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Background
With the explosion of microarray studies, an enormous amount of data is being produced. Systematic integration of gene expression data from different sources increases statistical power of detecting differentially expressed genes and allows assessment of heterogeneity. The challenge, however, is in designing and implementing efficient analytic methodologies for combination of data generated by different research groups. 相似文献22.
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Documentation of use patterns of plants across national boundaries is of relevance in understanding the importance of plant resources to livelihood strategies of different ethnic groups. Plant resources have gained prominence as a natural asset through which families derive food, firewood, income, medicines and timber, enabling particularly poor communities to achieve self-sufficiency. The objective of this study was to investigate the trends in plant usage in South Africa and Zimbabwe. An ethnobotanical investigation was conducted between January 2012 and January 2013 in the Limpopo Province, South Africa and the Midlands Province, Zimbabwe. The study used questionnaire surveys and interviews with a total of 143 participants to explore plant use patterns in South Africa and Zimbabwe. A total of 98 plant species were identified, with Zimbabwe contributing 70 species and 47 species from South Africa. The uses were classified into 15 categories, major use categories were firewood, food plants, medicine and timber. Food plant was a major plant use category in Zimbabwe, contributing 55.1%, followed by medicinal plants (36.8%), firewood (35.7%) and timber (31.6%). In contrast, firewood was the major plant use category in South Africa, contributing 18.4%, followed by food plants (17.3%), medicinal (14.3%) and timber (1.0%). Comparison of the two countries demonstrated remarkable differences in plant use patterns. The results showed that rural households in Zimbabwe were more reliant on plant resources than their counterparts in South Africa. Such a trend could be attributed to a close relationship between the local people, and their natural and agricultural environment leading to a rich knowledge base on plants, plant use and related practices. This comparative analysis strengthens the firm belief that utilization of plant resources represents an important shared heritage, preserved over the centuries, which must be exploited in order to provide further new and useful body of ethnobotanical knowledge. 相似文献
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Wither J Cai YC Lim S McKenzie T Roslin N Claudio JO Cooper GS Hudson TJ Paterson AD Greenwood CM Gladman D Pope J Pineau CA Smith CD Hanly JG Peschken C Boire G;CaNIOS Investigators Fortin PR 《Arthritis research & therapy》2008,10(5):R108-13
Introduction
Systemic lupus erythematosus is a genetically complex disease. Currently, the precise allelic polymorphisms associated with this condition remain largely unidentified. In part this reflects the fact that multiple genes, each having a relatively minor effect, act in concert to produce disease. Given this complexity, analysis of subclinical phenotypes may aid in the identification of susceptibility alleles. Here, we used flow cytometry to investigate whether some of the immune abnormalities that are seen in the peripheral blood lymphocyte population of lupus patients are seen in their first-degree relatives.Methods
Peripheral blood mononuclear cells were isolated from the subjects, stained with fluorochrome-conjugated monoclonal antibodies to identify various cellular subsets, and analyzed by flow cytometry.Results
We found reduced proportions of natural killer (NK)T cells among 367 first-degree relatives of lupus patients as compared with 102 control individuals. There were also slightly increased proportions of memory B and T cells, suggesting increased chronic low-grade activation of the immune system in first-degree relatives. However, only the deficiency of NKT cells was associated with a positive anti-nuclear antibody test and clinical autoimmune disease in family members. There was a significant association between mean parental, sibling, and proband values for the proportion of NKT cells, suggesting that this is a heritable trait.Conclusions
The findings suggest that analysis of cellular phenotypes may enhance the ability to detect subclinical lupus and that genetically determined altered immunoregulation by NKT cells predisposes first-degree relatives of lupus patients to the development of autoimmunity. 相似文献26.
A report on the First International Symposium of the Austrian Proteomics Platform, Seefeld, Austria, 26-29 January 2004. 相似文献
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Ribosomal RNA secondary structure: compensatory mutations and implications for phylogenetic analysis 总被引:6,自引:0,他引:6
Using sequence data from the 28S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes of selected
vertebrates, we investigated the effects that constraints imposed by
secondary structure have on the phylogenetic analysis of rRNA sequence
data. Our analysis indicates that characters from both base-pairing regions
(stems) and non-base-pairing regions (loops) contain phylogenetic
information, as judged by the level of support of the phylogenetic results
compared with a well-established tree based on both morphological and
molecular data. The best results (the greatest level of support of
well-accepted nodes) were obtained when the complete data set was used.
However, some previously supported nodes were resolved using either the
stem or loop bases alone. Stem bases sustain a greater number of
compensatory mutations than would be expected at random, but the number is
< 40% of that expected under a hypothesis of perfect compensation to
maintain secondary structure. Therefore, we suggest that in phylogenetic
analyses, the weighting of stem characters be reduced by no more than 20%,
relative to that of loop characters. In contrast to previous suggestions,
we do not recommend weighting of stem positions by one-half, compared with
that of loop positions, because this overcompensates for the constraints
that selection imposes on the secondary structure of rRNA.
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M Bomba D Ciavardelli E Silvestri L MT Canzoniero R Lattanzio P Chiappini M Piantelli C Di Ilio A Consoli S L Sensi 《Cell death & disease》2013,4(5):e612
Recent studies have shown that type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a risk factor for cognitive dysfunction or dementia. Insulin resistance is often associated with T2DM and can induce defective insulin signaling in the central nervous system as well as increase the risk of cognitive impairment in the elderly. Glucagone like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an incretin hormone and, like GLP-1 analogs, stimulates insulin secretion and has been employed in the treatment of T2DM. GLP-1 and GLP-1 analogs also enhance synaptic plasticity and counteract cognitive deficits in mouse models of neuronal dysfunction and/or degeneration. In this study, we investigated the potential neuroprotective effects of long-term treatment with exenatide, a GLP-1 analog, in two animal models of neuronal dysfunction: the PS1-KI and 3xTg-AD mice. We found that exenatide promoted beneficial effects on short- and long-term memory performances in PS1-KI but not in 3xTg-AD animals. In PS1-KI mice, the drug increased brain lactate dehydrogenase activity leading to a net increase in lactate levels, while no effects were observed on mitochondrial respiration. On the contrary, exenatide had no effects on brain metabolism of 3xTg-AD mice. In summary, our data indicate that exenatide improves cognition in PS1-KI mice, an effect likely driven by increasing the brain anaerobic glycolysis rate. 相似文献