BACKGROUND In 2008, an outbreak of canine distemper virus (CDV) infection in monkeys was reported in China. We isolated CDV strain (subsequently named Monkey-BJ01-DV) from lung tissue obtained from a rhesus monkey that died in this outbreak. We evaluated the ability of this virus on Vero cells expressing SLAM receptors from dog, monkey and human origin, and analyzed the H gene of Monkey-BJ01-DV...

Establishment of the body plan in vertebrates depends on the temporally coordinated patterning of tissues along the body axes. We have previously shown that dorsoventral (DV) tissues are temporally patterned progressively from anterior to posterior by a BMP signaling pathway. Here we report that DV patterning along the zebrafish anteroposterior (AP) axis is temporally coordinated with AP patter...

BACKGROUND Dengue hemorrhagic fever, the most severe form of dengue illness, is associated with secondary dengue virus (DV) infection. Preexisting nonneutralizing antibodies to DV that enhance the infection of Fc gamma receptor-bearing cells have been implicated in DV pathogenesis. METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study in Thai schoolchildren. Enhancing activity (EA) was measured as ...

Immunity to one of the four dengue virus (DV) serotypes can increase disease severity in humans upon subsequent infection with another DV serotype. Serotype cross-reactive antibodies facilitate DV infection of myeloid cells in vitro by promoting virus entry via Fcgamma receptors (FcgammaR), a process known as antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). However, despite decades of investigation, no in...

OBJECTIVES To assess the co-occurrence of past-month physical assault of a dating partner and violence against peers and siblings among a locally representative sample of high school students and to explore correlates of dating violence (DV) perpetration. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey design. SETTING Twenty-two public high schools in Boston, Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS A sample of urban h...

Déjà vu (DV) is a widespread, fascinating and mysterious human experience. It occurs both in health and in disease, notably as an aura of temporal lobe epilepsy. This feeling of inappropriate familiarity has attracted interest from psychologists and neuroscientists for over a century, but still there is no widely agreed explanation for the phenomenon of non-pathological DV. Here we investigated...

OBJECTIVE To assess the value of ductus venosus pulsatility index for veins (DV PIV) in screening for aneuploidies at 11-13 weeks' gestation. METHODS Fetal DV PIV was measured in singleton pregnancies undergoing first-trimester screening for aneuploidies. In euploid (n = 44,756) and aneuploid (202 cases of trisomy 21, 72 cases of trisomy 18 and 30 cases of trisomy 13) fetuses, DV PIV was best...

BACKGROUND Little is known on the influence of stressful psychosocial circumstances in predicting asthma. We examine the link between asthma prevalence and domestic violence (DV) in a nationally representative sample of adults and children in India. METHODS Analyses were based on the 1998-99 cross-sectional nationally representative Indian National Family Health Survey administered in 92 486 ...

Let Tf denote the Toeplitz operator with symbol function f on the Bergman space La(B, dv) of the unit ball in C . It is a natural problem in the theory of Toeplitz operators to determine the norm closure of the set {Tf : f ∈ L∞(B, dv)} in B(La(B, dv)). We show that the norm closure of {Tf : f ∈ L∞(B, dv)} actually coincides with the Toeplitz algebra T , i.e., the C∗-algebra generated by {Tf : f...

In these days, transmittingDV data which needs 28 Mbps traffic has been possible, because public ATM networks, like Japan Giga-bit Network(JGN)can be used. DV system is not only good quality of audio and video, but also has small processing delay. DV system is suitable for interactive systems like teleconferencing for the small delay. In this paper, we report the result of measurements of delay...