Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) is a neurologic syndrome seen in horses from the Americas and is mainly caused by Sarcocystis neurona. Recently, a 29-kDa surface antigen from S. neurona merozoites was identified as being highly immunodominant on a Western blot. This antigen has been sequenced and cloned, and the expressed protein has been named SnSAG1. In a previous study, cell-mediate...

Departamento de Neurologia, Psiquiatria e Psicologia, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto SP, Brazil; Departamento de Fisiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM), São Paulo SP, Brazil; Disciplina de Neurologia Experimental, Universidade Federal de São Paulo/Escola Paulista de Medicina (UNIFESP/EPM), São P...

As well as being considered a reliable measurement instrument of animal anxiety-like behavior, the elevated plus-maze (EPM) is also used as a post-hoc test to evaluate emotionality in genetically modified rodents. The present review considers factors which may further improve the validity (predictive/face/construct) of the EPM model: (1) the importance of measuring defensive patterns of respons...

There has been a steady decline in the number of applications to nephrology training programs. One solution is to decrease the number of available fellowship positions. Proponents believe that training programs have grown too big but the method for reduction has not been established. This investigation analyzes two models that decrease the number of available training positions and compares the...

To exploit the application of the on-chip cell electrophoresis system to the monitoring of the progress of cellular differentiation, the temporal change in the electrophoretic mobility (EPM) of human promyelocytic leukemia cell lines (HL60) during neutrophil differentiation was systematically investigated. Firstly, to confirm the action of two differentiation inducers, all-trans retinoic acid (...

The study evaluates the possibility of enhancing uptake of etoposide (topoisomerase II inhibitor) by tumor when delivered through polysorbate 20 micelles. The micelle formation was ascertained by determining the critical micellar concentration (CMC) with a du Nouy ring tensiometer and by size measurement using dynamic light scattering. Addition of 5% ethanol decreased the CMC of Polysorbate 20 ...

The Gender Source Book is organised into 3 parts. Part One presents the essence of the Source Book, (a) the context and the concept of gender responsive environmental planning and management (EPM), (b) the process of gender responsive EPM, drawn lessons of experiences from cities and programmes, and (c) the lessons learnt and challenges. Part Two contains the summaries of twenty practical case ...

The aim of this work was to study age-related changes in the behaviour adult Wistar rats using open field (OF) and elevated plus maze (EPM) tests. Behavioural related motor activity anxiety were particular interest. Results showed that as male female progressed from 2 5 months age, there a decrease level exploratory activities an increase their anxiety. Age-related dependent upon initial indivi...

abstract this research was conducted in the pegah - sorkh sub-catchments area, a semi-arid region in sw iran, using geographic information systems (gis) and remote sensing (rs) to compare the erosion potential method (epm) and modified pacific southwest interagency committee (mpsiac) models in erosion-potential mapping and sediment yield assessment. the study area with approximately 4600 ha sho...