BACKGROUND The SF-36 is a very commonly used generic measure of health outcome in osteoarthritis (OA). An important, but frequently overlooked, aspect of validating health outcome measures is to establish if items work in the same way across subgroup of a population. That is, if respondents have the same 'true' level of outcome, does the item give the same score in different subgroups or is it ...

Identification of the genes that are specifically expressed in tumor cells but not in normal cells (oncogenes), or vice versa (tumor suppressor genes), is important for understanding the molecular basis of cancer. The differential display technique was applied to compare mRNAs from normal and tumor-derived human mammary epithelial cells, cultured under the same conditions. Complementary DNA fra...

A new method for specific reamplification of DDRT-PCR products is presented. After transient ligation of the primary DDRT-PCR fragments into a T-vector, the cDNAs of interest were reamplified by hemi-nested PCR and thermally asymmetric cycles. In contrast to the originally described protocol, this method of reamplification is specific, sensitive, reproducibly gives a high yield of DNA and allow...

In 2011 Pehlivan proposed a three–dimensional forced–damped autonomous differential system which can display simultaneously unbounded and chaotic solutions. This untypical phenomenon has been studi...

considering the emerging importance of phenotypic markers as indicators of cell function and differentiation, we studied patterns ofcd44 and cd45rb expression in cd8+ murine t cells with prior exposure to antigen or staphylococcal enterotoxin b ( seb ). following in vivo priming with two purified protein derivatives (one from a virulent who strain and the other from an avirulent strain), t cell...