Abstract Background and Aims: The number of new cancer cases with considerable mortality is increasing worldwide. Since the inability of current therapies in treatment of patients and prevention the progress of tumors with fewer side effects, implementation of new methods is needed. Gene therapy has widespread systemic cytotoxic effects against tumor cells. Rotavirus NSP4 has been shown to...

A home-made system hyphenating capillary electrophoresis with an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (CE-ICP-MS) for cadmium speciation of protein-binding and free cadmium ions in solution is presented. The CE-ICP-MS interface consisted of an acrylic block with an internal volume ca. 20 microL in which a platinum electrode, a capillary column, and a connection to an ICP nebulizer were ...

Abstract Begomoviruses cause significant losses to a wide range of crops worldwide, and great progress has been made in characterizing some noncanonical proteins encoded by begomoviruses. In the present study, novel viral protein, C6, was detected Nicotiana benthamiana plants infected with tomato leaf curl China virus (ToLCCNV). Sequence analyses revealed that C6 ORF is on complementary strand ...

objective: the number of new cancer cases with considerable mortality is increasing worldwide. since the inability of current therapies in treatment of patients and prevention the progress of tumors with fewer side effects, implementation of new methods is needed. gene therapy has widespread systemic cytotoxic effects against tumor cells. rotavirus nsp4 has been shown to elicit extensive cytoto...

  Objective(s): Streptokinase (SKa) is an antigenic protein which is secreted by Streptococcus pyogenes. Streptokinase induces inflammation by complement activation, which may play a role in post infectious diseases. In the present study, recombinant streptokinase from S. pyogenes was produced and showed that recombinant SKa protein was recognized by infected human sera using Western blot analy...

This study reports for the first time molecular detection of Anaplasma platys infection in 4 (13.3%) of 30 Malaysian dogs investigated. A low occurrence (3.3%) of Babesia gibsoni was also noted, being detected in one of the 30 dogs. Rickettsia, Bartonella, Orientia tsutsugamushi, and Ehrlichia DNA were not detected in the dog blood samples. The role of A. platys as an agent of canine anaplasmos...

The isolation of Mycoplasma hyosynoviae from a piglet with severe pneumonia is described. This is the first report of M. hyosynoviae isolation in the country. The lung sample where the isolation was made was severely consolidated, suppurative and pleurisy. The pathogenicity of the M. hyosynoviae isolated has yet to be determined.

342 NATURE | VOL 399 | 27 MAY 1999 | www.nature.com A micro-Raman spectrometer was used for the further characterization of the deposited diamond. A laser beam of 1-mm spot size was focused onto the crystallites. Figure 3 shows the resulting Raman spectrum: it exhibits a first-order diamond peak centred at 1,332.8 cm. The high intensity of the diamond peak, its small full-width at half-maximum ...

NATURE | VOL 410 | 15 MARCH 2001 | www.nature.com 345 The onsets of the transitions are all in the vicinity of 36 K, the transition temperature for x ˆ 0:10. There is no bulk superconducting transition for x ˆ 0:3 and x ˆ 0:4. The data are interpreted as indicating that bulk superconductivity in single-phase material is suppressed for x greater than 0.10. The superconducting transitions observe...

Many routine laboratories have adopted ICP-MS as their primary technique for metals analysis due to its simple operation as a multi-element analyzer. However, despite its higher performance for the targeted removal of specific interferences, collision/reaction cell (CRC) ICP-MS remains relatively understudied in terms of its multielement capability. This work demonstrates that the Agilent 7500c...