Cisplatin is a crucial agent in the treatment of many solid tumors, yet many tumors have either acquired or intrinsic resistance to the drug. We have used the homozygous diploid deletion pool of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, containing 4728 strains with individual deletion of all nonessential genes, to systematically identify genes that when deleted confer sensitivity to the anticancer agents cispl...

As reconstruction techniques generating images in electrical impedance tomography (EIT) are sensitive to noise, small errors on measured data can result into large errors in final images. In order to optimize the signal acquisition from any region, measurement should possess highest sensitivity and selectivity in that region. This study was conducted to estimate measurement properties of variou...

Online monitoring of dissolved fault characteristic hydrocarbon gases, such as methane, ethane, ethylene and acetylene in power transformer oil has significant meaning for condition assessment of transformer. Recently, semiconductor tin oxide based gas sensor array has been widely applied in online monitoring apparatus, while cross sensitivity of the gas sensor array is inevitable due to same c...

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based testing is being widely implemented for diagnostic purposes. The PCR technique is generally considered to be both analytically sensitive (i.e., detects small quantities of a substance) and analytically specific (i.e., few cross reactions). There are few studies, however, of diagnostic sensitivity and specificity (i.e., the likelihood of correctly identifyin...

background: the present article focuses on the design and development of a highly sensitive and convenient approach for rapid detection of animal species and cross contaminations quickly during cell cultures as most important document for manufacturing working cell bank system. this test is one of the four most important documents during implementing the banking system. by using this modified t...