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NIEHS News October 2003

Background: Hereditary Inclusion Body Myopathy (HIBM) is an autosomal recessive, adult onset, non-inflammatory neuromuscular disorder with no effective treatment. The causative gene, GNE, codes for UDP-N-acetylglucosamine 2epimerase/N-acetylmannosamine kinase, which catalyzes the first two reactions in the synthesis of sialic acid. Reduced sialylation of muscle glycoproteins, such as α-dystrogl...

Indiana Wildlife Disease News; Volume 1, Issue 4, October 2006

Animal Science E-News - October 2009

The Cooperative Extension Service offers its programs to all eligible persons regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status, and is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Laminitis is a painful lameness condition that can affect any breed of horse or pony. Although the exact mechanics of...

Lecture 8: October 1

Consider a simply connected region S of the two-dimensional Cartesian lattice (e.g. a 2n× 2n chessboard). A tiling of S is a covering of all its squares by non-overlapping dominoes, each of which occupies two adjacent squares of the lattice. We want to generate u.a.r. a tiling of S. Such problems arise in statistical physics, where the tilings correspond to configurations of a so-called dimer s...

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