EuroPhenome (http://www.europhenome.org) and EMPReSS (http://empress.har.mrc.ac.uk/) form an integrated resource to provide access to data and procedures for mouse phenotyping. EMPReSS describes 96 Standard Operating Procedures for mouse phenotyping. EuroPhenome contains data resulting from carrying out EMPReSS protocols on four inbred laboratory mouse strains. As well as web interfaces, both r...

Essential to the renewal of interest in polarography and voltammetry in the 1970s were the availability of reliable polarographs offering the pulse mode, with sensitivity down to lo-‘-lo-* M and h’gh 1 er resolving power; a better understanding of the electrode processes of compounds of pharmaceutical interest (active agents, excipients, additives, antioxidants, etc.); and the application of ox...

[PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , February 1, 2002; 33 (2): 553-558. Stroke M. Pohl, J. Mehrholz, C. Ritschel and S. Ruckriem Randomized Controlled Trial Speed-Dependent Treadmill Training in Ambulatory Hemiparetic Stroke Patients: A [PDF] [Full Text] [Abstract] , April 1, 2004; 38 (2): 191-196. Br. J. Sports Med. K Chamari, Y Hachana, Y B Ahmed, O Galy, F Sghaier, J-C Chatard, O Hue and U Wis...

AIMS HLA-DPA1 is an important marker in bone marrow and organ transplantation and a highly emerging screening parameter in histocompatibility laboratories. Being highly polymorphic, it has another significant value in detecting population origins and migrations. This is the first study to assess DPA1 allele frequencies in an Arab population. METHODS The HLA DPA1 alleles were identified using ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the epidemiology of invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and the antibiotic susceptibility and serotype distribution of S. pneumoniae in pediatric patients in Lima, Peru. METHODS A 2-year, multicenter, passive surveillance study conducted from May 2006- April 2008 in 11 public hospitals and five private laboratories in Lima, Peru, in patients less than 16 years of age wi...

Bovine Viral Diarrhea virus (BVDV) is an important viral pathogen of cattle causing several clinical syndromes. There are usually no pathognomonic clinical signs of BVDV infection. Diagnostic investigations therefore rely on serological detection and virus isolation. Nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) as immunogenic protein of BVDV is genetically and antigenically conserved among different isolates....

1 Department of Environmental Technology, Kaunas University of Technology, 50254 Kaunas, Lithuania 2 Laboratory for Advanced Analytical Technologies, Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland 3 Institute of Environmental Engineering, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland 4 Fontem Ventures B.V., 12th floor, Barbara Strozzilaan 101, 1083 HN...

We evaluated the performance of several methods for the detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus using 101 clinical S. aureus isolates from pediatric patients in a tertiary hospital in Brazil; 50 isolates were mecA-positive and 51 were mecA-negative. The Etest and oxacillin agar screening plates were 100% sensitive and specific for mecA presence. Oxacillin and cefoxitin disk...

It has been 5 years since our team reported the first successful model of orthotopic single lung transplantation in the mouse. There has been great demand for this technique due to the obvious experimental advantages the mouse offers over other large and small animal models of lung transplantation. These include the availability of mouse-specific reagents as well as knockout and transgenic tech...

CHRISTIAN M. JONES, WILLIAM B. DRIGGERS III, JOSÉ I. CASTRO & MARCELO R. DE CARVALHO 1National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Mississippi Laboratories, P.O. Drawer 1207, Pascagoula, MS 39568, U.S.A. E-mails: [email protected]; [email protected] 2National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Protected Resources Division, 263 ...