The colonic mucosa-associated flora (MAF) in patients with active ulcerative colitis (UC) (n = 13) was investigated by examining 16S rRNA gene signatures during remission and relapse against levels for controls (n = 5). Baseline reduction, temporal instability, and decrease of bacterial richness toward relapse were observed for UC patients, whereas the MAF for controls was stable over time.

Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified loci contributing to total serum bilirubin level. However, no exome-wide approaches have been performed to address this question. Using exome-wide approach, we assessed the influence of protein-coding variants on unconjugated, conjugated, and total serum bilirubin levels in a well-characterized cohort of 773 ambulatory elderly subjects fro...

The multiple biological activities present in semipurified lymphokine preparations have made it difficult to assign discrete biological functions to each lymphokine. As a result, the large number of identified lymphokine activities may actually reflect the manifestations of a few factors. While this research has also been hampered by the limited quantities of lymphokines available, hybridoma an...

objective: martynia annua l. (m. annua), (martyniaccae) has been traditionally used in the treatment of epilepsy, sore throat and inflammatory disorders. the leaf paste is used topically on tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands and wounds of domestic animals. tephrosia purpurea (t. purpurea), (fabaceae) has been used traditionally as a remedy for asthma, gonorrhea, rheumatism and ulcers. this st...

Titanium alloys are widely used in aerospace, the military industry, electronics, automotive fields, etc., due to their excellent properties such as low density, high strength, high-temperature resistance, and corrosion resistance. Many components need be finished precisely after being cut these applications. In order achieve high-quality high-efficiency finishing of titanium alloys, ultrasonic...

The radical homopolymerisation of 2-trifluoromethacrylic acid (MAF) initiated by Na2S2O8 in water, under the influence of pH, led to original water soluble surfactants, the decomposition of which was investigated. The value of the square of the propagation rate constant to the termination rate constant, kp(2)/kte, of MAF was 4 × 10(-3) l mol(-1) s(-1) at 80 °C.

The members of the MAF family of transcription factors are homologs of v-Maf -the oncogenic component of the avian retrovirus AS42. The MAF family is subdivided into 2 groups, small and large MAFs. To elucidate the role of the large MAF transcription factors in the endocrine pancreas, we analyzed large MAF gene knockout mice. It has been shown that Mafa(-/-) mice develop phenotypes including ab...

The transcriptional mechanisms that drive colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) myeloid progenitors to differentiate into cells of either the granulocytic or monocytic lineage are not fully understood. We have shown that the c-Maf and c-Myb transcription factors physically interact in myeloid cells to form inhibitory complexes that hinder transactivation of c-Myb target genes thro...

T cells infiltrating neoplasms express surface molecules typical of chronically virus-stimulated T cells, often termed "exhausted" T cells. We compared the transcriptome of "exhausted" CD8 T cells infiltrating autochthonous melanomas to those of naïve and acutely stimulated CD8 T cells. Despite strong similarities between transcriptional signatures of tumor- and virus-induced exhausted CD8 T ce...