pandemic influenza Necla Akçakaya, Ömer Kılıç, Yildiz Camcıoğlu, Haluk Çokuğraş, Kenan Midilli Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Clinical Immunology and Allergy, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. Correspondence: Ömer K...

Psoralea corylifolia has gained much attention, particularly in the cosmetic industry for past few years owing to promising pharmacological activities of its metabolites. Seeds P. are main source bakuchiol, a meroterpene compound that is extensively harnessed numerous skincare products. Furanocoumarins, psoralen and isopsoralen other metabolites mainly from seeds known their antipsoriatic activ...

Species distribution models are scarcely applicable to invasive species because of their breaking of the models' assumptions. So far, few mechanistic, semi-mechanistic or statistical solutions like dispersal constraints or propagule limitation have been applied. We evaluated a novel quasi-semi-mechanistic approach for regional scale models, using historical proximity variables (HPV) representin...

There are two subclasses of nucleotide excision repair (NER). One is the global genomic repair (GGR) which removes lesions throughout the genome regardless of whether any specific sequence is transcribed or not. The other is the transcription-coupled repair (TCR), which removes lesions only from the transcribed DNA sequences. There are data that GGR rates depend on the chemical nature of the le...

The seeds of Psoralea corylifolia L. (P. corylifolia), also known as "Bo-Gol-Zhee" in Korea, are used in a traditional herbal medicine for treating various skin diseases. In the present study, we performed quantitative analyses of the seven standard components of P. corylifolia: psoralen, angelicin, neobavaisoflavone, psoralidin, isobavachalcone, bavachinin, and bakuchiol, using high-performanc...

Entamoeba histolytica (protozoan; family Endomoebidae) is the cause of amoebiasis, a disease related to high morbidity and mortality. Nowadays, this illness considered significant public health issue in developing countries. In addition, parasite resistance conventional medicinal treatment has increased recent years. Traditional medicine around world represents valuable source alternative for m...

'Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum' (Lso) is a phloem-limited bacterium that severely affects important Solanaceae and Apiaceae crops, including potato, tomato, pepper, tobacco, carrot and celery. This bacterium is transmitted to solanaceous species by potato psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli, and to Apiaceae by carrot psyllids, including Trioza apicalis and Bactericera trigonica. Five haploty...