De Luca

Amphora with Four Men Molding Various Objects" by Kleophrades painter/Araldo de Luca/CORBIS... 

Kanke, M., Geissler, R. G., Powell, D., Kaplan, A., and De-Luca, P. P., Interaction of microspheres with blood constituents. III. Macrophage phagocytosis of various types of polymeric drug carriers, J. Parent. Sci. Technol., 42, 157, 1988. 

Rhodophyta, Rhodophyceae, Ceramales, Rhodomelaceae). Aust. J. Chem. 42 1591-1603. Collins, F. W., De Luca, V., Ibrahim, R. K., Voirin, B. and Jay, M. 1981. Polymethylated flavonols of Chrysosplenium americanum. I. Identification and enzymic synthesis. Zeit. Naturforsch. 36c 730-736. 

De Luca, V. and Ibrahim, R. K. 1985a. Enzymatic synthesis of polymethylated flavonols of Chrys-osplenium americarmm. I. Partial purification and some properties of S-adenosyl-L-methionine flavonol 3-, 6-, 7-, and 4 -0-methyltransferases. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 238 596-605. 

De Luca G, P de Philip, Z Dermoun, M Rouseet, A Vermeglio (2001) Reduction of Technetium (VII) by Desulfovibrio fructosovorans is mediated by the nickel-iron hydrogenase. Appl Environ Microbiol 67 468-475. 

Chouet B, Saccorotti G, Dawson P, Martini M, Scarpa R, De Luca G, Milana G, Cattaneo M (1999) Broadband measurements of the sources of explosions at Stromboli volcano, Italy. Geophys Res Lett 26 1937-1940... 

Ponnamperuma, R.M., Shimizu, Y., Kirchhof, S.M., and De Luca, L.M. 2000. Beta-carotene fails to act as a tumor promoter, induces RAR expression, and prevents carcinoma formation in a two-stage model of skin carcinogenesis in male Senear mice. Nutr Cancer 37 82-88. 

Figure 25 BC-NMR spectrum for polyfdimethyl 5-(4-hydroxy butoxy) isophthalate) [146]. Reproduced from De Luca and Richards [146]. Copyright 2003, John Wiley Sons, Inc. Reprinted with permission of Wiley-Liss, Inc., a subsidiary of John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

De Giorgi, C., De Luca, F. and Lamberti, F. (1996) A silent trans-splicing signal in the cuticlin-encoding gene of the plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne artiellia. Gene 170, 261-265. 

We see some similarities between the major life processes in plants (growth and differentiation) and the major life processes in animals and humans (proliferation and differentiation). We expect in future to relate this concept to animal production and to human health, to be able to cross the bridge from soil to plant to animal and finally human health. For example, the development in medicine of differentiation therapy in which vitamin A-derivates are used to treat human cancer cells in vitro (De Luca el al., 1995). Cancer is defined by too much uncontrolled growth of cells without enough differentiation. Using treatment with vitamin A-derivatives - a product of differentiation processes in the plant - undifferentiated cancer cells change into differentiated more healthy ones. 

De Luca M., McElroy W. D., Purification and properties of firefly luciferase, Methods Enzymol. 1978 57 3-15. 

McElroy W.D., De Luca M., Firefly bioluminescence, in Chemi- and Bioluminescence, JG Burr, ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1985, 387-399. 

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