A real-time reverse transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) assay that targeted both the mumps virus F gene and human RNase P in clinical samples was adapted for use with the LightCycler platform. LightCycler RT-PCR is as sensitive as conventional nested RT-PCR and significantly less expensive and labor-intensive, making it ideal for mumps diagnosis during outbreaks.

Human response time (RT) is defined as the time delay between a signal and the starting point of human action. For example, one can measure time interval from a word appearing on a computer screen to when a participant pushes a keyboard button to indicate his or her response. Two well established empirical facts of RT are the power law tails of RT distributions [1] and 1/f noise of RT time seri...

Introduction. PET imaging is a useful clinical tool for studying tumor progression and treatment effects. Conventional (18)F-FDG-PET imaging is of limited usefulness for imaging Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) due to high levels of glucose uptake by normal brain and the resultant signal-to-noise intensity. (18)F-Fluorothymidine (FLT) in contrast has shown promise for imaging GBM, as thymidine is ...

HIV-1 pol gene sequencing is now used routinely in France to identify mutations associated with resistance to reverse transcriptase (RT) or protease (PR) inhibitors. These sequences may also provide other information, such as the HIV-1 subtype. HIV-1 subtyping was compared using the RT and PR gene sequences to heteroduplex mobility assay (HMA) of the envelope gene. The RT and PR genes of 51 sam...

هدف: سرطان از جمله مهمترین بیماری­های قرن حاضر است که افراد بسیاری در سراسر جهان به آن مبتلا می­باشند و ضمن افزایش شیوع این بیماری، هنوز درمان مناسبی برای پیدا نشده است. بین پستان شایع­ترین همچنین علت اصلی مرگ میر ناشی زنان محققان بدنبال یافتن راهکارهای درمانی سرطان، ترکیبات دارویی را علیه سرطان­های مختلف سنتز کرده اثرات آ­نها مورد مطالعه قرار می­دهند. سورافنیب یک مهار کننده­ی اوره مولتی­کیناز ...

In reliability or medical studies, we may only observe each ongoing renewal process for a certain period of time. When the underlying distribution F is arithmetic, Vardi (Ann. Statist. 10 (1982b), 772-785) developed the RT algorithm for nonparametric estimation. In this paper we extend the study to the nonarithmetic case and show that the choice of an arbitrary constant in the RT algorithm can ...