... protein kinase or p38 MAPKs pathways chemokine SDF-1α induced chemotaxis in Jurkat and THP-1 cells [37,87] andrograpanin isoandrographolide cell-differentiation-inducing activity proliferation of ... IgE [71] Andrographolide attenuated OVA-induced lung tissue eosinophils and airway mucus production, mRNA expression of E-selectin, chitinases, mucin Muc5ac and iNOS in lung tissues and airway ... recent in vitro study investigated the anti-influenza activity of A paniculata in canine kidney cell line as well as mice infected with H1N1, H9N2 or H5N1 [83] A Chao and Lin Chinese Medicine 2010,...
... magnitude of the PTB problem in the Philippines, 95% (n=36) considered it serious Performing examinations on PTB patients pose a risk of getting infected and 76% (n=29) are worried; the remaining 24% ... 92% (n=32) and 3-drug by the remaining 8% (n=3) In an article by Rivera et al,9 the rates of MDR-TB in the Philip-pines are similar to the weighted mean of 4.3% combined, 2.1% primary and 11.8% ... objective of the study to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices of specialist physicians in a tertiary–care hospital as to: a their idea of the magnitude of TB problem in the Philippines...
... referring to all of them as caveolae, was demonstrated by their content of both caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 The coexistence of caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 in all three caveolae subclasses is in line ... broad peak with a shoulder of caveolin suggested heterogeneity and the partial separationof caveolin-containing membranes (Fig 2B) Analysis of the specific protein and lipid composition reported ... indicated protein or EZ-Link-sulfo-NHS-LC-biotin labelling by SDS ⁄ PAGE and immunoblotting or avidin-labelled HRP, respectively The amounts of indicated proteins are expressed in arbitrary densitometric...
... were banding using the R-NOR banding technique developed by Di Berardino et al (1985) The number of metaphase spreads examined per animal varied from 10-30, and for each spread, the number of NOR-positive ... were examined under UV light and micrographs of the best R-banded metaphases were taken using Kodalith film and printed on Valca No paper RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The R-NOR sequential banding technique ... of the nucleolus (Henderson and Bruere, 1977) However, an increase in the amount of rDNA in the chromosomes seems to be correlated with an increased frequency of association, resulting also in...
... includes 50 pairs of inputs 3.3.2 Generation of Training and Testing Files In the back-propagation network, the inputs are presented along with desired outputs during the training phase In this research, ... the training data set, the point of shift is set at the very beginning for each set of parameter values When the point of shift starts from the beginning, the whole window is shifted data In this ... first moving window the second moving window the third moving window Figure 3.5 Configuration of the training data As mentioned above, there are 675 combinations of parameter values in total In order...
... role in osmoregulation in most higher plants, and betaine has been found to accumulate in many plant species in response to salinity (Rhodes and Hanson, 1993) In higher plants, glycine betaine ... proteins involved in salinity stress, including: betaine aldehyde dehydrogenase (BADH2) (1-the number of ESTs matched in GenBank, FJ228482-the accession number of genes of Fig The PCR products of ... rate-limiting step in protein folding (Zhu et al., 2011) In plants, cyclophilin genes are induced in response to biotic or abiotic stresses It has been reported that cyclophilin proteins in tobacco and yeast...
... learning approach, consists of teaching and learning facilities, management software in training process, learning advisors, teaching equipment, textbooks and reference materials, and some training ... test-assessment and conditions of teaching and learning process Training quality will be improved if the quality of teaching and learning is increased To improve the quality of teaching and learning, colleges ... of the Ministry of Education and Training, four of 14 colleges in the ATEC have been applying the creditbased learning approach in training management After three years of credit-based learning...
... variability in the variables of interest in these patients, andin particular, the ceiling effect may constrain the variation in EQ-5D index scores In the patients studied here, the EQ-5D index scores ... index for a ten year increase in age, males versus females, a one minute increase in ETT, a one class increase in CCS, a 10 unit increase in the SAQ scales and a 0.1 unit change in SF-6D as these ... developed, they are often tested in clinical trials against current treatment options Clinical trial-based evaluations of treatments in many fields, including cardiology, often include cost-effectiveness,...
... currently being developed in preclinical testing and clinical trials, including molecules targeting interleukin 12, interleukin 17, and endothelial integrins The efficacy of UC therapies in clinical ... frequent and responsive symptom domains Flow diagram of 28 symptom domains in questionnaire and criteria for determining frequent and responsive symptom domains Sixteen symptom domains were included ... currently assessed in commonly used indices We recorded and qualitatively analyzed all signs and symptoms discussed during these group interviews and compared our findings with existing index components...
... Kim et al intermediate host of E gadi Chu [3] and Cho [2] reported upon the distribution of glycogen, mucopolysaccharides, lipid and nucleic acid in the epicuticle of Echinorhynchus gadi In this ... base of neck In the middle of the trunk, two elliptical testes were arranged linearly Posterior to the testes, six cement glands, pyriform in shape were arranged linearly, with ducts leading into ... xylene Finally, they were mounted in Canadian balsam In order to identify the worms, the length, and width of the body and internal organs were measured Species identification was made according...
... strategy against STEC infection in humans and animals, and food contamination in livestock products Materials and Methods Bacterial strains E coli O157:H7 strains used in this study are listed in Table ... under UV illumination RAPD fingerprinting To increase the reproducibility of RAPD analysis, two kinds of 10-mer random primers (referred as CRA22 and CRA23) were used for investigation of E coli ... Antimicrobial discs Kanamycin Levofloxacin Nalidixic acid Norfloxacin Ofloxacin Polymyxin B Sparfloxacin Streptomycin Tetracycline Tobramycin Trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole Resistant (%) Intermediate (%)...
... arrow indicates the cytoblast of an infected FCWF cell The black arrow indicates the inclusion bodies of GPV in the cytoplasm of cells Scale bars = 200 nm Isolation andidentificationof a canine ... Detection of GPV particles in culture supernatant by negative staining The arrows indicate the corona spikes of the GPV particles (B) Detection of inclusion bodies of GPV in FCWF cells by ultrathin ... published reports of CCV infection in pandas In this study, we isolated a strain of CCV from two giant pandas, which suggests that pandas can be infected with CCV To isolate the virus, two inoculation...
... http://www.aacijournal.com/content/7/1/4 Page of Figure H&E and anti-EPX staining of GI tissues EPX-mAb-based immunohistochemistry provided evidence of both tissue infiltrating eosinophils and eosinophil degranulation in GI biopsies ... staining areas) of both eosinophil infiltration and degranulation (extra-cellular deposition of granules and/ or free-EPX within the tissue matrix) Each photomicrograph was obtained at an original ... conventional eosin and hematoxylin staining of the tissue was not interpreted as being significant by two independent pathologists The other eosinophil granules such as ECP [10] and EDN [11] are...
... Actinidia species differ significantly in their timing of budbreak, winter-chilling requirements, lengths and numbers of nodes per shoot, indicating a genetic control of shoot growth and flowering ... flowering and sex-determination is very scarce, yet essential to accelerate breeding and aid our understanding of flowering control in kiwifruit and woody perennial species in general Molecular and ... Page of 15 Figure Expression profiles of Actinidia flowering genes in mature plant organs Real-time RT-PCR analysis of the Actinidia flowering genes in the root, stem internode, leaf, flower and...
... Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Non-oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed maintainer Oilseed ... Klein × Local (a pool of local varieties of INTA Pergamino breeding program including "Guayacán INTA", "Charata INTA") × "Manfredi" (a pool of varieties from INTA Manfredi breeding program including ... Crystal structure of Tprotein of the glycine cleavage system Cofactor binding, insights into H-protein recognition, and molecular basis for understanding nonketotic hyperglycinemia J Biol Chem...
... respectively) with a 3+ reaction, 63 and 88% (5 ofandof 8, respectively) having a 4+ reaction, and 50 and 60% (2 ofandof 2, respectively) with a 5+ reaction, and 50% (0 andof 2, respectively) with a ... potato of specific IgE to extracts of wild-type and GM potatoes ranged from 0–88%, with 57 and 58% (13 of 23 and 11 of 19, respectively) having a 2+ reaction, 64 and 58% (18 of 28 and 18 of 31, ... the IgE-binding components of extracts from wild-type and GM potatoes after SGF or SIF treatments in the presence or absence of heating A combination of SGF and heat treatment resulted in the disappearance...
... cell lines, showed a copy-number gain in a defined region of chromosome 3p Comparison of the geneexpression profiles of the six melanoma cell lines with the other lines identified a small set of ... analysis of loss of heterozygosity at individual loci A subset of four cases showed loss of heterozygosity of 11p solely as a result of UPD, indicating that cells might not tolerate the haploinsufficiency ... chromosomes in the leukemic clone), in which gains dominated The highest frequency of deletions was found in hypodiploid cases (cases with less than 45 chromosomes in the leukemic clone), andin cases in...
... analysis of ovine and bovine QTL we first defined blocks of synteny by comparing the http://www.gsejournal.org/content/41/1/45 locations of markers in the ovine reference map with their positions in ... of causal genes that underlie QTL remains a challenging task The use of functional information on lactation networks may in part offer additional insight in selecting positional-functional candidate ... meta-scores Oxford Oxford Grid of ovine and bovine milk yield QTL meta-scores Oxford Grid comparison of ovine and bovine genomes; syntenic regions are shown as thin diagonal lines; aggregated QTL meta-scores...
... repeat-containing protein - 006-301-C08 J013155K02 Rice DNA topoisomerase VIA PPR repeat-containing protein - At5g54270 Description - Chlorophyll A-B binding protein Myosin heavy chain Chlorophyll A-B binding ... transcription and antisense transcripts are known to be involved in genomic imprinting of Xist gene in mouse and human [21] There is supporting evidence that the MEA and PHE genes of Arabidopsis are imprinted ... library was shown in blue bar and that of dominantly expressed NAT pairs in red bar See legend of Table for library information In rice, both transcripts of 86% of the NAT pairs have coding sequence...
... epithelium of the lid and, thereby, is in indirect contact with the blood circulation Major tear proteins include lysozyme, lactoferrin, secretory immunoglobin A, serum albumin, lipocalin and lipophilin ... Cystatin B CSTB Cystatin SN* CST1 Cystatin SA* comment Protease inhibitor CST2 CST3 Cystatin S* reviews Cystatin C* CST4 Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain H1* ITIH1 Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitor ... proteins may play crucial roles in maintaining the eye in a healthy condition Perturbation of these proteins in the tear fluid may lead to the development of disease states, making them interesting...