The gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is a facultative intracellular pathogen. The only known property of L. monocytogenes which has been shown to be involved in virulence is a hemolysin, listeriolysin (J. L. Gaillard, P. Berche, and P. Sansonetti, Infect. Immun. 52:50-55, 1986; S. Kathariou, P. Metz, H. Hof, and W. Goebel, J. Bacteriol. 169:1291-1297, 1987). Using our previously o...

BACKGROUND Since 2008, use of food banks has risen sharply in the UK; however, evidence on the epidemiology of UK food insecurity is sparse. The aim of this study was to describe the trajectory of common mental disorder across the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and postnatal period for food secure compared with food insecure women. METHODS Data from the Born in Bradford (BiB) cohort, the nested BiB...

OBJECTIVE To report the efficacy and safety of CT-guided percutaneous laser ablation (PLA) for metastatic lung tumors. METHODS Three cases of metastatic lung cancer underwent CT-guided PLA, and we searched for previously published articles on the minimally invasive CT-guided RFA or MWA for lung tumors in recent five years. RESULTS With the guidance of CT, all lesions had good prognosis unde...

The anticancer agent N-methylformamide (NMF), which at high concentrations (170 mM) induces cultured DLD-1 Clone A human colon carcinoma cells to increase their doubling times and lose their tumorigenicity in nude mice (Cordeiro, R.F., and Savarese, T.M. Cancer Res., 46: 1297-1305, 1986), suppresses the expression of the c-myc protooncogene in these cells in a dose- and time-dependent manner. T...

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Recently, homomultimerization and heteromultimerization reactions of the poliovirus P2 region proteins were investigated using a yeast two-hybrid approach (Cuconati et al., Journal of Virology 72, 1297-1307, 1998). In this study, we investigated multimerization reactions of the 2B, 2C and 2BC proteins of the closely related coxsackie B3 virus (CBV3) using a mammalian two-hybrid system. This sys...

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ 1 Developmental coordination disorder is a common neuromotor condition, affecting about 5%–6% of school-aged children;1 this equates to more than 400 000 Can adian children.2 Despite its prevalence, developmental coordination disorder may be underrecognized by health care professionals.1,3 In a recent online survey of 1297 parents, teachers and ph...

A considerable public concern about cancer risk from acrylamide-rich foods followed the announcement that high concentrations of acrylamide are found in fried potatoes and potato chips and, more generally, in starch-containing foods cooked at high temperatures. From a series of hospital-based case-control studies conducted in Italy and Switzerland between 1991 and 2000, we have analyzed the rel...

AIMS The aim of this study was to determine differences between sociodemographic and socio-economic factors for perceptions of received and needed social support in a population of people on sick leave due to heart failure. METHODS AND RESULTS A cross-sectional design was used. A postal questionnaire was distributed to all people in Sweden who had been sick listed due to heart failure during ...

This review presents a comprehensive overview of the current status regarding the global diversity of the echinoderm class Ophiuroidea, focussing on taxonomy and distribution patterns, with brief introduction to their anatomy, biology, phylogeny, and palaeontological history. A glossary of terms is provided. Species names and taxonomic decisions have been extracted from the literature and compi...