OBJECTIVE HLA-C*04:82 is a low incidence HLA-C allele. The aim here is to report the ethnicity of C*04:82 and its associated HLA haplotypes among Taiwanese individuals. MATERIALS AND METHODS A sequence-based typing method was used to confirm this low incidence allele. Polymerase chain reaction was performed to amplify exons 2 and 3 of the HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-C loci and exon 2 of the HLA-DRB...

Background: Malnutrition is a common problem in older patients. Early detection of malnutrition is an important task in clinical practice. The MNA has become an extensively used tool to evaluate nutritional status in European countries and the United States. Objective: We evaluated the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA) test and the short-form MNA (MNA-SF) test as screening tools for malnutritio...

A case of extramedullary spinal root hemangioblastoma is described. A 44-year-old male presented with gait disturbance. Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging revealed a round enhanced mass at the level of T8. Spinal angiography showed a vascular tumor fed by the posterior spinal artery via the left T9 intercostal artery. A laminectomy of T8-T9 was performed, and a reddish brown-colored soft tumor ori...

introduction: citrus are one of the important orchard fruit production that after banana is second in production at the world level and every year, chemical fertilizers having most important role in increasing crops productions, but in long application of fertilizers cause soil destructions and polluting underground water. also soils of dry regions are very poor in organic matter level. nowaday...

An experiment was conducted from September 2019 to March 2020 examine the effect of different combination foliar applicable fertilizers on Hybrid tea rose cultivar Mohana. The study performed with 9 treatments (T1-RDF, T2- KNO3 2.5g/l, T3- 5.0g/l, T4- Soluble fertilizer (Sujala) 1g/l, T5- 2 g/l, T6- 1g/L+ T7- 1 g/l + 1.5g/l, T8- 1g/L 2g/l, T9- 1g/l+ 2.5g/l) and 3 replications. From this T8 (KNO...

BACKGROUND trans Palmitoleic acid (t-16:1n-7, or 16:1 t9 in the δ nomenclature usually applied to trans fatty acids and used herein) arouses great scientific interest because it has been suggested to serve as a biomarker for lower risks of type 2 diabetes and coronary artery disease. OBJECTIVE Although 16:1 t9 has been assumed to derive from dietary sources, we examined the hypothesis that 16...

Low-frequency skin conductance is used within several clinical applications and is mainly sensitive to sweating and the moisture content of the stratum corneum, but also how electrodes introduce changes in the electrical properties. Four electrode gels were investigated with regard to sorption characteristics and electrical properties. Skin conductance time series were collected from 18 test su...

Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) reduces body fat reserves, and reduces atherogenesis and type II diabetes in animal experiments. It has been reported that CLA have isomeric-specificity, such as c9, t11 CLA with anticancer activity. The antiproliferative effects of two isomers of CLA (c9, t11-CLA, t9, t11-CLA) and their mixture on the human colon adenocarcinoma cell line Caco-2 were investigated ...

A field experiment was conducted at Eastern Block Farm, Department of Agronomy, TNAU, Coimbatore, during the summer 2019 with objective finding outthe nutrient uptakeandthe postharvest soil statusof Extra Long Staple (ELS) cotton under methods crop establishment, intercropping and management. The laid out in a randomized block design three replications. treatments consisted,viz.T1: Transplantin...