the purpose of this study was to investigate the polymorphism of k-casein (k-cn), β-lactoglobulin (b-lg) and leptin (lp) genes in iranian holstein cattle by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (pcr-rflp) technique. dna was extracted from blood samples of 139 cows using a modified phenol chloroform method. association between k-cn, b-lg and lp genes’ polymorphism w...

BACKGROUND Up to 1 in 6 patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) present with low-ejection fraction, low-gradient (LEF-LG) severe aortic stenosis and concomitant relevant mitral regurgitation (MR) is present in 30% to 55% of these patients. The effect of MR on clinical outcomes of LEF-LG patients undergoing TAVI is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Of 606 consecutive pati...

In the path minimum query problem, we preprocess a tree on n weighted nodes, such that given an arbitrary path, we can locate the node with the smallest weight along this path. We design novel succinct indices for this problem; one of our index structures supports queries in O(α(m,n)) time, and occupiesO(m) bits of space in addition to the space required for the input tree, where m is an intege...

We report on the first experimental demonstration of higher-order Laguerre-Gauss (LG(p)(ℓ)) mode generation and interferometry using a method scalable to the requirements of gravitational wave (GW) detection. GW detectors which use higher-order LG(p)(ℓ) modes will be less susceptible to mirror thermal noise, which is expected to limit the sensitivity of all currently planned terrestrial detecto...

beta-Lactoglobulin (beta-LG) is a bovine milk protein sensitive to thermal denaturation. Previously, we demonstrated that such structural change can be detected by a monoclonal antibody (mAb) specific to denatured beta-LG. In the present study, we show a dramatic increase in beta-LG immunoreactivity when heating raw milk between 70 and 80 degrees C. To map out the specific epitope of beta-LG re...

Licorice (the root of Glycyrrhizae plant) has been used as an oriental herbal medicine for thousands of years. The licorice flavonoid components are reported to possess immunomodulatory activities. In this present study, we investigated the immunomodulatory effects of liquiritigenin (LG) and liquiritin (LQ), licorice flavonoid components, against disseminated candidiasis due to Candida albicans...

Absftact-This paper presents a new parallel algorithm for routing unicast (one-to-one) assignments in Ben& networks. Parallel routing algorithms for such networks were reported earlier, but these algorithms were designed primarily to route permutation assignments. The routing algorithm presented in this paper removes this restriction without an increase in the order of routing cost or routing t...

Purpose To investigate whether the SNARE protein vesicle-associated membrane protein 8 (VAMP8) was implicated in the development of chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Methods Firstly, the chronic GVHD (cGVHD) and Sjögren's syndrome (SS)-impaired lacrimal gland (LG) tissue sections from humans for diagnostic purpose were evaluated for VAMP8 expression by histopathology and immuno...

The regional phase Lg is often used to estimate location and magnitude for sources closer than 1500 km. The complexity of Lg waveforms makes it difficult to consistently determine a unique Lg arrival time, thus affecting source location with a single station or array. This study tests an automatic method for timing Lg arrivals using wavelet transforms to decompose the Lg signal into its compone...

BACKGROUND Recent works using echocardiography suggested that low gradient (LG), low flow (LF) aortic stenosis (AS) has more pronounced left ventricular (LV) concentric remodeling, smaller LV cavity size, and more interstitial fibrosis compared with high gradient (HG) normal flow (NF) AS. Therefore, we evaluated the accuracy of echocardiographic measurements and compared remodeling and fibrosis...