The fact that those who lack the blood group antigen A have anti-A antibody, and those who lack B have anti-B (Landsteiner, 1900, 1901), leads in a number of cases to an incompatibility between maternal serum and foetal antigens inherited from the father. Such serologically incompatible pregnancies have been thought to be a possible cause of various morbid conditions in foetus or mother (e.g., ...

THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT IS generating vast amounts of new information at breakneck speed and causing a fundamental shift in disease research. Now with the availability of a nearly complete, high-accuracy sequence of the mouse genome (7), a new and powerful paradigm for biomedical research is established. The remarkable similarity of mouse and human genomes, in both synteny and sequence, uncond...

a Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) of Montpellier and University 8 Montpellier I (Faculty of Medicine), Department of Parasitology-Mycology and "Molecular 9 Biology" Pole of the French National Reference Centre for Toxoplasmosis, 10 b Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) of Montpellier and University 11 Montpellier I (Faculty of Medicine), Department of Medical Infor...

Wellbeing (WB) is a major topic of research across several scientific disciplines, partly driven by its strong association with psychological and mental health. Twin-family studies have found that both genotype and environment play an important role in explaining the variance in WB. Epigenetic mechanisms, such as DNA methylation, regulate gene expression, and may mediate genetic and environment...

Although feedback is often seen as a critical component of the learning process, many open questions about how specific feedback features contribute to the effectiveness of feedback remain— especially in regards to peer feedback of writing. Nelson and Schunn (2009) identified several important features of peer feedback in their nature of feedback model. In the current study, we test an updated ...

Direct infection of megakaryocytes and platelets by human immunodeficiency virus type I (HIV-I) or other retroviruses has not been demonstrated. To determine whether this could occur, murine bone marrow was co-cultivated with the amphotropic retrovirus-producing cell line PA317-N2, and freshly isolated normal human bone marrow and platelets were co-cultivated with HIV-infected H9 cells. In each...

a Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) of Montpellier and University 8 Montpellier I (Faculty of Medicine), Department of Parasitology-Mycology and "Molecular 9 Biology" Pole of the French National Reference Centre for Toxoplasmosis, 10 b Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) of Montpellier and University 11 Montpellier I (Faculty of Medicine), Department of Medical Infor...

food safety issues are not a new issue in science, but due to the dynamic changes in the modern world it is as equally important as decades ago. the aim of the study was to address the efforts in the development of a comprehensive food safety system in serbia, and make specific recommendations regarding the improvement of epidemiological investigation capacity as a useful tool which contributes...

in this work, reactive absorption of gases in aqueous electrolyte solutions has been investigated resulting in the development of a procedure in order to calculate the concentrations of ionic and molecular species in the liquid phase. two duplicate experiments were conducted to investigate simultaneous reactive absorption of ammonia and carbon dioxide in partially carbonated ammonia solutions. ...

Body weight excess has an increasingly high prevalence in the world. Obesity is a complex disease of multifactorial origin with a polygenic condition affected by environmental factors. Weight loss is a primary strategy to treat obesity and its morbidities. Weight changes through life depend on the interaction of environmental, behavioral and genetic factors. Interindividual variation of weight ...