Retrotransposons with long terminal repeats (LTR-RTs) are widespread mobile elements in eukaryotic genomes. We obtained a total of 81 partial LTR-RT sequences from lentil corresponding to internal retrotransposon components and LTRs. Sequences were obtained by PCR from genomic DNA. Approximately 37% of the LTR-RT internal sequences presented premature stop codons, pointing out that these elemen...

Previously, we characterized the transposition of an intracisternal type A particle (IAP) to the 3' untranslated region (UTR) of the interleukin-3 (IL-3) gene, which displaced two of the six AUUUA motifs associated with mRNA stability in an IL-3-secreting clone. To determine whether this rearrangement was involved in the autocrine transformation of the parental IL-3-dependent FL5.12 cell line, ...

Although replication-incompetent herpes simplex virus (HSV) vectors have the capability to express foreign genes, successful development of these vectors for gene delivery would require that expression of the foreign gene be regulated. To investigate the feasibility of obtaining inducible expression of a foreign gene in such a vector, a replication-incompetent HSV vector, vd120/LTR beta, was de...

Recently, computer vision foundation models such as CLIP and ALI-GN, have shown impressive generalization capabilities on various downstream tasks. But their abilities to deal with the long-tailed data still remain be proved. In this work, we present a novel framework based pre-trained visual-linguistic for recognition (LTR), termed VL-LTR, conduct empirical studies benefits of introducing text...

Abstract Nowadays there is increasing interest in narrowing coronal areas with reduced brightness temperatures (LTR – Low Temperature Regions) associated local open magnetic fields (S-web, “coronal partings”, “dark corridors”) as one of the eventual sources slow solar wind. Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre (VIRAC) performs routine spectral polarimetric observations Sun RT-32 radio...

Abstract The LE is the low energy telescope that carried on Insight -HXMT. It uses swept charge devices (SCDs) to detect soft X-ray photons. LE’s time response caused by structure of SCDs. With theoretical analysis and Monte Carlo simulations we discuss influence (LTR) timing from three aspects: power spectral density, pulse profile lag. After LTR, value density monotonously decreases with incr...

The paper considers the problem of determining the number of matched sets in 1 : M matched case-control studies with a categorical exposure having k + 1 categories, k > or = 1. The basic interest lies in constructing a test statistic to test whether the exposure is associated with the disease. Estimates of the k odds ratios for 1 : M matched case-control studies with dichotomous exposure and fo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the patterns of myocardial involvement in the presence of self-limiting and sustained systemic inflammation, using MRI. METHODS Ninety-four subjects, with a clinical diagnosis of myocarditis (n = 36), RA (n = 24) and apparently healthy subjects (n = 34, control group), underwent standardized cardiac MRI protocol for the assessment of global and regional morphology and...

Employing the transgenic BALB-neuT mouse tumor model, we explored the in vivo biologic relevance of immunocompetent epitopes shared among the four ErbB receptors. The outcome of neu-mediated tumorigenesis was compared following vaccination with isogeneic normal rat ErbB2/Neu (LTR-Neu) or xenogeneic human ErbB receptors (LTR-EGFR, LTR-ErbB2, LTR-ErbB3 and LTR-ErbB4), each recombinantly expressed...