UNLABELLED PURPOSE The optimal therapy remains unclear for nasal natural killer (NK)/T-cell lymphoma. The purpose of this study is to analyze the outcome of radiotherapy as the primary treatment for localized stage IE and IIE diseases. PATIENTS AND METHODS One hundred five patient cases were reviewed. There were 83 stage IE and 22 stage IIE patients. All except three patients received radioth...

The lack of stable high performance organic n-type semiconductors is a major challenge for the field. We explored one possibility for creating such a material by further augmenting previously successful N,N’-bis(cyclohexyl) napthalenediimide with a novel core extension. The synthesized monoand biscore-extended bis(cyclohexyl) napthalenediimides were given to a collaborating group to measure the...

BACKGROUND A large increase in nitric oxide fraction (FeNO) after radiotherapy (RT) for lung cancer may predict RT-induced lung toxicity. METHODS In this study, we assessed the relationships between FeNO variations and respiratory symptoms, CT scan changes or dose volume histogram (DVH) parameters after RT. We measured FeNO before RT, 4, 5, 6, 10 weeks, 4 and 7.5 months after RT in 65 lung ca...

Reverse transcriptase (RT) with its associated RNase H (RH) domain and integrase (IN) are key enzymes encoded by retroviruses and retrotransposons. Several studies have implied a functional role of the interaction between IN and RT during the replication of retroviral and retrotransposon genomes. In this study, IN deletion mutants were used to investigate the role of IN on the RT activity of th...

Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) is a pathogen that infects cattle, and is globally important. It causes substantial financial losses to the livestock industry. In the current study, a one-step reverse transcriptase-loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) assay was set up for rapid and efficient detection of BVDV. For this purpose, four primers were designed to recognize six distinct...

Detection of RNA viruses by reverse transcription (RT)-PCR has proven to be a useful approach for the diagnosis of infections caused by many viral pathogens. However, adequate controls are required for each step of the RT-PCR protocol to ensure the accuracies of diagnostic test results. Heterologous competitor RNA can be used as a control for a number of different aspects of diagnostic RT-PCR. ...

The aim of this study was to analyse racing performance data in Irish greyhounds with regard to genetic and environmental variation. Estimation of heritabilities for racing time (RT) and ranking, and the prediction of breeding values for all greyhounds in the investigated data were carried out. Data from 42,785 races in Ireland in the years 2000-2003 were available. These results were obtained ...