Clinically relevant joint destruction has now become infrequent in patients with newly diagnosed rheumatoid arthritis (RA), while other disease outcomes such as functional ability and disease persistence have become more important. Recently, novel auto-antibody reactivities have been identified in RA, with the ultimate aim to better characterise patients with RA. Anticarbamylated protein (anti-...

Leptin is a hormone that affects the regulation of body weight, energy expenditure, fat metabolism, food intake, and appetite. In this study, we cloned the jlLEP-A1 and jlLEP-A2 genes in Jian carp (Cyprinus carpio var. Jian) and performed an association analysis between identified polymorphisms and growth traits. Three polymorphisms in exons of jlLEP-A1 (A1-T113C) and jlLEP-A2 (A2-G415A and A2-...

At the present study, the distribution of Cd, Hg and Pb in water and their accumulation in fish species (silver carp, rainbow trout and shrimp) in three different farms. Totally 63 samples of three species and the water of their ponds were obtained during summer 2008 from Gilan, Mazandaran and ChabaharIran. The concentrations of three heavy metals in fish and shrimp flesh were measured by flame...

The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) gene family is considered to be one of the largest gene families in all forms of prokaryotic and eukaryotic life. Although the ABC transporter genes have been annotated in some species, detailed information about the ABC superfamily and the evolutionary characterization of ABC genes in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) are still unclear. In this research, we identifie...

Native and exotic fishes were collected from 29 sites across coastal and inland New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, using a range of techniques, to infer the distribution of Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (Cestoda: Pseudophyllidea) and the host species in which it occurs. The distribution of B. acheilognathi was determined by that of its principal host, carp, Cyprinus carpio; it did not oc...

Selection on increased immune stability is one of the most radical opportunities to strengthen the resistance of animals. Especially in the actual conditions of intensive farm cultivation, with unilateral selection on efficiency when there is a decrease in resistance of the individuals against diseases. It is important in bigger measure for fishes as they are hydrobionts and water habitat leave...

Silver crucian carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) is a unique triploid bisexual species that can reproduce by gynogenesis. As all other gynogenetic animals, it keeps its chromosome integrity by inhibiting the ®rst meiosis division (no extrusion of the ®rst pole body). To understand the molecular events governing this reproduction mode, suppression subtractive hybridization was used to identify th...

— American White Pelicans ( Pelecanus erythrorhynchos ) are reported to consume large quantities of commercial catfish in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, negatively impacting aquaculture production. If pelicans consume a single item diet, such as catfish, nutritional deficiencies may result. Therefore, effects of monoand multi-species diets were examined to determine nutritional i...

OBJECTIVE Collateral artery growth (arteriogenesis) can be induced in rabbit and mice by occlusion of the femoral artery. We aimed to identify genes that are differentially expressed during arteriogenesis. METHODS 24 h after femoral ligation or sham operation collateral arteries were isolated from New Zealand white rabbits, mRNAs were extracted and amplified using the SMART technique. cDNAs w...

The gene ankyrin repeat domain 1 (Ankrd1) is an enigmatic gene and may exert pleiotropic function dependent on its expression level, subcellular localization and even types of pathological stress, but it remains unclear how these factors influence the fate of cardiomyocytes. Here we attempted to investigate the role of CARP on cardiomyocyte hypertrophy. In neonatal rat ventricular cardiomyocyte...