We report a case of Hymenolepis diminuta infection in a human. The patient was a 5-year-old girl referred to us through the onset of a cyanotic attack. Treatment with a single dose (10 mg/kg of body weight) of praziquantel was ineffective, but the parasite was eradicated after three treatment cycles with the same drug at dosages of 25 mg/kg/day for 5 days.

A combination of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and reflection interference contrast microscopy (RICM) was used to measure simultaneously the interaction force and the spatiotemporal evolution of the thin water film between a bubble in water and mica surfaces with varying degrees of hydrophobicity. Stable films, supported by the repulsive van der Waals-Casimir-Lifshitz force were always observed...

In the processes of protein synthesis and folding, newly synthesized polypeptides are tightly connected to the macromolecules, such as ribosomes, lipid bilayers, or cotranslationally folded domains in multidomain proteins, representing a hallmark of de novo protein folding environments in vivo. Such linkage effects on the aggregation of endogenous polypeptides have been largely neglected, altho...

Structure-based sequence alignment of 728 sequences of different globin subfamilies shows that in each subfamily there are two clusters of consensually conserved residues. The first is the well-known "functional" cluster which includes six heme-binding conserved residues (Phe CD1, His F8; aliphatic E11, FG5; hydrophobic F4, G5) and seven other conserved residues (Pro C2; aliphatic H19; hydropho...

infectious bronchitis virus (ibv) is a contagious pathogen in fowl that results in economic loss in the poultry industry. in this study, the amino acids sequences of three structural proteins m, n, and s1 for five iranian ibv isolated during 1998-2011 have been analyzed. conserved and variable regions, hydrophobic characteristics and identity matrix were determined after alignment by bioedit ve...

background: gliomas are the most frequently observed primary brain tumors. these tumors comprise a variety of different histological tumor types and malignancy grades. oligodendrogliomas typically contain a rich network of branching capillaries. approximately 50%-80% of oligodendrogliomas demonstrate a combined loss of chromosomes 1p and 19q. oligodendrogliomas differ from neurocytomas in that ...

in the present time, phenomenon like globalization, regionalism and economic integration are the basic issues which bring many positive consequences to the world economy. regionalism and economic integration are one of the ways that developing countries can adopt to collate the globalization process. to acknowledge their own abilities or, to settle the commercial and economic disputes in their ...