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Vet Med Sci
January 2025
Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University, Burdur, Türkiye.
Background: The orf virus (ORFV) is a viral pathogen that primarily causes contagious ecthyma in humans and different ruminants. The infection, which is common worldwide, causes large-scale economic losses to animal breeders.
Objective And Methods: In this study, tissue samples collected from eight randomly selected goats with dermatological lesions on the teats were examined in different goat herds.
Zhonghua Wei Zhong Bing Ji Jiu Yi Xue
December 2024
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Qingdao Municipal Hospital, Qingdao 266001, Shandong, China.
Objective: To explore the quantitative analysis results of different patterns of chest computed tomography (CT) in patients with coronavirus infection and its relationship with viral load and pathophysiological status.
Methods: A retrospective clinical cohort study was conducted. Patients with coronavirus infection admitted to Qingdao Municipal Hospital from June 9 to 15, 2023 (all patients underwent chest CT examination within 24 hours after diagnosis) were enrolled.
J Biol Chem
January 2025
Department of Human Nutrition, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210; Department of Molecular Genetics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210; Center for RNA Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210.
Zinc is an essential micronutrient that serves as a cofactor in a wide variety of enzymes, including Cu-Zn Superoxide Dismutase 1 (Sod1). We have discovered in Schizosaccharomyces pombe that Sod1 mRNA and protein levels are regulated in response to cellular zinc availability. We demonstrate that lower levels of Sod1 mRNA and protein accumulate under low zinc conditions, and that this regulation does not require the sod1 promoter or known factors that regulate transcription of sod1 in response to zinc and other environmental stresses.
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January 2025
Laboratory of Comparative and Environmental Virology, Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The attempt to investigate hepatitis E virus (HEV) contamination in naturally growing mangrove bivalve mollusks captured for local sale in a touristic area of Maranhão state in Brazil revealed the detection of rat hepatitis E virus (ratHEV). Using international standard protocols for processing and nucleic acid extraction, we analyzed 89 bivalve samples (Mytella falcata and Crassostrea rhizophorae) with two broadly reactive assays: heminested pan-Hepeviridae (ORF-1) and probe-based HEV-1 to HEV-4 (ORF-2/ORF-3). Heminested reactions presented 2 (2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTrends Genet
January 2025
Department of Medicine and Department of Systems Biology, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address:
Genome-wide translational profiling has uncovered the synthesis in human cells of thousands of microproteins, a class of proteins traditionally overlooked in functional studies. Although an increasing number of these microproteins have been found to play critical roles in cellular processes, the functional relevance of the majority remains poorly understood. Studying these low-abundance, often unstable proteins is further complicated by the challenge of disentangling their functions from the noncoding roles of the associated DNA, RNA, and the act of translation.
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