To examine the virus-host interaction in subclinical bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) infections, the spread of a BVDV 2 strain of low virulence to different organs and the development of lesions were investigated. Eight colostrum-deprived, clinically healthy, 2-3-month-old calves were intranasally inoculated with 10(6) tissue culture infective dose of the naturally occurring BVDV 2 strain 28...

Associations have been found between self-reported cold symptoms and Pi type in 84 pairs of identical twins. The risk of cold symptoms relative to MM phenotypes was 1.2 times greater in MS and 2.5 times greater in MZ individuals. Up to 9% of variance in cold symptoms could be attributed to Pi type, representing at least 20% of the total genetical variance.

Introduction Alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is one of the most common genetic disorders, with an estimated prevalence of 1:2000 to 1:5000 in Europe and Scandinavia, depending on the geographic location and type of epidemiologic study [9]. The alpha-1-antitrypsin gene, or SERPINA1 gene (serine proteinase inhibitor), is located on chromosome 14. Patients with the homozygous AAT deficiency ...

widespread occurrence of h9n2 low pathogenic avian influenza (lpai) viruses in many asian countriesduring the past decade has resulted in the need for evaluation of the pathogenesis of h9n2 virus infection. in this study, tissue tropism and dissemination of a/chicken/iran/772/1998(h9n2) virus throughout the body of broiler chickens were investigated. the clinical signs, gross lesions and antibo...

for a ring endomorphism $alpha$ and an $alpha$-derivation $delta$, we introduce a concept, so called skew $pi$-armendariz ring, that is a generalization of both $pi$-armendariz rings, and $(alpha,delta)$-compatible skew armendariz rings. we first observe the basic properties of skew $pi$-armendariz rings, and extend the class of skew $pi$-armendariz rings through various ring extensions. we nex...

Searches for $CP$ violation in the two-body decays $D_{(s)}^{+}\rightarrow h^{+}\pi^{0}$ and $D_{(s)}^{+} \rightarrow h^{+}\eta$ (where $h^{+}$ denotes a $\pi^{+}$ or $K^{+}$ meson) are performed using $pp$ collision data collected by LHCb experiment corresponding to either 9 fb$^{-1}$ 6 of integrated luminosity. The $\pi^{0}$ $\eta$ mesons reconstructed $e^{+}e^{-}\gamma$ final state, which ca...

Knowledge of the virulence phenotypes of soybean cyst nematode, Heterodera glycines populations is important in choosing appropriate sources for breeding resistant cultivars and managing the nematode. We investigated races of 59 H. glycines populations collected from 1997 to 1998 and races and HG Types of 94 populations collected in 2002 from soybean fields across southern and central Minnesota...

When we know the subjective probabilities (degrees of belief) pt and pi of two statements S\ and S2, and we have no information about the relationship between these statements, then the probability of S\ kS2 can take any value from the interval [maxfpi + pi — l,Q),min(pi,p2)]. If we must select a single number from this interval, the natural idea is to take its midpoint. The corresponding "and"...