explaining the virtues, merits and manāqib (praiseworthy actions) of imam ali (a.s) is not a task exclusive to his followers and adherents (namely the shi’a), but rather the scholars of the four sunni schools of law have extensively recounted the imam’s virtues, merits and manāqib, because of the high status of this matchless personality of the muslim world and due to their love and devotion to...

Many studies of ABO isolysins have indicated that some A, B, and O sera show no isohemolytic activity. The apparent incidence of ABO isolysins in human sera varies widely, from 0.24 of A sera containing anti-B isolysin [8] to more than 90 "6 of 0 and B sera containing anti-A isolysin [4]. Reports of many other wide-ranging values have led t o the general assumption that isolysins, in contrast t...

Envy is one of psychological disorder which could cause various negative impacts such as slander, quarrel and even assassination. Raja Ali Haji specially emphasized this matter theoretically in the last chapter Thamarat al-Muhimmah (Mirror for Rulers Works) while numerous real-life examples pertaining to envy elements based on historical events appeared Tuhfat al-Nafis (Historical Works). Thus,...

THE REPORT FROM Prabhakaran et al., one of the current articles in focus, also a Translational Physiology article (Ref. 5, see p. L20 in this issue), presents a study about the fibrinolytic protease inhibitor, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), in 26 patients with acute lung injury (ALI) (5). Patients with hydrostatic edema (HE; n 25) served as a comparison group. The investigators had ...

Molecular chaperones are cellular machines that facilitate protein folding. The crystal structures of HtpG, the Escherichia coli homolog of hsp90, reported in this issue (Shiau et al., 2006) together with the recently published structures of an hsp90-cochaperone complex (Ali et al., 2006) and an hsp90-client protein complex (Vaughan et al., 2006), reveal exciting insights into the hsp90 reactio...

BACKGROUND Traditional ABO blood group serology is based on the immunoreactivity of antisera with the carbohydrate A, B and H antigens. Progress in the molecular biology of the ABO system has recognized the molecular basis of the red cell (RBC) antigens and has provided a genetic model for ABO polymorphism at the molecular level. Recently, this genetic model was tested in a large number of indi...

ABO is the most clinically important blood group system in transfusion and transplantation medicine. The popular ABO genotyping methods, such as the sequencing of exons 6 and 7 and sequence-specific primer (SSP)-PCR, often lead to ambiguous typing results. Long PCR-sequencing method was designed to analyze two regulatory regions (promoter and CBF/NF-Y enhancer regions) and all genomic sequences...