... changes in blood electrolytes levels, and possibly family history are involved in senile cataract formation. Changes in serum electrolytes levels can induce changes in aqueous electrolytes levels ... Na+ and K+ levels were measured by Flame Photometry technique and means compared between two groups by t -test. Results: 1. Mean serum Na+ level in senile cataract patients and normal individuals ... cataract patients and normal individuals. Methods and materials: 155 senile cataract patients scheduled for cataract surgery in eye clinic of Rasoul hospital and 155 normal individuals were...
... blood corpuscles of anæmic blood are not physiologicallyequivalent to the same number of normalblood corpuscles=. Hence the necessity of closely correlating theresult of the count of red blood ... amount of blood may be subnormal in two senses, quantitative and qualitative. We may have adiminution of the amount of blood "=Oligæmia=." Deterioration of the quality of the blood may ... their appearance after anæmia from loss of blood, normally they are absent. =In the human spleen nucleated red blood corpuscles are not to be foundnormally or in cases of severe anæmia, but...
... sample: protein Aunder the control of lac UV5 and protein B under the control of trc, both produced in BL21(DE3). The amount of produced protein is normalized to the highest value [protein E ... majority of all proteins had a largefraction of soluble protein under the control oflacUV5, protein I was shown to be very insolubleregardless of the promoter. By contrast, proteins Band D ... solu-ble protein achieved for the different proteins could, inmost cases, also be correlated with the solubility of the protein itself.Hedhammar et al. [20] has previously shown thatthe levels...
... CASK-interactive protein1 ; CBP, CREB-binding protein; GFP, green fluorescent protein; GST, glutathionetransferase; IDP, intrinsically disordered protein; IUP, intrinsically unstructured protein; MAPK, ... dynamic multiproteincomplex attached to the post-synaptic membrane,composed of several hundred proteins, including recep-tors and channels, cell adhesion proteins, cytoskeletalproteins, G-proteins ... with small protein size [12], whichmight be directly related to the involvement of disor-der in scaffold proteins. In fact, there is an elevatedlevel of disorder in hub proteins, i.e. proteins...
... peptide-displayingpapillomavirus-like particles induces autoantibodiesto normal prion protein that interfere with pathologicprion protein production in infected cellsAlessandra Handisurya1, Sabine ... fluorescence-activated cell sorting; PIPL-C, phosphatidylinositolphospholipase C;PrPC, normal prion protein; PrPSc, pathologic prion protein; VLP, virus-like particle.FEBS Journal 274 (2007) 17471758 ê 2007 ... chimeric PrP–L1 protein into a complete VLP sim-ilar to wild-type L1. mAb AU-1 also reacted with both protein preparations under nondenaturing conditions,demonstrating nonassembled L1 protein, as...
... mitogenic activity in normal human blood lymphocytes. As shown in Table III, PHA alone and thecombination of Ruta 6 and PHA stimulated cell division inboth samples of normal human blood lymphocytes, ... K1735 clone X-21 (kindly provided by Dr I.J.Fidler), two normal human B-lymphoid cell lines (2164P and3590P), and two normal peripheral blood samples (from ahealthy male donor and a healthy female ... for normal humanlymphocytes and induces no aberrations in their chromosomes.Effects of Ruta on telomere dynamics in MGR1 gliomacancer and normal B-lymphoid cells. Human MGR1 gliomaand normal...
... (pooled peripheral blood samples from healthy donors).Survivin gene levels measured in the peripheral blood of 70 patients with TNM stage I to IV gastric cancerFigure 2Survivin gene levels measured ... measured in the peripheral blood of 70 patients with TNM stage I to IV gastric cancer. The trend test analysis shows a significant increase in Survivin transcriptional levels across patients with ... corresponds to finding 1 to 10 malignant cellsper 10 ml of peripheral blood (data not shown).Expression markers in blood samplesPeripheral blood samples from all 70 patients were evalu-ated for the...
... semi-quanti-tative PCR. We show that oligodendrocytes expressextremely low levels of mRNA for C1-inh and significantlylower levels of mRNA for MCP compared with astrocytesand microglia. The expression ... NeuroinflammationOpen AccessResearchHuman oligodendroglial cells express low levels of C1 inhibitor and membrane cofactor protein mRNAsMasato Hosokawa, Andis Klegeris and Patrick L McGeer*Address: ... cofactor protein (MCP), decay-accelerating factor (DAF), CD59, and C1-esterase inhibitor (C1-inh). The human HOG oligoden-droglial cell line produces MCP, DAF, CD59, C1-inh andS -protein, but...
... serum levels of anti-ribosomal P protein antibodies were found in 44.3% (31/70) of autistic patients. Patients with elevated serum neurokinin A levels had significantly higher serum levels ... elevated serum levels of neurokinin A and anti-ribosomal P protein antibodies in autism. In this work, patients with elevated serum neurokinin A levels had significantly higher serum levels of anti-ribosomal ... anti-ribosomal P protein antibodies than patients with normal serum neurokinin A levels, P = 0.02. In addition, there were significant positive correlations between serum levels of neurokinin...
... elegans homolog of mammalianSCOCO (short coiled-coil protein) , a protein recently foundto interact with dominant-negative ARF-like 1 (ARL1) protein in a yeast two-hybrid screen [20]. The Saccharomycescerevisiae ... GAD-arl-3, or GAD-arfrp. Protein- protein interactions weremeasured as -galactosidase activity by using ONPG liquid assays.UNC-69 did not interaction with any of the three ARL proteins.SCOCO did ... for normal presynapticorganization The C. elegans synaptobrevin/vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP) homolog SNB-1 is a vesicular soluble N-ethyl-maleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein...
... andCytochrome c protein expressionsBax, Bid, Bcl-2, and Cytochrome c proteinlevels were notaffected by rapamycin pretreatment. Regardless of rapamycinpretreatment, NNK increased Bax, and Bid protein expression ... however,rapamycin pretreatment did not change any proteinlevels ofBax as well as Bid protein expression. NNK alone did notinduce any time-dependent change of Bid protein expression,either (Fig. 7). However, ... significant changes ofBcl-2 and cytochrome c protein expression (Data not shown).a. Expression of Apaf-1, eIF4E, and FRAP protein levels Apaf-1 protein was highly expressed by rapamycintreatment....
... peripheral blood levels of IL-12 during asthma exacerbation and thoseduring remission. Thus, IL-12 peripheral bloodlevels donot reflect the state of asthma. Although the children whowere tested ... MethodsThe assumption of normal distribution of continuousparameters was examined using the Kolmogorov-Smirnovand Wilk-Shapiro tests. Since the IL-12 levels were notdistributed normally, we also ... responses.31Moreover,higher IL-12 levels correlated with higher FEV1 levels, although not significantly so. In conclusion, we found norelationship between IL-12 peripheral bloodlevels and thecourse of...
... peripheral blood lymphocytes. Cell Immunol 1988,116:86-98.39. Bray RA, Samberg NL, Gewurz H, Potempa LA, Landay AL: C-reactive protein antigenicity on the surface of human periph-eral blood lymphocytes. ... and DD), high levels of anti-CRP preceded the peak mSLEDAI score.Table 2Spearman’s rank correlations between anti-CRP levels (optical density) and SLEDAI, modified SLEDAI, serum levels of anti-DNAantibodies, ... anti-CRP-positive patients had anti-CRP levels correlating to this particular variable. anti-CRP, anti-C-reactive protein autoantibody; CRP, C-reactive protein; mSLEDAI, modified systemic lupus...