T cells from neuromyelitis optica (NMO) patients, which recognize the immunodominant epitope of aquaporin-4, exhibit Th17 polarization and cross-react with a homologous sequence of a Clostridium perfringens adenosine triphosphate-binding cassette transporter. Therefore, this commensal microbe might participate in NMO pathogenesis. We examined the gut microbiome by PhyloChip G3 from 16 NMO patie...

Escherichia albertii has been associated with diarrhea in humans but not with disease or infection in animals. However, in December 2004, E. albertii was found, by biochemical and genetic methods, to be the probable cause of death for redpoll finches (Carduelis flammea) in Alaska. Subsequent investigation found this organism in dead and subclinically infected birds of other species from North A...

objectives: the objective of this study was to analyze the fatty acid content, antioxidant, and antibacterial activities of hydro-methanolic extract of adonis wolgensis l. (a. wolgensis l.) growing wild in north of iran. materials and methods: oils of a. wolgensis l. was obtained by means of soxhlet apparatus from leaves and stems. methyl esters were derived from the oily mixtures by trans-este...

Terrestrial isopods were studied in the Dubravica peat bog and surrounding forest in the northwestern Croatia. Sampling was conducted using pitfall traps over a two year period. Studied peat bog has a history of drastically decrease in area during the last five decades mainly due to the process of natural succession and changes in the water level. A total of 389 isopod individuals belonging to ...

This article deals with the textual dialogue between Adonis (born 1930) and al-Niffarī (died in 965 AD) poem, “The Transformations of Lover,” from Adonis’s poetry collection The book Migration Day Night Regions (1965) reveals Adonis’ melting mystic text his own text. First, this discusses Adonis's discovery al-Niffarī- unknown Şūfī who lived margins religious institution time. Then, it e...

Abstract The fragments of a hexameter poem about Dionysus recently discovered in palimpsest (Sin. Ar. NF 66) reveal some different faces Dionysus, including an Adonis-figure at the heart dispute between two goddesses (Persephone and Aphrodite), personified wine-god, Oinos, threatened by machinations his enemies court Zeus. These texts help to illuminate allusions early life god that have long p...

We report in this letter the first resolved images of the circumstellar dust disk around the Pre-Main-Sequence star HD 100546. These near-infrared images were obtained in J and short K bands with the adap-tive optics system ADONIS at the ESO observatory. A bright disk extending 2 arcsec (200 AU) far from the star and viewed with an inclination with respect to the line of sight around 50 degrees...