Hemiascomycetes, including the pathogen Candida albicans, acquire nitrogen from urea using the urea amidolyase Dur1,2, whereas all other higher fungi use primarily the nickel-containing urease. Urea metabolism via Dur1,2 is important for resistance to innate host immunity in C. albicans infections. To further characterize urea metabolism in C. albicans we examined the function of seven putative...

THE EXO-200 experiment searches for double beta decay in Xenon-136, in both the 2-neutrino and 0-neutrino modes. The EXO-200 detector has a set of wires that collect all charge released within the detector volume. Aside from the double beta decay events that occur within the detector, there are other types of background events that can release charge, such as compton scattering. Some of these t...

Laboratory differentiation of erythromycin resistance phenotypes is poorly standardized for pneumococci. In this study, 85 clinical isolates of erythromycin-resistant (MIC > or = 1 microg/ml) Streptococcus pneumoniae were tested for the resistance phenotype by the erythromycin-clindamycin double-disk test (previously used to determine the macrolide resistance phenotype in Streptococcus pyogenes...

We investigated CD4 and CD8 double-positive thymocytes, CD4 T cells from typical patients with T-cell lineage acute lymphocytic leukemia (T-ALL) and T cell lineage chronic lymphocytic leukemia (T-CLL), and MOLT4 T cells in terms of CC chemokine ligand 25 (CCL25) functions of induction of resistance to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)–mediated apoptosis. We found that CCL25 selectively enhanced resis...

Introduction: Induction of labour is a common obstetric intervention, occurring in approximately 25% term pregnancies developing countries. Pharmacological and mechanical methods commonly used are prostaglandin preparations (PGE1 PGE2) various intracervical catheters (single or double balloon), respectively. Material Methods: Study was conducted Siliguri District Hospital, Siliguri, Darjeeling,...

to study the role of preoperative intravenous magnesium sulphate in decreasing post-cesarean pain and opioid requirement during first 24hrs.in a double blind randomized clinical trial, prior to induction of general anesthesia, fifty elective cesarean candidates were randomly assigned to one of the two groups of placebo or magnesium sulfate. after surgery visual analogue scale (vas) and infused ...