Low-salt diet seen acceptable to many

sharkboy submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.reutershealth.com)

Adults may be amenable to lowering their salt intake, particularly in the context of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables, which is naturally low in salt, research shows.

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Novel 3′-phosphoadenosine-5′-phosphatases from extremely halotolerant Hortaea werneckii reveal insight into molecular determinants of salt tolerance of black yeasts

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Two novel 3′-phosphoadenosine-5′-phosphatases, HwHAL2A and HwHAL2B, have been cloned from saltern-inhabited extremely halotolerant yeast Hortaea werneckii, which are ubiquitous enzymes required for the removal of the cytotoxic 3′-phosphoadenosine-5′-phosphate produced during sulfur assimilation in eukaryotes. But addittionally it was shown that they considerably increased the tolerance to sodium and lithium ions when expressed in salt-sensitive S. cerevisiae

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Evaluation of gene-expression clustering via mutual information distance measure

Cassidy submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

The definition of a distance measure plays a key role in the evaluation of different clustering solutions of gene expression profiles. After comparision among different clustering solutions when using the Mutual Information (MI) measure versus the use of the well known Euclidean distance and Pearson correlation coefficient, further attention should be paid in the selection of proper distance measure for analyzing the clustering of gene expression data.

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Fast automated cell phenotype image classification

Rhett submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

With the coming of protein age, there is a need for large scale automated computational techniques to efficiently quantify, distinguish and classify sub-cellular images. While image statistics have proved highly successful in distinguishing localisation, commonly used measures suffer from being relatively slow to compute, and often require cells to be individually selected from experimental images, thus limiting both throughput and the range of potential applications

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Array-based genotyping and expression analysis of barley cv. Maythorpe and Golden Promise

freeman submitted, created time 1 year 9 months (www.biomedcentral.com)

Golden Promise is a salt-tolerant spring barley closely related to Maythorpe. Salt tolerance in Golden Promise has been attributed to a single mutation at the Ari-e locus (on 5H) resulting from irradiation of Maythorpe. Golden Promise accumulates lower shoot Na+ compared to Maythorpe when growing under saline conditions. It was recently confirmed that Golden Promise and Maythorpe are genetically very closely related but establish that they are not isogenic, as previously reported, due to three polymorphic haplotype blocks

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