MARK I. STEVENS, DAVID PORCO, CYRILLE A. D’HAESE & LOUIS DEHARVENG South Australian Museum, North Terrace, GPO Box 234, SA 5000, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Adelaide, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Laboratoire d’Ecologie, EA 1293 ECODIV, FED SCALE, Bâtiment IRESE A, UFR Sciences et Techniques, Université de Rouen, Mont Sai...

Chlamydia psittaci is a gram-negative, obligate, intracellular bacterium, which mainly infects birds and mammals. Not much is known about innate immunity initiated by C. psittaci. The focus of the present study is on chicken macrophage activation and expression of cytokine, chemokine, caspase-1, iNOS and TLR genes during the early phase and mid-cycle period of the developmental cycle of the hig...

Abstract Hibernoma is a rare benign neoplasia derived from remnants of brown adipose tissue. Here, we describe an unusual case mediastinal hibernoma which radiologically mimicked thymic malignancy. The patients had presented with chest pain, associated palpitations and dizziness suggestive cardiac pathology. Investigation coronary anatomy by CT scan, incompletely revealed the presence lesion si...

Metabolic enzymes involved in benzene activation or detoxification, including NAD(P)H, quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1), myeloperoxidase (MPO), glutathione-S-transferase mu-1 (GSTM1), and glutathione-S-transferase theta-1 (GSTT1), were studied for their roles in human susceptibility to benzene poisoning. The potential interactions of these metabolic enzymes with lif...

The use of growth hormone-releasing hormones (GHRHs) is prohibited in sports according to the regulations of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). The aim of the present study was to develop a method for the simultaneous detection of four different GHRHs and respective metabolites from human plasma by means of immunoaffinity purification and subsequent nano-ultrahigh performance liquid chromatog...