Guillaume Lettre1,2, Anne U Jackson3,25, Christian Gieger4,5,25, Fredrick R Schumacher6,7,25, Sonja I Berndt8,25, Serena Sanna3,9,25, Susana Eyheramendy4,5, Benjamin F Voight1,10, Johannah L Butler2, Candace Guiducci1, Thomas Illig4, Rachel Hackett1, Iris M Heid4,5, Kevin B Jacobs11, Valeriya Lyssenko12, Manuela Uda9, The Diabetes Genetics Initiative24, FUSION24, KORA24, The Prostate, Lung Colo...

To evaluate the factors affecting post operative stress-related urinary incontinence (POSUI), as well as the treatment and prevention of POSUI. Four hundred and eighty-nine patients were retrospectively reviewed between February 1, 2007 and December 31, 2009 who were with grade 2 or greater uterine and/or vaginal vault prolapse without urinary incontinence. Patients merely with pelvic organ pro...

Trichinella spiralis surface proteins are directly exposed to the host’s immune system, making them the main target antigens which induce the immune responses and may play an important role in the larval invasion and development process. The analysis and characterization of T. spiralis surface proteins could provide useful information to elucidate the host-parasite interaction, identify the ear...

Cost-effective animal models that accurately reflect the pathological progression of pulmonary tuberculosis are needed to screen and evaluate novel tuberculosis drugs and drug regimens. Pulmonary disease in humans is characterized by a number of heterogeneous lesion types that reflect differences in cellular composition and organization, extent of encapsulation, and degree of caseous necrosis. ...

The prognosis of metastatic breast cancer is always very poor. Thus, it is urgent to develop novel drugs with less toxicity against metastatic breast cancer. A new drug (XC-591) derived from benzothiazole-2-thiol was designed and synthesized in our lab. In this study, we tried to assess effects of XC-591 treatment on primary breast cancer and pulmonary metastasis in 4T1 mice model. Furthermore,...

Introduction An aromatics complex is a combination of process units that can be used to convert petroleum naphtha and pyrolysis gasoline (pygas) into the basic petrochemical intermediates: Benzene Toluene and Xylenes (BTX). Benzene is a versatile petrochemical building block used in the production of more than 250 different products. Ethylbenzene, cumene, and cyclohexane are the most important ...

BACKGROUND Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive cancer refractory to current therapies. Reduced expression of micro ribonucleic acid (miR)-591 in a range of cancer types has suggested it is a potent tumor suppressor, and overexpression has been shown to inhibit tumor cell growth. The role of miR-591 in MPM is largely unknown. METHODS miR-591 was over-expressed in vitro using ...

Corynespora cassiicola is a common plant pathogen that causes leaf spot disease in a broad range of crop, and it heavily affect rubber trees in Malaysia (Hsueh, 2011; Nghia et al., 2008). The isolation of UM 591 from a patient's contact lens indicates the pathogenic potential of this dematiaceous fungus in human. However, the underlying factors that contribute to the opportunistic cross-infecti...

The final project for this special topics class will be to read a paper or papers related to algebraic statistics, write a paper about what you read, and give a presentation to the class on the material. Students are encouraged to explore beyond their paper, i.e. try to come up with questions to think about related to the problem studied in the paper. Timeline: • Feb. 10: Choose paper. Send me ...