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This work was supported by Grant GM 27256 from the National Institutes of Health and Grant DA 02507 from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. LL. is an American Cancer Society Research Professor of Biochemistry (Award PRP-21). H.V.V. is the recipient of a Research Career Award (5K6-AI-2372) from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. We thank Dr. Y. Hirata of Meijo University for generous gifts of palytoxin isolated from Palythoa tuberculosa. We thank Dr. T. Yasumoto, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, for the maitotoxin preparation. We thank also Jeffrey A. Bessette and Nancy Worth for their technical assistance and Inez Zimmerman for preparation of the manuscript. 

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is thanked for financial support, Professor Schmutzler for access to research facilities, and Daikin Company, Osaka, Japan for the generous gift of hexa-fluoroacetone. 

In recent years as more research has focused on the role of monounsaturates versus polyunsaturates and their effects on cholesterol reduction, oleic safflower oil has begun to receive more attention. In the United States, Saffola Grocery Products has introduced a grown-without-pesticides salad oil in which linoleic safflower oil has been replaced by the oleic type. In Japan, several bottlers have begun to feature oleic safflower oil in their gift-pack campaign both as an individually identified product and also in blends with the linoleic type. 

Professor Hiroshi Okximoto of Kyoto University for supplying rice seeds. Professor Toshiaki Mitsui of Niigata University for supplying rice cells, and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan for the gift of ABA. 

Education, Science and Culture of Japan (Specially Promoted Research No. 02I02(X)4). We also thank the ASAl Germanium Research Institute for the gift of tetrachlorogermane. 

The authors would like to thank Asahi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., for the gift of ADP-HK. This work is supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) No. 13672431 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, the High-Technology Research Center Project from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan and Japan Health Sciences Foundation. 

In the developed world, especially in North America, Western Europe, and Japan, we love to buy cut flowers for our homes, work places, as gifts or for special occasions. Over 50 million roses are given worldwide on Valentine s Day alone. Many of these cut flowers are transported long distances by air to reach the flower markets as swiftly as possible, and contribute to the problem of increased carbon dioxide emissions. 

The sample was separated by SDS-PAGE (Laemmli, 1970) (Multigel 4/20, Daiichi Pure Chemicals Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan) and the separated proteins were subsequently electroblotted onto a polyvinylidene difluoride membrane (Immobilon, Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA, USA). Antigens were probed with HIV-1-positive plasma and 0.5beta (a kind gift from Dr. Shuzo Matsushita of Kumamoto University, AIDS Research Institute, Kumamoto, Japan). The bands were visualized by means of chemiluminescence detection (NEN Life Science Products, Inc., Boston, MA, USA). 

K.M. gratefully acknowledges the contributions of his collaborators mentioned in the references and especially Emeritus Professors Yoshio Otsuji (Osaka Prefecture University) and Hiroshi Sakurai (Osaka University) and Dr. Chyongjin Pac (Kawamura Institute of Technology) for their continued encouragement in this field. Financial support has been provided by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture, Japan. We also thank Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd. for the gift of chlorotrimethylsilane and dichlo-rodimethylsilane. 

Taber, K. S. (2012). Meeting the needs of gifted science learners in the context of England s system of comprehensive secondary education The ASCEND project. Journal of Science Education in Japan, 36(2), 101-112. 

Acknowledgements. The authors would like to thank Dr. Y. Ohashi (Nara Medical University) for a kind gift of purified poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase used in a part of this study. This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research and Cancer Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, Japan, and by the Suzuken Memorial Foundation. 

On the occasion of the presentation of the Division of Polymer Chemistry Award to Dr. Maurice L. Huggins on November 24, 1980, a number of formal and informal events, which accompanied the award address published in this volume, occurred which added materially to the presentation and we hope tended to enhance the tradition of the award. These events included the presentation ceremonies, the introduction of the awardee, and a panel discussion involving questions and reminiscing about the awardee s career. A special flavor to the ceremony was derived by the presentation of a scroll signed by many of his polymer friends in Japan and an additional gift of a 200-year old Japanese wooden print to Dr. Huggins by the Society of Polymer Science, Japan. 

This work was supported by the Belgian FRSM. GVDB is Maitre de Recherches of the Belgian FNRS and FB is Research Fellow of the International Institute of Cellular and Molecular Pathology. Coformycin was a generous gift of Professor H. Umezawa (Institute of Microbial Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan). 

To assemble the full-length sequence of human Tuba, the partial clone KIAAlOlO (a gift of the Kazusa DNA Res. Institute, Kisarazu, Japan) was used as the starting template. 5 -RACE was performed on human skeletal muscle (Marathon-Ready cDNAs-Clontech, Mountain View, CA) using... 

Compactin (a gift of Dr. A. Endo, Tokyo Noko University, Japan) was converted to the acid form [3] and stored as 1 mM solution in multiple aliquots at -20 °C until used. Initial experiments were carried out with a shooty line of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum cv Xanthi) crown gall tissue in which [9R]Z was the major endogenous cytokinin. The tissue (10 g) was incubated in liquid medium (10 ml) for 5 h in the absence or presence of compactin (5 /xM) on a shaker (80 rpm, 22 ° C, under fluorescent light). At the end of this preincubation period 4.5 /xCi of DL-[2- H]-MVA lactone (1.28 Ci/mmol Amersham, UK) was added to each flask. Following further incubation for 10 h the tissues were removed, extracted and purified as previously reported [19]. The uptake of [ H]-M VA was 59 and 56.7% by control and treated tissues, respectively. In both cases about 56% of radioactivity taken up was extracted, and more than 90% of extracted radioactivity was not retained on cellulose phosphate columns. The basic fractions and the nucletoide-derived. 

Samples. 6-CL and toluene-dg were purchased from Wako Co. Ltd. Novozyme-435, which is immobilized Candida Antarctica Lipase B (CALB) on acrylic resin, was provided from Novozyme Japan. Accurel and QDE 2-3-4 immobilized CALB on polypropylene were gifts from Novo Nordisk. The characterization of these immobilizaed lipases is listed in Ref. 19. 

Materials. NIPAAm obtained from Fisher Scientific Inc. (Fair Lawn, NJ), was recrystallized from hexane. BMA and AA were purchased from Aldrich Chemical Company (Milwaukee, WI). BMA and AA were purified by vacuum distillation at 57 C / 17 mm Hg and 39 C / 10 mm Hg respectively. 2,2 -azobis-isobutyronitrile (AIBN), purchased from Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY), was recrystallized firom methanol. Bovine insulin, trypsin inhibitor and angiotensin II were purchased fix>m Sigma Chemical Company (St Louis, MO). Human calcitonin was a gift from Suntory Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan). Heavy white mineral oil and decane were purchased fix>m Aldrich Chemical Company (Milwaukee, WI). Acetonitrile, HPLC grade, was purchased from Fisher Scientific Inc. (Fair Lawn, NJ). All other chemicals were reagent grade. 

Kambara, M., K. Miyake, K. Murata, Y. Shiohara and T. Umeda, 1997b, Microstructural control of Ndl23 bulk superconductors by initial compositions, Proc. of ISS 97, Gift, Japan, eds K. Osamura and I. Hirabayashi, Vol. X of Advances in Superconductivity (Springer, Tokyo) pp. 729-732. 

Isaria japonica was a gift from Aseptic Sericulture System Laboratory (Kyoto, Japan). Mouse rTNF-a and lipopolysaccharide were purchased from Wako Pure Chemicals Industries (Osaka, Japan) and Difco Laboratories (Detroit,... 

TLM, a gift from Chugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, Takata 3-41-8, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171, Japan, were solubilized in methanol and added to the incubation medium. The concentration of TLM was determined by the absorbance at 238 nm using HPLC. E. coli fatty acid synthase activities... 

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