... Biochem. 270) Ó FEBS 2003 Modified merozoite surface protein-1 peptides with short alpha helicalregions areassociatedwith inducing protection against malariaMary H. Torres1*, Luz M. Salazar1*, ... wereprotected with only two immunizations (such as thoseimmunized with peptide 24148), reacted strongly with 70 kDa and 42 kDa molecular mass molecules. This datasuggests that immunization with peptides ... usingXWIN-NMRsoftware.Structure calculationsPeptide structure was determined by Molecular SimulationsInc. (MSI) software. Cross-peak volume was obtained byintegration usingFELIXsoftware on the...
... of the relationship with their parents.Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are most likely to have a high-quality relationship with their parents. <MONTHLY/NEVER>WEEKLY/MONTHLYINTACT ... between children’s family structure andparenting stress.Children living with both biological parents or two adoptive parents haveparents with the lowest parenting stress levels. <MONTHLY/NEVER>WEEKLY/MONTHLYINTACT ... family structure and parentalconcerns about children’s achievement.Children who live with both biological parents or two adoptive parents are least likely to have parents who are concerned about...
... AnalysesTesting for Within-Individual Declines in Performance andFactors Associatedwith These DeclinesWithin-individual declines in breeding success in the yearsbefore death were tested for with a generalized ... individuals with high early-life reproductiveoutput have reduced breeding success late in life regardlessof when in the season they lay, implying that delayed costsof reproduction areassociatedwith ... reproductive performance declines with age hasproved more difficult, and empirical studies are rare. Anal-yses of senescence (both actuarial and reproductive) are problematic because of the inherent...
... illumination indoors (P = 0.0035) were associatedwith more severe mental ill-being.Conclusion: The routinely emerging seasonal changes in mood and behavior areassociated with the HRQoL and mental well-being. ... were positively associatedwith better mentalwell-being. On the other hand, greater seasonal changesand poor illumination indoors are significant factorswhich were associatedwith worse mental ... region or catchment area, 16 health care districtswere sampled as clusters (80 health care districts in thewhole country, including 160 municipalities). The 15 big-gest health care districts in...
... AccessResearchTyping of human rotaviruses: Nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and primer areassociatedwith genotyping failureMustafizur Rahman*1,2, Rasheda Sultana1, Goutam Podder1, Abu ... BLAST homologysearches (99–100% nucleotide and amino acid identities with the Indian G1 rotavirus strain, ISO-4). To comparethem with the typeable G1 sequences, the VP7 genes oftwo typeable G1 ... products were purified with the QIAquick PCR purification kit (Qiagen/Westburg), andsequenced in both directions using the dideoxy-nucle-otide chain termination method with the ABI PRISMđBigDye...
... totalcholesterol lipid profile variables areassociatedwith dis-ability changes in MS patients.Associations with MRIHigher HDL levels were associatedwith a lower probabil-ityforthepresenceofCEL(p ... exhibited a t rend with total cholesterol toHDL ratio (p = 0.047) levels. The EDSS change was not associated with higher HDL (p = 0.79). Similarly, wor-sening MSSS changes were associatedwith higher ... 0.038).The associations of lipid profile variables with EDSSand MSSS changes are summarized in Table 3. Worsen-ing EDSS changes were associatedwith higher LDL (p =0.006), triglycerides (p =...
... 2005 [26]; those with a NIH scale of <16 with relatively good expected outcome and those with NIH scale of >16 with poor expected outcome, and the ficolin-3 levels were compared accordingly. ... concentration with the outcome of the disease in 65 patients with ischemic stroke Panel A: Distribution of the patients with different outcome of the disease among patients with low (<6), ... concentration and the outcome of the disease measured with modified Rankin scale. This negative correlation indicates that low ficolin-3 levels areassociatedwith an unfavorable prognosis. This association...
... JournalOpen AccessShort reportNucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and the primer are associated with genotyping failure of a specific lineage from G1 rotavirus strainsGabriel I Parra* ... using Neighbor-joining or parsimony meth-ods with Kimura 2-parameter as a model of nucleotidesubstitution with the MEGA 3.1 [26] and Phylip v3.65softwares. The statistical significance of the ... grouped within one of the four lineages pre-viously reported by Jin et al [5] (Fig. 1). The typeable anduntypeable G1 strains reported by Rahman et al [19],grouped within the lineage I with a...
... AccessResearchTyping of human rotaviruses: Nucleotide mismatches between the VP7 gene and primer areassociatedwith genotyping failureMustafizur Rahman*1,2, Rasheda Sultana1, Goutam Podder1, Abu ... JJ:Diversity within the VP4 gene of rotavirus P[8] strains:implications for reverse transcription-PCR genotyping. J ClinMicrobiol 2000, 38:898-901.12. Jin Q, Ward RL, Knowlton DR, Gabbay YB, Linhares ... reverse transcription PCR with type-specific-primers. Because the high rotavirus mutation rate generates an extensive genomicvariation, different G-type-specific primer sets are applied in different...
... of GPX3 than women with earlystage disease. T hese results are summarized in Table 2.Since most ovarian cancer cases are diagnosed in post-menopausal women, we next compared the levels ofGPX3 ... patients diagnosed with late stage (p = 5 ì 10-4)andrecurrentdisease(p=1ì10-3) when compared to those diagnosed with earlystage disease was again present. These results are sum-marized in ... women with serous ovarian can-cer in a stage-dependent manner. In addition, wedemonstrate that serum levels are also decreased inwomen with recurrent disease and the stage-dependentdecreases are...
... it could be relatedto infection with HIV-1 subtype C compared with otherviral subtypes [26]. Elevated CRP and other inflamma-tion biomarkers areassociatedwith endothelial dysfunc-tion and ... month)declines in serum albumin areassociatedwith increasedmortality among HIV-infected women (both with andwithout ART) [16], but absolute albumin values are anuncertain indic ato r of ... nfidenceinterval: 0.67, 0.93]) compared with a value of 0.87mmol/L (i.e., the low end of the normal range) [21]. Aserum albumin of 30 g/L compared with 25 g/L was associated with a nearly 50% reduced...
... to derive leaf mass per area (LMA)and leaf area ratio of the shoot (LARshoot, leaf area divided by thedry mass of stems + branches + petioles + leaves); (4) leaf area ofindividual leaves ... suber).4. DISCUSSIONThe reduction of leaf size and total foliage area, thickleaves, high leaf mass per area, and other features are asso-ciated to plant species from hot and dry environments. ... transpi-ration [31, 37–39]. In agreement with this, we observed thelowest mean and total leaf areas in seedlings of Mediterraneanoaks (Fig. 3). The reduction in the mean area of individualleaves resulted...
... systemicsclerosis (SSc) patients with and without fingertip ulcers. Compared with healthy controls, serum levels of VEGF were increased in patients with fingertip ulcers. In patients without fingertip ulcers, ... increased in patients with anti-topoisomerase anti-bodies and diffuse SSc, which areassociatedwith a morerapid and severe disease course [38]. These results are consistent with findings from ... bothpatients with diffuse SSc as well as patients with limitedSSc showed significantly increased levels of VEGF com-pared with healthy controls (P < 0.001) (Fig. 1b). In addi-tion, patients with...
... soft-ware package for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).ResultsRheumatoid arthritis patients with and without cardiovascular diseaseThe baseline characteristics of the RA patients with ... 0.001).Table 1Characteristics of rheumatoid arthritis patients with and without cardiovascular diseaseRA without CVD (n = 541) RA with CVD (n = 72) p valueDemographic variablesMean age, years ... variables are known to be associated with CVD but not with the use of certain DMARDs. Correctingfor RA duration was done because the chance for a patient tobe treated with more than one DMARD...
... High p-ERK levels were associatedwith improved OS but not for p-AKT. High levels of p-AKT andp-ERK expression were associatedwith better responses. KRAS WT corre lated with lower p-AKT expression ... mutation was not associatedwith lesser response to chemoradiotherapy or worse OS. Highp-ERK expression was associatedwith better OS and response. Higher p-AKT expression was correlated with betterresponse ... patients with the wild-type (WT) KRAS gene.These drugs are now used in the treatment of mCRC, with response rates ranging from 8% with single agentcetuximab[36] to 23% in combination with irinotecan,[37]...