PLANT-PIs is a database developed to facilitate retrieval of information on plant protease inhibitors (PIs) and related genes. For each PI, links to sequence databases are reported together with a summary of the functional properties of the molecule (and its mutants) as deduced from literature. PLANT-PIs contains information for 351 plant PIs, plus several isoinhibitors. The database is accessi...

User privacy is widely affected by the occurrence of privacy-invasive software (PIS) on the Internet. We present a computer forensic investigation method for detecting and analysing PIS. In an experiment we use this method to evaluate both the evolution of PIS and associated countermeasures, over a four year period. Background information on both PIS and countermeasure techniques are also prese...

background: iron deficiency anemia (ida) is an important health problem all around the world especially in developing countries. in the mediterranean countries another prevelant reason of anemia is thalassemia. certain strategies had been established as a government policy to reduce prevalence in north cyprus, such as pre-marital screening of thalassemia. the prevalence of thalassemia trait has...

BACKGROUND Package inserts (PIs) as a reliable reference for patients and health care providers should provide accurate, complete and up-to-date information. The purpose of the current study is to assess and compare the PIs of antihypertensive agents locally produced in Palestine and their imported counterparts. METHODS Thirty-five PIs were assessed for the presence of 31 information statemen...

Pc-pis is a novel piscidin-like antimicrobial polypeptide that was identified in Pseudosciaena crocea. Although active against most bacteria tested, Pc-pis was inactive against Aeromonas hydrophila and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The Pc-pis analogue Pc-pis-His was designed by adding a histidine residue at the carboxyl terminal. Pc-pis-His demonstrated a more broad-spectrum and stronger antimicrobia...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE In the assessment of every clinical trial protocol, one of the critical tasks performed by research ethics committees (RECs) is an in depth review of the patient's information sheet (PIS). The objective of the study was to review the assessment of RECs in Spain regarding the PIS through the changes to be done in them in order to obtain RECs approval. Differences between...

The proliferation indices (PIs) were determined in 33 meningiomas using two monoclonal antibodies to the Ki-67 antigen (Ki-67 and MIB1). PIs obtained using Ki-67 on frozen material were intermediate between the lowest and highest MIB1 PIs determined in paraffin wax sections. Preoperative embolisation did not influence Ki67 PI, but four of the 15 embolised tumours showed substantially increased ...

Plants are known to have many secondary metabolites and phytochemical compounds which are highly explored at biochemical and molecular genetics level and exploited enormously in the human health care sector. However, there are other less explored small molecular weight proteins, which inhibit proteases/proteinases. Plants are good sources of protease inhibitors (PIs) which protect them against ...