La projection d’un modèle animal sur les plantes a pour effet paradoxal d’étendre nos connaissances scientifiques tout en nous empêchant de comprendre ce qui fait leur originalité ontologique. Pour dépasser cette contradiction, le concept intégrateur d’être ouvert, n’ayant ni dedans dehors, est appliqué à requalifier notions m...

Feeding state and food availability can dramatically alter an animals' sensory response to chemicals in its environment. Dynamic changes in the expression of chemoreceptor genes may underlie some of these food and state-dependent changes in chemosensory behavior, but the mechanisms underlying these expression changes are unknown. Here, we identified a KIN-29 (SIK)-dependent chemoreceptor, srh-2...

The aim of this study was to compare a real-time PCR assay, with a conventional culture/PCR method, to detect S. aureus, mecA and Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) genes in animals and retail meat, using a two-step selective enrichment protocol. A total of 234 samples were examined (77 animal nasal swabs, 112 retail raw meat, and 45 deli meat). The multiplex real-time PCR targeted the genes: nu...

OBJECTIVES To review early surgical outcomes in a contemporary series of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD) undergoing cardiac operations at the University of Michigan, and to investigate possible preoperative and intraoperative risk factors for morbidity and mortality. METHODS A retrospective medical record review was performed for all patients > or =18 years of age who underwent ope...

Social Class and Serum Uric Acid M. G. Cook, M.B., and others; R. Finn, M.D. .......................... 232 Sudden Death after Exertion M. McCormack, M.B.; D. C. L. Savage, M.R.C.P. ......................... 232 Congenital Anomalies of the Vas Deferens R. E. B. Tagart, F.R.C.S...................233 Warning to Travellers to Tanzania G. H. Robb, M.R.C.P. 233 Exposure and Exhaustion G. A. Ballance...

In 2012, a mutant porcine circovirus type 2 (mPCV2) strain was identified in cases of PCV-associated disease (PCVAD) in the USA. The mPCV2 had an additional amino acid, lysine (K), in the capsid at position 234. The objectives of this study were to compare the pathogenicity of mPCV2, PCV2a and PCV2b in pigs using biologically pure infectious virus stocks derived from respective infectious DNA c...

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