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Background
As the use of microarray technology becomes more prevalent it is not unusual to find several laboratories employing the same microarray technology to identify genes related to the same condition in the same species. Although the experimental specifics are similar, typically a different list of statistically significant genes result from each data analysis. 相似文献32.
Phylogenetic utility of elongation factor-1 alpha in noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera): the limits of synonymous substitution 总被引:2,自引:1,他引:1
Mitchell A; Cho S; Regier JC; Mitter C; Poole RW; Matthews M 《Molecular biology and evolution》1997,14(4):381-390
To test its phylogenetic utility, nucleotide sequence variation in a
1,240-bp fragment of the elongation factor-1 alpha (EF-1 alpha) gene was
examined in 49 moth species representing the major groups of the
superfamily Noctuoidea. Both parsimony and distance analyses supported the
monophyly of nearly all groups for which there are clear morphological
synapomorphies. Clades of subfamily rank and lower, probably mid-Tertiary
and younger, were strongly supported. The third codon position contains 88%
of variable sites, and approaches saturation at approximately 20% sequence
divergence, possibly due to among-site rate heterogeneity and composition
bias; higher divergences occur only in association with shifts in
composition. Surprisingly, the few nonsynonymous changes appear no more
phylogenetically reliable than synonymous changes. Signal strength for
basal divergences is weak and fails to improve with character weighting;
thus, dense taxon sampling is probably needed for strong inference from
EF-1 alpha regarding deeper splits in Noctuoidea (probably early Tertiary).
EF-1 alpha synonymous changes show promise for phylogeny reconstruction
within Noctuidae and other groups of Tertiary age.
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Human responses to propionic acid. I. Quantification of within- and between-participant variation in perception by normosmics and anosmics 总被引:4,自引:3,他引:1
The objective of this study was to fully characterize normosmic perception
of stimuli expected to cause widely varying degrees of olfactory and nasal
trigeminal stimulation and to directly evaluate the possible role of
olfactory nerve stimulation in nasal irritation sensitivity. During each of
four identical test sessions, four anosmic and 31 normosmic participants
were presented with a range of concentrations extending from peri-threshold
for normosmics to supra- threshold for anosmics. For each session, odor (O)
and nasal irritation (NI) sensitivities were summarized in terms of the
concentrations required to produce four sensation levels ('iso-response'
concentrations). Within-participant variation in these iso-response
concentrations was < 10-fold for 95% of normosmics, for both O and NI.
For O but not NI, these apparent fluctuations in sensitivity were largely
accounted for by the uncertainty surrounding the iso-response
concentrations calculated for each session. Anosmics exhibited minimal
within- and between-participant variation in NI and required, for all but
the highest perceptual level, a higher concentration than almost all
normosmics. Between-participant variation, expressed in terms of 90%
confidence interval widths, was approximately 0.5 log units for both O and
NI for the highest perceptual level, but increased to approximately 0.8 and
1.8 log units, respectively, for the lowest (peri- threshold) level. Our
findings suggest that: (i) most apparent variation over time in O
sensitivity is actually a reflection of the uncertainty surrounding
estimates of sensitivity obtained for each session; (ii) within- and
between-participant variation in O sensitivity is far less than is commonly
reported; and (iii) low to moderate levels of NI in normosmics are the
result of relatively weak trigeminal stimulation combined with much greater
olfactory activation.
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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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Inge Kroidl Elmar Saathof Lucas Maganga Petra Clowes Leonard Maboko Achim Hoerauf Williams H. Makunde Antelmo Haule Prisca Mviombo Bettina Pitter Neema Mgeni Joseph Mabuye Dickens Kowuor Upendo Mwingira Mwelecele N. Malecela Thomas L?scher Michael Hoelscher 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2016,10(4)
BackgroundAnnual mass treatment with ivermectin and albendazole is used to treat lymphatic filariasis in many African countries, including Tanzania. In areas where both diseases occur, it is unclear whether HIV co-infection reduces treatment success.MethodologyIn a general population study in Southwest Tanzania, individuals were tested for HIV and circulating filarial antigen, an indicator of Wuchereria bancrofti adult worm burden, before the first and after 2 consecutive rounds of anti-filarial mass drug administration.Conclusion/SignificanceIn an area with a high prevalence for both diseases, no difference was found between HIV-infected and uninfected individuals regarding the initial prevalence of lymphatic filariasis. A moderate but significant reduction in lymphatic filariasis prevalence and worm burden was demonstrated after two rounds of treatment with albendazole and ivermectin. Treatment effects were more pronounced in the HIV co-infected subgroup, indicating that the effectiveness of antifilarial treatment was not reduced by concomitant HIV-infection. Studies with longer follow-up time could validate the observed differences in treatment effectiveness. 相似文献
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Inge Kroidl Elmar Saathoff Lucas Maganga Petra Clowes Leonard Maboko Achim Hoerauf Williams H. Makunde Antelmo Haule Prisca Mviombo Bettina Pitter Neema Mgeni Joseph Mabuye Dickens Kowuor Upendo Mwingira Mwelecele N. Malecela Thomas L?scher Michael Hoelscher 《PLoS neglected tropical diseases》2016,10(8)
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Short repetitive sequences in green algal mitochondrial genomes: potential roles in mitochondrial genome evolution 总被引:4,自引:2,他引:2
Current data on green algal mitochondrial genomes suggest an unexpected
dichotomy within the group with respect to genome structure, organization,
and sequence affiliations. The present study suggests that there is a
correlation between this dichotomy on one hand and the differences in the
abundance, base composition, and distribution of short repetitive sequences
we observed among green algal mitochondrial genomes on the other. It is
conceivable that the accumulation of GC- rich short repeated sequences in
the Chlamydomonas-like but not Prototheca-like mitochondrial genomes might
have triggered evolutionary events responsible for the distinct series of
evolutionary changes undergone by the two green algal mitochondrial
lineages. The similarity in base composition, nucleotide sequence,
abundance, and mode of organization we observed between the short
repetitive sequences present in Chlamydomonas-like mitochondrial genomes on
one hand and fungal and vertebrate homologs on the other might extend to
some of the roles that the short repetitive sequences have been shown to
have in the latter. Potential involvements we propose for the short
repetitive sequences in the evolution of Chlamydomonas-like mitochondrial
genomes include fragmentation and scrambling of the ribosomal-RNA-coding
regions, extensive gene rearrangements, coding-region deletions, surrogate
origins of replication, and chromosomal linearization.
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The involvement of the microtubule (MT) and actin microfilament (MF) cytoskeletons in establishing nuclear positions during zoosporogenesis in Allomyces macrogynus was assessed using selective cytoskeletal disrupting treatments and documented with light microscopy. These experiments were coupled with low-speed centrifugation studies to determine the degree to which cytoskeletal elements anchor nuclear position. At the onset of zoospore formation, nuclei were positioned only in cortical cytoplasmic regions of the zoosporangia (ZS). Immunofluorescence microscopy revealed that MTs primarily emanated from centrosomal regions into the surrounding cytoplasm at this stage. During delimitation of the cytoplasm into individual uninucleate zoospores, nuclei migrated from cortical regions to become distributed throughout the cytoplasm. Coincident with nuclear migrations, MTs were primarily organized at and emanated from nuclear surfaces, forming extensive perinuclear arrays. Nuclear migrations were suppressed in ZS induced to sporulate in the presence of cytochalasin D, an actin MF inhibiting compound. Disruption of MTs with nocodazole did not block nuclear migrations, although resultant nuclear spacing was irregular. Centrifugation treatments of control and drug-treated ZS demonstrated that nuclear positions were stabilized by perinuclear MT arrays. The results indicate that nuclear motility in ZS of A. macrogynus is the result of an actin-based system while perinuclear MTs arrays function to establish and fix nuclear position during zoospore formation. Copyright 1998 Academic Press. 相似文献
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