A study was conducted to determine the variations in concentrations of blood glucose, total protein, cholesterol and blood urea nitrogen (BUN) in buffaloes (n=30) suffering from foreign body syndrome. These animals were subdivided into two groups showing traumatic reticuloperitonitis (TRP, n=20) and diaphragmatic hernia (DH, n=10). Six healthy female buffaloes of same age group were considered ...

Inflammatory joint diseases in man differ markedly in their response to anti-inflammatory agents. Perhaps the best known example is the dramatic effect of salicylates in acute rheumatic fever in contrast to their minimal value in acute juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. Phenylbutazone is quite helpful in treating ankylosing spondylitis, but is of little value in peripheral rheumatoid arthritis. In ...

All biomaterials, when implanted in vivo, elicit cellular and tissue responses. These responses include the inflammatory and wound healing responses, foreign body reactions, and fibrous encapsulation of the implanted materials. Macrophages are myeloid immune cells that are tactically situated throughout the tissues, where they ingest and degrade dead cells and foreign materials in addition to o...

an agrobacterium-mediated transient gene expression assay was carried out in alfalfa (medicago sativa) leaves for expression of a chimeric gene encoding a part of capsid protein of foot and mouth disease virus called vp1. the plant leaves were transformed via agroinfiltration procedure. the presence of the foreign gene and its expression in transformed plants were evaluated by polymerase chain ...

Transient expression is a rapid, useful approach for producing proteins of interest in plants. Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV)-based transient expression vectors can express very high levels of foreign proteins in plants. However, TMV vectors are, in general, not efficiently delivered to plant cells by agroinfection. It was determined that agroinfection was very efficient with a 35S promoter-driven ...

n engl j med 366;3 nejm.org january 19, 2012 281 not match that of the patient. Tiede et al.2 observed that some patients with acquired hemophilia have been exposed to a factor VIII protein that does not match their own. Specifically, there are polymorphisms of factor VIII at amino acids 1241 (Asp→Glu) and 2004 (Glu→Lys). In patients with certain HLA-DRB1 alleles, exposure to a “foreign” factor...

The gene encoding the Pseudomonas aeruginosa phosphate-specific porin OprP was subjected to both linker and epitope insertion mutageneses. Nine of the 13 linker mutant genes expressed protein at levels comparable to those obtained with the wild-type gene. These mutant proteins were shown, by indirect immunofluorescence with an OprP-specific antiserum, to be properly exposed at the cell surface....