Eijkman


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Eijkman

(Dutch ˈɛikmɑn)
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(Biography) Christiaan (ˈkriːstiːˌaːn). 1858–1930, Dutch physician, who discovered that beriberi is caused by nutritional deficiency: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1929
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Noun1.Eijkman - Dutch physician who discovered that beriberi is caused by a nutritional deficiency (1858-1930)
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Specimens with a cycle threshold value <30 were inactivated using binding buffer of High Pure Viral RNA kit (Roche Applied Science, http:// www.roche.com), and transported to the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology in Jakarta for Sanger sequencing.
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Transmission-Electron Microscopy (TEM) (JEOL 101, 80.0 KV, Tokyo, Japan) was done at Eijkman Institute, Jakarta.
(161.) Frederik Eijkman et al., Bridges to Cash: the Retail End of
Kanehiro Takaki and Christian Eijkman were already conducting experiments by feeding polished rice, rice bran, and rice germ to different kinds of fowl.
(In 1896, Christiaan Eijkman proved the disease resulted from the lack of vitamin B1, though it took decades for his hypothesis to gain acceptance).
(35.) Te Brake H, Bouman A-M, Gorter R, Hoogstraten J, Eijkman M.
The sequences of the primer used in PCR were worked in Eijkman Institute Molecular Biology, Jakarta, which were described earlier in the study by Snounou et al.