PURPOSE Choroideremia (CHM) is an X-linked ophthalmic disease. The gene associated with CHM (REP-1) encodes a ubiquitously expressed protein that is indispensable for the posttranslational activation of retina-specific Rab protein. Different mutations, including large genomic rearrangements involving the REP-1 gene, are responsible for CHM, but they all cause the protein to be truncated or abse...

The red edge position (REP) has been widely used to estimate vegetation parameters and also as a sensitive indicator of vegetation stress. Detailed characterizations of REP can be easily achieved from hyperspectral data obtained from imaging spectrometers. After launch of imaging spectrometers, shift in the center wavelength of the spectral channel may occur due to the vibrations and aging of c...

Associative learning produces conditioned stimulus (CS)-specific plasticity of frequency receptive fields (RFs) in the auditory cortex; responses to the CS frequency are increased, whereas responses to other frequencies are decreased. This study determined the effects of habituation on the RF of neurons in the auditory cortex of the guinea pig (Cavia porcellus). One frequency was presented repe...

We define and study the category Rep(Q, F1) of representations of a quiver in Vect(F1) the category of vector spaces ”over F1”. Rep(Q, F1) is an F1–linear category possessing kernels, co-kernels, and direct sums. Moreover, Rep(Q, F1) satisfies analogues of the Jordan-Hölder and Krull-Schmidt theorems. We are thus able to define the Hall algebra HQ of Rep(Q, F1), which behaves in some ways like ...

tarkhineh is one of the traditional foods in iran and a rich source of probiotic bacteria. the objective of this study was to identify the probiotic bacteria isolated from tarkhineh using 16s rrna gene sequencing and molecular typing with repetitive extragenic palindromic–pcr (rep-pcr). in total, 20 different bacteria were isolated from traditional dairy products and tarkhineh. molecular identi...

BACKGROUND We investigated the effects of cardioplegic arrest and reperfusion (CP/Rep) on myocardial apoptosis and key apoptotic mediators, such as apoptosis-inducing factor, caspase 3, caspase 8, caspase 9, poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase, B-cell lymphoma 2 (Bcl-2) family proteins, and protein kinase C (PKC), in uncontrolled type 2 diabetic, controlled type 2 diabetic, and nondia...

Using immunofluorescence and in situ hybridization techniques, we studied the intracellular localization of adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV-2) Rep proteins, VP proteins, and DNA during the course of an AAV-2/adenovirus type 2 coinfection. In an early stage, the Rep proteins showed a punctate distribution pattern over the nuclei of infected cells, reminiscent of replication foci. At this stag...