Y. Cohen, E. Belausov, M. Maymon, M. Elazar, I. Shulman, D. Saada, D. Shtienberg and S. Freeman* Department of Fruit Tree Sciences, Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, 50250; Microscopy Unit, Institute of Plant Sciences, ARO, The Volcani Center, Rishon LeZion 7505101; and Department of Plant Pathology and Weed Research, Institute of Plant Protection, ARO, The Volcan...

BACKGROUND In patients with mitral regurgitation (MR), assessment of the severity of valvular dysfunction is crucial. Recently, regurgitant orifice area has been proposed as the most useful indicator of the severity of MR. The purpose of our study was to determine whether planimetry of the anatomic regurgitant orifice (ARO) in patients with MR is feasible by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (C...

Brief description The problem of map labeling is well-studied in GIS and computational geometry. The standard setting for such problems is the traditional (static) map. We are interested in dynamic maps, the sort we are familiar with on the web. The user can zoom and pan to view different portions of some large map that does not fit in the screen. One idea for solving dynamic labeling is to red...

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UNLABELLED The purpose of this study was to investigate the enhanced therapeutic effect of the combined use of shRNA (small hairpin RNA) therapy for the hexokinase II (HKII) gene and (131)I human sodium iodide symporter (hNIS) as a gene therapy for in vitro and in vivo treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma cells (ARO) in an animal model. METHODS A recombinant lentivirus containing a plasm...

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For modeling coherent phase transformations and for applications to structural optimization, it is of interest to identify microstructures with minimal energy or maximal stiffness. We present a new and appealingly simple class of extremal microstructures, which we call the confocal ellipse construction, for the case of a two-dimensional elastic composite made from two isotropic elastic material...

The plasma membrane glycoprotein sodium/iodide symporter (NIS) is crucial for thyroid hormone biosynthesis and mediates the iodide uptake of thyrocytes. It has been shown that retinoic acid (RA) alters NIS gene expression in thyroid carcinoma lines and stimulates their iodide uptake. Here, we generated an ARO human thyroidal cancer cell line that expresses the NIS gene (ARO-NIS) and found that ...

Mutations in the TCIRG1 gene, coding for a subunit of the osteoclast proton pump, are responsible for more than 50% of cases of human malignant autosomal recessive osteopetrosis (ARO), a rare inherited bone disease with increased bone density owing to a failure in bone resorption. A wide variety of mutations has been described, including missense, nonsense, small deletions/insertions, splice-si...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to develop a novel tumor-specific promoter gene linking sodium iodide symporter (NIS) gene to specifically target hepatocellular carcinoma in a mouse tumor model. MATERIALS AND METHODS A tumor-specific chimeric promoter for alpha-fetoprotein gene (AFP) was combined with hepatitis B virus (HBV) enhancer II to investigate radioiodine uptake in vitro and in vivo in he...