Background: Outer inflammatory protein A (OipA) is one of the important adhesins of H. pylori and a valuable candidate for vaccine development. Its gene is under "on-off" switch status which correlates with OipA protein expression. Objectives: We aimed to obtain a recombinant OipA clone (with "on" status) from an Iranian clinical isolate. Materials and Methods: A clinical H. pylori-isolate demo...

Newcastle disease (ND) is one of the most serious illnesses of chickens. Live vaccines are widely used to prevent chicken from the disease all over the world. To access the effective and potentiate ND vaccine, a homogenous subpopulation from LaSota strain was selected following cultivation of the virus on primary chicken embryofibroblast (CEF) cells. Pathogenicity indices and molecular characte...

Abstract Bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4) was initially suggested as a potential differentiation-inducing factor to be used in the therapy of glioblastoma. We and others have however demonstrated that response is reversible, variable among patient samples, heterogeneous within same cell line. To deepen our knowledge on how BMP4 affects different types glioblastoma cells, we treated phenotypi...

Software clone refactoring has been studied from many perspectives, including empirical research on clone refactoring history, IDE support for tracking clone change, and recommendation systems for clone management. Most of the work relies on having access to and being able to analyze the history of clone refactoring. However, refactoring cloned code is not equivalent to clone management, as cod...

Abstract Production of fresh pineapple fruit is dominated by the MD2 clone, while GP3 clone used as canned fruit. To be promoted fruit, has some defects, namely a less sweet taste and sensitivity to internal browning (IB) disorders. The clones need coatings, two might get responded differently. This study aimed effects chitosan-based coating mixed with palm stearin Aloe vera gel on qualities cl...

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Clone DB (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clone/) is an integrated resource providing information about and facilitating access to clones, which serve as valuable research reagents in many fields, including genome sequencing and variation analysis. Clone DB represents an expansion and replacement of the former NCBI Clone Registry and has reco...

Code clone inspection is an integral part of software clone management to assess the quality of clones or the tools reporting them, to decide how to resolve code clone issues, and so on. As clone inspection is a manual process its feasibility is limited especially when working with large numbers of clones. This is rather critical as clone detection tools may return many clones even when applied...

the intestinal bacterial diversity of stichopus japonicus was investigated using 16s ribosomal rna gene (rdna) clone library and polymerase chain reaction/denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (pcr-dgge). the clone library yielded a total of 188 clones, and these were sequenced and classified into 106 operational taxonomic units (otus) with sequence similarity ranging from 88 to 100%. the cov...

ABSTRACT One of the factors that may affect and limit production in eucalypt plantations is attack defoliating insects. Among those, brown caterpillar, Thyrinteina arnobia (Stoll, 1782) (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), stands out for being major pest Eucalyptus spp. Brazil. Thus, present study aimed to investigate food consumption T. arnobia, its native host, guava (Psidium guajava L.), different E....

In a recent paper, De Baets et al. have characterized the fuzzytolerance and fuzzy equivalence relations that a given strict order relation iscompatible with. In this paper, we generalize this characterization by consideringan arbitrary (crisp) relation instead of a strict order relation, while payingattention to the particular cases of a reflexive or irreflexive relation. The reasoninglargely ...