Objective(s): Staphylococcus aureus is an important bacterial pathogen responsible for a variety numbers of nosocomial and community acquired infections. Biofilm formation is regarded as an important factor in the establishment of S. aureus infection. The contribution of the genetic background of S. aureus to biofilm formation is poorly understood. The aim of the present work was to genotype S....

Background: Single nucleotide polymorphisms in 8-oxoguanine DNA glycosylase-1 (OGG1) gene modulates DNA repair capacity and functions as one of the first lines of protective mechanisms against 8-hydroxy-2’-deoxyguanosine (8-OHdG) mutagenicity. OGG1-Cys326 gene polymorphism may decrease DNA repair function, causing oxidative stress due to higher oxidative DNA damage. The main purpose of this stu...

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a fatal infectious neurodegenerative disease in cattle, characterized by the accumulation of an abnormal, proteaseresistant prion protein (PrPSc) in the brain. BSE is similar to scrapie in sheep and goats and Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Susceptibility in cattle hasbeen shown to be under the influence of two polymorphic locations, which are...

background esophageal, stomach, and colorectal cancers are commonly lethal gastrointestinal tract (git) neoplasms, causing almost two million deaths worldwide each year. some environmental risk factors are acknowledged; however, genetic defects can significantly contribute to predisposition to git cancers. accordingly, recent works have shown that single-nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) within m...

Relevance . The etiological agent in the development of persistent lymphocytosis and lymphosarcoma cattle is Bovine leukemia virus Phylogenetic analysis sequenced nucleotide sequences BLV env -gene locus main, but not only, approach to pathogen genotypic classification. Metods aim study was identify single-nucleotide polymorphisms -gene, considered as diagnostically significant for SNP genotypi...

Genome-wide association studies have identified single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Unc51-like-kinase 4 (ULK4) gene, to be associated with blood pressure. Aims (i) replicate and validate previously reported associations between ULK4 gene hypertension on hypertensive cases normotensive controls, (ii) identify silico potential functionality of variants. A total 558 genotyped Caucasian s...

objective(s): staphylococcus aureus is an important bacterial pathogen responsible for a variety numbers of nosocomial and community acquired infections. biofilm formation is regarded as an important factor in the establishment of s. aureus infection. the contribution of the genetic background of s. aureus to biofilm formation is poorly understood. the aim of the present work was to genotype s....

introduction: long-term levodopa treatment of parkinson’s disease (pd) is frequently complicated by spontaneously occurring involuntary muscle movements called dyskinesia. the exact pathological mechanism of this complication has not yet been elucidated. we have previously demonstrated that in pd patients the vulnerability to develop peripheral but not orofacial dyskinesia is associated with th...

Background: We explored the effect of vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) polymorphisms in response to PEG-IFN treatment in Egyptian chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. Methods: Two hundred hepatitis B virus (HBV) patients (42.3±10.7 years) on PEG-IFN α-2a (180 μg /kg for 48 weeks) and one hundred control subjects (37.3 ±12 years) were enrolled in the study. Vitamin D levels a...

Background and objectivesMethylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR) is the critical enzyme in folate 1-carbon metabolism. MTHFR polymorphisms may result increased homocysteine levels, be associated with abnormal lipid metabolism liver. This study aims to explore association between gene of rs1801131 rs1801133 susceptibility nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) coronary artery (CAD).