ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is widely accepted that insufficient insulin-stimulated activation of muscle glycogen synthesis is one of the major components of non-insulin-dependent (type 2) diabetes mellitus. Glycogen synthase, ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes: - the characterization and comparison of the enzymatic activity of both Angora and ovine 3βHSD expressed in non-steroidogenic COS-1 cells. The apparent Km and Vmax values for ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research investigated human candidate genes for susceptibility to tuberculosis and the effect of various factors on time to sputum conversion in the admixed South African Coloured (SAC) population. ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes: · Development of analytical tools to investigate the light struck flavour (LSF) in beer by Gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS) and by liquid chromatography mass spectrometry/mass ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes: 1. The isolation and the purification of tissue type plasminogen activator and urokinase plasminogen activator in bovine milk. 2. The biochemical characterisation of tissue type ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Twenty five years after the last major morphological revision, phylogenetic relationships were inferred on the basis of a new DNA dataset for the African orchid subtribe Disinae, which includes the large ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is well known as the central regulator of the reproductive system through its stimulation of gonadotropin synthesis and release from the pituitary via binding to ...