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  • 1
    ISSN: 1471-4159
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Translational repression induced during reperfusion of the ischaemic brain is significantly attenuated by ischaemic preconditioning. The present work was undertaken to identify the components of the translational machinery involved and to determine whether translational attenuation selectively modifies protein expression patterns during reperfusion. Wistar rats were preconditioned by 5-min sublethal ischaemia and 2 days later, 30-min lethal ischaemia was induced. Several parameters were studied after lethal ischaemia and reperfusion in rats with and without acquired ischaemic tolerance (IT). The phosphorylation pattern of the α subunit of eukaryotic initiation factor 2 (eIF2) in rats with IT was exactly the same as in rats without IT, reaching a peak after 30 min reperfusion and returning to control values within 4 h in both the cortex and hippocampus. The levels of phosphorylated eIF4E-binding protein after lethal ischaemia and eIF4E at 30 min reperfusion were higher in rats with IT, notably in the hippocampus. eIF4G levels diminished slightly after ischaemia and reperfusion, paralleling calpain-mediated α-spectrin proteolysis in rats with and without IT, but they did not show any further decrease after 30 min reperfusion in rats with IT. The phosphorylated levels of eIF4G, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-protein B (Akt) and extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERKs) were very low after lethal ischaemia and increased following reperfusion. Ischaemic preconditioning did not modify the observed changes in eIF4G phosphorylation. All these results support that translation attenuation may occur through multiple targets. The levels of the glucose-regulated protein (78 kDa) remained unchanged in rats with and without IT. Conversely, our data establish a novel finding that ischaemia induces strong translation of growth arrest and DNA damage protein 34 (GADD34) after 4 h of reperfusion. GADD34 protein was slightly up-regulated after preconditioning, besides, as in rats without IT, GADD34 levels underwent a further clear-cut increase during reperfusion, this time as earlier as 30 min and coincident with translation attenuation.
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  • 2
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    Oxford, UK and Malden, USA : Blackwell Science Ltd
    BJOG 111 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1471-0528
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Objective  To assess whether infectious morbidity after total abdominal hysterectomy is decreased by the addition of 20 cc povidone–iodine gel at the vaginal apex after the usual vaginal preparation with povidone–iodine solution.Study design  Randomised controlled trial.Setting  Fifteen secondary and tertiary hospitals in Canada.Sample  A total of 1570 women undergoing planned total abdominal hysterectomy.Methods  Computer-generated randomisation using a centralised telephone service was stratified by study centre with variable block size. In the operating room, a swab for bacterial vaginosis was taken before vaginal antisepsis. Study group remained concealed until the standard surgical preparation in the operating room was complete. Then povidone-iodine gel 20 cc was placed at the vaginal apex in the intervention group only. Participants were followed for one month post-operative.Main outcome measures  The primary outcome was post-operative infectious morbidity during the 30 days after surgery, defined as: febrile morbidity with hospital stay greater than five days or antibiotic treatment, or infection requiring readmission to hospital or additional visit. Other outcomes included abdominal wound infection, pelvic abscess and other pelvic infections.Results  Post-operative infectious morbidity within 30 days occurred in 128/780 (16%) women receiving povidone–iodine gel preparation and 142/790 (18%) women not receiving gel (RR 0.9, 95% CI 0.7 to 1.1). Pelvic abscess was diagnosed in 0 patients in the gel group and in seven patients in the control group (P 〈 0.01). No significant difference was found in pelvic cellulitis (eight in each group) or abdominal wound infection (51 in the gel group and 58 in the control group, P= 0.5).Conclusion  Povidone–iodine vaginal gel antisepsis led to a 9% relative decrease in overall infectious morbidity after abdominal hysterectomy, which was not statistically significant. Povidone–iodine vaginal gel decreased the risk of pelvic abscess after total abdominal hysterectomy.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1574-6968
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: A food-grade strain with nisRK stably integrated into the genome, was constructed in order to implement the nisin-controlled expression system (NICE) in Lactobacillus casei ATCC393. Expression of β-glucuronidase (gus) reporter gene was employed to optimize the system, which has been successfully used to produce the main antigenic protein from Norwalk virus, opening new perspectives for producing edible vaccines.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1745-6592
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Geosciences
    Notes: The fate of estrogenic activity in waste water effluent was examined during surface transport and incidental recharge along the Santa Cruz River in Pima County, Arizona. Based on measurement of boron isotopes, the fractional contribution of reclaimed water in surface waters and ground water wells proximate to the river was determined for a contemporary sample set. Estrogenic activity decreased by −60% over the 25 mi length of the river below effluent discharge points in Tucson. In ground water samples obtained from monitoring wells that are proximate to the Santa Cruz River, both dissolved organic carbon (p= 0.0003) and estrogenic activity (p= 3 × 10−6) were highly correlated to fractional waste water content. Results indicate that proximate ground water quality is sensitive to incidental recharge of reclaimed water in the Santa Cruz River bed. In a few locations, little attenuation of estrogenic activity was apparent during percolation of effluent in the river channel to well withdrawal points.
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  • 5
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    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Pty
    Austral ecology 29 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1442-9993
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: Abstract  Leaf area index (L) is a critical variable in monitoring and modelling forest condition and growth and is therefore important for foresters and environmental scientists to measure routinely and accurately. We compared three different methods for estimating L: a plant canopy analyser (PCA), a point-quadrat camera method and digital hemispherical photography at a native eucalypt forest canopy at Tumbarumba in southern New South Wales, Australia. All of these methods produced indirect estimates of L based on the close coupling between radiation penetration and canopy structure. The individual L estimates were compared, and the potential advantages and disadvantages of each method were discussed in relation to use in forest inventory and in field data collection programmes for remote sensing calibration and verification. The comparison indicated that all three methods, PCA, digital hemispherical photography and the modified point-quadrat camera method, produced similar estimates with a standard error between techniques of less than 0.2 L units. All methods, however, provided biased estimates of L and calibration is required to derive true stand L. A key benefit, however, of all of these estimation methods is that observations can be collected in a short period of time (1–2 h of field-work per plot).
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  • 6
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Science Pty
    Australasian journal of dermatology 45 (2004), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1440-0960
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: SUMMARY A 36-year-old woman presented with lesions on her scalp, face and trunk. Histopathological examination of these lesions demonstrated facial trichoepithelioma, and scalp cylindroma. A solitary nodule on the trunk had features of cylindroma, spiradenoma and trichoepithelioma, a previously unreported occurrence. Based on the clinical picture, the diagnosis of Brooke–Spiegler syndrome was established. Genetic studies confirmed the diagnosis, demonstrating a splice site mutation, designated 1518+2T〉C, on the CYLD1 gene of chromosome 16q12–q13.
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