Trisomy 21 is the most common chromosomal aberration in live births. In this study we employed human chromosome 21-specific short tandem repeat (STR) DNA markers to determine the numbers of chromosome 21 present in fetal cells. Forty amniotic fluid samples from pregnancies complicated with fetal Down syndrome and 98 samples from euploid pregnancies were analyzed for D21S11 and interferon-alpha ...

The Ts65Dn mouse is a segmentally trisomic model for Down syndrome. Until now, Ts65Dn mice have been identified by the laborious methods of either chromosomal analysis of cultured peripheral lymphocytes or fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH). We report here a quantitative PCR method for genotyping Ts65Dn mice, as well as a phenotypic description for visually preclassifying mice to be genot...

The objective of the study was to investigate the regulation of hepatic flavin-containing monooxygenases (Fmo) Fmo1, Fmo3, Fmo4, and Fmo5 in three different mouse models of inflammation, including treatment with Citrobacter rodentium, lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and dextran sulfate sodium (DSS). Quantitative real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) was used to evaluate t...

The use of glass–silicon chips for PCR analysis has been widely reported in the last decade, but there have been few systematic efforts to pin down the biochemical problems such systems bring forth. Here we report a systematic analysis of material-related inhibition and adsorption phenomena in glass–silicon PCR-chips. The results suggest that the previously reported inhibition of PCR by silicon...

Improvements in detection limits/sensitivity and lower sample consumption are potential benefits of reducing PCR reaction volumes used in forensic DNA typing of crime scene samples. This premise was studied first with experimental mixtures and a nine-loci megaplex, which demonstrated stochiometric amplification and accurate detection. Next, adjudicated casework samples were subjected to amplifi...

Performance prediction of checkpointing systems in the presence of failures is a well-studied research area. This paper makes three small contributions to this research area. First, we show how to apply the concept of availability from reliability theory as a useful metric for checkpointing systems. Second, we study the average availability of uniprocessor checkpointing systems, using the libck...

Purpose: To investigate the role of nuclear receptor-interacting protein 1 (NRIP1) in oxidative stressinduced apoptosis and pyroptosis cataract disease.Methods: Human lens epithelial cells (HLE-B3 cells) were exposed to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). NRIP1 expression (H2O2)-treated HLE-B3 was determined by western blotting quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). CCK8 ...

Expression of microRNA (miRNA) in the skin in dermatomyositis has not previously been studied in detail. In this study, we performed miRNA array analysis using miRNAs purified from dermatomyositis-involved skin and normal skin, and found that several miRNAs were up- or down-regulated in dermatomyositis skin. Among them, we focused on miR-7, one of the most down-regulated miRNAs in dermatomyosit...

Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) and enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus polymerase chain reaction (ERIC-PCR) genomic fingerprinting assays were compared for their ability to differentiate Escherichia coli isolates obtained from various host sources, and with respect to their pathogenicity. One hundred and ten verotoxigenic, enterotoxigenic and non-pathogenic E. coli is...