AIM Vascular calcification (VC) is a risk factor of cardiovascular and all-cause mortality in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). CKD-mineral and bone metabolism disorder is an important problem in patients with renal failure. Abnormal levels of serum phosphate and calcium affect CKD-mineral and bone metabolism disorder and contribute to bone disease, VC, and cardiovascular disease. Hyp...

One thousand four hundred and fifty-eight business executives completed the two Hogan assessment measures: the Motives, Values and Preferences Inventory (MVPI) (an inventory of ten core occupational values), and the Hogan Personality Inventory (HPI) (a measure of seven super-factor traits). There were seven sex differences on the values which factored into three interpretable factors labelled S...

Viruses alter the structure and the function of mitochondria for survival. Electron microscopy analysis of the cells infected with bovine adenovirus 3 revealed extensive damage to the inner mitochondrial membrane characterized by dissolution of the cristae and amorphous appearance of mitochondrial matrix with little or no damage to the outer mitochondrial membrane. There were fewer cristae with...

A variant was selected from a clinical isolate of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) during a single passage in the presence of a helicase-primase inhibitor (HPI) at eight times the IC(50). The variant was approximately 40-fold resistant to the HPI BAY 57-1293 and it showed significantly reduced growth in tissue culture with a concomitant reduction in virulence in a murine infection model. The...

This study was aimed to describe the endoscopic picture and laboratory findings in children with chronic abdominal pain and to determine the utility of nodular gastritis in diagnosing HPI in these patients. This prospective study was done between November, 2004 and May, 2007. A total of 70 patients (36 male and 34 female) aged 3-14 years, underwent upper endoscopy. H-pylori infection was diagno...

The Helicobacter Pylori infection (HPI) has emerged as one of the most commonchronic bacterial infections worldwide. main ways to transmit HPI is direct contact from personto-person by oral-to-oral or fecal–to oral and crowded living conditions.

To further investigate the immune response of Macrobrachium rosenbergii against Aeromonas veronii, comparative transcriptomic analyses M. hepatopancreas were conducted on challenge and control groups at 6, 12, 24 h post-infection (hpi), independently. A total 51,707 high-quality unigenes collected from RNA-seq data, 8060 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) discovered through paired comparison...