We welcome Sheppard's comments on our recent assessment of both ecological and geomorphic change at Diego Garcia Atoll in the central Indian Ocean [1]. Whilst our assessment incorporated numerous aspects of change, including movements of the lagoon rim shorelines, changes in the terrestrial vegetation on the lagoon rim and amendments to the bathymetry of the lagoon basin through dredging activi...

Puri¢cationand characterizationoftheantimicrobial peptide microcinN Gino Corsini, Eduardo Karahanian, Mario Tello, Katia Fernandez, Daniel Rivero, Jose Miguel Saavedra & Alonso Ferrer Laboratorio de Bacteriologia Molecular, Centro de Investigacion Biomedica (CIB), Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile; Laboratorio de Biologia Molecular, Centro de Investigacion Biomed...

BACKGROUND Evaluating shoes during sport-related movements may provide a better assessment of plantar loads associated with repetitive injury and provide more specific data for comparing shoe cushioning characteristics. HYPOTHESIS Accelerating, cutting, and jumping pressures will be higher than in straight running, differentiating regional shoe cushioning performance in sport-specific movemen...

To cite: Losa I, Owoeye A. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-212852 DESCRIPTION A fetal anomaly scan at 13 weeks gestation showed cystic hygroma and amnion separation. Further scans at 19 weeks revealed a ‘strawberry-shaped skull’ (figure 1). Additional findings were increased nuchal translucency, ventriculomegaly and polyhydramnios. These were...

OBJECTIVE To develop a new sampling medium for detecting of bioaerosols. METHODS The sampling media were tested by using Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Serratia marcescens under static and active conditions, preliminary applications were performed using AGI-10 and high volume sampler. RESULTS The average recovery rates were raised to 24.7%, 58.2%, 40.5%, 44.1%, 20.5%, and 15.4%...

Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3), highly conserved in both humans and murine, is one of key tyrosine kinase receptors for FGF. FGFR3 is expressed in different tissues, including cartilage, brain, kidney, and intestine at different development stages. Conventional knockout of Fgfr3 alleles leads to short life span, and overgrowth of bone. In clinic, human FGFR3 mutations are responsib...

Fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) seems to play an inhibitory role in bone development, as activating mutations in the gene underlie disorders such as achondroplasia and thanatophoric dysplasia. Findings from multiple myeloma (MM) indicate that FGFR3 also can act as an oncogene, and mutation of codon 249 in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) gene was recently detected in ...

Correspondence should be addressed to Tsing-San Hsu, [email protected] Received 8 September 2010; Accepted 18 October 2010 Academic Editor: Julio Rossi Copyright q 2010 Tsing-San Hsu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly c...