Structural polymorphism of DNA is a widely accepted property. A simple addition to this perception has been our recent finding, where a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) site present in a quasipalindromic sequence of beta-globin LCR exhibited a hairpin-duplex equilibrium. Our current studies explore that secondary structures adopted by individual complementary strands compete with formation ...

BACKGROUND This study is a cost-benefit analysis of a less invasive method of intra-operative duplex imaging compared with the use of intra-operative angiogram (including C-arm fluoroscopy) in arterial reconstruction. METHODS From September 1994 to May 1995, 93 intra-operative duplex imaging studies were performed. Duplex scanning results were recorded for carotid endarterectomy (35), iliac b...

In this study, the effect of molybdate on the electrochemical behavior and semi-conductive properties of duplex stainless steel 2205 passive film at NaCl solutions was investigated. Cyclic potentiodynamic polarization, impedance spectroscopy, mott-schottky plots and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were used to study the passive behavior. Polarization curves showed that the corrosion current ...

Duplex ultrasound is used in many radiology departments as the first line of investigation for symptomatic deep venous thrombosis. Before changing the practice of our department from venography to duplex ultrasonography, we wanted to assess our ability to identify deep venous thrombosis on ultrasound. Thirty-eight patients were investigated for suspected deep venous thrombosis by venography and...

The duplex scan is the main tool used to diagnose carotid artery stenosis, and there is agreement that it might be the single preoperative diagnostic test. All limitations of carotid duplex scanning should be taken into consideration during qualification to surgical or endovascular treatment. Awareness of these limitations is especially important when neurological symptoms are typical and duple...

647 Abstract— In this letter, non-regenerative Amplify-and-Forward (AF) relay systems based on half and full duplex schemes are investigated and their performance is analyzed and compared in terms of outage probability. Although the AF relay systems have been widely investigated in many previous literatures, most of them adopted a half duplex scheme due to hardware limitation and mathematical t...

Ferrocenylcarbodiimide (1), which is known to react with a guanine (G) or thymine (T) base of single stranded DNA, was allowed to react with DNA duplex having a single mismatched base pair of G-T, T-T, or T-cytosine (C). Electrophoreograms of the reaction mixture showed that 1 could react with G or T base of the mismatched sites on the DNA duplex. However, 1 also reacted with the G base of the ...