Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common disease among women worldwide, therefore, accurate and rapid diagnosis of causative agents based on molecular techniques utilizing amplification of target DNA is highly recomendad for epidemiological purposes and for effective treatment. The aim of this study was to identify clinically Candida species from VVC patients by restriction fragment length po...

Over the years, several memory models have been proposed to capture subtle concurrency semantics of C/C++. One most fundamental problems associated with a model M is consistency checking: given an execution X , consistent ? This problem lies at heart numerous applications, including specification testing and litmus tests, stateless checking, dynamic analyses. As such, it has explored extensivel...

The gamma-secretase complex catalyzes the cleavage of the amyloid precursor protein in its transmembrane domain resulting in the formation of the amyloid beta-peptide and the cytoplasmic APP intracellular domain. The active gamma-secretase complex is composed of at least four subunits: presenilin (PS), nicastrin, Aph-1, and Pen-2, where the presence of all components is critically required for ...

SOURCE/DESCRIPTION: A I.i KB BlBa 111, EcoRi fragment from a pUC clone containing a 3.8 kb r Hind III fragment of the human MOX-1 gene'. The antigen coded for by the MOX-1 gene is thought to belong to the immunoglobulin super family: r the 1.1 kb fragment contains the exon for the C-like domain.

Defensin from a beetle, Allomyrina dichotoma, is known to have anti-bacterial activity against Gram-positive bacteria. This peptide, which comprises 43 amino acid residues, was effective against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. We identified the active site of beetle defensin by measuring anti-bacterial activity against S. aureus of 64 overlapping 12-mer peptides with either a free ...

Growth hormone gene plays a critical role in regulating growth and metabolism which leads to potential correlations between the polymorphisms of this gene and economic trait. A 776 bp fragment within the intron 1 region of the growth hormone gene from 346 individuals of an F2 population of Japanese quail was amplified. The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product was digested using MspI restrict...

Adenylate kinases (ADK) are ubiquitous enzymes that contribute to the homeostasis of adeninenucleotides in living cells. In this study, the cloning of a cDNA encoding an adenylate kinase from the filariaOnchocerca volvulus has been described. Using PCR technique, a 281 bp cDNA fragment encoding part ofan adenylate kinase was isolated from an O. volvulus cDNA library. Use of this fragment as a p...

We unify the Kumjian-Renault Weyl groupoid construction with Lawson-Lenz version of Exel's tight construction. do this by utilising only a weak algebraic fragment C*-algebra structure, namely its *-semigroup reduct. Fundamental properties like local compactness are also shown to remain valid in general classes *-rings.