The discovery of Meloidogyne mayaguensis is confirmed in Florida; this is the first report for the continental United States. Meloidogyne mayaguensis is a virulent species that can reproduce on host cultivars bred for nematode resistance. The perineal patterns of M. mayaguensis isolates from Florida show morphological variability and often are similar to M. incognita. Useful morphological chara...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the Hemodialysis (HEMO) Study, observed small decreases in achieved equilibrated Kt/V(urea) were noncausally associated with markedly increased mortality. Here we examine the association of mortality with modeled volume (V(m)), the denominator of equilibrated Kt/V(urea). DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS Parameters derived from modeled urea kinetics (i...

Two hundred cases of renal transplantation from living donors are reported from Shahid Hashemi Nejad Medical Center in Iran. There were 127 male and 73 female patients with 67% in the third and fourth decade of life. All patients received grafts from living donors with 114 cases of HLA haploidentical, 55 cases of HLA identical matches and 24 unrelated donors. One year patient and graft survival...

A total of twenty-two strict anaerobic and Gram-positive Bifidobacteria, identified as B. adolescentis, B.pseudocatenulatum, or B. longum, were isolated from healthy adult Koreans. We here investigated the cellmorphology, antimicrobial resistance patterns to novel antibiotics and genotypic differentiation ofBifidobacteria assessing repetitive DNA element PCR (rep-PCR) fingerpr...

A duplicated 3'-truncated version of RanGAP was previously identified as Segregation distorter (Sd), the meiotic drive gene in Drosophila melanogaster. Here we report the cloning and characterization of the complete gene sequence for the RanGAP homolog from the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The 1995 bp cDNA sequence consists of a 113 bp 5' UTR and 130 bp 3' UTR, and encodes a 583 amino acid protein w...

BACKGROUND Comparative genomic analysis of M. tuberculosis H37Rv and M. bovis BCG have shown that 16 RDs (Regions of Differences) are deleted in BCG and have shown six deletion regions in M. tuberculosis H37Rv. RD1, is present in M. tuberculosis but is absent in all M. bovis BCG sub-strains. A study from Kerala, a south-western coastal state of India aimed to find out differences in RD1 region ...

The present study was undertaken to investigate the potential role of glucocorticoid-induced DNA damage in the lysis of human lymphoid leukemia cells by glucocorticoids. Lymphoblasts were isolated from patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) in blast crisis and cultured in vitro with or without dexamethasone. DNA was then purified from the cells an...

To define the role played by various risk and behavioral factors in the increase of carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) observed in borderline hypertensives. Using B-mode ultrasonography, we compared 97 borderline hypertensives enrolled in the HARVEST study to 27 normotensive controls. Intima-media thickness was measured in the right and left common carotid artery, bulb, and internal carotid a...

This study assessed whether the distance-time relationship could be modeled to predict time to exhaustion (TTE) during intermittent running. 13 male distance runners (age: 33±14 years) completed a field test and 3 interval tests on an outdoor 400 m athletic track. Field-tests involved trials over 3 600 m, 2 400 m and 1 200 m with a 30-min rest between each run. Interval tests consisted of: 1 00...

Source/description: Horse genomic DNA was digested with the restriction enzyme MboI, size selected by gel electrophoresis for fragments between 200 and 1200 bp, and ligated into the BamHI site of the M13 phage vector. Clones containing a potential microsatellite were identified by screening the library with [P] 5¢ end-labelled oligo [dCA]16 and oligo [dGT]16 probes. The DNA was isolated from po...