BACKGROUND Although inflammation in Crohn's disease is believed to be mediated by activated T cells, genotyping of all MHC class II alleles in white people with this disease has not been reported. AIMS To perform a detailed molecular analysis of HLA DPB, DQB, and DRB genes in white patients with Crohn's disease and controls in order to determine if the inheritance of any class II genes confer...

OBJECTIVE The current study examined the impact of television and Internet food advertising on Australian parents and children. DESIGN Parents and their children aged 8 to 14 years were exposed to a television advertisement, an Internet advertisement or a control picture for four commonly advertised energy-dense, nutrient-poor foods. SETTING Online web panel survey, Australia. SUBJECTS Pa...

Comparing Actual and Potential Productions of Rangeland Ecosystems Kohgiluyeh Boyer-Ahmad Province in Different Conditions

Natural killer (NK)-cell alloreactivity can be exploited in haploidentical hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). NK cells from donors whose HLA type includes Bw4, a public epitope present on a subset of HLA-B alleles, can be alloreactive toward recipients whose cells lack Bw4. Serologically detectable epitopes related to Bw4 also exist on a subset of HLA-A alleles, but the interaction...

DOI : 10.5121/vlsic.2010.1401 1 A Simulation Experiment on a Built-In Self Test Equipped with Pseudorandom Test Pattern Generator and Multi-Input Shift Register (MISR) Afaq Ahmad Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University P. O. Box 33, Postal Code 123; Muscat, Sultanate of Oman Telephone: (+ 968) 2414 1327 Fax: (+968) 2441 3416 [email protected]...

Naser A. Anjum, Ibrahim M. Aref, Armando C. Duarte, Eduarda Pereira, Iqbal Ahmad and Muhammad Iqbal* 1 Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, Hamdard University, New Delhi, India 2 CESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies and Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal 3 Plant Production Department, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University,...

Zainal Ahmad*, Alireza Bahadori, Jie Zhang School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Seri Ampangan, 14300, Nibong Tebal Penang, Malaysia. School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW, Australia. School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University , Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU, UK. [email protected]

From the Departments of Orthopedic Surgery (Khan, Sabir), Radiodiagnosis (Ahmad), Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (Haseen), J. N. Medical College and Hospital, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India. Address correspondence to: Dr. Mohammad J. Khan, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, J. N. Medical College and Hospital, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, Uttar Pradesh...

Rizky Abdulah ([email protected]) Ahmad Faried ([email protected]) Kenji Kobayashi ([email protected]) Chiho Yamazaki ([email protected]) Eka W Suradji ([email protected]) Kazuto Ito ([email protected]) Kazuhiro Suzuki ([email protected]) Masami Murakami ([email protected]) Hiroyuki Kuwano ([email protected]) Hiroshi Koyama...

Ahmad Alhourani, Michael M. McDowell, Michael J. Randazzo, Thomas A. Wozny, Efstathios D. Kondylis, Witold J. Lipski, Sarah Beck, Jordan F. Karp, Avniel S. Ghuman, and R. Mark Richardson Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsb...