Background: Identification and quantification of mycotoxins produced by Fusarium species are important in controlling fungal diseases. Objectives: Potential of zearalenone, butenolide and fusarin C production was investigated in five Fusarium graminearum and five F. culmorum isolates at molecular level. Materials and Methods: Presence of PKS13, FG08079.1 and PKS10 genes, associated with produ...

Objective(s): Asthma, the most frequent chronic respiratory disease, results from a complex interaction between multiple genes and environmental factors. To date, more than 100 candidate genes and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been reported to be associated with asthma. One of the discovered genes related to asthma is ADAM33. However, the relationship between ADAM33 gene polymorph...

Table. Conserved nucleotide sequences for the gene start, intergenic region, and gene stop of Mojiang paramyxovirus and henipaviruses* Variable Gene stop Intergenic region Gene start MojV, gene /N CTT AGGATTCAGG N/P TTAAACAAAA CTT AGGATCCAAG P/M TCATAAAAAA CTT AGGAGTCAAG M/F ATATAAAAAA CTT AGGTGTCAGG F/G TTAATAAAAA CTT AGGAGTCAGG G/L TTACAAAAAA CTT AGGATTCACG Consensus sequences for henipavirus...

During World War I there was much lamentation over the "defects of the draft," and the word "shocking" was in frequent use with reference to the condition of a large proportion of men of military age. When, more recently, it became necessary again for society to interpose a shield of human lives between itself and disaster, its cerebral cells once more became agitated over the report that its y...

Fetal hemoglobin (HbF) levels vary widely among individuals with sickle cell anemia (SS). Previous studies have suggested that HbF levels in SS individuals with alpha-thalassemia (two or three functional alpha-globin genes) are lower than HbF levels in SS individuals with four normal alpha-globin genes. Using immunocytochemical techniques, we studied F cell production as measured by % F reticul...