The Mexican Sheartail (Doricha eliza), an endangered hummingbird, is endemic to Mexico where two populations have a disjunct distribution. One population is distributed along the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula whereas the other is mostly restricted to central Veracruz. Despite their disjunct distribution, previous work has failed to detect morphological or behavioral differences between ...

Miller, India, "In the midst of life we are in death : suicide coverage in the South during the Civil War era" (2015). Honors Theses. Paper 804. 1 1 I would like to acknowledge my parents, Eric and Sarah Miller, and my sister Eliza for proofreading my work, and supporting me throughout the course my research. I would also like to acknowledge the undergraduate summer research fellowship for fund...

Objective: To evaluate avidity of IgG anti-b2-glycoprotein I antibodies (anti-b2-GPI) in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in relation to thrombosis, and to demonstrate a possible affinity maturation of IgG anti-b2-GPI during the disease course. Methods: 64 sera from 32 patients (18 with primary or secondary APS, 14 with SLE without APS) and th...

OBJECTIVE Anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs) are highly specific for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and are present years before the onset of symptoms. The avidity of autoantibodies can have a strong impact on their effector potency. This study was undertaken to analyze the avidity of ACPAs in serum samples obtained from ACPA-positive healthy individuals (predisease), patients with early ...

Objective: To evaluate avidity of IgG anti-b2-glycoprotein I antibodies (anti-b2-GPI) in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in relation to thrombosis, and to demonstrate a possible affinity maturation of IgG anti-b2-GPI during the disease course. Methods: 64 sera from 32 patients (18 with primary or secondary APS, 14 with SLE without APS) and th...

In the present study, anti-Leishmania immunoglobulin G (IgG) avidity was used to estimate the approximate time of disease manifestation. Significant differences (P < 0.0001) were found between the levels of anti-rKE-16 IgG avidity in leishmaniasis patients with recent and chronic diseases. More than 76% of patients with an illness duration of less than 6 months had avidity of less than 70%, 94%...

A T-cell receptor (TCR) with optimal avidity to a tumor antigen can be used redirect T cells eradicate cancer via adoptive cell transfer. Cancer testis antigens (CTAs) are attractive targets because they expressed in the testis, which is immune-privileged, and tumor. However, CTAs self-antigens natural TCRs have low affinity/avidity due central tolerance. We previously described method of direc...

The great quantity of information which emerges from the necessity of an informational society can be mastered in a proper way, due to the perfection of the informatics systems used in all the fields. The pieces of information, due to the fact that they are numerous as concerns their content, become hard to work with, on the whole; thus, only a part of the content is represented as compound and...

BACKGROUND Accurate and reliable laboratory methods are needed for estimation of HIV-1 incidence to identify the high-risk populations and target and monitor prevention efforts. We previously described a single-well limiting-antigen avidity enzyme immunoassay (LAg-Avidity EIA) to detect recent HIV-1 infection. METHODS We describe here further optimization and characterization of LAg-Avidity E...

Studia Judaica » 2022 Nr 1 (49) Eliza Matusiak, Joanna Bachura-Wojtasik, Brzmienie Holocaustu. O reprezentacjach Zagłady w sztuce radiowej, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź 2020, ss. 156. A