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Isabel A. Cáceres Mariana Arcaya Eugene Declercq Candice M. Belanoff Vanitha Janakiraman Bruce Cohen Jeffrey Ecker Lauren A. Smith S. V. Subramanian 《PloS one》2013,8(3)
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We examined the extent to which differences in hospital-level cesarean delivery rates in Massachusetts were attributable to hospital-level, rather than maternal, characteristics.Methods
Birth certificate and maternal in-patient hospital discharge records for 2004–06 in Massachusetts were linked. The study population was nulliparous, term, singleton, and vertex births (NTSV) (n = 80,371) in 49 hospitals. Covariates included mother''s age, race/ethnicity, education, infant birth weight, gestational age, labor induction (yes/no), hospital shift at time of birth, and preexisting health conditions. We estimated multilevel logistic regression models to assess the likelihood of a cesarean deliveryResults
Overall, among women with NTSV births, 26.5% births were cesarean, with a range of 14% to 38.3% across hospitals. In unadjusted models, the between-hospital variance was 0.103 (SE 0.022); adjusting for demographic, socioeconomic and preexisting medical conditions did not reduce any hospital-level variation 0.108 (SE 0.023).Conclusion
Even after adjusting for both socio-demographic and clinical factors, the chance of a cesarean delivery for NTSV pregnancies varied according to hospital, suggesting the importance of hospital practices and culture in determining a hospital''s cesarean rate. 相似文献2.
Over 250 PDZ (PSD95/Dlg/ZO-1) domain-containing proteins have been described in the human proteome. As many of these possess multiple PDZ domains, the potential combinations of associations with proteins that possess PBMs (PDZ-binding motifs) are vast. However, PDZ domain recognition is a highly specific process, and much less promiscuous than originally thought. Furthermore, a large number of PDZ domain-containing proteins have been linked directly to the control of processes whose loss, or inappropriate activation, contribute to the development of human malignancies. These regulate processes as diverse as cytoskeletal organization, cell polarity, cell proliferation and many signal transduction pathways. In the present review, we discuss how PBM-PDZ recognition and imbalances therein can perturb cellular homoeostasis and ultimately contribute to malignant progression. 相似文献
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Bannen RM Suresh V Phillips GN Wright SJ Mitchell JC 《Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)》2008,24(20):2339-2343
MOTIVATION: For many biotechnological purposes, it is desirable to redesign proteins to be more structurally and functionally stable at higher temperatures. For example, chemical reactions are intrinsically faster at higher temperatures, so using enzymes that are stable at higher temperatures would lead to more efficient industrial processes. We describe an innovative and computationally efficient method called Improved Configurational Entropy (ICE), which can be used to redesign a protein to be more thermally stable (i.e. stable at high temperatures). This can be accomplished by systematically modifying the amino acid sequence via local structural entropy (LSE) minimization. The minimization problem is modeled as a shortest path problem in an acyclic graph with nonnegative weights and is solved efficiently using Dijkstra's method. 相似文献
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The ability of two high-affinity Hsc70-binding peptides [FYQLALT (peptide-Phi) and NIVRKKK (peptide-K)] to differentially inhibit Hsc70-dependent processes in rabbit reticulocyte lysate (RRL) was examined. Both peptide-Phi and peptide-K inhibited chaperone-dependent renaturation of luciferase in RRL. Peptide-Phi, but not peptide-K, blocked Hsp90/Hsc70-dependent transformation of the heme-regulated eIF2 alpha kinase (HRI) into an active, heme-regulatable kinase. In contrast, peptide-K, but not peptide-Phi, inhibited Hsc70-mediated suppression of the activation of mature-transformed HRI. Furthermore, HDJ2 (Human DnaJ homologue 2), but not HDJ1, potentiated the ability of Hsc70 to suppress the activation of HRI in RRL. Mechanistically, peptide-K inhibited, while peptide-Phi enhanced, HDJ2-induced stimulation of Hsc70 ATPase activity in vitro. The data presented support the hypotheses that peptide-Phi acts to inhibit Hsc70 function by binding to the hydrophobic peptide-binding cleft of Hsc70, while peptide-K acts through binding to a site that modulates the interaction of Hsc70 with DnaJ homologues. Overall, the data indicate that peptide-Phi and peptide-K have differential effects on Hsc70 functions under quasi-physiological conditions in RRL, and suggest that therapeutically valuable peptide mimetics can be designed to inhibit specific functions of Hsc70. 相似文献
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Field surveys undertaken in major tomato growing districts of the Karnataka state, located in southern part of India, revealed
a high incidence of bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum and it is one of the most destructive bacterial diseases of economically important crops. Across all the tomato cultivars
under evaluation, the disease incidence in plants ranged from 9% to 39% whereas the incidence in seeds ranged from 4% to 18%.
The effects of tomato seed treatments with Pseudomonas fluorescens in the control of bacterial wilt under greenhouse conditions revealed that the treatments protected plants against soil-borne
infections of the bacterial wilt organism. Seed treatment with antagonistic P. fluorescens strain significantly improved the quality of seed germination and seedling vigour. The disease incidence was significantly
reduced in plants raised from P. fluorescens treated seeds followed by challenge inoculation with R. solanacearum. Periodic field surveys for the incidence of bacterial wilt of tomato could be recommended to monitor the populations of the
bacterial wilt pathogen. Workable measures are presented that could lead to the reduction of the prevalence of this serious
disease in affected fields of the small farm-holders. 相似文献
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Lifang Zhang Dan Wang Wei Jiang Dale Edwards Weiliang Qiu Lisa M Barroilhet Jung-hyun Rho Lianjin Jin Vanitha Seethappan Allison Vitonis Jianliu Wang Samuel C Mok Christopher Crum Daniel W Cramer Bin Ye 《Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E》2010,8(1):1-13