Five strains of adult mice were immunosuppressed with the synthetic glucocorticosteroid dexamethasone (DEX), administered either orally or intraperitoneally. The strains of mice used were C57BL/6N, DBA/2N, CBA, C3H/HeN, and BALB/cAnN. All mice were evaluated for susceptibility to Cryptosporidium parvum after intragastric inoculation with 10(6) oocysts per mouse. The DBA/2N, CBA, C3H/HeN, and BA...

Caspase-8 (CASP8) plays a key role in apoptosis. We examined by genotyping whether the -652 six-nucleotide insertion-deletion (6N ins/del) polymorphism in the CASP8 promoter region was associated with prostate cancer risk in a hospital-based case-control study of 406 Chinese prostate cancer patients and 408 age-matched cancer-free controls. Additionally, 23 prostate cancer tissues were analyzed...

Caspase 8 (CASP8) is an apoptosis-related cysteine peptidase involved in the death receptor pathway and likely in the mitochondrial pathway. A CASP8 promoter region six-nucleotide deletion/insertion (-652 6N ins/del) variant and a coding region D302H polymorphism are reportedly important in cancer development, but no reported study has assessed the associations of these genetic variations with ...

Citation: Dewanckele L, Vlaeminck B, Hernandez-Sanabria E, Ruiz-González A, Debruyne S, Jeyanathan J and Fievez V (2018) Rumen Biohydrogenation and Microbial Community Changes Upon Early Life Supplementation of 22:6n-3 Enriched Microalgae to Goats. Front. Microbiol. 9:573. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00573 Rumen Biohydrogenation and Microbial Community Changes Upon Early Life Supplementation of 22:...

The objective was to investigate the regulatory effect of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) on mRNA expression of key genes involved in homocysteine (Hcy) metabolism. Eighty male Sprague Dawley rats were randomly divided into eight groups. The oils were orally administered daily for 8 weeks. Plasma Hcy, phospholipids fatty acids, and mRNA expression were determined. Compared with the control ...

Benz[a]anthracene induces aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase activity in secondary fetal cell cultures derived from various inbred mouse strains. The maximally inducible level of hydroxylase activity from the C57BL/6N strain is 4 to 6 times higher than that from the DBA/ZN strain in cell cultures derived from the entire mouse fetus. There are no differences between C57BL/6N and DBA/2N cell cultures i...

We report the full genome sequence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtype 6n from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Phylogenetic analysis of the isolate 10MYKJ032 suggests that Southeast Asia might be the origin for the HCV subtype 6n and highlights the possible spread of this lineage from Southeast Asia to other regions.

This paper gives a new integrable hierarchy of nonlinear evolution equations. In this hierarchy there are the following representative equations: ut = ∂ 5 xu − 2 3 , ut = ∂ 5 x (u 1 3 )xx − 2(u 1 6 )x u ; uxxt + 3uxxux + uxxxu = 0. The first two are in the positive order hierarchy while the 3rd one is in the negative order hierarchy. The whole hierarchy is shown integrable through solving a key...

Assignment: Section 1-1: 1.1, 1.4, 1.8, 1.12 Section 1-2: 2.3, 2.6 Section 1-3: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.6(b), 3.8 Section 1-1 1.1 Prove ∑n j=0 j 2 = 1 6n(n + 1)(2n + 1) for all natural numbers n. Proof. Let P(n) say ∑n j=0 j 2 = 6n(n + 1)(2n + 1). Then P(n) is a predicate in the variable n. (1) P(0) says ∑0 j=0 j 2 = 6 [0(0 + 1)(2 · 0 + 1)]. This is true since both sides evaluate to 0. (2) Let n ∈ N, ...