The possible anti-proliferation and cell death induction potential of a novel microbial fermentation extract named as oncogen XP-180 (or simply as XP-180) was tested on three human solid tumour carcinoma cell lines (non-small cell lung cancer A549, breast cancer MDA-MB231, liver adenocarcinoma SK-Hep1) and on the acute myelogenous leukaemia KG1a cell line. Anti-proliferative activity of XP180 w...

Two experiments were conducted to study the effect of phytase supplementation to lowphosphorus starter and finisher broiler diets on mineral utilization and growth performance. All diets in this study were isonitrogenous, isocaloric and corn-soybean diets. In Experiment 1, four replicate groups of 15 commercial broiler chicks, one-day old, were randomly assigned to each of two dietary treatment...

Background Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) was first described in 1874 by Hebra and Kaposi. Albert Neisser was the first to report neurological abnormalities associated with XP in 1883. XP is an autosomal recessive disease with defective nucleotide excision repair (NER). It is characterized by easily recognizable clinical hallmarks (Table 1). These manifestations are due to cellular hypersensitivity...

Sister chromatid exchanges (SCE's) were studied in lymphocyte cell lines derived from 11 patients with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and 2 patients with Cockayne's syndrome (CS), autosomal recessive diseases character ized by sun sensitivity in vivo and by an abnormal sensitiv ity of the patient's cells to the killing effects of ultraviolet light (UV) in vitro. XP patients have DNA repair defects ...

Software industry is using various customized models such as Rational Unified Process (RUP), eXtreme Programming (XP) and SCRUM. XP and Scrum are most widely practiced and documented agile models. Both XP and Scrum work well for small projects whereas RUP is suitable for large projects. A fine integration of these models is required to deal with small, medium and large projects. This paper is w...

Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is an inheritable disease characterized by sun-sensitivity and a high frequency of skin cancers including melanoma. We have analyzed two different groups of XP: the XP complementation group C (XP-C), deficient in global nucleotide excision repair but proficient in transcription-coupled repair and associated with a very early onset of skin cancers; and the XP variant (...

Using immunohistochemistry and radioimmunoassay, substance(s) related to the amphibian octapeptide xenopsin (XP) were demonstrated in the gastric mucosa of humans and dogs. Immunohistochemistry localized XP-immunoreactive epithelial cells in the gastric antral mucosa. The reaction was abolished by preabsorption of the antiserum with XP but not by neurotensin or other peptides. Immunoreactive XP...

I almost didn’t write this review. Extreme Programming (XP) and the whole agile software development movement are somewhat controversial, especially around Rational where the RUP is the party line. I certainly didn’t want to make a career-limiting move by advocating a software development methodology contrary to the one embraced by Rational! ☺ The perception (at least in some circles) seems to ...

The interaction designer role is not an acknowledged role on the core eXtreme Programming (XP) team and XP has no explicit process for dealing with interaction design. We interviewed interaction designers and other team members on two real-world XP teams and in this paper we report on how they combined interaction design activities with XP. Initial results show that having interaction designers...

Within our organization, we are attempting to adopt eXtreme Programming (XP), an Agile Programming methodology, at the same time that we are trying to align ourselves with the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). At first it was thought that the two would be incompatible with the XP group feeling that ITIL would be “too much bureaucracy” and the ITIL group feeling that XP would...