The effects of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) on brain monoamines and the serum level of hormones involved in milk synthesis and on the milk ejection reflex in rats were evaluated. Dams were treated with 2.5, 5, 15, 25, 50 or 70mg 2,4-D/kg bw according to two experimental designs: (a) through food from post partum day 1 (PPD 1) to PPD 16 and the respective control groups or (b) an uniqu...

Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDC), the main producers of type I IFNs in the blood, are important for the recognition and control of viral and bacterial infections. Because several viruses induce IFN-alpha production, severe courses of herpes virus infections in nonimmunocompromised patients may be related to numerical or functional PDC deficits. To evaluate this hypothesis, PBMC and PDC were r...

Alternative splicing is a key process in post-transcriptional regulation, by which several kinds of mature RNA can be obtained from the same premessenger RNA. The resulting combinatorial complexity contributes to biological diversity, especially in the case of the human immunode ciency virus HIV-1. Using a constraint programming approach, we develop a model of the alternative splicing regulatio...

PURPOSE To report a case of acute retinal necrosis presenting as central retinal artery occlusion with cilioretinal sparing. METHODS Single interventional case report. The findings of the ophthalmic examination, MRI, blood parameters, biopsy results and clinical course are reported. RESULTS A forty two year old gentleman reporting sudden loss of sight, ophthalmic examination revealing uveit...

Nicola J. Clegg, John Wongvipat, Jim Joseph, Chris Tran, Samedy Ouk, Anna Dilhas, Yu Chen, Kate Grillot, Eric D. Bischoff , Ling Cai, Anna Aparicio, Steven Dorow, Vivek Arora, Gang Shao, Jing Qian, Hong Zhao, Guangbin Yang, Chunyan Cao, John Sensintaffar, Teresa Wasielewska, Mark R. Herbert, Celine Bonnefous, Beatrice Darimont, Howard I. Scher, Peter Smith-Jones, Mark Klang, Nicholas D. Smith, ...