BACKGROUND Public involvement activities (PIAs) may contribute to the governance of ethically challenging biomedical research and innovation by informing, consulting with and engaging the public in developments and decision-making processes. For PIAs to capture a population's preferences (e.g. on issues in whole genome sequencing, biobanks or genome editing), a central methodological requiremen...

PURPOSE To document the course of the posterior intercostal artery (PIA) within the intercostal space (IS) in vivo using computed tomography angiography (CTA). MATERIALS AND METHODS A review of 428 IS from CTA of the chest was performed. Using multiplanar reconstruction (MPR) algorithms, the course of the PIA within the IS and the maximum distance of the PIA from the undersurface of the rib w...

System theory for holographic representation of linear space-variant systems is derived. The utility of the resulting piecewise isoplanatic approximation (PIA) is illustrated by example application to the invariant system, ideal magnifier, and Fourier transformer. A method previously employed to holographically represent a space-variant system, the discrete approximation, is shown to be a speci...

Mosquitoes are vectors of the major diseases public health concern in World. These include malaria, dengue fever, lymphatic filariasis, yellow chikwungunya and recently zika virus causing morbidity mortality tropical sub-tropical regions world. The success malarial vector control depends on susceptibility Anopheles mosquitoes to insecticides. One locally made insecticide (Ota Pia-Pia), syntheti...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the expression pattern of T helper (Th) 17 and Th22 cell-related factors in a pristane‑induced arthritis (PIA) rat model. PIA rats were divided into the initial phase group [day (D) 6 post‑pristane injection], the onset of clinical arthritis group (D12), the acute arthritis group (D26) and the chronic arthritis group (D70). Rats injected with sali...

Phytase and phytase gene from Aspergillus ficuum (A. ficuum) were used in this study. The results showed that phytase activity reached the peak of 0.17 U/g after 4 d incubation in solid medium for A. ficuum; the optimum pH and temperature of phytase were 2.5 and 50 o C, respectively. A 1.4-kb DNA containing the coding region of phytase gene was isolated and inserted into the expression vectors ...

The relationship between astrocytes, basal lamina and mesenchymal tissue was analyzed ultrastructurally in myelinated organotypic cultures of mouse spinal cord tissue grown in combination with its pia-arachnoid membrane. A discontinuous, well-developed basal lamina covered flat astrocytic processes which formed the basal layer of the explant opposing the pia-arachnoid membrane. Some astrocytic ...