Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) is a member of the genus Phlebovirus within the family Bunyaviridae. It can cause severe epidemics among ruminants and fever, myalgia, a hemorrhagic syndrome, and/or encephalitis in humans. The RVFV M segment encodes the NSm and 78-kDa proteins and two major envelope proteins, Gn and Gc. The biological functions of the NSm and 78-kDa proteins are unknown; both pro...

I. Introduetion 375 11. Morphology and Ontogeny of Teliospore and Basidiospore Formation 376 A. Teliospore Morphology and Ontogeny 376 B. Teliospore Germination and Basidiospore Formation 380 III. Physiology of Teliospores 384 A. Factors That Induce Teliospore Formation under Natural Conditions 384 B. Artificial Induction 01 Teliospore Germination 385 IV. Germination and Penetration 01 Basidios...

The hypothesis was tested that M2-selective antagonists partially utilize the allosteric site of muscarinic M2 receptors. The interactions of the allosteric agent W84 (hexane-1, 6-bis[dimethyl-3'-phthalimidopropyl-ammonium bromide]) were studied with the M2/M4-selective AF-DX 384 [(+/-)-5, 11-dihydro-11-([(2-(2-[(dipropylamino)methyl]-1-piperidinyl)ethyl)amino]carbonyl)-6H-pyrido(2,3-b)(1,4)-be...

Cosmid (1), phage, and bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries (2) have commonly been used for constructing genome libraries, and depending on the organism, this results in thousands of clones that need to be managed. One complication of dealing with such a high number of samples arises during hybridization screening of high-density filter arrays of the genomic clones and trying to dist...

With a large influx of dermoscopy images and a growing shortage of dermatologists, automatic dermoscopic image analysis plays an essential role in skin cancer diagnosis. In this paper, a new deep fully convolutional neural network (FCNN) is proposed to automatically segment melanoma out of skin images by end-to-end learning with only pixels and labels as inputs. Our proposed FCNN is capable of ...

Electrophoresis continues to be a mainstay in molecular genetic laboratories for checking, sizing and separating both PCR products, nucleic acids derived from in vivo or in vitro sources and nucleic acid-protein complexes. Many genomic and genetic applications demand high throughput, such as the checking of amplification products from many loci, from many clones, from many cell lines or from ma...

tone, were reported from human and animal species. They were given the name mammalian lignans, because unlike plant lignans they carry phenolic hydroxy groups only in the meta position of the aromatic ring and they were assumed to play an important role in the prevention of hormone-dependent diseases, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer. The origins of enterodiol and enterolactone were la...