Global temperature change causes heat stress related disorders in humans. A constituent of red ginseng has been known the beneficial effect on the resistance to many diseases. However, the mechanism of red ginseng (RG) against heat stress still remains unclear. To determine the effect of RG on heat stress, we examined the effect of the RG on the gene expression profiles in rats subjected to env...

Little is known about the immunogenicity of RABORAL V-RG(®) (V-RG), an oral rabies vaccine, in raccoon kits (Procyon lotor). The objectives of this study were to characterize the immunogenicity of V-RG in young kits and investigate the potential impact of maternal antibodies on response to vaccination of nursing raccoon kits. Raccoon kits (n=30) were vaccinated at either 3 weeks of age, 7 weeks...

Reference genes (RG) as sample internal controls for gene transcript level analyses by quantitative RT-PCR (RT-qPCR) must be stably expressed within the experimental range. A variety of in vitro cell culture settings with primary human hepatocytes, and Huh-7 and HepG2 cell lines, were used to determine candidate RG expression stability in RT-qPCR analyses. Employing GeNorm, BestKeeper and Normf...

Among 13 patients with recurrent colorectal cancer (recurrence group: RG), immunohistochemical expression of Topo-1 was high in 4 patients (30.8%) and low in 9 patients (69.2%), while the non-recurrence group (N-RG) (n=8) showed high expression in 1 patient (12.5%) and low expression in 7 patients (87.5%) (NS). Regarding immunohistochemical expression of Bax/ERCC-1, high Bax/low ERCC-1 expressi...

CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 101, NO. 11, 10 DECEMBER 2011 1435 *Based on a talk delivered during the 22nd Mid-year Meeting of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore held at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore from 8 to 9 July 2011. **Mukesh Jain is in the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi 110 067, India. e-mail: [email protected] A next-generation ...

N-methylpyrrole-RG (RG = Ar, Kr) complexes are investigated using resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization (REMPI) and zero-electron-kinetic-energy (ZEKE) spectroscopy. The RG atom makes the electronic transition to S1 state allowed, REMPI spectrum is blue-shifted compared N-methylpyrrole origin, with no bands associated vibrational excitation of moiety. nature structure discussed. Binding ene...

OBJECTIVES Deep-inspiration breath-hold (DIBH) PET/CT with short-time acquisition and respiratory-gated (RG) PET/CT are performed for pulmonary lesions to reduce the respiratory motion artifacts, and to obtain more accurate standardized uptake value (SUV). DIBH PET/CT demonstrates significant advantages in terms of rapid examination, good quality of CT images and low radiation exposure. On the ...

Hematopoietic progenitor cell levels were monitored in the peripheral blood and bone marrow of 30 cancer patients receiving recombinant human granulocyte-colony stimulating-factor (rG-CSF) in a phase I/II clinical trial. The absolute number of circulating progenitor cells of granulocyte-macrophage, erythroid, and megakaryocyte lineages showed a dose-related increase up to 100-fold after four da...

To investigate the extent to which the proportion of schizophrenia's additive genetic variation tagged by SNPs is shared by populations of European and African descent, we analyzed the largest combined African descent (AD [n = 2,142]) and European descent (ED [n = 4,990]) schizophrenia case-control genome-wide association study (GWAS) data set available, the Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia ...