AIM To determine agreement of cardiac anomalies between maternal fetal medicine (MFM) physicians and pediatric cardiologists (PC) in fetuses with single umbilical artery (SUA). METHODS A retrospective review of all fetuses with SUA between 1999 and 2008. Subjects were studied by MFM and PC, delivered at our institution, and had confirmation of SUA and cardiac anomaly by antenatal and neonatal...

In the past three decades, several methods have been reported for the growth of yeast spheroplasts in liquid culture. When spheroplasts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were inoculated in rich medium containing 0.4 M KCl as an osmotic stabilizer and cultured for 7‒8 h with occasional manual shaking, they entered the fi rst round of mitosis at low cell density. Spheroplasts inoculated at higher cell ...

To understand the telomere regulation mechanism in relation to cell aging and cancer, we examined the single-stranded telomeric DNA binding domain (ssDBD) of fission yeast telomere-binding protein Pot1 by constructing a series of deletion mutants. We found that Pot1(1-182) (amino acids 1-182) stably expressed in Escherichia coli without any degradation retained a stable folded structure and fun...

Restoration of the antitumor activity of p53 could offer a promising approach for the treatment of neuroblastoma. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are important mediators of p53 activity, but their role in the p53 response has not yet been comprehensively addressed in neuroblastoma. Therefore, we set out to characterize alterations in miRNA expression that are induced by p53 activation in neuroblastoma cells...