Luciana Reichert da Silva Assunção1, Karina Gerhardt Bianco1, Pedro Ivo Santos Silva3, Carla Oliveira Favretto1 and Robson Frederico Cunha2* 1Post doctoral student, School of Dentistry of Araçatuba, UNESP Univ Estadual Paulista, Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil 2Adjunct professor, Department of Pediatric and Social Dentistry, School of Dentistry of Araçatuba, UNESP Univ Estadual Paulista, Araçatuba...

We sequenced the metagenome of a granular sludge in a nitritation/anammox bioreactor used for the treatment of ammonium-rich wastewater. Proteobacteria, Planctomycetes, Bacteroidetes, Chloroflexi, Ignavibacteriae, and Acidobacteria were the predominant phyla in the studied bioreactor. Binning of contigs yielded a near-complete genome of the dominant anammox bacterium assigned to the candidate g...

This study investigated the age related variations in luteinizing hormone (LH), androstenedione, testosterone, and total estrogens response to exogenous gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in Holstein-Friesian (HF) × Tharparkar bull calves. Fifteen bull calves were selected and, based on their age, were divided into Group I (14-16 months, n = 5), Group II (9-12 months, n = 5), and Group III (...

AIM The virulence-associated protein-A of Staphylococcus aureus, encoded by spa gene shows a variation in length in different strains. In this study, the spa gene variation in S. aureus strains was studied which were isolated from subclinical cases of bovine mastitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS About 38 isolatesof S. aureus were recovered from Holstein-Friesian (HF) crossbred (n=16) and Rathi catt...

1886 CMAJ, November 8, 2011, 183(16) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Jusie (Yoo-sie) had many stories to tell and I only had an hour before I had to catch my flight back to Montréal. “I could tell you stories for two days,” he said, gesturing from the chair beside my desk. Jusie was 82 years old and had been referred to me for quite another matter. A small compact man with ...

Phase dependent modulation of percutaneously elicited multisegmental muscle 1 responses after spinal cord injury 2 3 Christine J Dy, Yury P. Gerasimenko, V. Reggie Edgerton, Poul Dyhre-Poulsen , 4 Grégoire Courtine, and Susan J. Harkema 5 6 1. Department of Physiological Science, 2. Neurobiology, and 3. the Brain Research Institute, 7 University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. 4. P...

Stress fractures of the third metacarpal bone (McIII) are a common cause of lameness in Thoroughbred racehorses. The most commonly described location is the mid-dorsolateral cortex (Copelan 1979; Richardson 1984, 1999; Stashak 1987; Stover et al. 1988; Cervantes et al. 1992; Pilsworth and Shepherd 1997; Stover 1998; Sullins 1998), but they also occur distally and proximally in the dorsal cortex...

INTRODUCTION Tessier facial cleft is among the rarest facial clefts reported in literatures and there are many issues arguing about its multidisciplinary repairing techniques. Tessier number 4 and 5 are extremely rare facial anomalies. There are few literatures describing these clefts and their surgical modalities. Number 5 Tessier cleft begins medial to oral commissure in the upper lip and ext...

Non-homologous end joining (NHEJ) is an important DNA repair pathway for DNA double-strand breaks. Several proteins, including Ku, DNA-PKcs, Artemis, XRCC4/Ligase IV and XLF, are involved in the NHEJ for the DNA damage detection, DNA free end processing and ligation. The classical model of NHEJ is a sequential model in which DNA-PKcs is first recruited by the Ku bound DNA prior to any other rep...