Abstract Background Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs) are a group of conditions characterized by chronic inflammation the digestive tract. IBDs can lead to extraintestinal manifestations that concern articulations, skin, liver, kidneys and eyes. Given complexity diseases, patient affected IBD monitored multi-disciplinary team whose nurse becomes one main figure. In 2018, University Udine foste...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of the Torque teno virus in healthy donors in the northern and northwestern regions of the state of Paraná, southern Brazil. METHODS The Torque teno virus was detected by a nested polymerase chain reaction using a set of oligoprimers for the N22 region. RESULTS The prevalence of the virus was 69% in 551 healthy blood donors in southern Brazil. There was...

A tRNA (guanine-2) methyltransferase has been purified to homogeneity from the protozoan Tetrahymena pyriformis. The enzyme methylates purified E. coli tRNAs which have a guanine residue at position 26 from the 5' end; it also methylates tRNA prepared from the m22G- yeast mutant trm 1. This methyltransferase is therefore equivalent to the guanine methyltransferase 2mGII found in mammalian extra...

The advantage in differentiating the sponge construction from a random oracle is upper bounded by N22−(c+1), with N the number of calls to the underlying transformation or permutation and c the capacity, resulting in an expected time complexity of N ∼ 2. In this paper we prove that the advantage in distinguishing a keyed sponge from a random oracle is much smaller in typical use cases. In parti...

domains depends critically on the performer’s ability to select and perform the proper task while ignoring other potential tasks. One popular approach to studying this ability, called cognitive control, is to have people repeat or switch tasks. In this paradigm, performance is typically slower following a task switch than following a task repetition (the switch cost; see, e.g., Allport, Styles,...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES TT virus (TTV) is a newly discovered non-enveloped, single stranded DNA virus of high genotypic variability, found frequently in patients with acute or chronic hepatitis of non A-G aetiology. This study was carried out to look for the presence of TTV and its genotypes in patients with different types of liver diseases from northern India. METHODS A total of 262 serum s...