59 Correspondence to: Se Kook Kee, Department of Surgery, Gumi CHA Hospital, Pochon CHA University College of Medicine, 855, Hyunggok-dong, Gumi 730-040, Korea. Tel: 054-450-9564, Fax: 054-452-5098, E-mail: [email protected] Received December 28, 2008, Accepted January 30, 2009 This case was presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Korean Surgical Society, November 7∼9, Seoul, Korea. A ...

OBJECTIVES A new VITEK 2 antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) card, AST N-054, was introduced for aerobic gram-negative bacilli in 2007 and has been widely adopted for routine use in the UK. We evaluated its performance for detecting extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) production in Escherichia coli. METHODS ESBL-producing faecal isolates of E. coli (n = 137) from residents in nursing ...

α5 Subunit-containing GABA(A) receptors (GABA(A)Rs) and α7 neuronal nicotinic-acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are members of the Cys-loop family of ligand-gated ion channels (LGICs) that mediate cognitive and attentional processes in the hippocampus. α5 GABA(A)Rs alter network activity by tonic inhibition of CA1/CA3 pyramidal cells of the hippocampus. Postsynaptic α7 nAChRs in the hippocampus ...

We present the optical spectra of four newly discovered gravitational lenses from the Cosmic Lens All-Sky Survey (CLASS). These observations were carried out using the Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph on the W. M. Keck-I Telescope as part of a program to study galaxy-scale gravitational lenses. From our spectra we found the redshift of the background source in CLASS B0128+437 (zs = 3.1240± 0...

Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is an emerging tick-transmitted human pathogen causing far-Eastern spotted fever. Here we report the complete sequence and the main features of the genome of R. heilongjiangensis (strain 054).

The Acph-1 gene region was sequenced in 51 lines of Drosophila subobscura. Lines differ in their chromosomal arrangement for segment I of the O chromosome (O(st) and O(3+4)) and in the Acph-1 electrophoretic allele (Acph-1(100), Acph-1(054), and Acph-1(>100)). The ACPH-1 protein exhibits much more variation than previously detected by electrophoresis. The amino acid replacements responsible for...