... was obtained fromthe patient for the publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy ofthe written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Abbreviations ... in a young primipara, delayed development of moderate respiratory symptoms followed by profound cardiorespiratory failure half day later, and a lack of signs of disseminated intravascular coagulation ... 172:1158-1169 Kramer MS, Rouleau J, Baskett TF, Joseph KS: Maternal Health Study Group ofthe Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System Amniotic fluid embolism and medical induction of labor: a retrospective,...
... AaHIT4, the unique anti-insect toxin also has a toxic effect on mammals and can acts on the a- and b-sites ofthe mammalian sodium channel [44 ] Therefore, whether Tyr31 is related 44 74 F Peng et al ... with the guidelines laid down by the National Institutes of Health in the USA regarding the care and use of experimental animals and committee giving approval for the experiments The right jugular ... obtained was displayed an ORF of 258 bp encoding a polypeptide of 85 amino acids and termed BmKIM The 5¢ and 3¢ UTRs of BmKIM cDNA are 17 bp and 76 bp, respectively A single AATAAA polyadenylation...
... Littoral States (Variable X) ASEAN-wide* (Variable Y) ASEAN Declaration on Japan Coast Guards 1997 Transnational Crime Meeting of Specialist Officials on 1998 Maritime Issues ASEAN Plan of Action ... the littoral states ofthe Strait of Malacca, implemented an arsenal of anti-piracy mechanisms that effectively eradicated maritime piracy fromthe subregion The subregional cooperation was a ... deal with the threat to international shipping posed by piracy and armed robbery against ships In the Malacca Straits The issue of maritime piracy in the Strait of Malacca seems to have resurfaced...
... density changes in appearance to become isodense with brain tissue and ultimately (after at least a month) to appear as an area of low density Figure admission Computedtomography scan ofthe brain ... appear normal and the low density area may not be apparent Some early signs of acute MCA infarction are loss of definition ofthe grey/white interface in the lateral margins ofthe insula, leading ... been no change to the probable longstanding calcification within the right basal ganglia Final diagnosis The appearances are those of extensive left MCA infarction [4] Although the first scan would...
... revealed a small nodule in the abdominal wall, which was difficult to interpret as metastasis of cecal cancer by only computedtomography image Page of in the small abdominal nodule, but no further ... February 2009 The tumor was located in the abdominal wall, slightly exposed to the abdominal cavity There was no gross evidence of metastasis in the abdominal cavity and cytological examination ... size and diabetes Mucinous adenocarcinoma as a histological type, regardless ofthe organs, may result in more false negatives as well Sarikaya et al [21] reported that of patients (60%) with false-negative...
... Gustafson RA, Tarnay TJ, Neal WA: An alternative method for repair of partial anomalouspulmonary venous connection to the superior vena cava Ann Thorac Surg 19 84, 38(6):601-5 Nakahira A, Yagihara ... Aboal J: Multislice CT in congenital heart disease: Partial anomalouspulmonary venous connection Pediatr Cardiol 2008, 29(6):1120-1 doi: 10.1186/1 749 -8090-5 -40 Cite this article as: Kasahara ... D - A target component-enhanced image derived from MDCT The arrow indicates the anastomosis site oftheleft atrium appendage with the vertical vein The asterisk (green) indicates theleft atrium...
... coronaryarteryfromthepulmonary artery, and (B) location ofthe successful ablation site at theleft posterolateral area Shown are thecoronary sinus catheter (*) and the ablation catheter ... suspicion of probable ALCAPA was raised after his third echocardiographic examination and was confirmed by a CT scan Theleftcoronaryartery originated fromthe leftward-facing sinus ofthepulmonary ... dysplasia There are two theories regarding the development ofthe ALCAPA anomaly: the older embryological theory of Abrikossoff abnormal septation of conotruncus into the aorta and pulmonary artery, ...
... Kuwada M, Teramoto T, Kumagaye KY, Nakajima K, Watanabe T, Kawai T, Kawakami Y, Niidome T, Sawada K, Nishizawa Y et al (19 94) Omega-agatoxinTK containing D-serine at position 46 , but not synthetic ... linkage by an enzyme from frog skin secretions Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 102, 4 235 42 39 Shikata Y, Watanabe T, Teramoto T, Inoue A, Kawakami Y, Nishizawa Y, Katayama K & Kuwada M (1995) Isolation and ... Shimonishi Y, Yasuda-Kamatani Y, Minakata H, Nomoto K, Muneoka Y & Kobayashi M (1991) Fulicin, a novel neuropeptide containing a D-amino acid residue isolated fromthe ganglia of Achatina fulica Biochem...
... immediately shifted from 40 5 to 41 5 nm, and at the same time, distinct absorption bands of oxyheme appeared at 540 and 579 nm Then, a broad band appeared at around 660 nm, and was maximal 9–12 after ... in Fig 5A, addition of ascorbate to the solution of heme–GmHO-1 initiates the reaction, as revealed by gradual diminution ofthe Soret band After several minutes, a broad band appears at around ... band so that it almost vanished after 30 min, and instead, an absorption peak appeared at 637 nm, suggesting the formation of CO–verdoheme The 637 nm band disappeared gradually and was replaced...
... ng of genomic DNA as template, 0.2 mm dATP, dCTP, dGTP and dTTP, 0.2 lm of upstream primer (OP17: 5¢-GA AAAACCATGGTGAATGAATACCAAGCGACT-3¢) and downstream primer (NP7: 5¢-CAATCTCCATGGCTAG TAGCTTGCACTCAG-3¢) ... CA-3¢ along with the adaptor primers: AP1 (5¢-GTAATAC GACTCACTATAGGGC-3¢) and AP2 (5¢-ACTATAGGG CACGCGTGGT-3¢) Nested PCR was carried out in a final volume of 50 lL containing lL ofa genome walking ... 5¢-GATGAAAATCCTAACCTCTCCCCCGCACAG3¢; OP7, 5¢-ACTGCACCTACGGCGGGTCGTTGGTACG TG-3¢; NP4, 5¢-GACACCGTAGGTTGAGCCGCCAATC GTCCC-3¢; NP5, 5¢-CTTTAACTTGTTGGGCACTGG CATTG-3¢; NP6, 5¢-TTGATCGATTCTGTCTATGCCC...
... the astonished Federals, and they raised the national flag within the fortifications, in the gray ofthe morning ofthe 4th of May Many negroes also escaped the vigilance of their taskmasters, and ... Vliet, Quartermaster-General And the man at the table, was General Marcy, father-in-law to McClellan, and Executive officer ofthe army Maps, papers, books, and luggage lay around the room; all the ... remnant ofthe African and the American were to look from their Island Home upon the clash of our armies and the murder of our braves CHAPTER VIII 37 By the 19th of May the skirts ofthe grand army...
... bacterial family 19 chitinases have catalytic domains that are at least as large as those ofthe plant enzymes and that may contain at least six subsites [26,30] However, the catalytic 48 94 domains ... ¼ 48 .67 A, b ¼ 74. 38 A, c ¼ 64. 18 A and ˚ resolution b ¼ 108.6°, and diffracted to at least 1.5 A Crystal data and data collection statistics are summarized in Table Calculation ofthe Matthews ... Homer RJ, Kim YK, Chen NY, Cohn L, Hamid Q & Elias JA (20 04) Acidic mammalian chitinase in asthmatic Th2 inflammation and IL-13 pathway activation Science 3 04, 1678– 1682 Kasprzewska A (2003) Plant...
... MO, USA Bacterial strain The strain isolated from soil samples was identified as a bacterium, A faecalis according to Bergey’s Manual [31], and was designated A faecalis ISH108 The strain has been ... 8.67 – – 2380 acetate propanoate butanoate hexanoate dodecanoate palmitate stearate FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 23 74 2387 ª 2006 IMTECH P Shahi et al Thioesterase of Alcaligenes faecalis Reagent (1 mM) ... prevent the abnormal accumulation of intracellular acyl-CoA We have isolated a thioesterase from Alcaligenes faecalis ISH108 and demonstrated its application in FEBS Journal 273 (2006) 23 74 2387...
... reagents (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, Piscataway, NJ) Animals were fed water and standard rabbit food and maintained on a 12 h light/dark cycle Polyclonal antiserum to the peptide was raised in rabbits ... and had a Drosophila consensus sequence for translation initiation, 5¢-(C ⁄ A) AA (A ⁄ C)ATG, and a putative poly (A) addition signal sequence, 5¢-AATAAA [17,18] It encoded a predicted product of ... Synthesis System (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) with an oligo-(dT)12)18 primer Amplification ofthe DmPCNA2 cDNA was performed using ExTaq thermostable DNA polymerase (TaKaRa, Ohtsu, Japan) and the...
... (Qiagen) Primers (45 8+ GGCAGCAGCAGTGACAGT AGCAATAG and 596– ACGAGGAAGCGAAGGATGA TGATGG) were chosen to amplify a 139-base pair fragment ofthe plFABP Primers specific to the crayfish ribosomal 40 S ... membrane The membranes were then subjected to image plates for the phosphoimager BAS-2 040 (Fuji, Tokyo, Japan) The radioactivity was quantified using the image gauge program, version 3 .4 (Fuji) Crayfish ... (156+ GACGAATGGCATACACCTGAG AGG and 280– CAGGACTCTGCAGTTCAAGCTGATG) were used to quantify cellular RNA input of each preparation with a 125-bp PCR product The PCR mixture contained 12.5 lL · QuantiTecttm...
... in the SDS-polyacrylamide gels of nonboiled protein samples The deviation ofthe apparent molecular mass ofthe dimer fromthe calculated value of 1 24 kDa may be related to the fact that the ... Biosystems) The accuracy of external calibration was, in general, better than 0.02% Amino acid sequence analysis Preliminary sequence data ofthe C hydrogenoformans genome was obtained fromThe Institute ... indicated, the enzyme was activated with mM Ti(III)citrate prior to the assay and mM Ti(III)citrate was added to the assay mixture The gas phase was 100% CO (1 · 105 Pa) or as indicated The reaction...
... be the case This may be relevant to the calculation of smelt AFP activity The activity of smelt AFP is about one-third of that of sea raven AFP on a monomer concentration basis [11] As sea raven ... EDTA instead of CaCl2 In the absence of added Ca2+, dimerization was again observed (Fig 5C) The molecular mass of smelt AFP determined by HPLC gel-filtration analysis was 50 kDa (Fig 6) As the ... migrate faster than its actual mass would predict because of limited linearization in SDS The value of 38 kDa is consistent with such a dimer band A small amount ofa high-molecular-mass aggregate...
... and contingency tables were formed on the questioned variables The x2 test was used on the qualitative variables and the t-test on the quantitative variables Fromthe total ofthe examined variables, ... took part in the study The average age ofthe women ofthe sample was 43 ±11.02 years old, with 18 years being the minimum and 71 the maximum age Eighty seven percent (1 74) ofthe women were married, ... with an average age of 42 ±10.52 years (Table 1) The average age ofthe single women was 34 12.01 years A 55.5% had 1-2 children A 79.5% (159) ofthe women were working , while 87.1% ofthe women...