Project description:The functional diversity of soil microbial communities was explored for a poplar plantation, which was treated solely with biogas slurry, or combined with biochar at different fertilization intensities over several years.
Project description:Isolated perfused rat hearts exposed to isoflurane or ischemic preconditioning, a subgroup followed by 40 minutes of ischemia and 3 hours of reperfusion. Exact protocol available from the authors. Keywords = preconditioning Keywords = anesthetics Keywords = ischemia/reperfusion Keywords: other
Project description:Stress preconditioning occurs when transient, sublethal stress events impact an organism's ability to counter future stresses. Although preconditioning effects are often noted in the literature, very little is known about the underlying mechanisms. To model preconditioning, we exposed a panel of genetically diverse Drosophila melanogaster to a sublethal heat shock and measured how well the flies survived exposure to endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress. To identify genes with expression patterns predictive of preconditioning outcomes, we focused on the 10 DGRP strains at the extreme ends of our preconditioning screen. We compared the beneficial strains (RAL69, RAL93, RAL359, RAL387, RAL409) to the detrimental (RAL195, RAL304, RAL335, RAL737, RAL819) with and without heat shock (our preconditioning stress).