Introduction Interleukin-36-receptor antagonist deficiency (DITRA) is a recently described auto-inflammatory disease, characterized by repeated flares of generalized pustular psoriasis, high fever, asthenia and systemic inflammation. This condition is caused by homozygous missense mutation in the IL36RN gene, encoding the interleukin-36-receptor antagonist (IL-36Ra), an anti-inflammatory cytoki...

The fate of the oxoanion arsenate in diverse systems is strongly affected by its adsorption on the surfaces of iron (oxyhydr)oxide minerals. Predicting this behavior in the environment requires an understanding of the mechanisms of arsenate adsorption. In this study, the binding site and adsorption geometry of arsenate on the hematite (012) surface is investigated. The structure and termination...

Introduction Blau syndrome (BS) is a rare autosomal dominant, autoinflammatory syndrome characterized by the clinical triad of granulomatous, recurrent uveitis, dermatitis and symmetric arthritis. The arthritis is usually a polyarticular exuberant synovitis and tenosynovitis and represents the characteristic phenotypic feature. Uveitis occurs in most patients and commonly evolves to a panuveiti...

The radiation lengths needed for the radiative corrections, for the nitrogen dilution and elastic analyses are calculated in this note. 1 Polarized He cells 1.1 Wall and window thicknesses 1.1.1 Duke The wall and window thickness measurements were done by Jaideep Singh [1]. The average value for wall thicknesses measured by Vince Sulkosky [2] were very similar: 1.42 mm for the left side∗ and 1....

An important issue in intermediate energy physics is to what degree one can understand exclusive reactions from the viewpoint of perturbative quantum chromodynamics, pQCD. Strong theoretical arguments exist that pQCD should not be applicable at intermediate energies and momentum transfers, but experimental cross sections generally follow the constituent counting rules that can be derived from p...

Two antibiotics isolated from a culture MA-2465 were identified as aureothin and labilomycin, the chemical structures of which had been reported previously. It was also concluded that mycolutein and pulvomycin isolated as antibiotics in 1955 and 1957 respectively are also identical with aureothin and labilomycin. A cursory study of MA-2465 indicates that it is distinctly different from the cult...

Virologic factors may influence survival of HIV-1-infected infants. We compared survival of Ugandan infants with subtype A and subtype D HIV-1 infection. This study was performed in the context of the Ugandan clinical trial HIVNET 012, which compared the efficacy of single-dose nevirapine (NVP) and short-course zidovudine (AZT) for prevention of HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission. HIV-1 subtype...