DNA methylation as epigenetic mark plays a key role in normal differential and developmental processes as well as in dynamic gene regulation at the genomic level. To assess DNA methylation pattern in different developmental stages of Aeluropus littoralis, methylation sensitive amplified polymorphism (MSAP) was used. Methylation and demethylation status at the CCGG recognition site were...

autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (adpkd) is the most common genetic nephropathy, which is characterized by replacement of renal parenchyma with multiple cysts. in iran, the disease prevalence within the chronic hemodialysis patient population is approximately 8-10%. so far, three genetic loci have been identified to be responsible for adpkd. little information is available concernin...

The ability to repeat the experiments from a research study and obtain similar results is a corner stone in experiment-based scientific discovery. This essential feature has been often ignored by the distributed computing and networking community. There are many reasons for that, such as the complexity of provisioning, configuring, and orchestrating the resources used by experiments, their mult...

Dependencies play a major role in the analysis of program properties. The analysis of groundness dependencies for logic programs using the class of positive Boolean functions is a main applications area. The precision of such an analysis can be improved through the integration of either pattern information or type information. This paper develops an approach in which type information is exploit...

This paper describes the External Polymorphism pattern, which allows classes that are not related by inheritance and/or have no virtual methods to be treated polymorphically. This pattern combines C++ language features with patterns like Adapter and Decorator [1] to give the appearance of polymorphic behavior on otherwise unrelated classes. The External Polymorphism pattern has been used in a n...

three-dimensional color doppler ultrasonography is a new technique to evaluate the pattern of blood vessels. this study was performed to assess the feasibility of this method in evaluation of kidney vasculature pattern in dogs. in this paper, visualization of the renal, interlobar, arcuate, and interlobular arteries and veins using 3d color doppler ultrasonography in dogs is shown and the techn...

the citrus leafminer, phyllocnistis citrella stainton (lepidoptera: gracillariidae) is a major invasive pest of citrus in tunisia. in order to help the implementation of an efficient integrated management strategy, it was essential to assess the genetic diversity and population structure of the pest. for this purpose, random-amplified polymorphic dna-polymerase chain reaction (rapd-pcr) was app...