The sympathetic skin response (SSR) is a change in skin potential following arousal stimulation, ®rst described by Tarchanoff (1890). SSR is a polysynaptic re ̄ex that is activated by a variety of afferent inputs. The ®nal efferent pathway involves preand postganglionic sympathetic sudomotor ®bers and ultimately activation of sweat glands by the sympathetic out ̄ow. The re ̄ex is coordinated in th...

UNLABELLED Simple Sequence Repeats (SSRs) are used to address a variety of research questions in a variety of fields (e.g. population genetics, phylogenetics, forensics, etc.), due to their high mutability within and between species. Here, we present an innovative algorithm, SA-SSR, based on suffix and longest common prefix arrays for efficiently detecting SSRs in large sets of sequences. Exist...

We prospectively performed neurophysiologic studies in nine Fabry's Disease (FD) patients (8 male and 1 female) in order to describe the results of nerve conduction studies (NCS) and electromyography (EMG) and to verify whether the sympathetic skin response (SSR) is impaired in these patients. The investigation protocol included SSR, sensory and motor NCS and EMG. SSR was performed not only in ...

Caprine herpesvirus 1 (CpHV-1) is responsible for vaginal and respiratory disease in goats. Infection by vaginal route is usually restricted to the genital tract whereas by nasal route the virus can spread throughout the body. In order to evaluate genomic diversity, nucleotide sequences of glycoprotein C (gC) of 13 (n.8 vaginal, n.5 nasal) CpHV-1 strains were analyzed. Amino acid (aa) sequences...

This study describes the application of a simple and effective method to isolate SSR markers from oil palm genomic sequences. A total of 12 informative SSR markers are described. The SSR markers were found suitable for genome analysis and DNA fingerprinting of oil palm tissue culture clones. Eleven of the 12 SSR markers exhibited expected Mendelian segregation ratios when tested on a mapping po...

The lethal gene 'Luteus-Pa' is found in cacao genotypes (Theobroma cacao) of the Parinari (Pa) series, from Peru. Seedlings affected by this gene have yellowing leaves and subsequently die. We mapped this gene based on microsatellite markers and RAPDs, in order to elucidate the inheritance of 'Luteus-Pa' and investigate possible lethal mechanisms. DNA samples of genitors were amplified with 87 ...