... increase in Tm with increasing glycosylation content, although it should be emphasized that we have investigated a series of homologous proteins rather than a single protein with or without glycans ... be extremely thermally stable with an average Tm of 80 °C, suggesting the purification procedure does not induce any significant conformational changes Consistent with this view is the finding that ... structure unfolds prior to the unfolding of a-helix and the formation of aggregates Note that the formation of aggregates cannot be fully excluded in the temperature range 25–60 °C because a small population...
... phenotype [65,66] to the reactive phenotype associated with dramatic CNS insults and neurodegeneration [66-68] In agreement with previous work, the total number of microglia (Iba1+ cells) did not ... astrocyte/microglial activation in the hippocampus occurs with advanced aging in both cognitively intact and impaired animals but does not correlate with age-related deficits of cognitive function VanGuilder ... blocked with 5% nonfat milk in PBS with 1.0% Tween-20 (PBST) prior to overnight incubation with primary antibodies to GFAP (1:1000) and Iba1 (1:2000) (Table 3) in blocking solution at 4°C with gentle...
... of patients with endometriosis [18] when compared with patients without endometriosis Recently, Ohata has been demostrated that thrombospondin-1 serum levels were higher in patients with ovarian ... in patients with ovarian endometriomas and pelvic pain Hum Reprod 2001, 16:2672-2675 Manero MG, Alcazar JL: Interleukin-8 serum levels not correlate with pelvic pain in patients with ovarian ... women with and without endometriosis: the action of Int Immunopharmacol 2003, anti-endometriosis medicines 3:81-89 Pellicer A, et al.: The follicular and endocrine environment in women with endometriosis:...
... 1) Individuals with comorbid diabetes and cancer compared to individuals with either condition alone, and 2) Individuals with comorbid diabetes and cancer compared to individuals without either ... associated with type diabetes, such as breast cancer [10,11], endometrial cancer [16,17], pancreatic cancer [11], and colorectal cancer [11,12] The potential HRQL deficits associated with patients ... active, not obese, not depressed, and had no chronic medical conditions had significantly higher overall HUI3 scores (Table 2) On the other hand, males, smokers, or respondents that had not completed...
... equipped with single antenna and operate in half-duplex mode The channel coefficient between S i and R k is denoted by h ik , i = 1,2, k = 1,2, ,K, and modeled as zero-mean complex Gaussian RV with ... noise with identical variance s2 = That is to say, all nodes transmit signals with unit transmitting power P = Thus, the instantaneous squared channel strengths obey exponential distributions with ... for the systems with direct link, it should be changing with the path loss exponent p From Figures and 5, we can find that the performance improvement obtained in the systems with direct are...
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... stained with bcl2; - I (weakly positive): to 50% of tumor cells stained with bcl-2; - II (strongly positive): over 50% of tumor cells stained with bcl-2 Since statistical analysis did not reveal ... followed by three 5-min baths with PBS buffer The DAB kit was used for development Counterstaining was carried out with Harris hematoxylin for 20 s after serial rinsing with tap water, 2% ammonia ... mitochondrial integrity and carcinogenesis with human aging [25] Garbe and Blum noticed that most melanomas were diagnosed between the sixth and seventh decades of life, with only 22% of the cases diagnosed...
... -168A>G genotype and clinical characteristics of Austrian rheumatoid arthritis patients AA genotype AG genotype GG genotype P value Dominant, AA:AG + GG genotypes Recessive, AA + AG:GG genotypes ... - - MHC2TA -168 AA genotype (n (%)) 184 (50.8) 172 (49.0) - MHC2TA -168 AG genotype (n (%)) 155 (42.8) 142 (40.5) 0.90 (AG genotype versus AA genotype) MHC2TA -168 GG genotype (n (%)) 23 (6.4) ... versus AA genotype; OR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.69–1.25) or a co-dominant model (GG versus genotype GA versus genotype AA genotype; OR = 0.86; 95% CI = 0.69–1.09) The homozygous MHC2TA -168 GG genotype...
... patients, is in line with other studies in patients with SLE [1,31] With respect to major infections, use of immunosuppressive medication and use of corticosteroids were not associated with the occurrence ... SLE patients with one or more major infections, patients with SLE who experienced minor infections only, and SLE patients without any infections (Figure 2) Associations between MBL genotype and ... study [10] Another explanation for the discrepancy between the genotypic and the phenotypic data could be that unidentified linkages between mutations or polymorphisms in the MBL gene with mutations...
... comprising two of each genotype Page of (page number not for citation purposes) IFIH1 A946T is not associated with RA susceptibility or severity Allele and genotype frequencies for IFIH1 A946T were in ... [14] Genotypes were not significantly different, indicating that this polymorphism is not a susceptibility gene for RA (Table 1) To determine whether this marker influenced the disease phenotype, ... twins supporting a genetic input [17] We did not detect Table Genotype frequencies of the interferon induced with helicase domain A946T polymorphism Genotype frequency GG AG AA Patients 126 (13.7%)...
... ipsilateral longer leg, and 17 cases with bilateral GTPS) and in 163 subjects without GTPS; therefore, 13.7% of subjects with GTPS had a LLI compared with 14.1% of those without GTPS (P = 0.86 by Fisher's ... cm with a range of 67.7 to 169.5 cm The LLI ranged from to 6.4 cm A categorical LLI (difference ≥ cm) was present in 37 subjects with GTPS (nine cases with ipsilateral shorter leg, 11 cases with ... those with generalized myofascial tenderness) Additionally, treating LLI as a continuous variable and adjusting for age and sex, LLI was not associated with GTPS Separate regression analyses (1) without...
... rheumatoid arthritis; SSZ, sulfasalazine; TNF, tumour necrosis factor Table Variables associated with metabolic syndrome Multivariatea Univariate OR Body mass index 95% CI P value OR 95% CI P value ... hypothyroidism and diabetes mellitus CI, confidence interval; OR, odds ratio Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ...
... presence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study Arthritis Res Ther 2008, 10:R145 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ... Greece References Toms TE, Panoulas VF, Douglas KMJ, Kitas GD: Methotrexate therapy associates with a reduced prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in rheumatoid arthritis patients over the age...
... syndrome [11] without a germ line p53 mutation One of the most important mutations was the 1100delC deletion This variant leads to a frame shift and encodes a premature stop codon within the catalytic ... 1100delC variant differs within various populations [5] It was found in 0.9% of the Northrhine-Westphalia population [13] The CHK2 1100delC variant has been associated with breast cancer in multiple-case ... potential predisposition for the development of SCCHN with special attention to multitumor patients, and patients who are at low risk for SCCHN with regard to age or carcinogen abuse Methods and...
... developing DN Apparently, the association of the CTGF -945GC SNP with disease is not the same in all patient groups and categories, as has been noted in previous studies that could not always confirm ... cardiovascular endpoints was compared with genotype There were no Table Distribution of genotype and allele frequencies for the CTGF promoter polymorphism at -945 Genotype frequencies (%) Total P-value ... was no difference in CTGF levels between genotypes (Figure 1) Also, linear regression analysis could not predict plasma CTGF levels from genotype (not shown) The mean follow-up time in the diabetic...
... neither genotypes nor alleles were associated with periodontitis, even after adjusting for covariates, including age, gender and smoking status (Table 2) Therefore, this polymorphism could not be ... [39,40] We did not take into account ancestry in our study because we only obtained the skin color information Although Brazilian population is admixtured, the skin color is not related with ancestry ... study with forensic microsatellites Hum Hered 2006, 62(4):190-195 doi:10.1186/1477-5751-10-14 Cite this article as: Scarel-Caminaga et al.: Variation in the CXCR1 gene (IL8RA) is not associated with...
... brain More than 90% of ALS patients are sporadic (SALS), not showing any familial trait Approximately 10% of cases are familial (FALS), and within these lie several distinct forms of the disease ... ALS1, with adult-onset caused by mutations in the gene encoding the cytosolic antioxidant enzyme Cu, Zn-superoxide dismutase (Sod1) [1,2]; and ALS4, a rare juvenile-onset disorder, associated with ... occurred within exon at nucleotide g.138864T>G (Asp130Glu) The Asp130Glu variation is located between MSP and Coiled-coil domains, and involves an aminoacid residue of aspartic acid not conserved...
... 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2006, 5:13 that exon mutations of the β-catenin gene are not evident in DD [8], we have not ruled out the ... majority of clonal isolates from DD and control tissues and their representation within each group appeared to correlate with the presence of disease To better compare the expression levels of these ... the techniques employed With the exception of Wnt 11, direct comparison of the Wnt expression analysis reported here indicated that the level and type of Wnt expression is not altered between DD...
... panel Although this difference was not significant (p = 0.73) The 5A allele was more common in patients with low Clark level melanomas (p = 0.04) and with tumors with infiltrating lymphocytes (p ... CI:1.62–8.20)[15] Our genotyping analysis identified a new G to A variation in the MMP2 promoter at position -729 This new variation is not situated within a conserved sequence; therefore, it might not have ... individual genotypes, and appear in bold font if ≤ 0.05 The significance was lost after adjustment for age, sex, phenotypic index, moles, freckles, and race £Genotypes 5A6A and 6A6A combined with many...
... demonstrated declarative memory deficits in PTSD [1215] findings, we hypothesize that structural and functional changes in IC of patients with PTSD may be associated withdeficits in declarative memory ... relationship between the IC and declarative memory deficits in patients with PTSD IC may be involved in declarative memory deficits in patients with PTSD Previous studies indicate that hippocampus ... deficit in patients with PTSD Using structural and functional MRI, we aimed to examine the structural and functional differences of IC in surviving victims of a fire disaster with and without PTSD Based...