[Conditions of life or intersectionality? Gerontology from a critical feminist perspective].

Using the conditions-of-life-approach through the lens of social politics and sociology, the categories of age(ing) and gender are viewed as structurally horizontal categories of society depicting socially constructed allocation criteria. Therefore, subjective perceptions of the conditions of life of particularly disadvantaged groups, such as elderly women or elderly women with a migration background, can be recorded as well. This article raises the question, if increasingly preferred concepts of intersectionality are positively contributing to gender research from a gerontological and feminist perspective.

["The country has new men" : Men reconcile caregiving with profession].

Background: Due to demographic changes and the associated consequences, men are increasingly being confronted with the challenge to reconcile caregiving and profession. Statistical data confirm that the proportion of male caregivers is continuously increasing. These men operate in a field of specifically female connotation, with which they are not too familiar.

Sequence comparison of avian interferon regulatory factors and identification of the avian CEC-32 cell as a quail cell line.

Interferon (IFN) regulatory factor-1 (IRF-1) is a well-characterized member of the IRF family. Previously, we have cloned cDNA of several members of the chicken IRF (ChIRF) family and studied the function of ChIRF-1 in the avian cell line CEC-32. The IRF-1 proteins from primary chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) and CEC-32 cells differed in their electrophoretic mobility.

The genomic structure of the chicken ICSBP gene and its transcriptional regulation by chicken interferon.

The chicken interferon consensus sequence binding protein (ChICSBP) gene spans over 9 kb of DNA and consists, as its murine homolog, of nine exons. The first untranslated exon was identified by 5'-RACE technology. The second exon contains the translation initiation codon.