background the emergence of multidrug-resistant acinetobacter baumannii complicates the therapy of the related infections. hospital isolates of a. baumannii are usually multidrug-resistant. the problem is compounded by increasing resistance to broad-spectrum antibiotics including carbapenems. objectives the aim of this study was to determine antimicrobial susceptibility patterns and distributio...

We have reported previously that the human vitamin D receptor (hVDR) is selectively phosphorylated by protein kinase C-beta (PKC-beta), in vitro, on a serine residue in the sequence RRS51MKRK, which is located between the two zinc fingers of hVDR and is potentially important to its transacting function (Hsieh, J.-C., Jurutka, P.W., Galligan, M.A., Terpening, C.M., Haussler, C.A., Samuels, D.S.,...

We have previously reported new Mtv loci, Mtv-48 and -51, in the Japanese laboratory mouse strains CS and NC. Here we show by backcross analysis that both Mtv-48 and -51 cosegregate with very slow deletion of T cells bearing V beta 2. The nucleotide sequences of the open reading frames in the 3' long terminal repeats of Mtv-48 and -51 were very similar to those of Mtv-DDO, mouse mammary tumor v...

Here we show that in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans mutational inactivation of two autophagy genes unc-51/atg1 and bec-1/atg6/beclin1 results in small body size without affecting cell number. Furthermore, loss-of-function mutations in unc-51 and bec-1 suppress the giant phenotype of mutant animals with aberrant insulin-like growth factor-1 (insulin/IGF-1) or transforming growth factor-beta...

OBJECTIVES Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant pathogen in health care settings. In recent years, an increase in carbapenem resistance among A. baumannii due to Ambler class B metallo-beta-lactamases or class D OXA carbapenamases has been reported. In this study we detected the presence of OXA carbapenamases and coproduction of metallo-beta-lactamases (blaVIM and blaIMP ) by phenotypic and...

The main objective is to study the genotypic and characterization of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid content resistant isolates in Erbil city. A total 39 Acinetobacter baumannii were isolated from 102 diabetic foot ulcer patients, whose ages ranged 37 88 y, attending various medical wards hospitals city, Iraq, between May 2020 March 2021. Isolates tested for presence extended-spectrum beta-lactam...

OBJECTIVE To determine physical activity (PA) self-efficacy correlates in breast cancer survivors. METHODS Mail survey of 192 breast cancer survivors. RESULTS Structural equation analyses demonstrated significant and direct associations for perceived PA barriers (beta=-.29), fatigue (beta=-.24), social support (beta=.12), enjoyment (beta=.12), and prediagnosis PA (beta=.11) with barriers se...

There’s a broad field of applications for the microcontroller technology, that can be enumerated from simple, like small electric equipment operation, until sophisticated, like single loop digital controllers with man-machine and machine-machine interface, also using complex digital control techniques. The main preoccupation for us is to transmit to an undergraduate student, who hadn’t had any ...