over a 10-year period, l30 consecutive cases of brucellosis were encountered and were prospectively treated and followed. twenty-one cases were children and the remainder were adults. there were 93 males and 37 females with a male: female ratio of 2.5 to one. the age range of the patients was from 2 to 74 years with a mean of 30 years. fifty-five percent of cases were from rural areas and the r...

In the talk I will explain two methods we have been discussed in physics and biology. The first one is to characterize large scale phenomena in superfluids and superconductors by the dynamics of topological defects. Here we build up the effective of motion from microscopic theory and have successfully apply it to explain a few outstanding phenomena. The second one is on the modeling of stabilit...

Purpose: Activity of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), the first enzyme in polyamine synthesis, is required for normal growth and is elevated in many cancers, including colorectal cancer. We examined associations of the +316 ODC1 single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) with colorectal cancer–specific survival among colorectal cancer cases, and then investigated its functional significance in colon ca...

We have investigated the development of intrinsic and interareal connections in areas V1 and V2 of the macaque monkey using postmortem transport of the lipophilic fluorescent tracer diI, applied to brains fixed at different preand postnatal ages. Intrinsic connections in the deep layers of V1 are evident on embryonic day 108 (ElOS), but are not robust in the superficial layers until around E118...

Sutherland, E. D., and Cohen, S. D. 1983. Evaluation of tetrazolium bromide as a vital stain for fungal oospores. Phytopathology 73:1532-1535. Staining of fungal oospores with tetrazolium bromide (MTT) is proposed The number of oospores of P. megasperina f. sp. glycinea race I stained with as a test for estimating oospore viability and as a technique for enhancing MTT in phosphate buffer did no...

Selenoproteins contain the amino acid selenocysteine which is encoded by a UGA Sec codon. Recoding UGA Sec requires a complex mechanism, comprising the cis-acting SECIS RNA hairpin in the 3’UTR of selenoprotein mRNAs, and trans-acting factors. Among these, the SECIS Binding Protein 2 (SBP2) is central to the mechanism. SBP2 has been so far functionally characterized only in rats and humans. In ...

Neonatal monocytes display immaturity of numerous functions compared with adult cells. Gene expression arrays provide a promising tool for elucidating mechanisms underlying neonatal immune function. We used a well-established microarray to analyze differences between LPS-stimulated human cord blood and adult monocytes to create dynamic models for interactions to elucidate observed deficiencies ...