This study aimed to investigate the frequency of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies in serum from 629 chickens on 39 family farms in seven municipalities in the semiarid region, Pernambuco, Brazil, and to identify risk factors associated with T. gondii infection. The risk factors were studied in 421 samples from 29 farms. Anti-T. gondii antibodies were investigated by indirect fluorescent antibo...

this study was conducted during 3 years period (2002-2004). tick sampling was carried out randomly from domestic animals during seasonal activity of ticks from different parts of iran. 2170 ticks from 151 cattle, 629 sheep, 336 goats and 33 camels were collected. the occurance of tick infestation in cattle, sheep, goats and camels was 60%, 71.4%, 53% and 46 % respectively. sampled ticks of rhip...

The molecular chaperone Hsp90 (heat shock protein 90) maintains the conformation, stability, and activity of several key oncogenic proteins, such as EGF receptor (EGFR), cyclin-dependent kinases, Raf, and p53, which are collectively known as Hsp90 client proteins (Whitesell and Lindquist, 2005). The chaperone function of Hsp90 requires the formation of a multichaperone complex, which is depende...

Imprinted genes show differential expression between maternal and paternal alleles as a consequence of epigenetic modification that can result in ‘parent-of-origin’ effects on phenotypic traits1. There is increasing evidence from mouse and human studies that imprinted genes may influence behavior and cognitive functioning2. Previous work in girls with Turner syndrome (45,XO) has suggested that ...

1 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany 2 Freiburg Brain Imaging, University Medical Centre Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany 3 Language and Aphasia Laboratory, Department of Neurology, University of Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany 4 Department of Neuroradiology, University Medical Centre Freiburg, 79106 Freiburg, Germany 5 Department of Psychiatry...

Caste, Ethnicity and Poverty in Rural India This paper analyzes the determinants of rural poverty in India, contrasting the situation of the Scheduled Caste (SC) and Schedule Tribe (ST) households with the non-scheduled population. The incidence of poverty among SC and ST households is significantly higher than non-scheduled households. Using a probit decomposition analysis, we decompose the di...

BACKGROUND Cervical cancer is the fourth most frequent malignancy affecting women worldwide, but drug resistance and toxicities remain a major challenge in chemotherapy. The use of natural compounds is promising because they are less toxic and able to target multiple signaling pathways. The 1'S-1'-acetoxychavicol acetate (ACA), a natural compound isolated from wild ginger Alpinia conchigera, in...

Chronic inflammatory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are clinically and socioeconomically important diseases globally. Currently the mainstay of anti-inflammatory therapy in respiratory diseases is corticosteroids. Although corticosteroids have proven clinical efficacy in asthma, many asthmatic inflammatory conditions (e.g., infection, exacerbation, an...