Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains belonging to serogroup O26 have been associated with sporadic cases and outbreaks of hemorrhagic colitis and hemolytic uremic syndrome. In addition to chromosomal virulence genes, STEC strains usually harbor a large plasmid that carries genes associated with pathogenicity. The complete nucleotide sequence and genetic organization of 6 plasmi...

Since its publication over 60 years ago, Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Prices (1936) has substantially influenced both macroeconomic theory and popular opinion about what governments can and should do. However, the extent to which counter-cyclical stabilization has actually been attempted remains an open question. Investigation of this issue requires the construction of a c...

Escherichia coli sequence type (ST)131 is an emerging disseminated public health threat implicated in multidrug-resistant extraintestinal infections worldwide. Although the majority of ST131 isolates belong to O25b:H4 serotype, new variants with different serotypes, STs using the discriminative multilocus sequence typing scheme of Pasteur Institute, and virulence-gene profiles (virotypes) have ...

Thompson-Torgerson CS, Holowatz LA, Flavahan NA, Kenney WL. Rho kinase-mediated local cold-induced cutaneous vasoconstriction is augmented in aged human skin. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 293: H30–H36, 2007. First published April 6, 2007; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00152.2007.—Cutaneous vasoconstriction (VC), a critical thermoregulatory response to cold, is generally impaired with aging. However, ...

The deterministic channel model for wireless relay networks proposed by Avestimehr, Diggavi and Tse ‘07 has captured the broadcast and inference nature of wireless communications and has been widely used in approximating the capacity of wireless relay networks. The authors generalized the max-flow min-cut theorem to the linear deterministic wireless relay networks and characterized the unicast ...

The aim of this study was to construct a valid publicly available method for in silico fimH subtyping of Escherichia coli particularly suitable for differentiation of fine-resolution subgroups within clonal groups defined by standard multilocus sequence typing (MLST). FimTyper was constructed as a FASTA database containing all currently known fimH alleles. The software source code is publicly a...

Entrepreneurship is largely ignored or treated in a highly simplified way in endogenous growth theory. Still, it is now widely recognized that the supply of entrepreneurial talent is likely to be important for economic growth, innovation and job creation. In this study we provide an indepth examination of how the supply of productive entrepreneurship is likely to be affected by the kind of tax ...

Rodriguez, Jorge A., Paula De la Cerda, Eileen Collyer, Valerie Decap, Carlos P. Vio, and Victoria Velarde. Cyclooxygenase-2 induction by bradykinin in aortic vascular smooth muscle cells. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 290: H30–H36, 2006. First published September 2, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00349.2005.—Vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration play an important role in the pa...

Background: Heliotropium indicum is used by traditional medical practitioners in North Central Nigeria for the management of ailments including diabetes. However, the folkloric use of H. indicum as antidiabetic has been asserted, but its roles on the hyperglycemia-induced organ-specific complications are not yet scientifically proven. Thus, ameliorative effect of aqueous leaf extract of H. indi...