C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase reactant the concentration of which increases significantly following tissue injury or inflammation. It is present in the albumin fraction of the serum of patients and is antigenic upon injection into rabbits. We report here the development of a local latex reagent coated with rabbit anti-CRP. For this purpose CRP was isolated from pooled sera of patie...

BACKGROUND There has been a gradual increase in the number of patients treated as a day case surgery in our center. This study has been conducted to audit pediatric day case surgery practice at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. AIMS The aim of the following study is to determine the morbidity and mortality from day case surgery in our center. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The type of study was...

The Porphyromonas gingivalis fimbria is an important virulence factor involved in the adherence and colonization of the organism in the oral cavity. In this study, we transformed this organism with a gene, fimA381, encoding the fimbrial subunit of P. gingivalis 381 (fimbrillin) by using the host-vector system that we developed previously and examined expression of the cloned fimA381 gene. The r...

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The human RNA polymerase II transcription factor B-TFIID consists of TATA-binding protein (TBP) and the TBP-associated factor (TAF) TAF(II)170 and can rapidly redistribute over promoter DNA. Here we report the identification of human TBP-binding regions in human TAF(II)170. We have defined the TBP interaction domain of TAF(II)170 within three amino-terminal regions: residues 2 to 137, 290 to 38...

The seminal paper by Ya. B. Zeldovich (Soviet Physics Uspekhi 11, 381– 393, 1968) is reprinted here, together with an editorial comment on its lasting scientific relevance, and a biography of the author.