mandrills and the prevalence increases significantly with age

... breakpoint within the env gene, and over 33% of these have a breakpoint in C2 To further map the C2 breakpoints, the C2 region was PCR amplified with an upstream v126-specific primer paired with downstream ... recombinants and conserved primers (EAD1 and EAD2) to amplify both v126-D and v120-A env genes The specificity of the primer sets to detect and amplify env genes of the parental and recombinant ... common as the parental subtype A, C, and D [8] These URFs and CRFs have the potential to foil vaccine strategies based on single subtypes and even lead to rapid drug resistance The mechanisms and selection...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... beginning and the end of the composting experiment (50 days) The results o f the total metal content averaged for the three measurements and their standard deviations are shown in Fig The total Cd ... during the composting process following the thermophilic stage and was likely due to the release of the organically bound Cu Red mud addition slowed down the increase of leachable Cu with the composting ... and the lower pH values increased the soluble heavy metals in the sludge compost (Fig 3) Since the initial pH of the sludge mixture with sugar addition was under 5.2 (Qiao and Ho, 1997), Cu and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2012, 14:47

... maturity of bank assets and liabilities and analyze how the reaction of stock returns varies with the size of this mismatch and other bank characteristics, including the usage of interest rate derivatives ... in the analysis the “level” and “slope” surprises Our baseline regressions provide us with the estimate of the average effect of these two interest rate surprises on bank stock returns In the ... models In other words, is the reaction of bank stock returns to interest rate surprises associated with the FOMC announcements in line with their usual comovement with the market return (or other risk...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... nm; and (b) a wide minimum between 208 and 220 nm The a-helix and b-strand contents of the protein were calculated with the online programs dichroweb [25] and k2d [26], respectively With the ... thank Ch Kuplens and Dr R Schops for ¨ assistance with protein purification and for preparation of the PpNp The financial support of the Kultusministerium des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt and the Graduiertenkolleg ... more intense [32], the spectrum suggests that b-sheet structures dominate This assumption was confirmed by the calculation of the a-helix and b-strand contents of the protein with the online programs...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... therapy, and an understanding of the structure of these allergens is essential to the improvement of diagnosis and the design of adequate therapeutic treatment We previously identified a BGP protein with ... sequence and sequence alignment of Cyn d 24 (A) Nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of Cyn d 24 The numbers on the right of the figure indicate the positions of the nucleotide sequence The ... fragment with an estimated size of 240 bp, which corresponds to the N-terminal portion of the allergen Based on this partial sequence, two specific primers were designed and used together with the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... intensities of the signals in the 1H NMR spectrum It is likely that the percentages of the teichuronic acid, the Kdn-containing polymer, and the ribitol teichoic acid are 30 %, 10 %, and 10 % of the mass ... 30 °C with acetone (dH 2.225 dC 231.45) as the internal standard, and 80% H3PO4 as the external standard for 31P NMR Presaturation of the HDO signal (1 s) was used in the accumulation of the 1H ... both the presence of the intraresidue correlation peak (H-1/H-5) in the ROESY spectrum and the low-field chemical shift of C-5 of this residue (HSQC spectrum) The C-2 and C-3 atoms resonated in the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Our understanding of the relation between, on the one hand, the structure of materials at scales from the molecular to the microscopic and, on the other, their bulk and surface ... circumstances, and issues related to globalization—from competition between developed nations on the one hand to the growing pressure on the other hand to deal with the needs of developing countries and the ... system On the other hand, a bio-MEMS device has many of the problems of artificial organs and other implanted devices: the need to avoid damaging the blood or tissue with which the surfaces of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... issues Aimed with information and clear messages of support from the school system and the community, the same families can become effective advocates for their children’s health and education ... Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Adolescent and School Health Within these pages, you will read about the impact of asthma on learning and achievement and ascertain specific ... In the Houston Independent School System, not only has there been an increase in the number of students with asthma, but also an increase in the severity of the asthma Between 1980 and 1996, the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... applying these methods to the Higgs model, as a warm-up, and then to electroweak theory and grand unified theory In each case, the nature of the phase transitions that occur as the temperature of the ... because the temperature is proportional to the mean photon energy and the energy of the photons has redshifted with the expansion of the universe Thus, for the photons, T ∼ R(t)−1 (1.126) The recombination ... During the radiation-dominated era, the photons were in thermal equilibrium with matter (at the same temperature) because of interaction with the charge of the electrons and protons We are making the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 17:06

... Cells were then treated with arachidonic acid, 30 μM, for another 20 min, and PGE2 levels in the medium were then measured by ELISA For the COX-1 activity assay (D), cells were pre-treated with various ... restraining pIKK and pNF-B-p65 activity Therefore, this agent can suppress proteins that are regulated by the NF-B pathway, including iNOS, NO and the cytokines IL-1b, IL-6 and TNF-a These studies ... TZ and GD directed the work, contributed to design the study, reviewed the data and wrote the manuscript; XL performed cell culture, western blot analysis, ELISA assay and NO measurements; RL and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... skewing and shifting of the spectrum after the Stolt mapping, thus resulting in better performances regarding the overall resolution and the memory efficiency On the other hand due to the removal of the ... through the Stolt mapping in the wave number domain The azimuth modulation is the dominant term in (11) and is the main contributor to the shifting and the skewing of the spectrum after the Stolt ... k f The full line box delimits the size of the data spectrum after the modified Stolt mapping As intended, the skewing of the spectrum is reduced drastically and the simulation results in the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... that 50% of the net short-wave radiation lay within the waveband 400-700 nm (Hunt et al, 1984) The product of incident PPFD for each growand the percentage of PPFD available to the trees was ... assistance in the field and the laboratory and T Hinckley and one anonymous reviewer for their Leverenz JW, Jarvis PG (1979) Photosynthesis in Sitka spruce VIII The effects of light flux density and direction ... if the values are calculated instantaneously (Radford, 1967) Since the values shown in tables I and II are yearly averages, multiplying these average values together does not necessarily give the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... improved with the integration of the HQT and HCT genes The former increased the number of bridge markers on LG5, and reduced some large gaps (of 10 cM and cM) affecting the female and the male ... the biosynthesis and accumulation of CGA [25] On the other hand, a lowered HCT expression in tobacco [29], Pinus radiata [30] and Medicago sativa [31] changes lignin amount and composition, thereby ... close to AFLP markers e38/m47-01 and e47/m49-06 in the female map, and to the M-AFLP marker polyGA/e33-02 and the microsatellite CELMS-24 in the male map (Fig 7a) Only the female parent was heterozygous...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... seeded with ml overnight culture of E coli M15 cells (Qiagen) harbouring the expression plasmid with either the entire Cyn d cDNA, or the seven overlapping fragments and three deletion mutants The ... protein bands Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Clinical and Molecular Allergy 2009, 7:3 ure To further compare the IgE reactivity of the peptide fragments and deletion mutants, the ... identity with Cyn d encoding clones AF177378 and AF177380 and 93% identity with clones AF159703 and AF177030 The clone isolated from our library had the N-terminal amino acid sequence AMGDKP and was...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... evaluate the order of markers along the chromosome and to estimate the map distance between markers rs1384934 4(M4) and rs15551556 (M28) could not be assigned to the linkage group and were therefore ... on the basis of consistent egg laying and semen production Each male was paired with a female from the other line Two each of the XH (|) × WRR (~) and WRR (|) × XH (~) mating were selected on the ... therefore excluded from the QTL analysis The average marker interval was 21.4 cM, and the average polymorphic information content was 0.3324 (range 0.0997–0.5642) Figure shows the linkage phase of 26...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... involved in the treatment and investigation were unaware of the randomised schedule and the block size Interventions Patients were randomly assigned to receive either standard insulin therapy or ... according to the algorithm A protocol (see additional data files and 2), managed by the ICU nurses, was used for the adjustment of the insulin dose The standard insulin therapy had been the usual ... hypoglycaemia The seizure was controlled with insulin suspension and the administration of 200 cc 10% glucose bolus with good response and no neurological damage The median length of stay in the ICU, the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... associated with perilesional edema, which can damage medullar parenchyma and therefore, worsen symptoms2 Inside the spinal cord, cysticercus usually distributes in the thoracic cord, with a few ... vesicular stage, a subtle hypointense rim may surround the intramedullary cyst on T2WI In the colloidal stage the thickened cyst capsule is hyperintense on T1WI and hypointense on the T2WI Cyst ... Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Korea and India19-20 Intramedullary cysticercosis often presents in the patients between 20 to 45 years old, with the youngest one years old and the oldest one 45 year’s old15...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... and follow-up Therefore, a large percentage of patients with AC are probably undiscovered Mirror images, on the other hand, are present in approximately 25% of MZ Therefore, we suggest that the ... lesion with low and high signal intensities on T1- and T2-weighted images (d), (e) & (f) Brain CT and T 1and T2-weighted MRI of twin B shows a mirror-imaging lesion with a diameter of 30×21×5 mm with ... of MZ with mirror-imaging of AC in the literature In this case, we describe the second case of MZ with mirror-imaging of AC and discuss the possible clinical implications First, Helland and Wester11...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... 17.4: The Web service test page The test page contains a text box with a label of whereClause where you can enter values for the whereClause parameter of your RetrieveCustomers() method The text ... passed to the RetrieveCustomers() method when you click the Invoke button on the page Enter the following text as your whereClause: CustomerID='ALFKI' Click the Invoke button to run the RetrieveCustomers() ... Notice that the equals (=) and single quote (') characters in the whereClause parameter value of the URL have been converted to the codes %3D and %27 respectively Figure 17.5: Running the RetrieveCustomers()...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 12:15

... each router with the loopback address as indicated in the diagram Be sure to configure SanJose1 with additional loopbacks (Lo0, Lo1, Lo2, Lo3) These loopback interfaces will simulate the serial ... Systems, Inc The no-summary keyword at the ABR keeps interarea routes from entering stub Area 2, creating a totally stubby area Only the ABR needs the additional configuration The role of Area ... filter Type and Type interarea routes from Area To this, you must configure Area as a totally stubby area, which is a Cisco proprietary feature Use the following commands on SanJose3, the ABR, to...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2013, 08:15