Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in transplant patients and in fetuses following congenital infection. The glycoprotein complexes gH/gL/gO and gH/gL/UL128/UL130/UL131A (Pentamer) are required for HCMV entry in fibroblasts and endothelial/epithelial cells, respectively, and are targeted by potently neutralizing antibodies in the infected host. Using purifi...

Alcohol ethoxylates (AEs) are a class of non-ionic surfactants widely used as detergents, emulsion stabilizers, foaming agents and wetting enhancers. These properties allow large industrial application as additives in the formulation of pesticides, pharmaceuticals, paints and cosmetics, as well as in mineral separation, biotechnology etc. Although there is no known toxic effect of AEs, their co...

Endosulfan, a broad-spectrum non-systemic organochlorine (OC) pesticide is extensively used to control a wide variety of pests in agriculture, horticulture and public health programmes. Biochemical changes occurring in the metabolically active tissues of gills (GL), hepatopancreas (HP) and muscle (MU) of the penaeid shrimp, Metapenaeus monoceros (Fabricius) on exposure to two sublethal doses (4...

SUHMARY Genetic and evironmental variability in gestation length (GL), birth date (BD), and time from first day of breeding season to first observed estrus (FE) were analyzed ·using twelve years of breeding and calving records on cows, sired by Simmental, Maine-Anjou, Limous,in and Gelbvieh bulls. All cows were artificially inseminated. Statistical analyses were performed separately on first, s...

This study investigated the effect of Sargassum angustifolium and Gracilaria pulvinata extracts on the growth performance, body composition, antioxidant status and gut microbiota of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) fry. For this purpose, 540 fry of rainbow trout (initial weight 0.23±0.04 g) were distributed in 12 fiberglass tanks. Fish were fed with experimental diets containing 500 mg kg-1 ...

BACKGROUND The emergence and spread of drug resistance represents one of the biggest challenges for malaria control in endemic regions. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) is currently deployed as intermittent preventive treatment in pregnancy (IPTp) to prevent the adverse effects of malaria on the mother and her offspring. Nevertheless, its efficacy is threatened by SP resistance which can be estim...

Mining elite alleles for grain size and weight is of importance for the improvement of cultivated rice and selection for market demand. In this study, association mapping for grain traits was performed on a selected sample of 628 rice cultivars using 262 SSRs. Grain traits were evaluated by grain length (GL), grain width (GW), grain thickness (GT), grain length to width ratio (GL/GW), and 1000-...

Objective: To compare the mycobacteriological yield from self-expectorated sputum (SP), gastric lavage (GL) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), in children with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB). Methods: Twelve children with cultureor PCR-positive pulmonary TB were retrospectively enrolled in this study. These patients had undergone SP collection, GL and/or BAL through flexible bronchoscopy. Positive ...