Autoreactive thymocytes can be eliminated by clonal deletion during their development in the thymus. The precise developmental stage(s) at which clonal deletion occurs in a normal thymus has been difficult to assess, in large part because of the absence of a specific marker for TCR-mediated apoptosis. In this report, we reveal that Nur77 expression can be used as a specific marker of clonal del...

Conventional cytogenetics detected an interstitial deletion of proximal region of p-arm of chromosome 2 in a 6-month-old boy with a phenotype slightly resembling Down's syndrome. The deletion was inherited from the father, whose karyotype revealed a small ring-shaped marker chromosome, in addition to interstitial deletion. Fluorescence in situ hybridization identified the marker, which consiste...

OBJECTIVE The TRAF1 genetic region conferring susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been reported to associate with radiological damage. We aimed to test RA genetic susceptibility markers for association with a continuous measure of radiological damage over time using longitudinal modeling techniques. METHODS Sixty-seven RA susceptibility variants were genotyped in 474 patients in t...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that affects the synovial knee joint causes swelling of membrane and tissue damage. Interleukin-17A (IL-17A) enzyme glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK3β) are involved in pathogenesis RA. The link between IL-17A, GSK3β, oxidative stress, profibrogenic marker alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) with without TDZD-8, GSK3β inhibitor has not been studied before. Consequent...

The rate of turbulent spherical accretion onto a compact object might be much smaller than the Bondi rate. It is suggested that the rate of accretion onto Sgr A is much smaller than the Bondi rate. Subject headings: accretion − turbulence 1. The rate of spherical accretion The rate of adiabatic inviscid spherical accretion onto an object of mass M is given by the Bondi formula ṀBondi ∼ ρcsR 2 A...

Background & Aims: The most significant cause of infertility in men is the genetic deletion in the azoospermia factor (AZF) region that is caused by the process of intra- and inter-chromosomal homologous recombination in amplicons. Homologous recombination could also result in partial deletions in AZF region. The aim of this research was to determine the association between the partial AZFc del...

INTRODUCTION There are now over 30 confirmed loci predisposing to rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Studies have been largely undertaken in patients with anticyclic citrullinated peptide (anti-CCP) positive RA, and some genetic associations appear stronger in this subgroup than in anti-CCP negative disease, although few studies have had adequate power to address the question. The authors therefore inv...

Pentosidine is one of the advanced glycation end-products and is formed by glycosylation and oxidation. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between serum and urinary pentosidine levels and the activity of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Using HPLC with column switching, we measured pentosidine in serum and urine from 77 patients with RA and 62 normal control subjects. The clinic...