... primer (5¢-CCAAGCTTGTCGACGATGAGTGAGATATCC CGG-3¢) and a reverse primer (5¢-CGGGAATTCCTG CAGTTGCTTTCTCGCAGCAAC-3¢), and then cloned between the SalI and PstI sites of the DHFR fusion vector pJWL1030folA ... shown that ZnCl2 inhibits the activity of AMPP [1] Here, the presence of ZnCl2 in the dialysis buffer led to the precipitation of each of the three proteins Neither the intact protein nor the FEBS ... is likely to further reduce the capacity of the fragment to bind metals The conformational change could move E271 away from the active site, hence stabilizing the structure of the domain In agreement...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
... Inhibition of MDR1mediated GlcCer translocation results in increased access to the cytosolic glucocerebrosidase [34] which is not defective in Gaucher LSD CsA treatment of a Fabry B-cell line ... between cell lines CsA treatment of Fabry cells significantly reduced the Gb3 and neutral GSL content without effect on the ganglioside profile case, CsA was found to delete GlcCer and reduce other ... indicated; lane 2, untreated cells; lane 3, CsA-treated cells The accumulated lymphoid GlcCer in Gaucher cells was eliminated by CsA The extent to which more complex neutral GSLs were reduced...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The Saccharomyces cerevisiae orthologue of the human protein phosphatase 4 core regulatory subunit R2 confers resistance to the anticancer drug cisplatin pot
... GTTGGTGTTCTCATCGATTGTCAAACCACAATAAAAAGCTCGGATCCCCGGGTTAATTAA CAAATGGGAAGTTGTTGGTAGAGAAGTCATCTCTCGATCAGAATTCGAGCTCGTTTAAAC CCGTGAGAATATTAGCAGTCCATTAGGCAAGAAGTCCAGACGGATCCCCGGGTTAATTAA CAAATGGGAAGTTGTTGGTAGAGAAGTCATCTCTCGATCAGAATTCGAGCTCGTTTAAAC CATAGTGGAAAGAGGGATATAAATTATCGCATAAAACAATAAACAAAAAGAAAAATG ... GTAACTTCAGGTAGTAACTGGGCCTTGTATAGCCTTTCTAAACATTCGTCCAACTGTAGGGCGAATTGGG GAAATACTATTGAAGCTCAAAAACATCCATAATAAAAGGAACAATAACAATGGTAAGGGAACAAAAGCTGGAG GCGCCTGGCATTTCTTTATTGTTTCAAGCCATTCGTCGGGGCCTCTAGACTGTAGGGCGAATTGGG GGCAATTGGAGTGACATAGCAGCTACTACAACTACAAAAGCAAAATCTCCACAAAGTAAT ... GGTTTCTTCAGGAATATGTTTTCCGTCTCTCAGTGATGCTATAATCTTATCTAAGTCCTGTAGGGCGAATTGGG GTATCCCCACTGTGTACTTTTATTTTTGGTTAGAGAATTGGCCCAGTAGAGATGGAA AGGGAACAAAAGCTGGAG GTAACTTCAGGTAGTAACTGGGCCTTGTATAGCCTTTCTAAACATTCGTCCAACTGTAGGGCGAATTGGG...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Epitope mapping of the O-chain polysaccharide of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 lipopolysaccharide by saturation-transfer-difference NMR spectroscopy pot
... heptasaccharide core fragment, OPS, and PS (i.e OPS linked to the core heptasaccharide), respectively [9±11] In the majority of the molecules, OPS was attached to the core heptasaccharide The PS ... complex with antigen: Molecular basis for serotype speci®city Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 97, 8433± 8438 Redmond, J.W (1979) The structure of the O-antigenic side chain of the lipopolysaccharide of ... Identi®cation of an a-D-Manp-(1 ® 8)-Kdo disaccharide in the inner core region and the structure of the complete core region of the Legionella pneumophila serogroup lipopolysaccharide Carbohydr...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo Y học: Extra terminal residues have a profound effect on the folding and solubility of a Plasmodium falciparum sexual stage-specific protein over-expressed in Escherichia coli pptx
... GCTTTCACTTCGAATTCCATGGTACCAG-3¢ (PstIHindIII); Pfg27F: 5¢-AAACTGCAGATGAGTAAGGTA CAAAAG-3¢ and 5¢-AAAAAGCTTTTACGACGTTGT GTGATGTGGTTCATC-3¢ (PstI-HindIII) PCR was performed using standard protocols ... expression vector, pRSET -C (Invitrogen) The coding sequence of Pfg27 was PCR amplified using gene speci c primers The antisense primer lacked the final stop codon and the PCR product was cloned into the ... necessarily indicative of either proper folding or of increased solubility of the protein of interest We propose that the success of fusion protein systems should be ascertained only once the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
PREVALENCE OF INITIAL DRUG RESISTANCE AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING THE CLINICS IN MADRAS CITY potx
... and the staff of the Laboratory of the Institute of Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases REFERENCES Indian Council of Medical Research: Prevalence of Drug Resistance in patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis ... PREVALENCE OF INITIAL DRUG RESISTANCE AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING CLINICS IN MADRAS 167 therefore give good indication of the prevalent The salient findings in the present study arc: practice of chemotherapy ... PREVALENCE OF INITIAL DRUG RESISTANCE AMONG PATIENTS ATTENDING THE CLINICS IN MADRAS The MIC and RR indicative of Drug Resitance are detailed in Table-I TABLE Criteria for Drug Resistance Name of Drug...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the plasma membrane leaflets in drug uptake and multidrug resistance ppt
... resistance A K562 A B C TMA-DPH fluorescence B GLC4 A B C 2008 A B presence of CCCP reflects the total cellular uptake of TMRM, the time course of the quenching was compared with the time course of ... where the cytoplasmic leaflet does constitute a separate compartment, the accumulation of drug within this would be accomplished prior to saturation of the total cellular content of the drug By contrast, ... practical equilibrium between the drug concentrations in the cytoplasmic leaflet and the cytoplasm, or whether the release is slow, and drugs taken up into cells accumulate in the cytoplasmic leaflet...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Modulation of P-glycoprotein-mediated multidrug resistance by acceleration of passive drug permeation across the plasma membrane potx
... to the DNA To assess the effect of modulators specifically on drug transport across the cell plasma membrane, we characterized the effect of the modulators on the cellular pharmacokinetics of the ... hand, low concentrations of the anesthetics benzyl alcohol, propofol, chloroform and diethyl ether reversed the resistance by acceleration of the passive transport of the drug or dye across the plasma ... located at the hydrophobic core of the membrane, where drug flipflop across the membrane occurs and the side entrances of Pgp are located [28] The apparent contradiction between the anestheticmediated...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Structure of the substrate complex of thymidine kinase from Ureaplasma urealyticum and investigations of possible drug targets for the enzyme pdf
... by main-chain atoms [14] The structure of the bacterial TK from Clostridium acetobutylicum (Ca-TK) is very similar to the Uu-TK, but, in the absence of substrate or feedback inhibitor, the substrate ... positions of the nucleoside can pick up the small differences between mycoplasmic and human TK1, which suggests the route for further advances Results and discussion Overall structure The overall ... as the catalytic base for the phosphoryl transfer reaction (Fig 1B) In the inhibitor complex, the phosphates of the feedback inhibitor repel the glutamate side chain A shift in the catalytic base...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Drug-therapy networks and the prediction of novel drug targets" docx
... different therapeutic classes; these drugs may have a particular significance Nacher and Schwartz [8] computed several measures of network ‘centrality’ characterizing the importance of the drugs in the ... hierarchical representation of drug- therapy information, in which we can zoom in from the top layer of 15 anatomical main therapeutic groups, through the 66 therapeutic subgroups (second layer), the ... approved drugs Other physicochemical properties, such as hydrophobicity and the ability to form hydrogen bonds, reduce further the number of drug candidates that can be given orally, which is the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "Equipoise, design bias, and randomized controlled trials: the elusive ethics of new drug development" docx
... person could choose to participate in an RCT because the best possible result could only come from acceptance, even if the pooled expected value of accepting the RCT is negative For example, accepting ... base the decision to accept the trial upon the pooled expectation for the RCT arms and not upon the value of any single arm The principle of ‘equal uncertainty between the arms of the RCT’ must ... replaced with the principle of a reasonable ‘expected value’ for the participant after pooling the RCT arms The standard becomes the expected value of outcomes after declining the RCT (usual care)...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
báo cáo khoa học: "Ultrasound microbubble-mediated delivery of the siRNAs targeting MDR1 reduces drug resistance of yolk sac carcinoma L2 cells" doc
... chemotherapy to combat the drug resistance of yolk sac carcinoma Methods Cell culture and chemicals L2-RYC cells were purchased from ATCC (Manassas, VA), and were cultured in complete Dulbecco’s modified ... fluorescence microscope and analyzed by flow cytometry (FACS Calibur FCM, Becton-Dickinson, San Jose, CA) Transfection efficiency detected by flow cytometry L2-RYC cells were seeded in each well of ... cell viability of L2-RYC cells in vitro Vincristine and Dactinomycin are two commonly used chemotherapeutic drugs and also substrates of P-glycoprotein Increased concentrations of two drugs caused...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo y học: "Metaplastic ossification in the cartilage of the bronchus of a patient with chronic multi-drug resistant tuberculosis: a case report" potx
... Macroscopic and microscopic photographs showing a cavity (Cv) and an inflamed bronchus (Br) (A) Macroscopic examination of the specimen (left rectangle) shows thickening of some parts of the cavity ... assisted in the manipulation of the specimen and critically revised the manuscript JK contributed to the operation of our patient and to the critical review of the manuscript SNC, LV and CB contributed ... to the metaplastic transformation of the cartilage Eum et al Journal of Medical Case Reports 2010, 4:156 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/4/1/156 A Page of B Cv CT GC X 1000 GC BE Cv...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Assessing the role of syringe dispensing machines and mobile van outlets in reaching hard-to-reach and high-risk groups of injecting drug users (IDUs): a review" ppt
... IDUs These two modalities can successfully address concerns about temporal and spatial accessibility and overall acceptability of NSP Intrinsic advantages of each can offset the shortcomings of the ... one of the most at risk groups, where injecting drug use is common A survey conducted to evaluate the impact of the Blue Bus service on injecting practices of its clients revealed that within the ... privacy in NEP (9%) [57] These findings support the relevance of these two outlets in the context of other modes of NSP The most important advantage of dispensing machines is their anonymous and off-peak...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
báo cáo khoa học: " The perspectives of injection drug users regarding safer injecting education delivered through a supervised injecting facility" potx
... context in which injection drug use occurs, thereby facilitating the adoption of safer injecting practices and the reduction of drugrelated harms [30] The results of this study indicate that SIFs ... received within the SIF were catalogued The catalogued data was subsequently subjected to a thematic analysis which focused on the social processes and characteristics of the SIF which were reported ... tailor educational messages to suit the specific needs of each client to address specific deficiencies in practice, and are able to intervene as a client is experiencing difficulties Participants...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Seroprevalence of select bloodborne pathogens and associated risk behaviors among injection drug users in the Paso del Norte region of the United States – Mexico border" ppt
... compared across the three sites using the Chi-square test of independence In the case of small numbers, Fisher's Exact method was employed to detect significant differences across sites The continuous ... among 4.0% of participants in Mexico and 9.9% in Texas using RDS calculations compared with New Mexico's crude calculation of 3.0% All categorical variables – including sociodemographic and risk ... chronically infected), compared with New Mexico's crude calculation of 59.6% RDS calculations for HCV revealed that 98.7% screened positive in Mexico and 76.4% in Texas compared with New Mexico's crude...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
báo cáo khoa học: " The context of illicit drug overdose deaths in British Columbia, 2006" ppsx
... for the province of BC and by LHA of residence within Vancouver Toxicology The BC Coroners Office conducts a toxicologic examination for all deaths where the abuse of street drugs is suspected The ... population, the place of residence variable, which describes the last known residence of the decedents, may not accurately represent the decedent's residence at time of death.[22] Also, there was ... the presence of two or more substances.[2] The Downtown East Side of Vancouver (DTES) is considered to be the centre of the injection drug use epidemic in Vancouver.[3] Previously, IDDs in BC...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
báo cáo khoa học: " The rise of injecting drug use in east Africa: a case study from Kenya" ppsx
... by the UNDCP of trafficking routes from South Asia coincided with the decline in importance of such supply channels and the introduction of 'white crest' [11] The ESRC study focused exclusively ... 'white crest' The move to injecting was precipitated by the changes in the heroin supply that occurred in 1999 The UNDCP has been aware of heroin trafficking though the region The publication by the ... risk: the escalation of injection drug use, the potential of exacerbating the HIV/AIDS situation, and the creation of a source for other drug- related damage' [42] Coastal Kenyan heroin injectors...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20
báo cáo khoa học: " A review of the evidence for the effectiveness of primary prevention interventions for Hepatitis C among injecting drug users" potx
... type of intervention 11 papers were categorised according to the theme of "needle exchange", according to the theme "opiate replacement therapy", according to the intervention of "bleach disinfectant", ... reduction interventions does reduce the incidence of HCV but there is a need for further research to evaluate the effect of such interventions Does bleach distribution reduce the risk of HCV? ... available regarding the impact of such centres on the incidence of drug- related infectious diseases [59] It is plausible that these rooms can contribute to a reduced incidence of HCV given that numerous...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: " Effects of the K65R and K65R/M184V reverse transcriptase mutations in subtype C HIV on enzyme function and drug resistance" pps
... efficiency of chain-termination of TFV-DP and ATP-mediated primer unblocking were derived from the polypurine tract (PPT) of the HIV-1 genome [30] and were: 57D(5'GTTGGGAGTGAATTAGCCCTTCCAGTCCCCCCTTTTCTTTTAAAAAGTGGCTAAGA-3' ... PCR amplification product with primers CLTRF 5'-GGAAGGGTTAATTTACTCTAAGAAAAGGC-3' and CLTRPstIR 5'CTATCCCATTCTGCAGCCTCCTCA-3' and MJ4 DNA template; the http://www.retrovirology.com/content/6/1/14 ... subtype C is to reduce susceptibility to TFV In the absence of biochemical evidence of an enzymedependent mechanism for the preferential emergence of K65R in HIV-1 subtype C, the possibility of a...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21