In behavioral and ecological studies the "function" of dominance hierarchies is thought to be related to reproductive success. In particular, dominant males are regarded as likely to gain a reproductive advantage due to enhanced "access" to females. We compare the dominance status of adults with the frequency of copulations and the patterns of parentage in communally breeding pukeko or purple s...

Antigenic variation in microbial surface proteins represents an apparent paradox, because the variable region must retain an important function, while exhibiting extensive immunological variability. We studied this problem for a group of streptococcal M proteins in which the approximately 50-residue hypervariable regions (HVRs) show essentially no residue identity but nevertheless bind the same...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between variants of the leptin gene (LEP) and obesity and metabolic biomarkers was investigated in Brazilian individuals. SUBJECTS AND METHODS One-hundred-ten obese (BMI > 30 kg/m(2)) and 100 non-obese individuals (145 women and 65 men, aged 49 +/- 14 years) were randomly selected. Plasma leptin, glycemia, serum lipid measurements and LEP -2548G>A and 3'HVR polymorp...

Transient global brain ischemia induced by cardiac arrest and resuscitation (CAR) results in reperfusion injury associated with oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is known to produce delayed selective neuronal cell loss and impairment of brainstem function, leading to post-resuscitation mortality. Levels of 4-hydroxy-2-nonenal (HNE) modified protein adducts, a marker of oxidative stress, was fo...

We designed an association (retrospective, case control) study aimed at evaluating associations between genetic variations of the human apolipoprotein B (apoB) gene and clinical diagnosis of essential hypertension. Our approach was to compare the distribution of the alleles of a highly polymorphic variable number of tandem repeats localized 3' to the human apoB gene, the apoB 3' hypervariable r...

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) populations in vivo consist of heterogeneous mixtures of genetically different but closely related variants defined as a 'quasispecies'. The longitudinal fluctuation of HCV quasispecies populations in chronic hepatitis C has not been elucidated. Serial plasma samples were obtained from four patients with chronic hepatitis C (two patients without any treatment and two pat...

Potential adverse effects on the O2-sensing function of the carotid body when its cells are exposed to toxic O2 pressures were assessed during investigations of human organ tolerance to prolonged continuous and intermittent hyperoxia (Predictive Studies V and VI). Isocapnic hypoxic ventilatory responses (HVR) were determined at 1.0 ATA before and after severe hyperoxic exposures: 1) continuous ...

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) was used to study the diversity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) quasispecies. Optimized DGGE running conditions were applied to screen for variations in sequences cloned from amplicons originating from the nonstructural 5b (NS5b) gene of HCV in blood of hemophilia patients, intravenous drug users, and blood donors (five specimens from each study group, ...

در سال‌های أخیر با افزایش پیچیدگی، سطح عدم­اطمینان نیز یافته است؛ ازاین‌رو مدیریت ریسک زنجیره تأمین یکی از موضوع‌هایی است که موردتوجه سازمان‌ها قرار گرفته است. ریسک‌های موجود تأمین، وارده ناحیه تأمین‌کنندگان پژوهش حاضر به‌کارگیری مدلی به‌منظور ارزیابی صنایع غذایی شی­‌فو، به شناسایی محتمل و اتخاذ تصمیماتی راستای می­‌پردازد. مدل به‌کار‌گرفته‌شده، ترکیبی محاسبات کلامی فازی (FLC) محاسبه مقدار عوامل...

به منظور ساخت، راه‌اندازی و عیب‌یابی مقدماتی چشمه پنینگ داخلی سیکلوترون 10IRANCYC، یک مگنت الکتریکی دوقطبی با میدان مغناطیسی در حد امکان مشابه مرکز مذکور طراحی ساخته شد. این الکترومگنت که دانشکده فیزیک دانشگاه تهران شد، قادر است بزرگی 7000 گوس را محل استقرار (منطقه‌­ای شعاع 15 میلی‌متر مگنت) آسانی بدون نیاز خنک‌سازی تأمین کند. دست‌­یابی 1/1 تسلا نیز استفاده از برای مدت چند دقیقه امکان‌­پذیر است...