglucosan bodies in neuronal cells. Known as Lafora bodies (LBs), these deposits result in the aggressive neurodegeneration seen in Lafora's disease. Polysaccharide‐based aggregates, called corpora amylacea (CA), are also present in the neurons of aged human brains. Despite the similarity of CA to LBs, the mechanisms and functional consequences of CA formation are yet unknown. Here, we show that wild‐type laboratory mice also accumulate glycogen‐based aggregates in the brain as they age. These structures are immunopositive for an array of metabolic and stress‐response proteins, some of which were previously shown to aggregate in correlation with age in the human brain and are also present in LBs. Remarkably, these structures and their associated protein aggregates are not present in the aged mouse brain upon genetic ablation of glycogen synthase. Similar genetic intervention in Drosophila prevents the accumulation of glycogen clusters in the neuronal processes of aged flies. Most interestingly, targeted reduction of Drosophila glycogen synthase in neurons improves neurological function with age and extends lifespan. These results demonstrate that neuronal glycogen accumulation contributes to physiological aging and may therefore constitute a key factor regulating age‐related neurological decline in humans. 相似文献
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Hieke M Rödl CB Wisniewska JM la Buscató E Stark H Schubert-Zsilavecz M Steinhilber D Hofmann B Proschak E 《Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters》2012,22(5):1969-1975
A novel class of 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitors characterized by a central imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine scaffold, a cyclohexyl moiety and an aromatic system, is presented. This scaffold was identified in a virtual screening study and exhibits promising inhibitory potential on the 5-LO. Here, we investigate the structure-activity relationships of this compound class. With N-cyclohexyl-6-methyl-2-(4-morpholinophenyl)imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-amine (14), we identified a potent 5-LO inhibitor (IC(50)=0.16μM (intact cells) and 0.1μM (cell-free)), which may possess potential as an effective lead compound intervening with inflammatory diseases and certain types of cancer. 相似文献