BACKGROUND Treatment monitoring is subjective and disease relapse is common in cats with histoplasmosis. The Histoplasma antigen enzyme immunoassay (EIA) is a noninvasive test used for determining disease remission and detecting disease relapse in humans with histoplasmosis. The utility of the antigen EIA for these purposes in cats remains unknown. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES Those Histoplasma anti...

Adaptation to hypoxia is critical for survival and regulates multiple processes, including erythropoiesis and vasculogenesis. Chuvash polycythemia is a hypoxia-sensing disorder characterized by homozygous mutation (598C>T) of von Hippel-Lindau gene (VHL), a negative regulator of hypoxia sensing. Although endemic to the Chuvash population of Russia, this mutation occurs worldwide and originates ...

Chronic inflammation plays a pivotal role in atherosclerosis. We hypothesized that combining overweight and a greater genetic capacity to produce IL-6 predicted by IL-6 gene promoter polymorphism at position -174 (G→C) may allow to identify individuals exhibiting higher IL-6 and C-reactive protein (CRP) concentrations with a higher risk of atherosclerotic events (AE). The occurrence of AE was a...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Retinoblastoma may exhibit variable hyperintensities on DWI, resulting in different values in the ADC maps, depending on their histology and cellularity. However, EP-based DWI has susceptibility artifacts and image distortions, which make DWI of the orbit a challenging technique. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility of single-shot turbo spin-echo (HAST...

Shintaro Mori1 , Masato Hisakado2, and Taiki Takahashi3,4 1Department of Physics, Kitasato University 1-15-1 Kitasato, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-0373, Japan 2Standard and Poor’s 1-6-5 Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005, Japan 3 Department of Behavioral Science, Faculty of Letters and Center for Experimental Research in Social Sciences, Hokkaido University 4 Kita 10, Nishi 7, Kita-ku, Sapporo...

in order to investigate the effect of two spermidine concentrations (0.5 and 1 µ m ) on in vitro gynogenesis of six onion accessions from khorasan province this research was carried out. results showed that the highest and lowest percentage of gynogenesis rate was belonged to m2 and m5 media, respectively. the highest (1.41) and lowest (0.33) percentage of gynogenic embryo were belonged to rosh...

Journal: Biochemistry and Cell Biology Manuscript ID bcb-2016-0005.R4 Manuscript Type: Article Date Submitted by the Author: 27-Apr-2016 Complete List of Authors: Duan, Yangmiao; Key Laboratory of Genomics and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fang, Hongbo; Beijing Institute of Genomics Chinese Academy of Sciences Keyword: RecQL4, autophagy, mitophag...