gebhart/patrepeval huggingface dataset:
Throat Carrier Rates of Beta-hemolytic Streptococci among Healthy Adults and Children (1988)

In order to investigate the carrier rate of beta-hemolytic streptococci throat cultures were obtained every third month from 382 asymptomatic adults and schoolchildren during a 2-year period, altogether 2226 samples. In addition, 300 asymptomatic 4-year-olds were sampled once. The carrier rate of beta-hemolytic streptococci was 19.4%; group A streptococci alone 5.0%. There was no season-dependent variation. In the 3 age groups the carrier rates of group A streptococci were 0.8%, 5.9%, and 11.3%, respectively, with the highest rate among the 4-year-olds. Some of the individuals that were sampled repeatedly seemed to be pharyngeal carriers of group A streptococci, while others never became carriers. Group A streptococci were found significantly more often among 4-year-olds not attending day-care centres compared to those attending such institutions. For group C and G streptococci the influence of age on carrier rates was not similar to that found for group A streptococci. Throat carriership of beta-hemolytic streptococci does not result in clinical infections.
prk, a Cytokine-inducible Human Protein Serine/Threonine Kinase Whose Expression Appears to be Down-regulated in Lung Carcinomas (1996)

We have cloned and characterized a putative protein serine/threonine kinase termed prk through a combination of polymerase chain reaction and conventional cDNA library screening approaches. There are apparently two distinct domains within prk protein deduced from its nucleotide sequences. The amino-terminal portion has the feature of the catalytic domain of a serine/threonine kinase and shows strong homology to mouse fnk and other polo family kinases including mouse snk, human and murine plk, Drosophila polo, and yeast Cdc5. The carboxyl-terminal portion, presumably the regulatory domain, shares extensive homology to mouse fnk. Northern blotting analyses reveal that prk expression is restricted to a very limited number of tissues with placenta, ovaries, and lung containing detectable amounts of prk mRNA. prk mRNA expression is also detected at a low level in the megakaryocytic cell line Dami, MO7e, and three brain glioma cell lines. In addition, refeeding of serum-deprived MO7e, Dami, and K562 cells of hematopoietic origin and GMOO637D of lung fibroblasts rapidly activates prk mRNA expression with its peak induction around 2 h after serum addition. prk gene activation by the serum requires no new protein synthesis. The recombinant cytokines such as interleukin-3 and thrombopoietin also activate prk mRNA expression in MO7e cells. Furthermore, a survey of RNAs isolated from the tumor and the uninvolved tissues from 18 lung cancer patients reveals that prk mRNA expression is significantly down-regulated in tumor tissues. Southern blotting analysis indicates that the prk gene is present in a single copy in the genome of tumors and normal cells. Taken together, these results suggest that prk expression may be restricted to proliferating cells and involved in the regulation of cell cycle progression. The molecular cloning of prk cDNA will facilitate the study of its biological role as well as its potential role in tumorigenesis.
Protein Kinase C: Targets to Regenerate Brain Injuries? (2019)

Acute or chronic injury to the central nervous system (CNS), causes neuronal death and irreversible cognitive deficits or sensory-motor alteration. Despite the capacity of the adult CNS to generate new neurons from neural stem cells (NSC), neuronal replacement following an injury is a restricted process, which does not naturally result in functional regeneration. Therefore, potentiating endogenous neurogenesis is one of the strategies that are currently being under study to regenerate damaged brain tissue. The insignificant neurogenesis that occurs in CNS injuries is a consequence of the gliogenic/non-neurogenic environment that inflammatory signaling molecules create within the injured area. The modification of the extracellular signals to generate a neurogenic environment would facilitate neuronal replacement. However, in order to generate this environment, it is necessary to unearth which molecules promote or impair neurogenesis to introduce the first and/or eliminate the latter. Specific isozymes of the protein kinase C (PKC) family differentially contribute to generate a gliogenic or neurogenic environment in injuries by regulating the ADAM17 mediated release of growth factor receptor ligands. Recent reports describe several non-tumorigenic diterpenes isolated from plants of the <i>Euphorbia</i> genus, which specifically modulate the activity of PKC isozymes promoting neurogenesis. Diterpenes with 12-deoxyphorbol or lathyrane skeleton, increase NPC proliferation in neurogenic niches in the adult mouse brain in a PKCβ dependent manner exerting their effects on transit amplifying cells, whereas PKC inhibition in injuries promotes neurogenesis. Thus, compounds that balance PKC activity in injuries might be of use in the development of new drugs and therapeutic strategies to regenerate brain injuries.
Analyses and interpretation of whole-genome gene expression from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue: an illustration with breast cancer tissues (2010)

Gene expression experiments using the DASL assay can efficiently handle fragmentation issues in the FFPE tissues. However, formalin fixation seems to change RNA and consequently significantly alters gene expression in a number of genes which may not be uniform between tumor and normal tissues. Therefore, considerable caution needs to be taken when interpreting gene expression data from FFPE tissues, especially in relation to specific genes.
Novel 〈110〉-Oriented Organic−Inorganic Perovskite Compound Stabilized by N-(3-Aminopropyl)imidazole with Improved Optical Properties (2006)

In the organic−inorganic perovskites family, the 〈100〉-oriented type has been extensively investigated as a result of its unique magnetic, optical, and electrical properties, and only one type of 〈110〉-oriented hybrid perovskite stabilized by methylammonium and iodoformamidinium cations or the latter themselves has been known so far. In this paper, another novel 〈110〉-oriented organic−inorganic perovskite (C6H13N3)PbBr4 (compound 1) has been prepared by reacting N-(3-aminopropyl)imidazole (API) with PbBr2 in hydrobromic acid. The crystal structure is determined, which indicates that the perovskite is stabilized by API. The introduction of the optically active organic ligand API into the hybrid perovskite results in a red shift and a great enhancement of photoluminescence in the perovskite with respect to organic ligand API itself. These results have been explained according to calculation based on density-functional theory. Moreover, the excellent film processing ability for the perovskite (C6H13N3)PbBr4 together with the improved optical properties makes it have potential application in optoelectronic devices.
The Impact of Veranda on a Single-sided Naturally Ventilated Building (2010)

This paper investigates the impact of veranda on the indoor and outdoor airflows of a single-storey building with various opening configurations. Focussing on a wind-driven single-sided ventilation strategy, the investigation suggests that the provision of veranda with a correct combination of openings can improve indoor air flow in single-sided naturally ventilated building. On the other hand, inappropriate veranda configuration together with an incorrect combination of openings can significantly reduce indoor ventilation performance.
Mitochondrial Priming Determines Chemotherapeutic Response in Acute Myeloid Leukemia (2013)

Gain- and loss-of-function studies of the BCL-2 family of proteins have shown that they can impact chemotherapeutic sensitivity. However, cells contain myriad anti-apoptotic and pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family members making it difficult to predict cell fate decisions based on the initial conditions of these proteins. BH3 profiling is a tool that measures mitochondrial priming, the readiness of a cell to die through the intrinsic (or mitochondrial) apoptotic pathway. Priming is due to the cumulative effect of the BCL-2 family of proteins that act as the gate keepers of the mitochondrial apoptotic pathway. Priming is measured by determining the sensitivity of mitochondria to perturbation by peptides derived from the BH3 domains of pro-apoptotic proteins. Using BH3 profiling, we now have a functional readout that can quantify priming and assess its contribution to drug sensitivity. Here we show that priming affects the sensitivity of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cell lines to various standard chemotherapeutics, especially topoisomerase II inhibitors. Priming predicts clinical response to conventional induction chemotherapy as well as the long term maintenance of remission in AML patients. Interestingly, the priming of normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) sits at the boundary line between the priming of cured and refractory patient AML. This HSC priming likely defines the therapeutic index since AML that are lower primed than HSCs are often refractory and cannot be cured without transplantation. Additionally, our BH3 profiles revealed that AML cells are more sensitive to BCL-2 antagonism than normal HSCs, which are primarily dependent on MCL-1. Indeed, we were able to kill primary refractory AML cells in vitro with the BCL-2 antagonist ABT-737 at doses that left HSCs unharmed. Cumulatively, these findings show that priming is a major mechanistic determinant of AML response in vitro and in the clinic to standard induction chemotherapy. With the ability to predict outcome, BH3 profiling may offer physicians and patients a promising tool for treatment decision-making.
Cell-associated tumor necrosis factor (TNF) as a killing mechanism of activated cytotoxic macrophages. (1987)

Different macrophage populations were investigated for their abilities to secrete tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and to lyse TNF-susceptible tumor cells. In this way we could demonstrate that TNF-secretion, although a feature of all activated macrophage populations, is no absolute requirement for the killing of the TNF-sensitive Wehi 164 target. Macrophage cytotoxicity against this cell but not against the TNF-resistant P815 mastocytoma, was completely inhibitable by a specific anti-TNF serum also in the absence of measurable secreted TNF. Moreover the TNF-dependent lysis of tumor cells could also be performed by activated macrophages that had been fixed with paraformaldehyde before the addition of the target cells. In the indirect radioimmunoassay, TNF could be demonstrated on the surface of fixed effector cells. Our results must be interpreted in terms of membrane-associated TNF as the lytic principle for TNF-susceptible tumor cells.
Carbon Dioxide-Fixation in Photosynthetic Green Sulfur Bacteria (1970)

The main products of carbon dioxide-fixation in washed suspensions of Chlorobium thiosulfatophilum are a polyglucose, alpha-ketoglutarate, and alpha-keto-beta-methylvalerate. All of these can be formed by a mechanism involving the reductive carboxylic acid cycle. The reductive pentose phosphate cycle appears to play a quantitatively minor role in carbon dioxide-fixation under these conditions.
The MspJI family of modification-dependent restriction endonucleases for epigenetic studies (2011)

MspJI is a novel modification-dependent restriction endonuclease that cleaves at a fixed distance away from the modification site. Here, we present the biochemical characterization of several MspJI homologs, including FspEI, LpnPI, AspBHI, RlaI, and SgrTI. All of the enzymes specifically recognize cytosine C5 modification (methylation or hydroxymethylation) in DNA and cleave at a constant distance (N(12)/N(16)) away from the modified cytosine. Each displays its own sequence context preference, favoring different nucleotides flanking the modified cytosine. By cleaving on both sides of fully modified CpG sites, they allow the extraction of 32-base long fragments around the modified sites from the genomic DNA. These enzymes provide powerful tools for direct interrogation of the epigenome. For example, we show that RlaI, an enzyme that prefers (m)CWG but not (m)CpG sites, generates digestion patterns that differ between plant and mammalian genomic DNA, highlighting the difference between their epigenomic patterns. In addition, we demonstrate that deep sequencing of the digested DNA fragments generated from these enzymes provides a feasible method to map the modified sites in the genome. Altogether, the MspJI family of enzymes represent appealing tools of choice for method development in DNA epigenetic studies.
Th1 and Th2 Serum Cytokine Profiles Characterize Patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis (Th1) and Graves’ Disease (Th2) (2004)

&lt;i&gt;Objectives:&lt;/i&gt; The aim of this study was to document the pattern of immune response, assessed by the measurement of both Th1 and Th2 serum cytokines, in patients suffering from autoimmune thyroid disease and toxic nodular goiter. &lt;i&gt;Methods:&lt;/i&gt; Both Th1 and Th2 serum cytokine levels were assayed in patients suffering from Graves’ disease (GD, n = 25), Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT, n = 21), and toxic nodular goiter (TNG, n = 7) and compared with corresponding levels of 25 healthy controls. Serum concentrations of IL-2, IL-1β, INF-γ, TNF-α, IL-12, IL-15, IL-10, IL-18, IL-4 and IL-5 were assayed in fasting serum samples. &lt;i&gt;Results:&lt;/i&gt; It was found that patients with HT had higher IL-2 serum levels (12.16 ± 0.66 pg/ml) compared to patients with TNG (9.25 ± 0.84 pg/ml), GD (7.86 ± 0.30 pg/ml) and controls (7.36 ± 0.45 pg/ml; p = 0.0001), higher INF-γ levels (7.60 ± 0.33 pg/ml) compared to patients with TNG (5.77 ± 0.55 pg/ml), GD (5.74 ± 0.24 pg/ml) and controls (5.09 ± 0.27 pg/ml; p = 0.0009), higher IL-12 levels (3.57 ± 0.19 pg/ml) compared to patients with TNG (2.57 ± 0.21 pg/ml), GD (2.48 ± 0.13 pg/ml) and controls (2.59 ± 0.23 pg/ml; p = 0.004), and higher IL-18 levels (27.52 ± 1.75 pg/ml) compared to patients with TNG (18.71 ± 2.24 pg/ml), GD (15.44 ± 1.39 pg/ml) and controls (15.16 ± 1.62 pg/ml; p = 0.0002). In contrast, patients with GD had higher serum levels of IL-4 (4.11 ± 0.33 pg/ml) compared to patients with HT (3.0 ± 0.16; p = 0.02) and higher IL-5 levels (4.22 ± 0.30 pg/ml) compared to patients with TNG (3.21 ± 0.58 pg/ml), HT (2.75 ± 0.16 pg/ml) and controls (2.0 ± 0.19 pg/ml; p = 0.0001). Patients had lower IL-1β serum levels (TNG 2.45 ± 0.20, HT 2.52 ± 0.14, GD 2.68 ± 0.12 pg/ml) compared to controls (3.6 ± 0.20 pg/ml; p = 0.008). &lt;i&gt;Conclusions:&lt;/i&gt; The above findings suggest that a Th1 pattern of immune response characteristic of cellular immunity is dominant in HT, whereas the predominance of Th2 cytokines in GD indicates a humoral pattern of immune reaction.
Antimicrobial Peptide Delivery Strategies: Use of Recombinant Antimicrobial Peptides in Paratransgenic Control Systems (2012)

Antimicrobial peptides (AMP's) are small peptides that have evolved as part of an innate cell defense mechanism in many organisms. We are currently developing methodologies to use these molecules to control the transmission of vector borne diseases utilizing a paratransgenic strategy. In this approach, symbiotic or commensal microbes of host insects are transformed to express gene products that interfere with pathogen transmission. These genetically altered microbes are re-introduced back to the insect where expression of the engineered molecules decreases the host's ability to transmit the pathogen. In previous work, we demonstrated that the paratransgenic expression of the AMP, cecropin A, by transformed microbes residing in the midgut of the reduviid bug, reduced carriage of the parasite, T. cruzi, substantially. In more recent work, we reported a dramatic increase in parasite killing efficiency when AMP's are used in combination. Further, the AMP concentrations required for parasite killing are decreased by at least 10-fold. In this review, we discuss the feasibility of utilizing other AMP's, individually or in combination, as effector molecules to control the transmission of leishmania parasites by sand flies and to control Vibriosis, a highly devastating disease in shrimp mariculture.
Neutrophil-dependent tumor rejection and priming of tumoricidal CD8+ T cell response induced by dendritic cells overexpressing CD95L (2008)

Overexpression of CD95 (Fas/Apo-1) ligand (CD95L) has been shown to induce T cell tolerance but also, neutrophilic inflammation and rejection of allogeneic tissue. We explored the capacity of dendritic cells (DCs) genetically engineered to overexpress CD95L to induce an antitumor response. We first found that DCs overexpressing CD95L, in addition to MHC class I-restricted OVA peptides (CD95L-OVA-DCs), induced increased antigen-specific CD8(+) T cell responses as compared with DCs overexpressing OVA peptides alone. The enhanced T cell responses were associated with improved regression of a tumor expressing OVA, allowing survival of all animals. When DCs overexpressing CD95L (CD95L-DCs) were injected with the tumor expressing OVA, in vivo tumor proliferation was strikingly inhibited. A strong cellular apoptosis and a massive neutrophilic infiltrate developed in this setting. Neutrophil depletion prevented tumor regression as well as enhanced IFN-gamma production induced by CD95L-OVA-DCs. Furthermore, the CD8(+) T cell response induced by the coadministration of tumor cells and CD95L-DCs led to rejection of a tumor implanted at a distance from the DC injection site. In summary, DCs expressing CD95L promote tumor rejection involving neutrophil-mediated innate immunity and CD8(+) T cell-dependent adaptative immune responses.
'How Far' vs 'How Fast' in Alzheimer's Disease (1994)

There appears to be substantial heterogeneity in the rate of progression in patients with Alzheimer's disease, and, like initial degree of severity, rate of progression appears to be a strong predictor of clinical course.
OntoGene in BioCreative II (2008)

Although the results of BioCreative clearly show that no tool is sufficiently reliable for fully automated annotations, a few of the proposed approaches (including our own) already perform at a competitive level. This makes them interesting either as standalone tools for preliminary document inspection, or as modules within an environment aimed at supporting the process of curation of biomedical literature.
Matrix metalloproteinases in skin pathology (Review). (2001)

Human tissue is composed in part of cells and in part of amorphous matrix components. Equilibrium exists between the synthesis and degradation of connective tissue under physiological conditions, which serves both the formation and the maintenance of tissue architecture. Synthesis progresses via mesenchymal cells, degradation is controlled by the proteolytic effect of a group of enzymes, which belong to the protein family of matrix metalloproteinases. In biological development, matrix metalloproteinases play an important role in all essential configurative processes in embryo- and histogenesis. As a result of the importance of matrix metalloproteinases in creation of connective tissue, dysregulation with excessive proteolytic activity may result in tissue damage. Histological structural changes are set in relation to the molecular expression pattern of matrix metalloproteinases using matrix relevant diseases of human skin. Discussion includes fibrosing processes, skin inflammations, wound healing, blistering diseases, premature sun-induced skin aging and primary cutaneous malignomas and their metastases.
Conductismo y marxismo leninismo (1993)

The arguments among followers o Behaviorism in different countries of Latina America and the criteria of a Psychology with Marxist orientation is a up to date thema which is expressed in the different scientific events held in this area and in the literature, denoting the different criteria concerning the role of Marxist philosophy and its relation'to applied sciencies, particularly Psychology. The present paper refuses the criteria of Mexican repre­ sentatives of the so called school of Behaviour Analysis, published in the Vol. 11, Number 3 (1985), whose author attempts to demonstrate the misinterpretation of some classics of Marxismo-Leninismo.
Highly Regiospecific Zirconocene Catalysts for the Isospecific Polymerization of Propene (1998)

A new class of isospecific and highly regiospecific C2-symmetric ansa-zirconocenes, characterized by a bisindenyl ansa ligand with bulky substituents in the 3 position of indene and a single carbon bridge is disclosed: variation of the size of the substituent in C(3) has a strong effect on the extent of chain transfer and isospecificity in propene polymerization. In fact, while rac-[Me2C(1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 produces low molecular weight and moderately isotactic polypropene (iPP) also containing some regioirregularities (M̄n = 6500, mmmm ca. 81% and 2,1tot = 0.4% at 50 °C in liquid monomer), rac-[Me2C(3-tert-butyl-1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 produces iPP with molecular weights between 25 000 (Tp = 70 °C) and 410 000 (Tp = 20 °C) and a fairly high isotacticity (mmmm ca. 95% at 50 °C), with no detectable 2,1 units. The influence of polymerization temperature on the catalyst performance has been investigated by polymerizing liquid propene in the temperature range of 20−70 °C: the experimental ΔΔE⧧ values for enantioface selectivity have been estimated for two members of the new class (rac-[Me2C(3-tert-butyl-1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 ΔΔE⧧enant = 4.6 kcal/mol; rac-[Me2C(3-(trimethylsilyl)-1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 ΔΔE⧧enant = 2.6 kcal/mol). For comparison, Brintzinger's moderately isospecific, benchmark catalyst rac-[ethylene(1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 (ΔΔE⧧enant = 3.3 kcal/mol), the single carbon bridged, unsubstituted rac-[Me2C(1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 (ΔΔE⧧enant = 2.8 kcal/mol), and the C2-symmetric, practically aspecific, rac-[ethylene(3-methyl-1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 (ΔΔE⧧enant = 1.9 kcal/mol) are also reported. The molecular structures of rac-[Me2C(3-tert-butyl-1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 and rac-[Me2C(3-(trimethylsilyl)-1-indenyl)2]ZrCl2 have been determined.