Development of microsatellite markers in Parakmeria nitida (Magnoliaceae).

Premise Of The Study: We developed microsatellite makers for Parakmeria nitida to investigate its population structure and conservation genetics.

Methods And Results: A total of 25 microsatellite primer pairs were developed using the Fast Isolation by AFLP of Sequences COntaining repeats (FIASCO) protocol, and polymorphism was assessed in three natural populations of P. nitida.

Screening of Herpes simplex virus 2 infection among pregnant women in southern China.

The aim was to investigate the prevalence of Herpes simplex virus (HSV)-2 infection among pregnant women in southern China and analyze the relationship between the HSV-2 infection and pregnancy outcome. We examined 1740 sera collected from pregnant women aged 21-39 years, using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the detection of specific antibodies against HSV-2. The overall prevalence of HSV-2 infection was 23.

A treatment planning comparison between proton beam therapy and intensity-modulated x-ray therapy for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Background And Purpose: A comparative treatment planning study was undertaken between proton beam therapy (PBT) and intensity-modulated x-ray therapy (IMXT) for patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC), to assess the potential benefits and limitations of the two treatment modalities.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed seven patients with recurrent NPC treated at our proton center with PBT from 2004 to 2007. Eclipse proton treatment planning system and Eclipse inverse treatment planning system for IMXT were employed.

Detection of FRET efficiency in imaging systems by photo-bleaching acceptors.

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is widely used to obtain the distance between a donor and an acceptor in biological research. However, the detection of FRET efficiencies with fluorescence microscopy imaging systems remains a great challenge due to the difficulties of transferring gray scales of the images into fluorescence intensities, and the absence of exact quantum yields of donors and acceptors. Herein, we presented a new method to detect the FRET efficiency in imaging systems by analyzing the photo-bleaching-induced changes in fluorescent intensities of quantum dots (QDs, donors) and Cy5 dyes (acceptors).

[DNA nanosensor fluorescence imaging microscopy].

Quantum dots have many excellent optical properties such as high quantum yield, long fluorescence lifetime, wide excitation spectrum and narrow emission spectrum, tunable emission wavelength and so on, thus have become a newpopular type of fluorescence probes in these years. Quantum-dot-based DNA nanosensor comprising streptavidin-conjugated quantum dots, capture probes with biotin and reporter probes with Cy5 was designed to detect DNA or RNA segments. Capture probes and reporter probes were connected by the target DNA or RNA segments so that quantum dots and Cy5s could be together and FRET (fluorescence resonance energy transfer) could be detected.

[Dose distributions of proton beam therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: a comparative study of treatment planning with 3D-conformal radiation therapy or intensity-modulated radiation therapy].

Objective: A comparative dose distribution study has been undertaken between proton beam therapy (PBT), 3-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) and intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), so as to assess the potential advantages of PBT.

Methods: Dose volume histograms (DVHs) were compared between PBT and 3D-CRT or IMRT planning at total dose of 66 Gy and 86 Gy in stage I patients (n = 10, diameter < or = 5 cm), 60 Gy and 72 Gy in stage IIA patients (n = 12, diameter = 5.1-10 cm).

Erratum: 4-[(Z)-(2-Fur-yl)(2-naphthyl-amino)methyl-ene)]-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one. Corrigendum.

The title of the paper by Li, Li, Li, Zhang & Li [Acta Cryst. (2009), E65, o1824] is corrected.[This corrects the article DOI: 10.

4-[(Z)-(2-Fur-yl)(2-naphthyl-amino)methyl-ene)]-3-methyl-1-phenyl-1H-pyrazol-5(4H)-one.

The title compound, C(25)H(19)N(3)O(2), crystallizes as discrete mol-ecules which are well ordered through one intra-molecular N-H⋯O hydrogen bond. Structural analysis indicates that the mol-ecules exist as the amine-one form.

[Effect of temperature on developmental duration of Amblyseius cucumeris].

With Polyphagotarsonemus latus as its prey, the developmental duration of Amblyseius cucumeris was 13.02, 9.61, 5.