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... Biochem. 270) Ó FEBS 2003 Modified merozoite surface protein-1 peptides with short alpha helical regions are associated with inducing protection against malaria Mary H. Torres 1 *, Luz M. Salazar 1 *, ... were protected with only two immunizations (such as those immunized with peptide 24148), reacted strongly with 70 kDa and 42 kDa molecular mass molecules. This data suggests that immunization with peptides ... using XWIN - NMR software. Structure calculations Peptide structure was determined by Molecular Simulations Inc. ( MSI ) software. Cross-peak volume was obtained by integration using FELIX software on the...

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... of the relationship with their parents. Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are most likely to have a high-quality relationship with their parents. <MONTHLY/ NEVER >WEEKLY/ MONTHLY INTACT ... between children’s family structure and parenting stress. Children living with both biological parents or two adoptive parents have parents with the lowest parenting stress levels. <MONTHLY/ NEVER >WEEKLY/ MONTHLY INTACT ... family structure and parental concerns about children’s achievement. Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are least likely to have parents who are concerned about...

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... Analyses Testing for Within-Individual Declines in Performance and Factors Associated with These Declines Within-individual declines in breeding success in the years before death were tested for with a generalized ... individuals with high early-life reproductive output have reduced breeding success late in life regardless of when in the season they lay, implying that delayed costs of reproduction are associated with ... reproductive performance declines with age has proved more difficult, and empirical studies are rare. Anal- yses of senescence (both actuarial and reproductive) are problematic because of the inherent...

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... illumination indoors (P = 0.0035) were associated with more severe mental ill-being. Conclusion: The routinely emerging seasonal changes in mood and behavior are associated with the HRQoL and mental well-being. ... were positively associated with better mental well-being. On the other hand, greater seasonal changes and poor illumination indoors are significant factors which were associated with worse mental ... region or catchment area, 16 health care districts were sampled as clusters (80 health care districts in the whole country, including 160 municipalities). The 15 big- gest health care districts in...

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... Access Research Typing of human rotaviruses: Nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and primer are associated with genotyping failure Mustafizur Rahman* 1,2 , Rasheda Sultana 1 , Goutam Podder 1 , Abu ... BLAST homology searches (99–100% nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4). To compare them with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes of two typeable G1 ... products were purified with the QIA quick PCR purification kit (Qiagen/Westburg), and sequenced in both directions using the dideoxy-nucle- otide chain termination method with the ABI PRISM đ BigDye...

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... total cholesterol lipid profile variables are associated with dis- ability changes in MS patients. Associations with MRI Higher HDL levels were associated with a lower probabil- ityforthepresenceofCEL(p ... exhibited a t rend with total cholesterol to HDL ratio (p = 0.047) levels. The EDSS change was not associated with higher HDL (p = 0.79). Similarly, wor- sening MSSS changes were associated with higher ... 0.038). The associations of lipid profile variables with EDSS and MSSS changes are summarized in Table 3. Worsen- ing EDSS changes were associated with higher LDL (p = 0.006), triglycerides (p =...

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... 2005 [26]; those with a NIH scale of <16 with relatively good expected outcome and those with NIH scale of >16 with poor expected outcome, and the ficolin-3 levels were compared accordingly. ... concentration with the outcome of the disease in 65 patients with ischemic stroke Panel A: Distribution of the patients with different outcome of the disease among patients with low (<6), ... concentration and the outcome of the disease measured with modified Rankin scale. This negative correlation indicates that low ficolin-3 levels are associated with an unfavorable prognosis. This association...

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... Journal Open Access Short report Nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and the primer are associated with genotyping failure of a specific lineage from G1 rotavirus strains Gabriel I Parra* ... using Neighbor-joining or parsimony meth- ods with Kimura 2-parameter as a model of nucleotide substitution with the MEGA 3.1 [26] and Phylip v3.65 softwares. The statistical significance of the ... grouped within one of the four lineages pre- viously reported by Jin et al [5] (Fig. 1). The typeable and untypeable G1 strains reported by Rahman et al [19], grouped within the lineage I with a...

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... Access Research Typing of human rotaviruses: Nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and primer are associated with genotyping failure Mustafizur Rahman* 1,2 , Rasheda Sultana 1 , Goutam Podder 1 , Abu ... JJ: Diversity within the VP4 gene of rotavirus P[8] strains: implications for reverse transcription-PCR genotyping. J Clin Microbiol 2000, 38:898-901. 12. Jin Q, Ward RL, Knowlton DR, Gabbay YB, Linhares ... reverse transcription PCR with type- specific-primers. Because the high rotavirus mutation rate generates an extensive genomic variation, different G-type-specific primer sets are applied in different...

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... of GPX3 than women with early stage disease. T hese results are summarized in Table 2. Since most ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed in post- menopausal women, we next compared the levels of GPX3 ... patients diagnosed with late stage (p = 5 ì 10 -4 )andrecurrentdisease(p=1ì 10 -3 ) when compared to those diagnosed with early stage disease was again present. These results are sum- marized in ... women with serous ovarian can- cer in a stage-dependent manner. In addition, we demonstrate that serum levels are also decreased in women with recurrent disease and the stage-dependent decreases are...

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... it could be related to infection with HIV-1 subtype C compared with other viral subtypes [26]. Elevated CRP and other inflamma- tion biomarkers are associated with endothelial dysfunc- tion and ... month) declines in serum albumin are associated with increased mortality among HIV-infected women (both with and without ART) [16], but absolute albumin values are an uncertain indic ato r of ... nfidence interval: 0.67, 0.93]) compared with a value of 0.87 mmol/L (i.e., the low end of the normal range) [21]. A serum albumin of 30 g/L compared with 25 g/L was associated with a nearly 50% reduced...

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... to derive leaf mass per area (LMA) and leaf area ratio of the shoot (LAR shoot , leaf area divided by the dry mass of stems + branches + petioles + leaves); (4) leaf area of individual leaves ... suber). 4. DISCUSSION The reduction of leaf size and total foliage area, thick leaves, high leaf mass per area, and other features are asso- ciated to plant species from hot and dry environments. ... transpi- ration [31, 37–39]. In agreement with this, we observed the lowest mean and total leaf areas in seedlings of Mediterranean oaks (Fig. 3). The reduction in the mean area of individual leaves resulted...

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... systemic sclerosis (SSc) patients with and without fingertip ulcers. Compared with healthy controls, serum levels of VEGF were increased in patients with fingertip ulcers. In patients without fingertip ulcers, ... increased in patients with anti-topoisomerase anti- bodies and diffuse SSc, which are associated with a more rapid and severe disease course [38]. These results are consistent with findings from ... both patients with diffuse SSc as well as patients with limited SSc showed significantly increased levels of VEGF com- pared with healthy controls (P < 0.001) (Fig. 1b). In addi- tion, patients with...

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... soft- ware package for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Results Rheumatoid arthritis patients with and without cardiovascular disease The baseline characteristics of the RA patients with ... 0.001). Table 1 Characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis patients with and without cardiovascular disease RA without CVD (n = 541) RA with CVD (n = 72) p value Demographic variables Mean age, years ... variables are known to be associated with CVD but not with the use of certain DMARDs. Correcting for RA duration was done because the chance for a patient to be treated with more than one DMARD...

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... High p-ERK levels were associated with improved OS but not for p-AKT. High levels of p-AKT and p-ERK expression were associated with better responses. KRAS WT corre lated with lower p-AKT expression ... mutation was not associated with lesser response to chemoradiotherapy or worse OS. High p-ERK expression was associated with better OS and response. Higher p-AKT expression was correlated with better response ... patients with the wild-type (WT) KRAS gene. These drugs are now used in the treatment of mCRC, with response rates ranging from 8% with single agent cetuximab[36] to 23% in combination with irinotecan, [37]...

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