BACKGROUND Societal awareness of transgender individuals has led to increased acceptance and demand for sex-confirming surgery. In female to male transsexuals, the most common procedure is removal of breast tissue to masculinize the chest. METHODS Eighty-eight transgender patients underwent either a subcutaneous nipple-sparing mastectomy (NSM) with or without a periareolar mastopexy or nipple...

A fundamental question in developmental neurobiology is how a common neurotransmitter is specified in different neuronal types?. We describe cell-specific regulation of the serotonergic phenotype by the C. elegans POU-transcription factor UNC-86. We show that unc-86 regulates particular aspects of the terminal neuronal identity in four classes of serotonergic neurons, but that the development o...

Network Security Monitoring (NSM) is a popular term to refer the detection of security incidents by monitoring network events. An NSM system central for current networks, given escalation in sophistication cyberwarfare. In this paper, we review state-of-the-art NSM, and derive new taxonomy functionalities modules an system. This useful assess deployments tools both researchers practitioners. We...

The genes ces-1 and ces-2 control the decisions of two cells in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to undergo programmed cell death. Mutations that cause a gain of ces-1 function or a reduction of ces-2 function prevent these cells, the sisters of the two pharyngeal NSM neurons, from dying. These mutations do not affect most other cell deaths. Genetic studies indicate that ces-1 and ces-2 affe...

Rift Valley fever viruses carrying mutations of the M gene preglycoprotein region, one lacking NSm protein expression, one lacking 78-kDa protein expression, and one lacking expression of both proteins, were compared in cell culture. All of the mutants and their parent virus produced plaques with similar sizes and morphologies in Vero E6 cells and had similar growth kinetics in Vero, C6/36, and...

Conventional near-surface mounted (NSM) FRP methods rely on expensive and less durable epoxy-filler bond to transfer tensile force from reinforcements into concrete elements, generally failing fully develop the strength of reinforcements. In this paper, cost-effective potentially more fillers (e.g. cement-based paste ceramic tile adhesive) combined with anchorages have been proposed improve con...

Research investigating the effects of feeding raw or pasteurized nonsaleable milk (NSM) on heifers' performance beyond period supplementation is limited. This study aimed to examine type [NSM replacer (MR)] and pasteurization NSM preweaning first-lactation heifers born with low (<36.3 kg) normal birth weight (?36.3 kg). Holstein (n = 154) were sequentially assigned 1 3 treatments: MR, NSM, NSM....

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes expression are well described in bladder cancer associated with schistosomiasis especially in Egypt. Scarce studies were directed to colorectal cancer (CRC) associated with Schistosoma mansoni (S. mansoni). Apoptosis (programmed cell death) and the genes regulating this process (e.g., Bcl-2) have recently become a focus of interest in the...