A lipopolysaccharideand b-1,3-glucan-binding protein (LGBP) was isolated and characterized from blood cells (hemocytes) of the freshwater crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus. The LGBP was purified by chromatography on Blue-Sepharose and phenyl-Sepharose, followed by Sephacryl S-200. The LGBP has a molecular mass of 36 kDa and 40 kDa on 10% SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing and...

Antimicrobial peptides are a pivotal component of the invertebrate innate immune system. In this study, we identified a lipopolysaccharide- and β-1,3-glucan-binding protein (LGBP) gene from the pacific abalone Haliotis discus hannai (HDH), which is involved in the pattern recognition mechanism and plays avital role in the defense mechanism of invertebrates immune system. The HDH-LGBP cDNA consi...

Pattern recognition proteins such as lipopolysaccharide and beta-1,3-glucan binding protein (LGBP) play an important role in the innate immune response of crustaceans and insects. Random sequencing of cDNA clones from a hepatopancreas cDNA library of white spot virus (WSV)-infected shrimp provided a partial cDNA (PsEST-289) that showed similarity to the LGBP gene of crayfish and insects. Subseq...

Appropriate representation is one of the keys to the success of face recognition technologies. In this paper, we present a novel face representation approach based on a reduced 21 set of local histograms based on Local Gabor Binary Patterns (LGBP). In the proposed method, a face image is first represented by the local Gabor binary patterns (LGBP) his23 tograms which are extracted from the LGBP ...

Zhikong scallop Chlamys farreri (Jones et Preston) is an economically important species in China. Understanding its immune system would be of great help in controlling diseases. In the present study, an important immunity-related gene, the Lipopolysaccharide and Beta-1,3-glucan Binding Protein (LGBP) gene, was located on C. farreri chromosomes by mapping several lgbp-containing BAC clones throu...

conclusions in this study, the authors analyzed the location and disturbance level of pain after lgbp, which could serve as a cornerstone for further researches. the authors suggest that long-term follow-up (for more than a year after operation) should be considered in future studies and also the relationship between the drainage site and pain should be investigated. results the results of this...

This paper provides a new approach to recognize facial expressions. In this paper, facial expression recognition is based on appearance based features or we can say that low level features. We used two different approaches to categories the expression into seven different classes. These classifications based on Scale Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and Local Gabor Binary Filter (LGBP). First...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic gastric bypass (LGBP) is the predominant technique in surgical treatment of morbid obesity. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the results of LGBP and measure the validity of some hypothetical variables as predictors of these outcomes. METHODS We carried out a historical cohort study which included 50 morbidly obese patients operated with LGBP. The results were assessed by the...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to compare the results of open versus laparoscopic gastric bypass in the treatment of morbid obesity. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA Gastric bypass is one of the most commonly acknowledged surgical techniques for the management of morbid obesity. It is usually performed as an open surgery procedure, although now some groups perform it via the laparoscopic app...

BACKGROUND Pain after laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery (LGBP) is a major problem. Gabapentin is an anticonvulsant drug that can be effective in postoperative pain control. OBJECTIVES This study examined the effect of preoperative administration of gabapentin on reducing pain after LGBP in patients with morbid obesity. PATIENTS AND METHODS This randomized clinical trial was performed in H...