The resurgence of Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) in the southern, northeastern and northern parts of Thailand, inflicting approximately 46,000 reported cases since October 2008 until December 2009, has raised public health concerns. In the present study, we characterized nearly complete genome sequences of four CHIKV isolates obtained from 2008 to 2009 outbreaks in Thailand. Phylogenetic analysis wa...

it decreased from 96 to 93 per 1,000 among whites.3 Minority adolescents are disproportionately represented among teenagers who give birth; of the 38 states that reported rates for 1991–1992, 27 reported an increase in birthrates among Hispanic adolescents, whereas only six of 50 states reported an increase in birthrates among non-Hispanic white teenagers.4 Although no research has been conduct...

Sea-blue histiyositoz Niemann-Pick hastalığının altı tipinden biridir. Çocukluk çağında başlayan hepatosplenomegali olması, nörolojik tutulumun olmaması ve sfingomiyelinaz aktivitesinin azalmasıyla karakterizedir. Akciğer tutulumu sea-blue histiyositozda görülen nadir bir klinik tutulumdur. Bu olgu sunumunda, 15 yaşındayken sea-blue histiyositoz tanısı konulan 39 yaşındaki bir erkek hasta sunul...

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from cyan to yellow fluorescent proteins (CFP/YFP) is a well-established method to monitor protein-protein interactions or conformational changes of individual proteins. But protein functions can be perturbed by fusion of large tags such as CFP and YFP. Here we use G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR) activation in living cells as a model system to com...

The authors examined 13 skilled and 12 novice tennis performers’ ability to use visual information of an opponent’s movement pattern to anticipate and respond. In Experiment 1, skilled and novice players anticipated the type of stroke and the direction in which the ball was hit in a highly coupled perception–action environment. Both groups of players correctly anticipated at greater than chance...

Background: Approximately 30% of reproductive age women and 35% of reproductive age men in the United States smoke cigarettes. Substantial harmful effects of cigarette smoke on fecundity and reproduction have become apparent but are not generally appreciated. smoking is becoming increasingly popular in many parts of the world as in eastern Mediterranean and Arabic countries including Iran. The ...