background and objectives: shiga toxin-producing escherichia coli ( stec) have emerged as human pathogens and contamination of foods of animal origin has been a major public health concern. the aim of the present study was to determine the dissemination of stec in healthy and diarrheic calves in urmia region which is located in west azerbaijan province, iran. materials and methods: in the curre...

abstract: fifteen non-aflatoxigenic strains of aspergillus flavus, represent a wide range of geographic regions of iran (six provinces include fars, ardebil, guilan, golestan, kerman and semnan) and vegetative compatibility groups (vcgs), were collected from corn (zea mays l.), peanut (arachis hypogaea l.) and pistachio (pistachia vera l.) soils and kernels, were screened for the presence of af...

The two most common Gaucher disease mutations in the Ashkenazi population, 1226A-->G and 84G-->GG in the glucocerebrosidase gene, are tightly linked to a marker in the nearby pyruvate kinase gene. This paper develops a simulation of the Ashkenazi population that considers the effects of selection and drift on the mutant allele frequency and the recombinant haplotype frequency over time. Althoug...

Introduction: Despite improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer in the past two decades, it has remained the most common cause of death from cancer worldwide. Among all genes that are mutated in lung cancer, TP53 located on chromosome 17P13/1 has a significant diagnostic and prognostic value. TP53 mutations have been extensively studied in lung cancer and TP53 mutational spectr...

This paper proposes a novel method for gene selection. In the method, the gene regulation, an important mechanism of gene activities, is first introduced, and then the probabilities of gene regulation are estimated. These probabilities can be seen as the gene regulation information and can be used for gene selection. The applications to the leukemia dataset and the colon dataset suggest that ou...

conclusions eudragit coated nanoparticle of chitosan is an efficient choice for oral delivery of dna to upper part of gi tract. results the mean size and zeta potential of particles were 300 ± 4 nm and 14 ± 0.5 mv, respectively. encapsulation of this system was 89.6 ± 1.2%. dna release from batches was less than 12% at ph = 5.2 and more than 60% at ph = 6.8 with significant difference of p < 0....

Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli have been associated with HUS, HC and TTP in human. We found recto-anal mucosal sample in sheep as well in cattle is the main site for E. coli O157 localization. 1246 E. coli isolates from 872 both healthy and diarrheic animals were analyzed, by screening for the presence of Shiga toxin-producing (VT 1 and VT 2) and intimin (eae) genes used Multiplex PCR. ...