amino b-lactam antibiotic. As with other ampicillin prodrugs such as pivampicillin and talampicillin, bacampicillin was developed almost 30 years ago under the hypothesis that the addition of a lipophilic moiety to the hydrophilic ampicillin molecule would improve intestinal absorption of the parent drug. It has been reported that ampicillin exhibits 33—54% bioavailability after oral administra...

BACKGROUND MiR-106b-25 cluster, hosted in intron 13 of MCM7, may play integral roles in diverse processes including immune response and tumorigenesis. A single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs999885, is located in the promoter region of MCM7. METHODS We performed a case-control study including 1300 HBV-positive hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cases, 1344 HBV persistent carriers and 1344 subje...

Polarized and depolarized Raman spectra are obtained for a number of synthetic polynucleotides containing adenine, uracil, and thymine bases. The depolarization ratios are determined by two methods: (1) by dividing the 1-spectrum by the 11-spectrum and ( 2 ) after curve fitting. Overlapping bands, isotope splitting, reorientational broadening, and noncoincidence splitting affect the magnitude o...

The main purpose of the study was to provide a value addition; to a cashew industry by-product:Cashew Shell. Production of newly Pectinase enzyme by Solid State Fermentation and the enzyme has been optimized by using Cashew Shell as substrate has been standardized. Strain has been selected by assessing the fungal strains having the better survival capacity in CNSL and based on the Pectinase pro...

In 1255, 1344, and 1408 AD, then again in 1833, 1934, and 2015, large earthquakes, devastated Kathmandu. The 1255 and 1934 surface ruptures have been identified east of the city, along comparable segments of the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT). Whether the other two pairs of events were similar is unclear. Taking into account charcoal’s age inheritance, we revisit the timing of terrace offsets at key...

This paper characterises South Korean monetary policy in the period of explicit inflation targeting that started in 1999. We calculate Bank of Korea’s parameters in the policy objective function, conditional on an estimated macro-model. We show that this central bank appears to have pursued optimal policy geared towards achieving price stability, while displaying a considerable degree of intere...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Middle cerebral artery stenosis is not frequent but a well-established cause of first and recurrent ischemic stroke. Our aim was to investigate middle cerebral artery stenosis in the biethnic (Jewish and Arab) population of patients with acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack in northern Israel. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study population included 1344 patie...