BACKGROUND Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are opportunistic pathogens in immuno-compromised patients. They are also increasingly recognized as pathogens in immuno-competent individuals. Globally, an increase in NTM isolation is being reported with a varied geographic prevalence of different species around the world. There is lack of data on species distribution of these organisms from Pakis...

We describe the first identification of Gnomoniopsis smithogilvyi causing brown rot on chestnut fruits in Chile, with an incidence 4.8%. Previously, Phomopsis castanea (IMI 278057) was reported as cause disease but a molecular re-identification revealed that it corresponded to G. smithogilvyi. All inoculated isolate RGM 2903 developed symptoms fruits.

A liquid culture technique was used to study 23 synovial fluids (SF) (21 from inflammatory joint diseases and 2 noninflammatory SF) and supernatants of two cultured rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovial tissues for colony-stimulating factor (CSF). The proliferative responses of human peripheral blood macrophage-depleted non-T cells treated with synovial fluids, supernatants of synovial tissue expl...

Polycythemia vera (PV) is a clonal disease of the hematopoietic stem cell characterized by a hyperplasia of marrow erythropoiesis, granulocytopoiesis, and megakaryocytopoiesis. We previously reported that highly purified PV blood burst-forming units-erythroid (BFU-E) are hypersensitive to recombinant human interleukin-3 (rIL-3). Because these cells may be only a subset, and not representative o...

Let G be a connected reductive algebraic group over an algebraic closure F of the finite field Fq of q elements; assume G has an Fq-structure with associated Frobenius endomorphism F and let l be a prime distinct from the characteristic of Fq. In [DLM1, §7.1] and [DLM2] we outlined a program for the determination of the irreducible Ql-characters of the finite group G , which showed that the pro...

We study the discovered Ds(2317) at BABAR, CLEO and BELLE, and find that it belongs to a class of strange multiquarks, which is equivalent to the class of kaonic molecules bound by hard core attraction. In this class of hadrons a kaon is trapped by a s-wave meson or baryon. To describe this class of multiquarks we apply the Resonating Group Method, and extract the hard core kaon-meson(baryon)in...

The BMP signaling pathway controls a number of cell processes during development and in adult tissues. At the cellular level, ligands of the BMP family act by binding a hetero-tetrameric signaling complex, composed of two type I and two type II receptors. BMP ligands make use of a limited number of receptors, which in turn activate a common signal transduction cascade at the intracellular level...

anism would thus be a new way to form a tube. As the generation of the lumen and of the tube itself requires the apparition of an apical domain, we decided to investigate how part of the lateral domain becomes apical. Our first results, using transgenes driven by brachyury regulating sequences, show that several proteins classically involved in antero-posterior and planar polarities could be in...

Beam Induced Fluorescence Monitor Due to the high beam power expected for FAIR, novel methods for non-intersecting beam diagnostics for the High Energy Beam Transport Lines must be considered. We investigate the detection of fluorescence photons from the excited states of the residual gas N2 with a Beam Induced Fluorescence (BIF) Monitor [1]. This method was successfully applied for high curren...

Background The early diagnosis and treatment of skin soft tissue infections caused by nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are important, especially as with rapidly growing (RGM) rare difficult to diagnose treat. Recently, we identified 22 cases NTM infections; in this study, suggest strategies analyzing the demographic characteristics progress these patients. Methods A retrospective study patient...