We have recently discovered that the current data acquisition software for analytical ultracentrifuges, ProteomeLab XL-A/XL-I Graphical User Interface version 6.0 by Beckman Coulter, deployed worldwide by the manufacturer since early 2011, introduces timestamp discrepancies into the scan data files (Rhyner, 2013; Zhao et al., 2013). As described in detail elsewhere (Zhao et al., 2013), the scan...

The disgust elicited by food plays an important role in choice and consumption. Recently, Hartmann Siegrist (Food Quality Preference, 2018, 63, 38–50) developed validated German the scale (FDS), a 32-item instrument designed to measure visceral food. In Study 1, we tested English language translation of FDS its shortened version (FDS-SHORT) England (n = 85) Canada 70). internal reliability (Cro...

BACKGROUND The median nerve and flexor tendons are known to translate transversely in the carpal tunnel. The purpose of this study was to investigate these motions in differential finger motion using ultrasound, and to compare them in healthy people and carpal tunnel syndrome patients. METHODS Transverse ultrasounds clips were taken during fist, index finger, middle finger and thumb flexion i...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to evaluate the effects of Acacia honey (AH) on the migration, differentiation and healing properties of the cultured rabbit corneal fibroblasts. METHODS Stromal derived corneal fibroblasts from New Zealand White rabbit (n = 6) were isolated and cultured until passage 1. In vitro corneal ulcer was created using a 4 mm corneal trephine onto confluent cultures and tre...

Introduction The classic description of the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) muscle states that, it arises by two heads, humero-ulnar and radial heads respectively and divides into four muscle bundles in the distal third of the forearm. The muscle bundles then form four separate tendons above the wrist and get inserted to the sides of the shaft of the middle phalanx of the medial four digit...

Extensive population-level genetic variability at the Salmonella rfb locus, which encodes enzymes responsible for synthesis of the O-antigen polysaccharide, is thought to have arisen through frequency-dependent selection (FDS) by means of exposure of this pathogen to host immune systems. The FDS hypothesis works well for pathogens such as Haemophilus influenzae and Neisseria meningitis, which a...

Importance of chronic fibroproliferative diseases (FDs) including pulmonary fibrosis, chronic kidney diseases, inflammatory bowel disease, and cardiovascular or liver fibrosis is rapidly increasing and they have become a major public health problem. According to some estimates about 45% of all deaths are attributed to FDs in the developed world. Independently of their etiology the common hallma...

We present preliminary results for the charm quark mass mc and the D and Ds mesons decay constants fD and fDs from a lattice QCD calculation with Nf = 2 dynamical fermions. We use the twisted mass fermionic action defined at maximal twist so that physical quantities are automatically O(a) improved. Two lattice spacings are considered. The charm quark mass has been renormalised in the RI-MOM sch...

The study of high-affinity protein interactions with equilibrium dissociation constants (KD) in the picomolar range is of significant interest in many fields, but the characterization of stoichiometry and free energy of such high-affinity binding can be far from trivial. Analytical ultracentrifugation has long been considered a gold standard in the study of protein interactions but is typically...

of papers 33 3. Abstract of papers Paper I. Immune response of Atlantic salmon to recombinant flagellin Many viral vaccines used in aquaculture are unable to stimulate an appropriate level of immunity to withstand infection. By targeting specific components of the immune system it may be possible to trigger stronger, more effective responses to antigens. Flagellin has the ability to stimulate b...