Objective This study was to evaluate the risk factors of survival in patients with columnar cell variant (CCV) and encapsulated variant (ECV). Materials and methods The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database (1988-2013) was used to compare the characteristics of CCV and ECV with those of classic papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Survival was analyzed by the Kaplan-Meier method,...

A nested PCR (nPCR) assay for the detection of canine coronavirus (CCV) in fecal samples is described. The target sequence for the assay was a 514-bp fragment within the spike (S) glycoprotein gene. The sensitivity of the assay is extremely high, detecting as little as 25 50% tissue culture infective doses per g of unprocessed feces. A clinical trial using dogs challenged orally with CCV SA4 an...

Channel catfish virus (CCV), a member of the herpesvirus family, causes a severe haemorrhagic disease in juvenile channel catfish. In this report, we confirm that CCV gene expression is temporally regulated into immediate-early (IE), early and late phases, similar to that of other herpesviruses. The transcriptional regulation of the 14 genes within the direct repeat region of the CCV genome was...

This study analyzes the mechanisms of long-chain fatty acid (LCFA) uptake by human microvascular endothelial cells (HMEC). The time course revealed the presence of an early, carrier-mediated uptake component and a later component mediated by clathrin-coated vesicles (CCV) and caveolae, as evidenced by three different experimental approaches: 1) significant reduction of [3H]oleate uptake over 5 ...

There has recently been considerable progress in understanding the regulation of clathrin-coated vesicle (CCV) formation and function. These advances are due to the determination of the structure of a number of CCV coat components at molecular resolution and the identification of novel regulatory proteins that control CCV formation in the cell. In addition, pathways of (a) phosphorylation, (b) ...

Accurate classification of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) image is of great importance in pathology diagnosis and treatment. This paper proposes a concave-convex variation (CCV) method to optimize three classifiers (random forest, support vector machine, and extreme learning machine) for the more accurate HCC image classification results. First, in preprocessing stage, hematoxylin-eosin (H&E) p...

The 1035 base-pair (bp) open reading frame 59 (ORF59) of channel catfish virus (CCV) codes for an abundant hydrophobic membrane glycoprotein considered to be the major envelope glycoprotein of the virus. The ORF59 gene of CCV was cloned into the baculovirus genome by site-specific transposition and expressed in Spodoptera frugiperda cells (Sf9 cells). Expressed protein could be recognized by po...

We have examined the roles of Hsc70 and auxilin in the uncoating of clathrin-coated vesicles (CCVs) during neuronal endocytosis. We identified two peptides that inhibit the ability of Hsc70 and auxilin to uncoat CCVs in vitro. When injected into nerve terminals, these peptides inhibited both synaptic transmission and CCV uncoating. Mutation of a conserved HPD motif within the J domain of auxili...

Canine coronavirus (CCV) UWSMN-1 was originally identified from an outbreak of fatal gastroenteritis in breeding colonies. In this report, we examined whether UWSMN-1 represents a novel divergent strain or is the result of recombination events between canine and feline coronavirus strains. Sequencing of various regions of the spike and polymerase genes confirms that UWSMN-1 is widely divergent ...