OBJECTIVES It is necessary to examine groups carrying out sexually risky behavior because the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is high among them. In this study, the prevalence of STDs among homosexuals and sex-buying men in South Korea was investigated, along with their sexual risk factors. METHODS Men who have sex with men (MSMs, n=108) were recruited in Seoul and Busan by...

Autoimmune uveitis is a blinding disease presenting with autoantibodies against eye-specific proteins as well as autoagressive T cells invading and attacking the immune-privileged target tissue retina. The molecular events enabling T cells to invade and attack the tissue have remained elusive. Changes in membrane protein expression patterns between diseased and healthy stages are especially int...

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations can model the interactions between macromolecules with high spatiotemporal resolution but at a high computational cost. By combining high-throughput MD with Markov state models (MSMs), it is now possible to obtain statistically exhaustive models of the long-timescale behavior of small to intermediate biomolecules and complexes. To model the interactions of ma...

Background: Several factors put India in danger of experiencing rapid spread of HIV if effective prevention and control measures are not scaled up throughout the country. Aims & Objective: (1) To assess the level of basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS among the study population; (2) To analyze the HIV testing among them. Material and Methods: It was a cross sectional study carried out during April –...

Authors 4 Christelle Margoum, Céline Guillemain, Xi Yang, Marina Coquery 5 a Irstea, UR MALY, 5 rue de la Doua, CS 70077, F-69626 Villeurbanne Cedex, France 6 b State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, Nanjing University, 210093 Nanjing, China 7 *corresponding author Tel. +33472208711; fax: +33478477875; E-mail address: [email protected] 8 9 10 Abstract 11 Stir b...

Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography (GC × GC) is one of the most powerful analytical tools for the analysis of organic compounds in complex matrices. The technique is based on continuous collection of the effluent from a GC column and periodic reinjection of small portions of the effluent to a second column of different properties. The process is repeated at a rate fast enough that...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to evaluate vitamin D status with separate determination of 25-OH D2 and 25-OH D3 and its relationship to vitamin D binding protein (VDBP) in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and long-term haemodialysis patients (HD). METHODS 45 CKD patients, 103 HD patients, and 25 controls (C) were included. Plasma vitamin D concentrations were determined using ch...