Recent reports suggest that cardiovascular (CV) events are associated with vascular calcification (VC) on plain radiographs. Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recommends that lateral abdominal radiography can be used to detect the presence or absence of VC [1]. A previous report showed that an abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) score of Z7 on lateral abdominal radiography was w...

The objective of this study was to investigate the genetic basis of high level aminoglycoside resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates from Beijing, China. 173 A. baumannii clinical isolates from hospitals in Beijing from 2006 to 2009 were first subjected to high level aminoglycoside resistance (HLAR, MIC to gentamicin and amikacin>512 µg/mL) phenotype selection by broth microdil...

AAC Richard is a food grade soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] cultivar with yellow hilum, high protein concentration, and good processing quality for foreign domestic soymilk, tofu, miso markets. It has resistance to SCN (soybean cyst nematode) (Heterodera Glycines Ichinohe). was developed at the Agriculture Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) Harrow Research Development Centre (Harrow-RDC), Harrow, Ontario ...

Many growth factors and cytokines act as cellular survival factors by preventing programmed cell death (apoptosis). However, the specific genes and corresponding proteins that mediate survival are poorly de fined. To identify potential survival genes, a cDNA library was prepared from murine fibroblasts and screened by a functional expression cloning approach. A 1023-bp eDNA, AAC-11, was identif...

BACKGROUND Vascular calcification (VC) contributes to high mortality rates in chronic kidney disease (CKD). High serum phosphate and FGF23 levels and impaired phosphaturic response to FGF23 may affect VC. Therefore, their relative contribution to abdominal aortic calcification (AAC) was examined in patients CKD stages 3-4. METHODS Potential risk factors for AAC, measured by the Kauppila Index...

BACKGROUND KDIGO (Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes) guidelines recommend lateral abdominal radiographs to assess vascular calcification in incident dialysis patients. However, nearly all dialysis patients in the United States receive chest radiographs at dialysis therapy inception, which may provide readily available information on coronary artery (CAC) and aortic arch calcification (A...

The ADP/ATP carrier of yeast (309 amino acids) is an abundant transmembrane protein of the mitochondrial inner membrane whose import involves well-defined steps (Pfanner, N., and Neupert, W. (1987) J. Biol. Chem. 262, 7528-7536). Analysis of the in vitro import of gene fusion products containing ADP/ATP carrier (AAC) sequences at the amino terminus and mouse dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) at th...

In a continuing study from Dec 2006 to Apr 2008, we characterized nine multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains isolated from four patients in a ward at the Hiroshima University Hospital, Japan. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SpeI-digested genomic DNAs from the isolates suggested the clonal expansion of a single strain; however, only one strain, NK0009, was found to produce meta...