Plant Plastid Engineering
World Kidney Day 2011: Protect ...
March 10, 2011, will mark the celebration of the 6th World Kidney Day (WKD), an annual event jointly sponsored by the International Society of Nephr ...
Kidney repair and stem cells: a ...
Over the last decade, stem cells have been the topic of much debate and investigation for their regenerative potential in the case of renal injury. ...
Urinary transforming growth fac ...
Renal dysfunction affects 5–18% of patients with sickle cell disease (SCD). To date, no studies have described urinary levels of transforming growth ...
Antenatal imaging: does the pos ...
This review explores what is already understood about antenatal diagnosis of a variety of conditions, including Down syndrome, what progress has bee ...
Gastrointestinal intervention i ...
Interventional radiology is a rapidly growing discipline in paediatrics. Many non-vascular interventional techniques may be used in the gastrointest ...
Radiology residents’ experience ...
Background Residents should be exposed to adequate procedural volume to act independently upon completion of training. Informal inquiry led us to qu ...
Accuracy of CT-guided percutane ...
Background CT-guided percutaneous core needle biopsy has been shown in adults to be an effective diagnostic tool for a large number of musculoskelet ...
Quality assurance: using the ex ...
Background Many methods are used to track patient exposure during acquisition of plain film radiographs. A uniform international standard would aid ...
Abdominal and pelvic CT in case ...
Background Incomplete history and concern for occult injury in suspected child abuse occasionally results in CT screenings of the abdomen and pelvis ...
Patterns of shift in ADC distri ...
Background Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) relates to tissue cellularity, and change in ADC during chemotherapy may be a promising tool for ass ...
Radiation dose for thoracic and ...
Background For coronary artery visualization, retrospective ECG-gated acquisition by dual-source computed tomography (DSCT) was superior to spiral n ...
Appearance of the delta phalanx ...
The delta phalanx is an unusual condition occurring in the hand or the foot that can be distinguished from a secondary ossification center on radiog ...
Cytokine release in mononuclear ...
The aim of this study was the evaluation of the release of bone-resorbing cytokines in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) of patients with ase ...
Modeling the protein partitioni ...
Aqueous polymer two-phase system provides a powerful method for separation and puri:cation of biomaterials. Among various factors, polymer concentrat ...
The Role of the COG Database in ...
A major breakthrough in classifying proteins from different microbial genomes in terms of sequence similarity was the development of the COG concept ...
Modifiers of Hearing Impairment ...
Lack of penetrance and variability of expression are common findings in nonsyndromic hearing loss with autosomal dominant mode of inheritance, but ar ...
Recent Computational Approaches ...
This paper reviews recent computational approaches to the understanding of gene regulation in eukaryotes. Cis-regulation of gene expression by the bi ...
Mechanisms and Signals for the ...
In eukaryotes, the nuclear membrane provides a physical barrier to the passive diffusion of macromolecules from and into the cytoplasm. Nucleocytopla ...
Advances on the Understanding o ...
Although Alzheimer’s disease (AD) was first discovered a century ago, we are still facing a lack of definitive diagnosis during the patient’s lifetim ...
GSK3 at the Edge: Regulation of ...
GSK3 is a multifunctional protein kinase that is pivotal for the regulation of metabolism, the cytoskeleton, and gene expression. Multicellular eukar ...
Phenotype Data: A Neglected Res ...
To a great extent, our phenotype is determined by our genetic material. Many genotypic modifications may ultimately become manifest in more or less p ...
Clinical, Molecular, and Geneti ...
PAPA syndrome (Pyogenic Arthritis, Pyoderma gangrenosum, and Acne) is an autosomal dominant, hereditary auto-inflammatory disease arising from mutati ...
Plant Plastid Engineering
Genetic material in plants is distributed into nucleus, plastids and mitochondria. Plastid has a central role of carrying out photosynthesis in plant ...
Simulation of Genomes: A Review
There is an increasing role of population genetics in human genetic research linking empirical observations with hypotheses about sequence variation ...
Screening of Xanthine Oxidase P ...
Xanthine oxidase is a highly versatile and ubiquitous complex molybdoflavoprotein, which controls the rate limiting step of purine catabolism pathway ...