Professor Basil Hall Chamberlain

Aditi Hazra , Robert M . Chamberlain

Tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand stimulates the extrinsic apoptotic pathway by binding to death receptors 4 (DR4) and 5 (DR5). In DR4 exon 4, a C3G polymorphism at amino acid 626 located immediately 3 to one of the main receptor ligand interface regions, results in a threonine3arginine change. We found that the DR4 exon 4 G/G genotype was associated with an overall decrea...

Pepsinogen BASIL

Spinal muscular atrophy type I and the dual role of viruses: An interview with Professor Basil T. Darras, Professor of Neurology (Pediatrics) at Harvard Medical School

According to Professor Basil T. Darras, Professor of Neurology (Pediatrics) at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Program at Boston Children's Hospital in Boston (MA, USA), the diagnosis of SMA type I is clinical and is based on detailed general physical and neurological examinations. SMA type I remains the most common genetic disease resulting in death in ...

Joshua Chamberlain on Mars: Chambermania and Beyond!

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to observe one fact about Mars: it has a lot of rocks. While each is typically given a name based on protocols of scientific classification, many are known by informal, often humorous names like "Grandma" and "Space Ghost." And now on Mars, there’s a rock for fans of Civil War history—"Chamberlain," named of course for Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, the her...

Antioxidant Activity of Basil

INTRODUCTION The commercial development of plants as sources of antioxidants to enhance health and food preservation is of current interest (Rice-Evans et al. 1997). Epidemiological studies have suggested positive associations between the consumption of phenolic-rich foods or beverages and the prevention of diseases (Scalbert and Williamson 2000). These effects have been attributed to antioxida...