A study was undertaken to examine the population structure of viridans group streptococci (VGS) isolated the upper respiratory tract of adult and paediatric patients within the community. VGS are common commensal bacterial inhabitants of the upper respiratory tract and valuable sentinel reporters of underlying antibiotic resistance (AR). Laboratory examination of the colonising VGS species may ...

2 Department of Microbiology, Institute of Plant Biology, University of Zürich, 9 Winterthurerstasse 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland 10 11 12 13 14 *Corresponding author. Mailing address: Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, 15 Winterthurerestrasse 272, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; Phone: +41 44 635 86 51; Fax: +41 44 635 16 89 08 ; E-Mail: [email protected] 17 18 19

In this study, the growth parameters of big-scale sand smelt (Atherina boyeri Risso, 1810) in İznik Lake has been determined with traditional (length weight relationships (LWRs), von Bertalanffy (VB), condition factor (CF)) and modern approaches (Artificial Neural Networks - ANNs). A total 635 specimens (44.84% female 55.16% male) were collected from local fisherman during hunting season betwee...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a generally fatal plasma cell cancer that often shows activation of the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/Akt (PI3K/Akt) pathway. Targeted pharmacologic therapies, however, have not yet progressed beyond the clinical trial stage, and given the complexity of the PI3K/Akt signalling system (e.g. multiple protein isoforms, diverse feedback regulation mechanisms, strong variability...

the theoretical calculation of the energies of projectile like fragments (plfs) using the heavy-ion reactions between 76ge and 198pt are reported in this article. the incident beam energy was 635 mev. the calculated values of plfs are compared with the previous experimental results and it is shown that the theoretical calculations of plfs are consistent with the experimental values. the elastic...

In this study, the effect of light wavelength on growth rate and lipid production of Synechocystis was investigated. Continuous cultivation system was used to have uniform cell density and avoid self-shading in order to obtain more precise results. Based on previous studies, red light is more efficient than other colors in the visible spectrum for cultivation of Synechocystis; however, the opti...

Transfection of human oral squamous carcinoma cells (clone E10) with mimics for unexpressed miR-20b or miR-363-5p, encoded by the miR-106a-363 cluster (miR-20b, miR-106a, miR-363-3p, or miR-363-5p), caused 40-50% decrease in proliferation. Transfection with mimics for miR-18a or miR-92a, encoded by the miR-17-92 cluster (all members being expressed in E10 cells), had no effect on proliferation....