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View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Cerebellar ataxia is a disabling neurological symptom with extreme clinical and etiological heterogeneity.
Objective: To study the clinical and molecular characteristics in patients with degenerative cerebellar ataxia.
Materials And Methods: In this study, 150 South-Indian patients with degenerative cerebellar ataxia underwent a phenotype guided, sequential tiered testing.
Purpose: The left ventricle (LV) myocardium undergoes deterioration with the reduction in ejection fraction (EF). The analysis of its texture pattern plays a major role in diagnosis of heart muscle disease severity. Hence, a classification framework with co-occurrence of local ternary pattern feature (COALTP) and whale optimization algorithm has been attempted to improve the prediction accuracy of disease severity level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnnu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc
July 2019
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a chronic dysfunction caused by deterioration in cardiac physiology. It results in about 31% of mortality worldwide. Among CVDs, myocardial ischemia (MI) leads to restriction in blood supply to heart tissues.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Maternal morbidity and mortality is still a major public health challenge. Lack of proper birth plan and delay in identification of pregnancy complications is one of the major causes of maternal morbidities and deaths, especially in the rural areas.
Aim: The study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the health-seeking behaviour for obstetric care services among the antenatal and postnatal mothers in a rural area of Tamil Nadu.
Introduction: In India, intestinal parasitic infection and anemia remain the most important cause of morbidity especially among the adolescent school children due to lack of awareness of personal hygiene practices, leading to intestinal parasite infections which could in turn lead to anemia.
Aim: This study was conducted with the aim to find out the prevalence of intestinal parasitic infection and anemia among adolescent female school children in an urban area of Tamil Nadu.
Materials And Method: This descriptive cross-sectional study was done among adolescent female school children in Anakaputhur area of Kancheepuram district.
Plant derived immunostimulants are a promising alternative to chemotherapeutics and also perhaps vaccines. In the present study, we examined the immunostimulating properties of aqueous leaf extract of , an Indian traditional medicinal herb, on neutrophil activation and antibody response of (Peters). Serial ten-fold diluted doses of ranging from 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian tasar silkmoth, Antheraea mylitta is an economically important wild silkmoth species distributed across India. A number of morphologically and ethologically well-defined ecotypes are known for this species that differ in their primary food plant specificity. Most of these ecotypes do not interbreed in nature, but are able to produce offspring under captive conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) is the main cause of anovulatory infertility. Various combination of drugs have been tried to induce ovulation in PCOS patients with varied result. So, this study was planned to compare the effect of bromocriptine combined with Clomiphene Citrate and Clomiphene Citrate alone, in patients of polycystic ovarian syndrome with normal prolactin level.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTo construct an effective site-specific integration system in the silkworm, we examined if phiC31 integrase works in silkworm embryos. As an assay system, we constructed an extrachromosomal cassette exchange reaction system between two attP sites of an acceptor plasmid and two attB sites of a donor plasmid. To evaluate the activity, integrase mRNAs synthesized from three different plasmids were used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMicrosatellite loci were isolated from the genomic DNA of the Asian rice gall midge, Orseolia oryzae (Wood-Mason) using a hybridization capture approach. A total of 90 non-redundant primer pairs, representing unique loci, were designed. These simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers represented di (72%), tri (15.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmplified inter simple sequence repeats (ISSR) markers were used to determine genetic relationships among mutant silkworm strains of Bombyx mori. Fifteen ISSR primers containing simple sequence repeat (SSR) motifs were used in this study. A total of 113 markers were produced among 20 mutant strains, of which 73.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough microsatellites are ubiquitous in eukaryota, the number of available markers varies strongly among taxa. This meta-analysis was conducted on 32 insect species. Sequences were obtained from two assembled whole genomes, whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequences from 10 species and screening partial genomic libraries for microsatellites from 23 species.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn the silkworm, Bombyx mori, the female is the heterogametic (ZW) sex and the male is homogametic (ZZ). The female heterogamety is a typical situation in the insect order Lepidoptera. Although the W chromosome in silkworm is strongly female determining, no W-linked gene for a morphological character has been found on it.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe SilkSatDb (silkmoth microsatellite database) (http://www.cdfd.org.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe studied microsatellite frequency and distribution in 21.76-Mb random genomic sequences, 0.67-Mb BAC sequences from the Z chromosome, and 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe pathogenicity, mode of transmission, tissue specificity of infection and the small subunit rRNA (SSU-rRNA) gene sequences of the three new microsporidian isolates from the silkworm Bombyx mori were studied. Out of the three, NIK-2r revealed life cycle features and SSU-rRNA gene sequence similar to Nosema bombycis, suggesting that it is N. bombycis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe recently developed Inter-Simple Sequence Repeat PCR (ISSR-PCR) or microsatellite primed PCR or Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR)-Anchored PCR technique detects polymorphic markers in a wide variety of genomes. Usually the ISSR primers are either 5' end-labeled with gamma[32P]ATP or one of the alpha[32P] labeled dNTPs is added to the PCR reaction and the PCR products are resolved on PAGE and autoradiographed. Alternatively, cold PCR products are resolved on agarose gel electrophoresis.
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