Gibel carp (Carassius auratus gibelio) is an important economic fish species in China, but its development seriously restricted by the crucian hematopoietic organ necrosis caused Cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV-2). Gill key portal for CyHV-2 primary invasion, and gill immune barrier first defense line against infection. Our previous studies showed that dietary poly-β-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) suppleme...

BACKGROUND Although brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels are shown to be an important prognostic factor in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI), the relationship between arrhythmias and BNP levels is not known. This study assessed whether baseline clinical factors, N-terminal-proBNP (NT-proBNP) levels and electrocardiographic patterns of acute inferior MI are associated with greater...

We read with interest and enthusiasm the recent article by Sibony and colleagues which accurately described the biomechanical etiology of peripapillary wrinkles, retinal folds, and choroidal folds caused by idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH). The authors correctly state that chorioretinal folds have been documented in a variety of ophthalmic disorders including the microgravity environm...

We investigate a generalization of Kummer construction, as introduced in [AW08]. The aim of this work is to classify 3-dimensional Kummer varieties by computing their Poincaré polynomials.

Overturned folds are observed in regions of the Greenland ice sheet where driving stress is highly variable. Three mechanisms have been proposed to explain these folds: freezing subglacial water, traveling basal slippery patches, and englacial rheological contrasts. Here we explore how traveling basal sticky patches can produce overturned folds. Transitions from low to high stress cause a trade...

PURPOSE To report 2 cases of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease accompanied by remarkable choroidal folds in the acute stage. The early indicator of recurrence in these 2 cases was the identification of choroidal folds by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). CASE REPORTS A 68-year-old woman (Case 1) presented with visual loss in both eyes. Funduscopic examination revealed optic di...

In this paper, we analyze gauge groups in six-dimensional [Formula: see text] F-theory models. We construct elliptic Calabi–Yau 3-folds possessing various singularity types as double covers of “1/2 3-folds,” a class rational 3-folds, by applying the method discussed previous study to classify 1/2 3-folds. One three U(1) factors are formed on constructed The corresponding non-Abelian group deduc...

The estimation of the number of protein folds in nature is a matter of considerable interest. In this study, a Monte Carlo method employing the broken stick model is used to assign a given number of proteins into a given number of folds. Subsequently, random, integer, non-repeating numbers are generated in order to simulate the process of fold discovery. With this conceptual framework at hand, ...

We conducted a structural genomics analysis of the folds and structural superfamilies in the first 20 completely sequenced genomes by focusing on the patterns of fold usage and trying to identify structural characteristics of typical and atypical folds. We assigned folds to sequences using PSI-blast, run with a systematic protocol to reduce the amount of computational overhead. On average, fold...