OBJECTIVE To evaluate retinal vascular structural change in ocular Behcet's using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) and fluorescein angiography (FA). METHODS An analytic cross-sectional study of 37 eyes of 21 Behcet's uveitic patients was performed. Foveal retinal thickness (FRT), perifoveal hypoperfusion areas in superficial capillary plexus (SCP), and deep capillary plexus (DC...

Regular monitoring of blood α-fetoprotein (AFP) and/or carcino-embryonic antigen (CEA) levels is important for the routine screening of liver cancer. However, AFP and CEA have a much lower specificity than des-γ-carboxyprothrombin (DCP) to detect liver cancer. Therefore, the study reported here was designed, to develop a screen-printed DCP immunosensor incorporating zinc oxide nanoparticles, fo...

Abstract The effect of AC poling (ACP) on the piezoelectric and dielectric properties diced sliver-mode vibrators (L13 × W0.15–0.30 T0.51 mm 3 ) was investigated for a convex abdomen ultrasound (US) probe that is made large Pb(In 1/2 Nb )O -Pb(Mg 1/3 2/3 −0.3PbTiO (PIN-PMN-PT) single crystal (SC) plate W60 ). SC manufactured by continuous feeding Bridgman (CF-BM) method. <?CDATA ${\varepsilon }...

Thermoplastic elastomer composites based on ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA), natural rubber (NR), and Mengkuang leaf fibre were prepared using the sulfur peroxide vulcanization systems. Different curing systems loadings affecting processing torque, tensile, thermal, morphology of investigated. Addition resulted in poor dispersion agglomeration matrix, which may have affected efficiency stress tran...

Lignite based granular activated carbon of 20x30 mesh size was used to investigate the extent of bioregeneration of phenol and 2,4-DCP in a batch system. The adsorption isotherm fits very well with the Freundlich isotherm and it is apparent that 2,4-DCP is more adsorbable than phenol. The degree of reversible adsorption for phenol and 2,4-DCP were 32.9 and 10.6 %, respectively. The low percenta...

A large number and variety of compounds are formed in the process of chlorinating drinking water. The classes of compounds formed include trihalomethanes, haloacetic acids, haloacetonitriles, halophenols, and halopropanones. Many of the compounds have been shown to be toxic and are currently being further evaluated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). One group of the halopropanon...

A genetically engineered microorganism, Pseudomonas putida PPO301(pRO103), and the plasmidless parent strain, PPO301, were added at approximately 10 CFU/g of soil amended with 500 ppm of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate (2,4-D) (500 mug/g). The degradation of 2,4-D and the accumulation of a single metabolite, identified by gas chromatography-mass spectrophotometry as 2,4-dichlorophenol (2,4-DCP), occ...

The dlt operon (dltA to dltD) of Lactobacillus rhamnosus 7469 encodes four proteins responsible for the esterification of lipoteichoic acid (LTA) by D-alanine. These esters play an important role in controlling the net anionic charge of the poly (GroP) moiety of LTA. dltA and dltC encode the D-alanine-D-alanyl carrier protein ligase (Dcl) and D-alanyl carrier protein (Dcp), respectively. Wherea...