The Snail protein family contains a key signature of four to six conserved zinc fingers. These proteins function as transcriptional regulators during embryonic development, cancer formation and apoptosis (Hemavathy et al., 2000; Manzanares et al., 2001). Drosophila Snail was the first member identified and shown to be a repressor essential for mesoderm development (Grau et al., 1984; Nusslein-V...

The Danish Lung Cancer Screening Trial John Brodersen, Haseem Ashraf, Karen Bach, Paul Clementsen, Asger Dirksen, Martin Døssing, Peter Gøtzsche, Hanne Hansen, Jann Mortensen, Jesper H. Pedersen, Birgit Guldhammer Skov, Klaus Richter, Niels Seersholm, Hanne Thorsen Department of General Practice, Institute of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark; Departments of Respirato...

1322. Frequently Identified Infection Control Gaps Related to Hand Hygiene in Long-Term Care Facilities Kate Tyner, RN, BSN, CIC; Regina Nailon, RN, PhD; Sue Beach, BA; Margaret Drake, MT, ASCP, CIC; Teresa Fitzgerald, RN, BSN, CIC; Elizabeth Lyden, MS; Mark E. Rupp, MD; Michelle Schwedhelm, MSN, RN; Maureen Tierney, MD, MSc and Muhammad Salman Ashraf, MBBS; Nebraska Infection Control Assessmen...

Ashraf Al-Amoudi, Jiin-Ju Chang, Amélie Leforestier, Alasdair McDowall, Laurée Michel Salamin, Lars PO Norlén, Karsten Richter, Nathalie Sartori Blanc, Daniel Studer and Jacques Dubochet* Laboratoire d’Analyse Ultrastructurale, Bâtiment de Biologie, Université de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, C...

Introduction Fasting plasma tyrosine is raised in hyperthyroidism (Hall, Anderson and Smart, 1969) and serum magnesium levels are low in severe thyrotoxicosis (Marks and Ashraf, 1978). Although tyrosine hydroxylase is the rate-limiting enzyme in the metabolism of tyrosine it is conceivable that more dihydroxyphenylalanine is formed under these conditions which may give rise to choreiform moveme...

Aim: To keep the cervical canal dilated after the fi rst high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy fraction to avoid general anesthesia during subsequent applications. Patients and Methods: In the fi rst HDR brachytherapy application: examination and cervical dilatation was done under general anesthesia. The proximal 4 cm of urinary Foley catheter was cut (making the new cervical tube), inserted in th...

The current study dealt with the detection of parasitic infection in cervix (114) vaginal swabs and urine samples taken from women who complain vaginitis visits to Department Obstetrics Gynecology at Al-Zahra Teaching Hospital, Al-Manathera General Hospital women’s medical outpatient clinics Najaf Governorate for period ( 1/5/2020) until (31/1/2021). It was detected that 23) were infected vagin...

Ashraf Ali Thanawi (1863–1943) was one of the most influential South Asian preachers and authors twentieth century. His sermons range from Friday in Arabic to those held before select disciples or at mass rallies Urdu, they were printed ever since his lifetime great number consistency. This article is particularly interested emotional roles allotted preacher audience overlap between religious d...

*Dept. of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 ([email protected]). The author thanks Nava Ashraf, Daniel Benjamin, Gabriel Carroll, and James Choi for insightful feedback. Outstanding research assistance was provided by Layne Kirshon, Peter Maxted, and Sean Wang. This research was supported by the Pershing Square Fund for Research on the Foundations of Human Behavior and the N...