We report two de novo cases of del(8)(pter----q24.1:) with breakpoints involving the distal part of band 8q24.1. The clinical features were similar and there were no obvious stigmata of Langer-Giedion syndrome (LGS). There are three other cases reported with a deletion of chromosome 8 at approximately the same breakpoint, one without LGS and some similarities to our cases, the other two with LG...

High quality and purity single crystal ZnO samples doped with single isotopes of (63)Cu and (65)Cu, with equal concentrations of both these isotopes, and with natural Cu using a wet chemical atomic substitution reaction and anneal were studied using low temperature optical spectroscopy. Our data on the zero phonon line of the structured green band in ZnO confirm unambiguously the involvement of...

Figure-ground assignment is thought to entail inhibitory competition between potential objects on opposite sides of a shared border; the winner is perceived as the figure, and the loser as the shapeless ground. Computational models and response time measures support this understanding but to date no online measure of inhibitory competition during figure-ground assignment has been reported. The ...

CD47 is a integrin-associated protein originally discovered as a plasma membrane molecule that co-purified with the integrin ·vß3 from leukocytes and placenta (Brown et al., 1990). CD47 is an unusual member of the immunoglobulin (Ig) superfamily of membrane proteins, with a single IgV-like domain at its N-terminus, a highly hydrophobic stretch with five membrane-spanning segments and an alterna...

Kcnk4–1.7 6 1.0–Adra2c. Additional comments: We have compared our interspecific map of chromosome 5 with a composite mouse linkage map that reports the map locations of many uncloned mouse mutations (provided from the Mouse Genome Database, a computerized database maintained at The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME). Kcnk4 mapped in a region of the composite map that lacks mouse mutations with...

Zinc finger genes have been shown to be involved in many different functions of the organism, such as development, differentiation (Krempler et al., 1999) and cancer (Stein et al., 1999). The human zinc finger gene ZNF151, has high homology to a murine POZ/zinc finger transcription factor gene, Zfp100, which is expressed in most tissues. Peukert et al. (1997) found that ZNF151 has a potent grow...

Future high-quality consumer electronics will contain a number of applications running in a highly dynamic environment, and their execution will need to be efficiently arbitrated by the underlying platform software. The multimedia applications that currently execute in such similar contexts face frequent run-time variations in their resource demands, originated by the greedy nature of the multi...

The CD163 antigen is a member of the scavenger receptor cysteine rich (SRCR) protein family (Law et al., 1993). It is a type I membrane glycoprotein and has recently been identified as the macrophage receptor for hemoglobin-haptoglobin (HbHp) complexes (Kristiansen et al., 2001). By mediating the clearance of free hemoglobin the receptor may have a central role in hemoglobin and iron metabolism...