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Animal Anatomy / Morphology / Histology
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Origin of new genes: evidence from experimental and computational analyses
Exon shuffling is an essential molecular mechanism for the formation of new genes. Many cases of exon shuffling have been reported in vertebrate genes. These discoveries revealed the importance of exon shuffli...
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Inhibition of Cysteine and Serine Proteinases by the Cowpox Virus Serpin CRMA
Interleukin lß converting enzyme (ICE) is the founding member of a family of cysteine proteinases active in the metabolism of intracellular proteins [1]. Other members of this family include Ich-1, CPP32, Ced-...
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Stimulation of Human Anti-Viral CD8+ Cytolytic T Lymphocytes by Dendritic Cells
Antigen-specific CD8+ cytolytic T lymphocytes [CTLs] are considered to be important mediators of resistance in several human infections [e.g. influenza (1), HIV-1 (2), cytomegalovirus (3), malaria (4)] and mal...
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Expression of Public Idiotypes in Patients with Lyme Arthritis
Joints are often affected in Lyme disease and in some instances this may be due to immune auto-reactivity. To characterise further the immune response in this disease investigations were carried out to determi...
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Insulin and IGF-I Analogs: Novel Approaches to Improved Insulin Pharmacokinetics
Current insulin formulations do not mimic the normal glucose-induced release of insulin by the pancreas in a physiological manner.1 One limitation is the delayed absorption of hexameric insulin from the subcutane...
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Correlation of Acute Prostacyclin Response in Primary (Unexplained) Pulmonary Hypertension with Efficacy of Treatment with Calcium Channel Blockers and Survival
Unexplained, or primary, pulmonary hypertension, is usually a rapidly fatal disease, in which the use of vasodilator therapy is controversial (14, 22, 25). While some authors have proposed that there may be a ...
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Application of Electrochemical and UV/Visible Detection to the LC Separation and Determination of Methylene Blue and Its Demethylated Metabolites from Milk
A study was initiated to find a suitable HPLC detection scheme for the determination of methylene blue(MB) in several types of complex animal tissues, milk and milk product matrices. In addition to methylene b...
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The Application of Matrix Solid Phase Dispersion (MSPD) to the Extraction and Subsequent Analysis of Drug Residues in Animal Tissues
The contamination of our environment and of our food supply with industrial, agricultural and pharmaceutical agents possessing toxicologic and/or pharmacologic character are major man-made problems that must b...
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Protein C: Gene Structure and Protein Synthesis
Protein C is a vitamin K-dependent plasma glycoprotein that, after activation by thrombin-thrombomodulin upon the endothelial cell surface, serves as a feedback down-regulator of the coagulation cascade by spe...
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Biosynthesis and Endocytosis of Yolk Proteins in the Mosquito
The maturation of insect eggs requires the fat body production of large amounts of a protein, vitellogenin (Vg), that is secreted into the hemolymph, selectively accumulated by the oocytes and stored in yolk b...
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The Larch Casebearer in the Intermountain Northwest
The larch casebearer, Coleophora laricella Hubner (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae), is a small silver-gray moth whose larvae mine needles of larches, Larix spp. Apparently of European origin, this defoliator was firs...
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Absorption and Optical Rotation Spectra of Biological Membranes
The combination of ultraviolet absorption and circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopies provides a sensitive technique for following protein conformation and conformational changes in solution. It is reasonable t...
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Genetic Aspects of Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
Nitrogen fixation is the reduction of molecular dinitrogen (N2) to ammonia. This process, along with nitrate reduction, brings nitrogen from inorganic form into the organic world, for ammonia is the form of nitro...
