The induction of an active immune response to control or eliminate tumours is still an unfulfilled challenge. We focused on plasmid DNA vaccines using an innovative approach whereby the antigen is expressed in association with extracellular vesicles (EVs) to facilitate antigen cross-presentation and improve induced immunity. Our two groups had independently shown previously that DNA vaccines en...

BACKGROUND Cleft lip and palate (CL/P) is one of the most common malformations in humans. Transforming growth factor alpha (TGFA) is a well characterized mammalian growth factor which might contribute to the development of CL/P. This meta-analysis aimed to summarize the association between the TGFA Taq I polymorphisms and CL/P. METHODS We retrieved the relevant articles from PubMed, EMBASE, I...

The purpose of this articles is to determine whether the cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) Rsa I/Pst I gene polymorphism is correlated with respiratory system cancers. Respiratory system cancers included lung cancer, laryngeal cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, and cancers of other respiratory organs, which are the most common malignant tumors worldwide; the significant relationship between CYP2E1 Rsa I...

With the aim of the production of human factor VIII antigen and its corresponding antibody an epitope coding fragment of the light-chain of hFVIII, fused to a His6-tag, was isolated and over-expressed in Escherichia coli. The over-expressed hFVIII-epitope containing peptide was confirmed by its reaction with a rabbit serum directed against native hFVIII as well as antiHis6-tag antibody. An expr...

The role of myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C) in the formation and function of striated muscle is unclear, even though the demonstration of its presence in the thick filaments of striated muscle was made by Offer et al1 more than 25 years ago.2 Because of the inability of myosin to form normal thick filaments in the absence of MyBP-C and the temporal correlation between the appearance of MyBP-C...

In this paper, we consider a generalization of binomial coe¢ cients, called C– nomial coe¢ cients, dependent upon a sequence fungn, with indices in arithmetic progressions. We obtain a general recurrence relation and a generating matrix, and point out some new relationships between these coe¢ cients and the generalized Pascal matrices. Further, we obtain generating functions, combinatorial repr...

Cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) is involved in the metabolic activation of various carcinogens. CYP2E1 RsaI/PstI polymorphism has been identified in urologic cancer patients, while studies of the polymorphism have shown inconclusive trends in the risk of urologic cancers. Therefore, we performed this systematic review to provide a complete picture and conducted a meta-analysis to derive a precise ...

Channelrhodopsin (ChR) is a light-gated cation channel that responds to blue light. Since ChR can be readily expressed in specific neurons to precisely control their activities by light, it has become a powerful tool in neuroscience. Although the recently solved crystal structure of a chimeric ChR, C1C2, provided the structural basis for ChR, our understanding of the molecular mechanism of ChR ...

of the almost-complex manifold (X, J). The only obstruction [10] to the existence of an almost-complex structure J on X is that X be spinc. This happens precisely when the second Stiefel-Whitney class w2(X) ∈ H(X,Z2) can be written as the mod-2 reduction of an element of H2(X,Z), in which case each preimage of w2 in H2(X,Z) can be realized as c1 for some almostcomplex structure J . It follows t...