A questionnaire, designed to obtain qualitative information on a number of variables concerning canine babesiosis (biliary fever) in South Africa, was sent to 510 veterinary practices in late 1993. Of the 157 practices that responded, all were presented with cases of babesiosis and most were situated in Gauteng, the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal. Apart from the Western Cape, a winter-rainfall ...

BACKGROUND The relationship between gastroesophageal reflux (GERD) and airway diseases is still a matter of debate. Oscillometry is an objective, independent tool for the evaluation of airway resistance. The main purpose of this study is to compare spirometry and oscillometry results before and after treatment by a proton pump inhibitor (PPI) in a group of GERD patients who have no respiratory ...

The activity of the developmental transcription factor sigmaF in Bacillus subtilis is governed by a switch involving the dual function protein SpoIIAB. SpoIIAB is an antisigma factor that forms complexes with sigmaF and with an alternative partner protein SpoIIAA. SpoIIAB is also a protein kinase that can inactivate SpoIIAA by phosphorylating it on a serine residue. We sought to identify amino ...

Immobilization produces morphological, physiological, and biochemical alterations in skeletal muscle leading to muscle atrophy and long periods of recovery. Muscle atrophy during disuse results from an imbalance between protein synthesis and proteolysis but also between apoptosis and regeneration processes. This work aimed to characterize the mechanisms underlying muscle atrophy and recovery fo...

Dystrophin is a cytoskeletal protein that confers resistance to the sarcolemma against the stress of contraction-relaxation cycles by interacting with cytoskeletal and membrane partners. Apart from several proteins, membrane phospholipids are a partner of the central rod domain made up of 24 spectrin-like repeats, separated into sub-domains by four hinges. We previously showed that repeats 1 to...

background the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux (gerd) and airway diseases is still a matter of debate. oscillometry is an objective, independent tool for the evaluation of airway resistance. the main purpose of this study is to comparespirometry and oscillometry results before and after treatment by a proton pump inhibitor (ppi) in a group of gerd patients who have no respiratory s...

Face à l’insécurité alimentaire qui menace les pays en développement comme le Cameroun, la production rationnelle des espèces endogènes est une nécessité. C’est ainsi que besoins protéiques de croissance pintade locale du Cameroun ont été étudié. Le travail a mené Ferme d’Application et Recherche (FAR) l’Université Dschang. Un total 64 pintadeaux d’un jour non sexés type local (gris perlé) util...

Headache disorders are the most prevalent of neurological conditions, and migraine is the most prevalent disabling neurological condition (1). Migraine affects 12% and chronic daily headache 4% of Europeans and Americans (2, 3); these disorders also predominantly afflict women during their peak years of productivity. Headache disorders account for ~9% of total lost labour productivity (>r20 bil...

The purpose of this study was to assess the possibility of introducing site-specific range margins to replace current generic margins in proton therapy. Further, the goal was to study the potential of reducing margins with current analytical dose calculations methods. For this purpose we investigate the impact of complex patient geometries on the capability of analytical dose calculation algori...