Multidrug resistance-associated protein (MRP1) causes cellular drug resistance in several cancer cell lines. In this paper we show that antisense oligonucleotides decrease MRP1 expression in human leukaemia cells. We investigated biological activity of a series of 12 linear phosphorothioate oligonucleotides, complementary to several regions of MRP1 mRNA. The oligonucleotides were administered t...

I n the last few years, molecular hybridization methods have been used extensively in basic and applied virology because of their technical flexibility and high specificity. Using these techniques, the detection of DNA and RNA viruses directly from clinical specimens, the analysis of the specific transcriptional activity of viral genes in vitro and in vivo, and the study of virus-host relations...

The vasa gene is essential for germ cell development and gametogenesis both in vertebrates invertebrates. In the present study, (Rcvasa) cDNA was cloned from cobia (Rachycentron canadum) using RACE amplification method. We found that full-length sequence of Rcvasa comprises 2571 bp, containing a 5′-UTR 145 3′-UTR 341 an open reading frame (ORF) 2085 encoding protein 694 aa. deduced amino acid c...

Objective: Reverse transcriptase loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) is one of the time-saving, accurate, and cost-effective alternative methods to real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). This study aimed identify robustness a colorimetric RT-LAMP assay kit that we developed, detecting SARS-COV-2 viral RNA within 30 minutes using primer set special N gene against RT-PCR, gold...

Interleukin 16 (IL16) is a proinflammatory cytokine and a chemoattractant factor for CD4+ T cells. IL16 has been detected at higher concentrations in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) synovial fluid than in osteoarthritis(OA) specimens. IL16 is expressed in inflammatory infiltrates and in CD68 synovial lining cells of patients with RA as detected by in situ hybridisation. In this study we compared the ...

during 2009-10, real time rt-pcr and conventional rt-pcr techniques used for detecting btvs rna in 310 blood samples. for real time and gel based rt-pcr segment-1 and segment-10 selected as conserve genes to search any btv strains. using these methods, 58 (%18.7) and 14 (%4.5) positive samples were detected among the clinically suspected sheep. sensitivity of both molecular techniques evalua...

It is presumed that resolution of hepatitis C, as evidenced by normalization of liver function tests and disappearance of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA from serum, as determined by conventional laboratory assays, reflects virus eradication. In this study, we examined the expression of the HCV genome in the sera, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC), and, on some occasions, monocyte-derived d...