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Appropriate management of advanced dementia requires it to be recognised as a terminal condition that needs palliative care. Interventions during this stage should be carefully chosen to ensure the improvement or maintenance of the quality of life of the person with dementia. Advanced care planning is an important aspect of dementia care. Carers and relatives should be educated and encouraged to actively participate in discussions related to artificial nutrition, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other medical interventions. 相似文献
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The IgG1hybridoma antibody, 91.9H, was originally raised against sulfated
mucins isolated from normal human colonic mucosa. Previous studies have
shown that the 91.9H antigen is expressed on normal colonic epithelial
cells and the sulfomucins that they produce, but not in the normal small
intestine and stomach. Tissue-specific changes occur in 91.9H antigen
expression in disease: the antigen diminishes in colonic carcinomas,
whereas in regions of gastric mucosa showing intestinal metaplasia and in
gastric carcinomas, the antigen is expressed as a "neo-antigen." This
report is concerned with elucidation, by the neoglycolipid technology, of
the determinant recognized by antibody 91.9H using sulfated and sialyl
oligosaccharides of Lewisa(Lea) and Lextypes, and analogs that lack
sulfate, sialic acid, or fucose. Binding experiments with the lipid-linked
oligosaccharides immobilized on chromatograms or on microwells, and
inhibition of binding experiments with free oligosaccharides based on di-,
tri- and tetrasaccharide backbones, show that the 91.9H antigenic
determinant is based on a trisaccharide backbone, and consists of the
3'-sulfated Leatetrasaccharide sequence, which is a potent ligand for the
E- and L-selectins. The antibody gives a relatively low signal with the
3'-sulfated non-fucosylated backbone, and has no detectable cross- reaction
with the 3'-sulfated Lexisomer, nor with sialyl-Leaand - Lexanalogues.
Antibody 91.9H is a valuable addition, therefore, to the repertoire of
reagents for mapping details of the distribution, and determining the
relative importance of sulfated and sialyl oligosaccharides as ligands for
the selectins, in normal and pathological epithelia and endothelia.
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S Senthilvel B Jayashree V Mahalakshmi P Sathish Kumar S Nakka T Nepolean CT Hash 《BMC plant biology》2008,8(1):119
Background
Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a staple food and fodder crop of marginal agricultural lands of sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian subcontinent. It is also a summer forage crop in the southern USA, Australia and Latin America, and is the preferred mulch in Brazilian no-till soybean production systems. Use of molecular marker technology for pearl millet genetic improvement has been limited. Progress is hampered by insufficient numbers of PCR-compatible co-dominant markers that can be used readily in applied breeding programmes. Therefore, we sought to develop additional SSR markers for the pearl millet research community. 相似文献26.
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Tineke E Buffart Melanie Louw Nicole CT van Grieken Marianne Tijssen Beatriz Carvalho Bauke Ylstra Heike Grabsch Chris JJ Mulder Cornelis JH van de Velde Schalk W van der Merwe Gerrit A Meijer 《BMC medical genomics》2011,4(1):7
Background
Infection with H. pylori is important in the etiology of gastric cancer. Gastric cancer is infrequent in Africa, despite high frequencies of H. pylori infection, referred to as the African enigma. Variation in environmental and host factors influencing gastric cancer risk between different populations have been reported but little is known about the biological differences between gastric cancers from different geographic locations. We aim to study genomic instability patterns of gastric cancers obtained from patients from United Kingdom (UK) and South Africa (SA), in an attempt to support the African enigma hypothesis at the biological level.Methods
DNA was isolated from 67 gastric adenocarcinomas, 33 UK patients, 9 Caucasian SA patients and 25 native SA patients. Microsatellite instability and chromosomal instability were analyzed by PCR and microarray comparative genomic hybridization, respectively. Data was analyzed by supervised univariate and multivariate analyses as well as unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis.Results
Tumors from Caucasian and native SA patients showed significantly more microsatellite instable tumors (p < 0.05). For the microsatellite stable tumors, geographical origin of the patients correlated with cluster membership, derived from unsupervised hierarchical cluster analysis (p = 0.001). Several chromosomal alterations showed significantly different frequencies in tumors from UK patients and native SA patients, but not between UK and Caucasian SA patients and between native and Caucasian SA patients.Conclusions
Gastric cancers from SA and UK patients show differences in genetic instability patterns, indicating possible different biological mechanisms in patients from different geographical origin. This is of future clinical relevance for stratification of gastric cancer therapy.28.
Sequence determinants in the lamB gene of Escherichia coli influencing the binding and pore selectivity of maltoporin 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
Maltoporin (LamB protein) is a malto-oligosaccharide-selective pore protein in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. The genetic basis of binding and transport specificity was investigated through cloning, mapping and sequencing lamB genes from seven independent mutants with various changes in maltodextrin binding affinities; these mutants were unchanged in binding phage lambda. Single amino acid substitutions specifically resulting in maltodextrin affinity changes were as follows: Arg8----His in two independent mutants resulted in much reduced affinity for all ligands and a smaller pore no longer selective for maltodextrins. A Trp74----Arg substitution resulted in a lower affinity for starch, a slight increase in maltose affinity but no striking pore changes. An Arg82----Ser resulted in lowered maltodextrin affinity, but increased affinity for sucrose in both binding and pore function. A Tyr118----Phe resulted in a higher affinity for both starch and maltose, a slightly larger pore and increased transport of maltohexaose by the pores. Asp121----Gly in two independent isolates resulted in a higher affinity for large dextrins and a marginally larger pore. These results suggest that the maltodextrin-selective functions reside in the N-terminal sequence of maltoporin and are separate from the phage lambda binding domains. 相似文献
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Positive selection driving the evolution of a gene of male reproduction, Acp26Aa, of Drosophila: II. Divergence versus polymorphism 总被引:5,自引:1,他引:4
The evolution of the gene for a male ejaculatory protein, Acp26Aa, has been
shown to be driven by positive selection when nonsibling species in the
Drosophila melanogaster subgroup are compared. To know if selection has
been operating in the recent past and to understand the details of its
dynamics, we obtained DNA sequences of Acp26Aa and the nearby Acp26Ab gene
from 39 D. melanogaster chromosomes. Together with the 10 published
sequences, we analyzed 49 sequences from five populations in four
continents. The southern African population is somewhat differentiated from
all other populations, but its nucleotide diversity is lower at these two
loci. We find the following results for Acp26Aa: (1) The R: S (replacement
: silent changes) ratio is significantly higher in the between-species
comparisons than in the within-species data by the McDonald and Kreitman
test. Positive selection is probably responsible for the excess of amino
acid replacements between species. (2) However, within-species nucleotide
diversity is high. Neither the Tajima test nor the Fu and Li test indicates
a reduction in nucleotide diversity due to positive selection in the recent
past. (3) The newly derived nucleotides in D. melanogaster are at high
frequency significantly more often than predicted by the neutral
equilibrium. Since the nearby Acp26Ab gene does not show these patterns,
these observations cannot be attributed to the characteristics of this
chromosomal region. We suggest that positive selection is active, but may
be weak, for each amino acid change in the Acp26Aa gene.
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