Introduction: Drought is the main abiotic stress responsible for crop loss worldwide. Maize ( Zea mays L.) a widely grown drought-sensitive used as staple food by growing population. Therefore, it imperative to assess molecular mechanisms behind drought response and tolerance in maize. Transcriptomic profiling of responsive pathways various crops appeared be an unreliable approach due post-tran...

A selection of 58 specimens with a monoclonal component identified by immunoelectrophoresis and/or immunofixation was analyzed with the immunosubtraction procedure on the Paragon 2000 capillary electrophoresis system. The capillary system detected 93% of the paraproteins and, using immunosubtraction, correctly identified 91% of the paraproteins. Paraproteins that were detected by immunofixation...

Follicular lymphomas comprise almost two thirds of the US adult non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) and are the most common malignancy of B-lineage lymphocytes. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocols have been developed to detect the t(14;18) translocation, which juxtaposes the bcl-2 proto-oncogene to the Ig heavy-chain (IgH) gene in 85% of follicular lymphomas and monoclonal rearrangements of the...

with 5% acetic acid and, after 10 min, the gel was finally washed in distilled water and air-dried onto the glass support. Air-drying allows the long and thin gel to be easily submitted to photographic and/or digital recording using a sequencing gel-sized scanner, such as the HP ScanJet 4C/T (Hewlett-Packard, Palo Alto, CA, USA). This avoids wethandling or the need of an apparatus for gel-dryin...