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Significant occlusal wear occurs on posterior composite restorations in areas without direct contact with opponent teeth (contact-free wear) in addition to wear at the contacts. Recent research has indicated that all occlusal posterior composite surfaces wear, and those surfaces show decreasing wear rates over time. Th... | US |
The objective of this work was to develop polymeric materials that expand slightly upon polymerization and that could potentially be used as matrix resins for dental composites. A series of stereoisomeric alicyclic spiroorthocarbonates (SOC's) that expand when polymerized were synthesized. Three of these SOC racemates ... | US |
Amalgam scrap was subjected to two different Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) extraction procedures to determine if it presents an environmental hazard. The results indicate that concentrations of mercury and silver in the extracts do not exceed the EPA's maximum allowable concentrations. It was concluded that ama... | US |
The intracellular accumulation of PAF following cell stimulation suggests an intracellular signal transduction pathway. High affinity binding sites for PAF in microsomal membranes and displacement of PAF from these sites by structurally distinct PAF antagonists suggests the existence of an intracellular receptor. Suppr... | US |
Acid etching of dentin is used by many bonding systems to remove the smear layer and permit bonding directly to the dentin matrix. Although early animal studies indicated that acid etching caused moderate to severe pulpal reactions, there is a high probability that the pulpal irritation may have been due to microleakag... | US |
Among leukemia patients, a significant number of deaths are due to Candida septicemia, many of which are associated with previous oral infections. Oral candidiasis detection methods vary, and the relationship between oral candidiasis and Candida colonization (CC) is not well defined. The main objectives of this study w... | US |
Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) remains a poorly understood group of hereditary enamel defects characterized by a wide array of clinical presentations. Although numerous reports have described the histological features of AI, knowledge concerning the biochemical composition of the affected enamel remains minimal. The purp... | US |
Ingestion of fluoride dentifrice by preschool children recently has been implicated as a risk factor for dental fluorosis. The availability of dentifrices flavored for children could increase fluoride ingestion by young children at risk for dental fluorosis. This article reports results of a pilot study of use of regul... | US |
Experimental autoimmune uveoretinitis (EAU) induced by immunization of albino Lewis rats with a retinal soluble antigen (S-antigen) has been studied extensively by many workers. An intraorchidic injection of S-antigen 4 days prior to immunization of the animal with the antigen emulsified in adjuvant was found to preven... | US |
The immune response to the Ro/SSA particles is conformation dependent. In sera with only anti-Ro/SSA precipitins, the autoantibodies to the 60 kD Ro/SSA are largely to the native 60 kD Ro/SSA while autoantibodies to the 52 kD Ro/SSA particle when present are exclusively to the denatured 52 kD Ro/SSA particle. Antibodie... | US |
Administration of ethanol induces the synthesis of hepatic metallothionein and metallothionein mRNA in the liver but not in the brain. Furthermore, ethyl alcohol, methyl alcohol and isopropyl alcohol enhance the synthesis of metallothionein in Chang cells but not in neuroblastoma IMR-32 cells in culture. The results of... | US |
Phospholipase A2 and acyltransferase were assayed and characterized in pure axoplasm and neural tissues of squid. Intracellular phospholipase A2 activity was highest in giant fiber lobe and axoplasm, followed by homogenates from retinal fibers, optic lobe and fin nerve. In most preparations, exogenous calcium (5 mM) ca... | US |
Thiourea dioxide was used in chemical modification studies to identify functionally important amino acids in Escherichia coli CTP synthetase. Incubation at pH 8.0 in the absence of substrates led to rapid, time dependent, and irreversible inactivation of the enzyme. The second-order rate constant for inactivation was 0... | US |
Sequence comparison studies revealed that the drug resistance transporter of Streptomyces peucetius (DrrAB) and two nodulation gene products (NodIJ) of Rhizobium leguminosarum are homologous to proteins encoded by three sets of genes that comprise capsular polysaccharide export systems in gram-negative bacteria: KpsTM ... | US |
Local determinants of 3(10)-helix stabilization have been ascertained from the analysis of the crystal structure data base. We have clustered all 5-length substructures from 51 nonhomologous proteins into classes based on the conformational similarity of their backbone dihedral angles. Several clusters, derived from 3(... | US |
An autophosphorylation site in the activated insulin receptor tyrosine kinase domain has three tyrosines phosphorylated when fully activated. To begin to examine recognition of triphosphotyrosyl sites by protein tyrosine phosphatases in possible control of signal transduction a triphosphotyrosyl dodecapeptide TRDIpYETD... | US |
The solution structure of the phosphocarrier protein, HPr, from Bacillus subtilis has been determined by analysis of two-dimensional (2D) NMR spectra acquired for the unphosphorylated form of the protein. Inverse-detected 2D (1H-15N) heteronuclear multiple quantum correlation nuclear Overhauser effect (HMQC NOESY) and ... | US |
Backbone amide proton exchange rates in the DNA-binding domain of GAL4 have been determined using 1H-15N heteronuclear correlation NMR spectroscopy. Three forms of the protein were studied-the native Zn-containing protein, the Cd-substituted protein, and a Zn-GAL4/DNA complex. Exchange rates in the Zn-containing protei... | US |
The structure of the long-chain flavodoxin from the photosynthetic cyanobacterium Anabaena 7120 has been determined at 2 A resolution by the molecular replacement method using the atomic coordinates of the long-chain flavodoxin from Anacystis nidulans. The structure of a third long-chain flavodoxin from Chondrus crispu... | US |
The replacement of Arg-54 by Ala in the active site of Escherichia coli aspartate transcarbamoylase causes a 17,000-fold loss of activity but does not significantly influence the binding of substrates or substrate analogs (Stebbins, J.W., Xu, W., & Kantrowitz, E.R., 1989, Biochemistry 28, 2592-2600). In the X-ray struc... | US |
The conformation of porcine serum ferric transferrin (Tf) and its stability against denaturation were studied by circular dichroism. Tf was estimated to have 19-24% alpha-helix and 50-55% beta-sheet based on the methods of Chang et al. (Chang, C.T., Wu, C.-S.C., & Yang, J.T., 1978, Anal. Biochem. 91, 13-31) and Provenc... | US |
The three-dimensional solution-state structure is reported for the zinc-substituted form of rubredoxin (Rd) from the marine hyperthermophilic archaebacterium Pyrococcus furiosus, an organism that grows optimally at 100 degrees C. Structures were generated with DSPACE by a hybrid distance geometry (DG)-based simulated a... | US |
Bone resorption, as measured by release of bone 45Ca, was significantly increased in elderly female beagles within 96 h of exposure to 15 mg/l cadmium in drinking-water. The 45Ca response was greater in ovariectomized animals than in sham-operated controls and was not mediated by changes in calciotropic hormone concent... | US |
Previous evidence that cadmium(II) causes gene mutations in bacteria or mammalian cells was weak. However, alterations in protocol have recently led to better evidence for its mutagenicity, especially in bacteria. Mutagenicity results may be confounded by tolerance mechanisms. Exposure of DNA in vitro to Cd2+ or to Cd2... | US |
Corticotrophin releasing hormone (CRH), dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEAS) and cortisol were measured in umbilical cord plasma obtained from 90 preterm and 98 term fetuses. Maternal plasma was obtained from 23 women who delivered preterm and from 23 women matched for gestational age who ultimately delivered term in... | US |
Increased expression of the oxytocin gene of ruminants is associated with the process of luteinization both in vivo and in vitro. Cell culture studies and measurements of mRNA in luteal extracts have confirmed that the gene is switched on in the preovulatory follicle about 24 h before ovulation, at the time of the gona... | United Kingdom |
Grating acuity was measured in 16-week-old human infants. Three measurement techniques were used: forced-choice preferential-looking (FPL), and two visual-evoked-potential (VEP) techniques. The stimuli were counterphase flickering sinewave gratings with a space-average luminance of -1.0 or 2.0 log cd/m2. Slightly diffe... | US |
Light microscopic immunocytochemistry using anti-choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) was performed to stain putative cholinergic amacrine cells in turtle retina. ChAT-immunoreactive somata lie in the inner nuclear (INL) and ganglion cell (GCL) layers. Three types of amacrine cells were found according to the location of t... | US |
Field spectral sensitivities of the pattern-elicited electroretinogram (PERG) were obtained from two subjects using a modified version of Stiles' two-color increment threshold procedure. A 540 nm checkerboard test pattern of 38 degrees dia was alternated at 8 Hz on a uniform adapting field of the same size. Test intens... | US |
Changes in the response characteristics of the human cone electroretinogram (ERG) during light and dark adaptation were studied in two visually normal subjects. Cone ERG responses were isolated under all adaptation conditions through the use of 31 Hz flicker. To determine the time-course of changes in the cone ERG duri... | US |
The identification of three independent cardinal directions in color space suggests the existence of three independent post-receptoral mechanisms that can be desensitized by habituation to a temporally modulated light. In this paper, the differential response of each cardinal mechanism is estimated over a range of inpu... | US |
A color CRT image display system was used to present adapting backgrounds that were spatially and temporally varied. Three observers adjusted the chromaticity of test stimuli to produce an achromatic appearance under a variety of adapting conditions. The achromatic-appearing chromaticities were used as measures of the ... | US |
Several studies have reported that the magnitude of chromostereopsis changes as the pupil size changes. Einthoven's theory, that chromostereopsis is determined by interocular differences of monocular transverse chromatic aberration, can not easily explain this change. Therefore, several alternative hypotheses have been... | US |
We asked whether suppression in amblyopia could be accounted for by dichoptic masking as described in normals, operating in the presence of a contrast threshold difference between the two eyes. A dichoptic masking paradigm was employed to investigate binocular interaction in a mixed group of amblyopic subjects. Normal ... | United Kingdom |
We have measured color discrimination in the isoluminant plane under rigorously controlled adaptation conditions. Two regimes were studied. Under the first regime the observer was adapted to the region of color space in which the discriminations were made. Thresholds for detecting changes along the S-(L + M) axis are a... | US |
Synthesis of optically pure (-)- and (+)-adenallene 2 and 3 is described. Racemic adenallene (1a) was subjected to deamination with adenosine deaminase monitored by HPLC using a Chiralcel CA-1 column to give (-)-adenallene (2) and (+)-hypoxallene (4). The latter compound was converted to acetate 5. The reaction of 5 wi... | US |
Aluminum oxalate buffered with glycine to pH 0.5-2.5 has been proposed as a dentin pretreatment for the Gluma bonding system. In this experiment, the effects of 1-minute treatments of smear layers with these aluminum oxalates on the permeability of human dentin were determined in vitro. The aluminum oxalate solutions a... | US |
Selenium (Se) has been shown to counteract the toxicity of heavy metals such as cadmium, inorganic mercury, methylmercury, thallium and to a limited extent silver. Although not as effective as Se, vitamin E significantly alters methylmercury toxicity and is more effective than Se against silver toxicity. Vitamin E is v... | US |
Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF) infused bilaterally into the lateral ventricles of awake, chronically cannulated, male Sprague-Dawley rats produced a dose-dependent increase in the in vitro activity of cortical and midbrain tryptophan hydroxylase after 60 min. The maximal increase in enzyme activity of 60% over th... | US |
Leuconostoc mesenteroides glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) was isolated in high yield and purified to homogeneity from a newly constructed strain of Escherichia coli which lacks its own glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase gene. Lys-21 is one of two lysyl residues in the enzyme previously modified by the affinity ... | US |
Native tropomyosin from rabbit skeletal muscle (RSTm) consists mainly of alpha alpha and alpha beta coiled coils (alpha/beta approximately 3-4/1). In some extant studies, no beta beta molecules have been found. In this study, RSTm from several different preparations was disulfide cross-linked, both preparation and cros... | US |
Tryptases are trypsin-like serine proteinases found in the granules of mast cells. Although they show 40% sequence identity with trypsin and contain only 20 or 21 additional residues, tryptases display several unusual features. Unlike trypsin, the tryptases only make limited cleavages in a few proteins and are not inhi... | US |
A combined force field of molecular mechanics and solvation free energy is tested by carrying out energy minimization and molecular dynamics on several conformations of the alanyl dipeptide. Our results are qualitatively consistent with previous experimental and computational studies, in that the addition of solvation ... | US |
Calmodulin from Saccharomyces cerevisiae was expressed in Escherichia coli and purified. The purified protein was structurally characterized using limited proteolysis followed by ESI mass spectrometry to identify the fragments. In the presence of Ca2+, yeast calmodulin is sequentially cleaved at arginine 126, then lysi... | US |
The ability of high pressure to dissociate several peripheral protein-membrane complexes was investigated. Three vitamin K-dependent proteins (factor X, protein Z, and prothrombin) dissociated from small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs, 30 nm diameter) composed of 25% phosphatidylserine (PS) and 75% phosphatidylcholine (PC)... | US |
All retroviral nucleocapsid (NC) proteins contain one or two copies of an invariant 3Cys-1His array (CCHC = C-X2-C-X4-H-X4-C; C = Cys, H = His, X = variable amino acid) that are essential for RNA genome packaging and infectivity and have been proposed to function as zinc-binding domains. Although the arrays are capable... | US |
Although partial or complete three-dimensional structures are known for three Class I aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, the amino acid-binding sites in these proteins remain poorly characterized. To explore the methionine binding site of Escherichia coli methionyl-tRNA synthetase, we chose to study a specific, randomly gener... | US |
In an attempt to explore how specific features of the substrate's primary structure may affect the activity of rabbit muscle acylaminoacyl-peptide hydrolase (EC 3.4.19.1), a number of acetylated peptides containing specific amino acid replacements in specific positions were prepared and compared as substrates for the h... | US |
The complete amino acid sequence of fibrolase, a fibrinolytic enzyme from southern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix) venom, has been determined. This is the first report of the sequence of a direct-acting, nonhemorrhagic fibrinolytic enzyme found in snake venom. The majority of the sequence was established... | US |
A combination of mass spectrometric techniques has been used to investigate the amino acid sequence and post-translational modifications of alpha B-crystallin isolated from bovine lenses by gel filtration chromatography and reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography. Chromatographic fractions were analyzed b... | US |
The N-terminal DNA-binding domain of the GAL4 transcription factor, isolated as a proteolytic fragment of 63 amino acid residues, GAL4(63), or cloned as a 62-residue subdomain, GAL4(62*), binds 2 Cd(II) ions. Both Cd derivatives show intense ellipticity bands associated with -S(-)-->Cd charge transfer bands at 250 nm (... | US |
The DNA sequence encoding the rbs repressor protein, RbsR, has been determined. Amino acid sequence analyses of the product of an rbsR-lacZ fusion and of affinity-purified RbsR demonstrate that translation begins at an unusual codon, TTG, and that the initial amino acid is removed during maturation of the protein. DNA-... | US |
The deduced amino acid sequence of the rbs repressor, RbsR, of Escherichia coli is homologous over its C-terminal 272 residues to the entire sequence of the periplasmic ribose binding protein. RbsR is also homologous to a family of bacterial repressor proteins including LacI. This implies that the structure of the repr... | US |
Escherichia coli transcription termination factor rho is an RNA-dependent ATPase, and ATPase activity is required for all its functions. We have characterized the binding of ATP to the physiologically relevant hexameric association state of rho in the absence of RNA and have shown that there are six ATP binding sites p... | US |
Two enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of the trypanosomatid-specific dithiol trypanothione-glutathionylspermidine (Gsp) synthetase and trypanothione (TSH) synthetase--have been identified and purified individually from Crithidia fasciculata. The Gsp synthetase has been purified 93-fold and the TSH synthetase 52-fold... | US |
Glucagon, a peptide hormone synthesized and secreted by alpha islet cells, regulates glucose homeostasis by several mechanisms. Using [gamma 32P]8N3GTP, a proven photoaffinity probe for GTP, a specific nucleotide binding site on human glucagon was detected that showed preference for GTP. Half-maximal saturation of phot... | US |
An enzymatic procedure for the complete removal of the N-linked and O-linked oligosaccharide side chains of the sex steroid-binding proteins (SBP or SHBG) of human and rabbit plasma under native conditions is described. Deglycosylation was catalyzed by N-glycanase, neuraminidase, and O-glycanase and was monitored by SD... | US |
Ribonuclease A is known to form an equilibrium mixture of fast-folding (UF) and slow-folding (US) species. Rapid unfolding to UF is then followed by a reaction in the unfolded state, which produces a mixture of UF, USII, USI, and possibly also minor populations of other US species. The two cis proline residues, P93 and... | US |
Recent publication of the atomic structure of G-actin (Kabsch, W., Mannherz, H. G., Suck, D., Pai, E. F., & Holmes, K. C., 1990, Nature 347, 37-44) raises questions about how the conformation of actin changes upon its polymerization. In this work, the effects of various quenchers of etheno-nucleotides bound to G- and F... | US |
Nerve growth factor (NGF) interacts with a cell surface receptor on responsive neurons to initiate a series of cellular events leading to neuronal survival and/or differentiation. The first step in this process is the binding of NGF to a low affinity and/or a high affinity receptor. In the present report, we have studi... | US |
A detailed analysis of the composition and properties of hydrophobic nuclei and microclusters in pancreatic ribonuclease A (RNase A) has been carried out. Distance calculations for all noncovalently bonded atoms revealed that the average number of nonpolar contacts between a side chain of an amino acid and its neighbor... | US |
The structure of a crystal complex of recombinant human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) protease with a peptide-mimetic inhibitor containing a dihydroxyethylene isostere insert replacing the scissile bond has been determined. The inhibitor is Noa-His-Hch psi [CH(OH)CH(OH)]Vam-Ile-Amp (U-75875), and its Ki for inh... | US |
Two isoforms of yeast cyclophilins, yCyPA and yCyPB, have been subcloned, expressed in Escherichia coli, and purified to homogeneity. The full-length (163-amino acid) yeast CyPA was easily expressed and purified; however, only a genetically truncated, 186-residue form of yCyPB lacking a putative 20-amino acid signal se... | US |
A Crithidia fasciculata 83-kDa protein purified during a separate study of C. fasciculata trypanothione synthetase was shown to have ATPase activity and to belong to the hsp90 family of stress proteins. Because no ATPase activity has previously been reported for the hsp90 class, ATP utilization by C. fasciculata hsp83 ... | US |
Several of the major heat shock proteins (HSPs) function normally as molecular chaperones to prevent aggregation of immature polypeptides and thereby facilitate folding and oligomerization. To determine their effect on nascent polypeptides, we added purified preparations of different isoforms of HSP70 to in vitro trans... | US |
Human and bovine alpha-thrombin cleaved at the B-chain by chymotrypsin generates catalytically competent zeta-thrombins, which are comprised of two noncovalently linked fragments: a 36-(human) or 49-(bovine) residue A-chain linked by a disulfide to B-chain residues B1-148 (zeta 1-thrombin) and B-chain residues B149-259... | US |
A computer algorithm is described that utilizes both Edman and mass spectrometric data for simultaneous determination of the amino acid sequences of several peptides in a mixture. Gas phase sequencing of a peptide mixture results in a list of observed amino acids for each cycle of Edman degradation, which by itself may... | US |
The three-dimensional structure of an R-state conformer of glycogen phosphorylase containing the coenzyme-substrate analog pyridoxal-5'-diphosphate at the catalytic site (PLPP-GPb) has been refined by X-ray crystallography to a resolution of 2.87 A. The molecule comprises four subunits of phosphorylase related by appro... | US |
The preferential interactions of bovine serum albumin, lysozyme, chymotrypsinogen, ribonuclease A, and beta-lactoglobulin with polyethylene glycols (PEGs) of molecular weight 200-6,000 have been measured by dialysis equilibrium coupled with high precision densimetry. All the proteins were found to be preferentially hyd... | US |
Catalysis by purified avian 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA lyase is critically dependent on the reduction state of the enzyme, with less than 1% of optimal activity being observed with the air-oxidized enzyme. The enzyme is irreversibly inactivated by sulfhydryl-directed reagents with the rate of this inactivation bein... | US |
The results of two 30-ps molecular dynamics simulations of the trp repressor and trp aporepressor proteins are presented in this paper. The simulations were obtained using the AMBER molecular mechanical force field and in both simulations a 6-A shell of TIP3P waters surrounded the proteins. The trp repressor protein is... | US |
Although aqueous simulations with periodic boundary conditions more accurately describe protein dynamics than in vacuo simulations, these are computationally intensive for most proteins. Trp repressor dynamic simulations with a small water shell surrounding the starting model yield protein trajectories that are markedl... | US |
The cytoplasmic domain of the human erythrocyte membrane protein, band 3 (cdb3), contains binding sites for hemoglobin, several glycolytic enzymes, band 4.1, band 4.2, and ankyrin, and constitutes the major linkage between the membrane skeleton and the membrane. Although erythrocyte cdb3 has been partially purified fro... | US |
A human monoclonal IgM k anti-DNA antibody, designated 2F7, was prepared by somatic hybridization of peripheral blood lymphocytes from a lupus patient with a human-mouse heterohybridoma cell line, K6H6/B5. 2F7 was tested for its antigen binding and idiotypic specificity by direct binding and inhibition enzyme-linked im... | US |
The REC104 gene was initially defined by mutations that rescued the inviability of a rad52 spo 13 haploid strain in meiosis. We have observed that rec104 mutant strains undergo essentially no induction of meiotic gene conversion, and we have not been able to detect any meiotic crossing over in such strains. The REC104 ... | US |
The Drosophila melanogaster ribosomal DNA (rDNA) functions as an X-Y meiotic pairing site. Deletions encompassing the X chromosomal rDNA block (located in the heterochromatin) disrupt X-Y pairing and disjunction. Insertions of single, complete rRNA genes at ectopic locations on the heterochromatically deficient X parti... | US |
Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) has been used to study the timing, frequency, and distribution of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in chromosomal-sized DNA during meiosis in yeast. It has previously been shown that DSBs are associated with some genetic hotspots during recombination, and it is important to know wheth... | US |
The minimal length of contiguous homology required for successful completion of meiotic recombination was investigated by using heterologous insertions to delimit homologous segments of chromosome III in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Constructs created in vitro by insertion of selectable markers into the LEU2 loc... | US |
Recent studies indicate that preconditioning of a heart by repeated stunning protects it from subsequent ischemic injury. Such myocardial preservation is likely to be due to adaptive modification of lipid composition and dynamic structure of cellular membrane. To test this hypothesis, swine heart was subjected to four ... | US |
Our laboratories have previously measured the capacity for collagenase production by normal and immobilized rabbit periarticular connective tissues (PCT), i.e., anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) and patellar tendon (PT). Rabbit limbs were immobilized for 4 weeks and then the tissues we... | US |
Extracts of cartilage have been reported to inhibit many serine proteinases and metalloenzymes. Such inhibition may be important in protecting cartilage against degradation by chondrocytic proteinases such as collagenase, stromelysin and by leukocytic proteases, such as elastase. We report here isolation and partial ch... | US |
A study of handedness, dyslexia, stuttering and twinning, was included in a study of sexual habits of homosexual men. A questionnaire was mailed to homosexuals, and 394 forms suitable for data analysis were received. The results showed an increased rate of lefthand writing (17.5% compared to 8-8.4%), and a clear left s... | US |
In a study of voluntary immunomodulation, 45 subjects were assigned either to a control group or one of two experimental groups. All groups had blood and saliva samples collected before and after either a 30 minute rest condition (Control group) or a 30 minute cyberphysiologic strategy (Experimental groups) to increase... | US |
Hippocampal evoked potentials were recorded using the P3 tonal oddball paradigm in 30 patients with unilateral temporal lobe seizure focus. Spectral power of the evoked potentials was decreased on the side of seizure focus, but this reduction was much greater when the focus was on the left. The effect of left/right foc... | US |
This paper outlines an approach to studying productivity in clinical research programs that incorporates environmental, organizational, provider, and patient specific factors in the model of production process. We describe how this approach has been applied to the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) Community Clinical On... | US |
This work examines the database design and user interface design for a clinical genetics data collection system known as TCK. A specific design goal is automatic generation of the CORN reports. Emphasis in this paper is on how the logical data model resulting from the database design, and the user interface work togeth... | US |
A partially-stratified sample survey of people living in the catchment area of Kilifi General Hospital, Coast Province, Kenya, identified 19 species of parasites in blood and intestines. Age-prevalence curves of the common infections were of two distinct types, possibly reflecting the host's ability to mount a partiall... | United Kingdom |
We conducted EEG testing in 200 asymptomatic homosexual men, half of whom were HIV seropositive. We chose to include half of the subjects because they were rated as impaired on a neuropsychological screening test. We used both traditional visual EEG interpretation and quantitative EEG analysis. Abnormal EEGs and border... | US |
The prevalence of major health-related behaviors and the relationship of these factors with selected sociodemographic factors were studied in South Korea. Subjects studied were household heads and their wives from 989 households. Age-standardized prevalences of smoking were 74.8% and 2.9% for men and women respectively... | US |
This manuscript considers some of the most prominent consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI), namely vascular and axonal change, and evaluates the role of damaging oxygen radicals in their pathogenesis. To this end, existing as well as new data derived from traumatically injured experimental animals and humans was... | US |
Expression of TGF-beta 4 mRNA and protein was studied in the developing chicken embryo using specific cDNA probes and antibodies for chicken TGF-beta 4. Expression of TGF-beta 4 mRNA was detected by day 4 of incubation (Hamburger and Hamilton stage 22, E4) by RNA Northern blot analysis and increased with developmental ... | US |
Dopamine (DA) has satisfied many of the criteria for being a major neurochemical in vertebrate retinae. It is synthesized in amacrine and/or interplexiform cells (depending on species) and released upon membrane depolarization in a calcium-dependent way. Strong evidence suggests that it is normally released within the ... | United Kingdom |
Bovine adrenal chromaffin cells were incubated with inorganic thiophosphate, using a protocol similar to experiments with inorganic phosphate, in order to determine the source of previously observed thiophosphoproteins. Incubation of cultured cells with [35S]thiophosphate resulted in its incorporation into cell constit... | US |
The effect was determined of replacing medium inorganic phosphate with thiophosphate on the structure and function of cultured bovine chromaffin cells. Cell cultures were incubated in normal medium containing fetal bovine serum, phosphate free medium or similar medium supplemented with inorganic phosphate or thiophosph... | US |
Quantitative autoradiography was used to estimate regional transfer coefficients for valine incorporation and the rate of valine (exogenous and total) incorporation into proteins in an implanted brain-tumor model (AA ascites tumor). Special attention was paid to the evaluation of the tumor mass influence on the transfe... | US |
The histidine-glycine-rich region of the light chain of cleaved high molecular weight kininogen (HK) is thought to be responsible for binding to negatively charged surfaces and initiation of the intrinsic coagulation, fibrinolytic, and kinin-forming systems. However, the specifically required amino acid sequences have ... | US |
During the course of characterization of low molecular weight proteins in cartilage, we have isolated a protein from reef shark (Carcharhinus springeri) cartilage that bears a striking resemblance to the tetranectin monomer originally described by Clemmensen et al. (1986, Eur. J. Biochem. 156, 327-333). The protein was... | US |
A "kinemage" (kinetic image) is a scientific illustration presented as an interactive computer display. Operations on the displayed kinemage respond within a fraction of a second: the entire image can be rotated in real time, parts of the display can be turned on or off, points can be identified by selecting them, and ... | US |
The engineered disulfide bridge between residues 21 and 142 of phage T4 lysozyme spans the active-site cleft and can be used as a switch to control the activity of the enzyme (Matsumura, M. & Matthews, B.W., 1989, Science 243, 792-794). In the oxidized form the disulfide increases the melting temperature of the protein... | US |
Vertebrate fibrinogen is a complex multidomained protein, the structure of which has been inferred mainly from electron microscopy and amino acid sequence studies. Among its most prominent features are two terminal globules, moieties that are mostly composed of the carboxyl-terminal two-thirds of the beta and gamma cha... | US |
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