In this paper we describe properties of the cdc10-C4 mutant of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The cdc10+ gene encodes a component of the DSC1Sp/MBF transcription complex, which is required for cell-cycle regulated expression at G1-S of several genes via cis-acting MCB (MIuI cell cycle box) elements. At permissive temperatures cdc10-C4 causes expression of MCB-regulated genes throu...

Chromatin on the inactive X chromosome (Xi) of female mammals is enriched for the histone variant macroH2A that can be detected at interphase as a distinct nuclear structure referred to as a macro chromatin body (MCB). Green fluorescent protein-tagged and Myc epitope-tagged macroH2A readily form an MCB in the nuclei of transfected female, but not male, cells. Using targeted disruptions, we have...

Purpose The GEC-ESTRO has reported the equivalent outcomes of partial breast irradiation (PBI) using multicatheter interstitial brachytherapy (MCB) to whole breast irradiation (WBI) in breast-conserving therapy (BCT). We performed single-stage BCT with partial breast brachytherapy by intraoperative catheter placement. After the categorization of patients into inclusion and exclusion criteria on...

Recent developments in microbial techniques (such as PCR, GE, FISH) have allowed researchers to detect, identify and quantify microorganisms without the limitation of culture-dependent methods. This has given both engineers and scientists a more fundamental understanding about systems containing microorganisms. These techniques can be used to monitor bacteria in wastewater treatment systems, so...

Hiding information on grayscale images has been drawing much attention in recent years. In pervious techniques, many schemes like Zhang and Wang’s method or Sudoku method use magic matrix as a plane reference to modify the LSBs of cover images.To further improve the hiding capacity and visual quality, we propose the so-called magic cube based (MCB) information hiding scheme. MCB is an early att...

Rodent models of early caregiving find that pups reared by dams providing low levels of early stimulation subsequently display heightened stress reactivity and social aggression. We examined these effects in humans by investigating the effects of early caregiving on markers of biobehavioral development at ages 2 and 3 years. This study extended the findings reported by Hane and Fox (Hane and Fo...

Nuclear receptor coactivators (NCOAs) function as coactivators for nuclear receptors as well as several other transcription factors and potentiate their transcriptional activity. NCOAs play an important role in biology of hormone-dependent and -independent cancers. MCB-613 is a recently described, small molecule stimulator of NCOAs and anti-neoplastic compound that leads to the death of tumour ...

Abstract: In the present paper, the modified cubic B-spline differential quadrature method (MCB-DQM) has been implemented for the numerical computation of two-dimensional biological population model (BPM). The method is based on differential quadrature in which the weighting coefficients are computed by using MCB as a set of basis functions. We present three test problems to confirm the efficie...

OBJECTIVE Several societies have proposed frameworks to evaluate the benefit of oncology drugs; one prominent tool is the European Society for Medical Oncology Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale (ESMO-MCBS). Our objectives were to investigate the extent of European Medicines Agency (EMA)-approved cancer drugs that meet the threshold for 'meaningful clinical benefit' (MCB), defined by the frame...

The development of an efficient delivery system is critical for the successful treatment of cardiovascular diseases using non‑viral gene therapies. Cytoplasmic and nuclear membrane barriers reduce delivery efficiency by impeding the transfection of foreign genes. Thus, a gene delivery system capable of transporting exogenous genes may improve gene therapy. The present study used a novel strateg...