Background: We explored the effect of vitamin D receptor gene (VDR) polymorphisms in response to PEG-IFN treatment in Egyptian chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients. Methods: Two hundred hepatitis B virus (HBV) patients (42.3±10.7 years) on PEG-IFN α-2a (180 μg /kg for 48 weeks) and one hundred control subjects (37.3 ±12 years) were enrolled in the study. Vitamin D levels a...

We present the implementation of updated stellar evolution recipes in codes \texttt{Nbody6++GPU, MOCCA} and \texttt{McLuster}. test them through numerical simulations star clusters containing $1.1\times 10^5$ stars (with $2.0\times 10^4$ primordial hard binaries) performing high-resolution direct $N$-body (\texttt{Nbody6++GPU}) Monte-Carlo (\texttt{MOCCA}) to an age 10~Gyr. compare models imple...

TO THE EDITOR—We read with interest the updated human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) primary care guidelines by Aberg et al in Clinical Infectious Diseases on 1 January 2014 [1] and would like to bring an additional comment to readers’ attention. We agree with the authors that the preferred initial assay for hypogonadism diagnosis in HIV-infected men has not been definitively established, althoug...

ABSTRACT Transmission of Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) is dependent on virus uptake in the midgut prior to virus movement to the salivary glands. Replication of TSWV in the alimentary canal of tobacco thrips (TT, Frankliniella fusca) and western flower thrips (WFT, F. occidentalis) was investigated by immunolocalization of the nonstructural protein (NSs) encoded by the small RNA of TSWV and ...

BACKGROUND This meta-analysis aimed to assess available evidence on possible associations of interleukin-28B polymorphisms rs8099917 and rs12979860 with development of hepatitis virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). METHODS PubMed, EMBASE, Google Scholar, and the Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure databases were systematically searched to identify relevant studies. Meta-analyse...