Growth hormone (GH) plays a central role in growth and production through its influence on important metabolic activities in mammals which prompted its wide commercial use including use as a candidate marker. In present experiment, polymorphism at exon 1 and 2 of Growth Hormone gene (GH) was studied using PCR– RFLP in crossbred and exotic pigs, commonly found in north east India. Restriction en...

We formulate the data analysis problem for the detection of the Newtonian waveform from an inspiraling compact-binary by a network of arbitrarily oriented and arbitrarily distributed laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. We obtain for the first time the relation between the optimal statistic and the magnitude of the network correlation vector, which is constructed from the matched...

Methods We recruited 63 Italian children, adolescents and young adults with JIA (mean age 16.21 + 7.11 SD yrs, 51 female and 12 males, female/male ratio 4.25 from 1 Unit of Paediatric Rheumatology and 1 Unit of Rheumatology, Transition Clinic. After informed consent, during routine laboratory tests, their genomic DNA was extracted from peripheral blood leukocytes, to analyze VDR polymorphisms b...

Background: Vitamin D receptor (VDR) is present on adipocytes, and many studies were performed to investigate the association between polymorphisms in VDR gene with obesity. However, in the Arab Gulf populations, whereas obesity prevalence is increasing dramatically, only a few studies were addressed this relation with obesity based only on body mass index. This study aimed to find the associat...

OBJECTIVE : Vitamin D receptor (VDR) mediates vitamin D activity. We examined whether VDR expression in excised melanoma tissues is associated with VDR gene (VDR) polymorphisms. METHODS : We evaluated VDR protein expression (by monoclonal antibody immunostaining), melanoma characteristics, and carriage of VDR-FokI-rs2228570 (C>T),VDR-BsmI-rs1544410 (G>A),VDR-ApaI-rs7975232 (T>G), andVDR-TaqI-...

INTRODUCTION We studied the frequencies of the 3' and 5'-end vitamin D receptor (VDR) gene polymorphisms and their correlation with bone mineral density (BMD) in Egyptian pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients receiving calcium and vitamin D supplements. The purpose of this study is to find out the relation between VDR polymorphism and the response to vitamin D intake in pediatri...

BACKGROUND Vitamin D and insulin play an important role in susceptibility to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), and therefore vitamin D receptor (VDR), parathyroid hormone (PTH), and insulin receptor (INSR) gene variants might be involved in the pathogenesis of PCOS. OBJECTIVE The present study was designed to investigate the possible associations between polymorphisms in VDR, PTH, and INSR ge...