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... Kabaalioğlu Aand colleagues reported the results of sonographic and CT findings in 87 patients during the initial phase and long-term follow -up 3 In 2012, Dusak Abdurrahim and colleagues described radiological ... 1.2 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE RESEARCH 1.2.1 Advantages of the research: Most studies have characterized the typical liver lesions on US and CT 1.2.2 Disadvantages of the research: ... abscesses are formed during migration of the parasite; and they can be detected as nodular tracts or tunnels on imaging 4.2 VALUE OF US AND CT FINDINGS COMBINED EOSINOPHILS IN DIAGNOSING FASCIOLIASIS...
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... bacteria and other microorganisms in nature Research on algae-bacterial interactions in microalgal cultures is an important and quite unexplored area that can provide significant advances for efficient ... They can grow in freshwater, saline/brackish seawater and wastewater with a fast growth rate Microalgae are normally found in aquatic systems, but some algal species can live ina symbiotic relationship ... Eustigmatophyta, Raphidophyta and Phaeophyta (brown algae) 2.6.1 Cyanobacteria Cyanobacteria are prokaryotic algae which are capable of performing plant-like oxygenic photosynthesis, and contain chlorophyll...
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... (AB001385): forward primer, 5Â-GACGGAGCACGAGTTCGAGGC-3Â; reverse primer, 5Â-CTCATATGCCATGATCTCATCG-3Â, L-FNR (AB035644): forward primer, 5Â-ACAACACAAAATGTCAGCTGC AAAA-3Â; reverse primer, 5Â-AAGGCCAAGAAGGAGTC ... (M73831): forward primer, 5Â-CGAAGGTTCCAAGCCTGAAGACC-3Â; reverse primer, 5Â-CTAGCAGAACATAGAAGACAGC-3Â; Fd V (M73828): forward primer, 5Â-TCCAGCCATTACCCGCA GCTAGC-3Â; reverse primer, 5Â-GCTTAGGAGATAAG ... (D49475): forward primer, 5ÂTTGTTCCTTGGGAGGATAGAAAAA-3Â; reverse primer, 5Â-TTGCTTGCAGACAGCATCTCA-3Â; ASN (X82849): forward primer, 5Â-AAAGCTTCATCGCAGCTCGT-3Â; reverse primer, 5Â-CACGACACACACACACACGT-3Â;...
... W140O and K13 3A] The curves of W14 0A and W140O are nearly linear in terms of intensity All protein concentrations were mgÆmL)1 of the wild-type protein and K13 3A and E142O were 88.45, 84.70, and ... et al Staphylococcal nuclease refolding investigated Two point-mutated proteins, with a single base substitution of alanine for tryptophan (W14 0A) and alanine for lysine (K13 3A) , and two truncated ... Panreac (Barcelona, Spain) Urea was a product of Acros (Pittsburgh, PA, USA) The QuickchangeTM kit containing Pfu DNA polymerase, 10 · reaction buffer and DpnI restriction enzyme was purchased from...
... (dT)15 primer from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech An A suum adult female worm cDNA expression library was Immunoscreening ofa cDNA expression library An adult female worm cDNA expression library was ... bootstrap replicates with the CLUSTALW program (Fig 2) The neighbor-joined trees reveal that animal and fungal PPases including AsPPase represent a separate group from plant and prokaryotic PPases ... assayed in the standard reaction mixture as described above Anti-(mouse rAsPPase) IgG were evaluated for AsPPase-neutralizing activity Recombinant AsPPase proteins or A suum L3 extracts were preincubated...
... fragments preferably originating from regions far from matrix attachment points As DNA replication foci are probably located near the nuclear matrix, preferably nonreplicative chromatin fragments ... 3H and 14C radioactivity reoxygenation, incorporation of radioactivity increased strongly within a very short interval and decreased 6–8 h later The profile of [3H]Thd incorporation after reoxygenation ... while replicative chromatin regions remain attached Therefore, preserving the natural chromatin/matrix relations and extracting unbound replication proteins from the nuclei seemed to be more appropriate...
... [20], parabutoporin and opistoporin were tested on Gramnegative and Gram-positive bacteria and their activity was compared with the activity of melittin and mastoparan (Table 1) Parabutoporin inhibits ... antibacterial than dermaseptin (34 amino acids) [19], peptides consisting of amino acids 7–22 of parabutoporin (an a- helical part having the four amino acids LAKK identical to mastoparan) andof ... peptides isolated from the venom of scorpions indicates that parabutoporin and opistoporin are especially active against Gram-negative bacteria in comparison to Grampositive bacteria Hadrurin [5] is...
... chimera B1NB2 containing all serine and threonine residues critical for B2wt sequestration, in contrast, was able to internalize [3H]DAK at a rate approximately half of the maximal rate (40% after ... Prado GN, Taylor L & Polgar P (1997) Effects of intracellular tryosine residue mutation and carboxyl terminus truncation on signal transduction and internalization of the rat bradykinin B2 receptor ... this process This group also described a strongly increased basal activity for a B2 receptor construct where several C-terminal serine and threonine residues Fig Structural comparison of helix in...
... of VBARP isoforms in vitro andin vivo: (A) In vitro transcription ⁄ translation of VBARP-L and VBARP-S One microgram of VBARP-L, VBARP-S and vector plasmid was in vitro transcribed ⁄ translated ... Primers used to construct VBARP expression plasmids Isoform Size (kb) Primer sequence VBARP-L 1.9 VBARP-S 1.3 AACAATGCTGACTGATAGCGGAGGA (Forward) TAAGCTACTACGTAAAGAATATATC (Reverse) GATAAGGTACCTGCACTGACACGGATGAAAGC ... Molecular characterization of ANKHD1 splice variant studies blast searches of VBARP revealed that this protein has homology to human ankyrin repeat and KH domain containing 1(ANKHD1) variants, and...
... the supernatant was further centrifuged at 100 000 g for 60 at °C Protein concentrations were determined by Bradford assay using a Protein assay reagent (Bio-Rad) with BSA (Sigma) as a standard ... significant cDNA cloning of DmEH Poly (A) + RNA was extracted from clofibrate-treated larvae using a QuickPrep Micro mRNA Purification Kit (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech), and first-strand cDNA was synthesized ... were examined in T ni [26] JHEH activity was very low at the beginning of the last larval stadium, but it gradually increased, reaching a peak at the wandering stage late in the last larval stadium...
... biological activity, this achiral amino acid can be favourably replaced by sarcosine or proline, whereas a b-II¢ turn constraint around residues and 10 confers antagonist properties [22,23] Therefore, ... conjugate gradient and Newton–Raphson algorithms until the gradient was less than 0.001 kcalÆ ˚ mol)1 A) 1 Conformational grid searches of b-amino acids were initially carried out at intervals of ... receptors [HGly8] NKA(4–10) is as potent as NKA and [Ala8]NKA on rabbit pulmonary artery and rat portal vein, two NK-2 receptor bioassays [43] More recently, the same Ala substitution was reported...
... lic 2A, RM118 lpsA and RM118 lgtF before and after treatment with neuraminidase (as indicated by – and +, respectively) The sialylated tetrasaccharide-containing glycoforms are indicated by an asterisk ... data from our laboratory indicate that the ability of acapsular strains of H in uenzae to elaborate sialylated glycoforms can confer serum resistance in model systems In the study of Hood et al ... identification and structural analysis ofa Sial-lNnT unit in H in uenzae LPS MATERIALS AND METHODS Bacterial strains and culture conditions The H in uenzae strain RM118 (Rd) is derived from the same source...
... administrators and dairy companies each have a critical role to play in awareness creation that generates demand from farmers for more in- depth training The SCALETM approach draws these various actors ... by international organizations such as ICRAF or national agricultural research institutes such as the National Agricultural Research Organization in Uganda or the Selian Agricultural Research Institute ... numbers of farmers Many of the organizations promoted fodder shrubs primarily for soil conservation In northern Tanzania, data in our records are from 14 organizations in Arusha and Kilimanjaro and...
... country from sub-Saharan Africa: Botswana In contrast to many antiretroviral therapy programmes, most national PMTCT programmes lacked focused plans and targets for scaling up, and local and global ... 29% in eastern Europe and Latin America to 3% and 2% in western Africa and southern Asia At least eight countries (Argentina, Belize, Botswana, Brazil, Jamaica, Russian Federation, Thailand and ... Western and central Africa: Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria • Asia and the Pacific: China and India • Central and eastern Europe: Russian Federation and Ukraine...