o T GrOWL: A tool for visualization and editing of OWL ontologies Sergey Krivov a,c,∗, Richard Williams d,1, Ferdinando Villa b,c a Department of Computer Science, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0088, USA b The Botany Department, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405-0088, USA c Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, The University of Vermont, 617 Main Street, Burli...

Avian influenza virus (AIV) infection is a major cause of bird or human mortality and morbidity, therefore the rapid identification of the virus is of important clinical and epidemiological implication. Methods: A multiplex Reverse Transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR) was optimized for the detection of influenza A virus and the H5 and H9 subtypes. The influenza type A specific primers were directed to t...

The linker histones (H1 or H5) which play a key role in the folding of chromatin, are general repressors of gene expression. Nuclei of the mature chicken erythrocytes (and in some mammalian cells) contain both of them. Although the interaction of H5 with DNA is stronger than that of H1, it does not prevent the transcription of some erythroid-specific genes. It has been shown that some modificat...

avian influenza virus (aiv) infection is a major cause of bird or human mortality and morbidity, therefore the rapid identification of the virus is of important clinical and epidemiological implication. methods: a multiplex reverse transcriptase pcr (rt-pcr) was optimized for the detection of influenza a virus and the h5 and h9 subtypes. the influenza type a specific primers were directed to th...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) of H5 subtype have persistently caused outbreaks in domestic poultry and wild birds worldwide and sporadically infected humans. Rapid and accurate diagnosis is one of the key strategies for the control of H5 HPAIVs. However, the sensitivity of the diagnosis of H5 HPAIVs has gradually reduced due to extensive antigenic variation during their evo...

Abstract H5N1 vaccines adjuvanted in the oil-in-water emulsion MF59 are maintained Strategic National Stockpile for pre-pandemic preparedness. The US population currently naïve to H5 and a prime/boost regimen will likely be needed engender protective response. Ideally, rapid response pandemic influenza would benefit from being able induce protection single dose of vaccine. Here, we have used sy...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that DNA vaccines can induce protective immunity, which demonstrated the high potential of DNA vaccines as an alternative to inactivated vaccines. Vaccines are frequently formulated with adjuvants to improve their release, delivery and presentation to the host immune system. METHODS The H5 gene of H5N1 virus (A/Ck/Malaysia/5858/04) was cloned separately into pcDN...

Introduction: In the current study, we compared h5-index provided by Google Scholar (GS), impact factor (IF) provided by web of sciences (WOS), and SCImago journal rank indicator (SJR) provided by SCOPUS for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. Methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 IF, and 2011 SJR of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely GS, WOS, and SCOPUS....

introduction: in the current study, we compared h5-index provided by google scholar (gs), impact factor (if) provided by web of sciences (wos), and scimago journal rank indicator (sjr) provided by scopus for quality assessment of nuclear medicine journals. methods: 2013 h5-index, 2012 if, and 2011 sjr of nuclear medicine journals were extracted from their publishers namely gs, wos, and scopus....