Assessment of the severity of organophosphate (fenitrothion) poisoning based on its serum concentration and clinical parameters.

Background: Fenitrothion (MEP) is the most frequent cause of organophosphate pesticides (OP) poisoning in Japan, but clinical parameters to predict its severity remain uncertain.

Method: We evaluated 26 cases (12 males and 14 females) of MEP poisoning brought to our critical care center. Regarding acute lung injury (ALI) as a hallmark complication leading to poor recovery, we divided patients into two groups: cases without ALI (Grp1, n = 14), and cases who developed ALI (Grp2, n = 12) at various points after the poisoning.

RiceGAAS: an automated annotation system and database for rice genome sequence.

An extensive effort of the International Rice Genome Sequencing Project (IRGSP) has resulted in rapid accumulation of genome sequence, and >137 Mb has already been made available to the public domain as of August 2001. This requires a high-throughput annotation scheme to extract biologically useful and timely information from the sequence data on a regular basis. A new automated annotation system and database called Rice Genome Automated Annotation System (RiceGAAS) has been developed to execute a reliable and up-to-date analysis of the genome sequence as well as to store and retrieve the results of annotation.