Dental disease is a very prevalent and costly disease in which the symptoms, not the disease, are currently being treated. The disease is caused by pathogenic oral bacteria, many of which are a part of the Mutans Streptococci. The objective of this thesis was to find a natural substance that...
In recent years, the methyl erythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway to isoprenoids has been the subject of intensive research. The interest is because isoprenoids have important roles in many cellular processes essential for the survival of several pathogenic organisms, making the inhibition of this pathway an attractive target for the drug...
The effects of overcoming rest by application of "near-lethal" (NL)
stress treatments on the subsequent development of cold hardiness of
stem tissues of red-osier dogwood, Comus sericea L., at different rest
stages under three post-environments (0°, 23°, and natural condition)
were studied. NL-heat stress (47°C for one hour) treatment during...