Transferability of sequence-tagged-sites (STS) markers was assessed for genetic relationships study among accessions of marvel grass (Dichanthium annulatum Forsk.). In total, 17 STS primers of Stylosanthes origin were tested for their reactivity with thirty accessions of Dichanthium annulatum. Of these, 14 (82.4%) reacted and a total 106 (84 polymorphic) bands were scored. The number of bands g...

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the prognostic value of different immunization-based scoring systems in patients with soft tissue sarcoma (STS). Methods: We conducted a retrospective study evaluating a cohort of 165 patients diagnosed with STS between July 2007 and July 2014. The relative Glasgow prognostic score (GPS) of these patients was calculated using 3 di...

We are continuously exposed to food and during the day we make many food choices. These choices play an important role in the regulation of food intake and thereby in weight management. Therefore, it is important to obtain more insight into the mechanisms that underlie these choices. While several food choice functional MRI (fMRI) studies have been conducted, the effect of energy content on neu...

The paper presents useful invariants of resolutions of cyclic STS(v) with v ≤ 39, namely of all resolutions of cyclic STS(15), STS(21) and STS(27), of the resolutions with nontrivial automorphisms of cyclic STS(33) and of resolutions with automorphisms of order 13 of cyclic STS(39). 2010 MSC: 05B07, 05E18

We investigated D16S3399 marker and affirmed it as a highly polymorphic marker useful for the analysis of the human axin-1 gene. Axin-1 acts as a tumor suppressor gene and its protein is an inhibitor of the Wnt signaling pathway. We report on heterozygosity status, alleles frequency observed in a preliminary group of Croatian subjects and the optimal amplification conditions for D16S3399 marker...

Aberrant crypt foci (ACFs) are the earliest identifiable epithelial lesions thought to precede the development of a subset of colon tumors. To assess their predictive value to adenoma development, we have tested in mice whether the development of ACFs and adenomas is controlled by the same genes. Therefore we used the CcS/Dem series of recombinant congenie strains, in which the effect of multip...

The throughput enhancement of Space-Time Spreading (STS)-based Multicarrier Direct Sequence Code Division Multiple Access (MC DS-CDMA) system is investigated in this paper. Variable Spreading Factor (VSF) is utilized to improve the data throughput of the system. In this contribution, an analytical approach is proposed to compute a new expression for the Bit Error Rate (BER) performance of t...

PURPOSE Unlike carcinomas, soft-tissue sarcoma (STS) rarely exhibit lymphatic spread. Consequently, we examined expression and function of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-C and STS-associated lymphatic vessel density (LVD) components of this process. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN VEGF-C and VEGF-A mRNA and VEGF-C protein expression were evaluated in STS, STS cell lines, and breast cancers (re...

Steroid sulfatase (STS) catalyzes the hydrolysis of estrone sulfate and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) to their unconjugated biologically active forms. Although STS is considered a therapeutic target for estrogen-dependent diseases, the cellular functions of STS remain unclear. We found that STS induces Wnt/β-catenin s Delete ignaling in PC-3 and HeLa cells. STS increases levels of β-ca...