Early stage Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) infection of cattle can be detected by measuring specific cell mediated immune responses, using the interferon gamma (IFN-γ) test. Available IFN-γ tests are using purified protein derivatives of MAP (PPDj) which are crude products consisting of undefined antigens with possible cross reactions toward other environmental bacteria. The ...

Both NASA and the U.S. Army have interest in developing secondary energy storage devices with improved low temperature performance to meet the demanding requirements of space missions and manportable applicatims. Lithium-ion systems have been identified as having the most promise due to their high specific energy density and wi e op rational temperature ranges from the u s e of organic solventb...

Editor–Germline mutations of the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) tumour suppressor gene result in the hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Almost all APC mutations that have been identified are single nucleotide alterations, small insertions, or deletions that would cause a truncated APC protein. Mutations causing amino acid changes in the APC protein hav...

The stability of DNA in dried blood samples obtained from the neonatal screening program in Thailand was retrospectively studied in order to determine the conditions necessary for the long term storage of samples for DNA banking. Specimens from 1991 to 2001, which had been kept in the ambient conditions at the Department of Medical Science, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, were randomly sam...

Leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis are zoonotic diseases with global importance. Asymptomatic animals harboring these pathogens may act as carriers to other animals including humans. The objective of this study was to investigate the seroprevalence of Leptospira and Toxoplasma infections in stray dogs in Bangkok. A total of 230 stray dogs from monasteries in a Bangkok district were examined for sp...

Hepatitis E, which is caused by infection with the hepatitis E virus (HEV), is a major public health concern in developing and industrialised countries. This member of the Hepevirus genus, which belongs to the Hepeviridae family, is a non-enveloped, single-stranded, positivesense RNA virus with a 7.2 kb genome that consists of three discontinuous open reading frames (ORFs) (Emerson & Purcell 20...

*Tatro, JM;*Goldberg, VM; **Stewart, MC; +*Greenfield, EM *Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH; ** Department of Veterinary Clinical Medicine, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL [email protected] INTRODUCTION: Many laboratories have shown that bacterial endotoxin increases the biological responses induced by orthopaedic wear particles [1]. For examp...

ARTICLE INFO _________________________________________________________ ___________________ Vol. 39 (1): 30-36, January February, 2013 doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2013.01.05 IBJU | DOES PROLONGED PNEUMOPERITONEUM AFFECT THE KIDNEY? 31 To address this issue, in the present study we induced in rats a prolonged 8 mmHg Pp and then investigated the short-term oxidative stress alterations and the lon...

T. D. Henning, J. S. Bauer, T. Frenzel, E. J. Sutton, Y. Fu, H. E. Daldrup-Link Radiology, UCSF, San Francisco, California, United States, Schering AG, Berlin, Germany Introduction. Promising applications of stem cell based therapy include the replacement of defective tissue in patients with diseases such as diabetes or Parkinson’s (1). To evaluate the success of engraftment, it is important to...

In recent years, the incidence of tsutsugamushi disease has increased in Nan Peng Lie Islands in China, and the disease has not been recorded in this region. The natural foci of tsutsugamushi disease were investigated in this paper. Isolation of Orientia tsutsugamushi and the study of preventive measures were also performed. The region was the island natural foci of south subtropical zone. The ...