An Unusual Presentation of Glandular Fever by Dominic Worku, Li Hui Chang, Ian Blyth

“…Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is an ubiquitous DNA herpesvirus with >90% of adults >40 years of age showing a serological response. …”
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Triatoma venosa and Panstrongylus geniculatus challenge the certification of interruption of vectorial Trypanosoma cruzi transmission by Rhodnius prolixus in eastern Colombia. by Omar Cantillo-Barraza, Lídia Gual-González, Natalia Velásquez-Ortiz, Manuel Alfonso Medina Camargo, Paola González, Lissa Cruz-Saavedra, Adriana Castillo, Sara Zuluaga, Giovanny Herrera, Hanson Cowan, Andrés Velez-Mira, Luz Helena Patiño, Juan David Ramírez, Omar Triana, Melissa S Nolan

“…Most infected humans were adults between the ages of 55 and 85 years old. No evidence of T. cruzi DNA was found using qPCR in human blood samples, but we found high parasitemia levels in the infected dogs. …”
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Glymphatic dysfunction and neurodegeneration in ALS: Longitudinal insights from rNLS8 TDP-43 mice by Akram Zamani, Adam K. Walker, David K. Wright

“…Dysfunctional Tar DNA binding protein-43 (TDP-43) is found in approximately 95 % of all people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). …”
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CHEK2∗1100delC Mutation and Risk of Prostate Cancer by Victoria Hale, Maren Weischer, Jong Y. Park

“…CHEK2 plays a critical role in DNA replication by responding to double-stranded breaks. …”
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Oxidative stress in viral hepatitis by Huseyin Erdal, Hacer Ozlem Kalayci

“…This damage manifests as lipid peroxidation, DNA damage, and protein oxidation, which in turn promote hepatic inflammation, fibrosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. …”
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Entecavir: stability and drug-excipient compatibility by Ariadne Botto Fiorot, Clayton Raynan dos Santos, Thiago Padovani Xavier, Taisa Shimosakai de Lira, Marcelo Antonio de Oliveira

“…Abstract Entecavir is an inhibitor of hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA synthesis that has been widely prescribed in the treatment of chronic infections caused by the virus. …”
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Production of Secretory Leucocyte Protease Inhibitor (SLPI) in Human Pancreatic β-Cells by Max Nyström, Magnus Bergenfeldt, Irena Ljungcrantz, Èsa Lindeheim, Kjell Ohlsson

“…SLPI has also been shown to inhibit HIV-1 infections by blocking viral DNA synthesis. Since SLPI is an inhibitor of pancreatic proteases we wished to investigate whether SLPI was also actually produced in the pancreas. …”
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The Demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) population genetic structure in Russia by E. A. Mudrik, Е. I. Ilyashenko, О. А. Goroshko, T. A. Kashentseva, М. V. Korepov, I. A. Sikorskiy, G. S. Dzhamirzoev, V. Yu. Ilyashenko, D. V. Politov

“…Genetic dif­ferentiation among populations has shown to be weak for both the microsatellite loci (Wright’s FST = 0.052 or AMOVA estimate 0.016) and mtDNA (FST = 0.040). No evidence of significant population structuring of the Demoiselle crane has been found using the STRUCTURE analysis of multilo­cus microsatellite genotypes and the NETWORK grouping of control region haplotypes. …”
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A Classification of Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Transcription Factors of Soybean by Karen A. Hudson, Matthew E. Hudson

“…These were classified with respect to their predicted DNA binding potential, intron/exon structure, and the phylogeny of the bHLH domain. …”
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Is the Dog a Possible Reservoir for Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Suriname? by Alida Kent, Prakash Ramkalup, Dennis Mans, Henk Schallig

“…PCR analysis found Leishmania DNA equivalent to 1 parasite per mL in only one dog at a first round of analysis, but this animal was negative after retesting. …”
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Host and geographically related genetic variation in species of Cloacina (Nematoda: Strongyloidea) from western and eastern grey kangaroos, Macropus fuliginosus and M. giganteus (M... by Shane Gerald Middleton, Anson Koehler, Ian Beveridge

“…Specimens of Cloacina artemis, C. expansa, C. hera, C. hermes, C. hestia, C. magnipapillata, C. obtusa and C. selene, which occur in both of the closely related species of grey kangaroos, Macropus fuliginosus and M. giganteus, were found to differ genetically based on sequence data derived from the internal transcribed spacers (ITS-1, ITS-2) of ribosomal DNA. The extent of differences varied from a single base pair in C. expansa, to 32 in C. hestia. …”
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Environmental gradients shape genetic variation in the desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. (Pottiaceae) by Ugbad A. Farah, Kirsten M. Fisher

“…While we found no evidence of isolation by distance in our data, one environmental variable, mean annual precipitation (MAP), was found to be a positive predictor of FST. …”
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GENETIC STRUCTURE OF THE RED VOLE MYODES (= CLETHRIONOMYS) RUTILUS PALLAS, 1779 POPULATIONS OF THE NORTHERN PRIOKHOTYE WITH REGARD TO NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE VARIABILITY OF THE MTDNA C... by V. V. Pereverzeva, A. A. Primak, E. A. Dubinin

“…The purpose of the work was to determine the genetic structure of coastal populations of the species Myodes (=Clethrionomys) rutilus in the Northern Priokhotye on the base of the variability of a partial mt DNA cytb sequence. For the first time, the nucleotide and haplotypic variability of cytb gene, as well as the genetic structure of the red vole populations in Matykil, Nedorazumeniya, Spafar’eva and Talan islands (Northern Priokhotye ); Koni peninsula; the outskirts of Magadan; and the Yama river region were determined. …”
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Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Effects of CAM Therapies: An In Vitro Study in Normal Kidney Cell Lines by Shagun Arora, Chanderdeep Tandon, Simran Tandon

“…The MTT assay, colony formation assay, DNA fragmentation, and differential staining using AO/EB, following treatment with either 5-FU or CAM therapies, were performed. …”
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Examining the epigenetic transmission of risk for chronic pain associated with paternal post-traumatic stress disorder: a focus on veteran populations by James Freeman, Sabrina Salberg, Melanie Noel, Richelle Mychasiuk

“…Although the aetiology is often unknown, recent evidence suggests that susceptibility can be transmitted intergenerationally, from parent to child. …”
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Crown Gall Induced by a Natural Isolate of <i>Brucella</i> (<i>Ochrobactrum</i>) <i>pseudogrignonense</i> Containing a Tumor-Inducing Plasmid by Marjolein J. G. Hooykaas, Paul J. J. Hooykaas

“…Unexpectedly, we found evidence that a natural isolate from a rose crown gall, called NBC51/LBA8980, was a bacterium that did not belong to the <i>Rhizobiaceae</i> family. …”
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Microbes, macrophages, and melanin: a unifying theory of disease as exemplified by cancer by Stacie Z. Berg, Jonathan Berg

“…However, it would fit well under the theory of evolution, if we were to look at it from the vantage point of pathogens and their supporting microbial communities colonizing humans and mutating host cells for their own benefit, as it does give them an evolutionary advantage and they are capable of selecting genes to mutate and of inserting their own DNA or RNA into hosts. In this article, we provide evidence that tumors are actually complex microbial communities composed of various microorganisms living within biofilms encapsulated by a hard matrix; that these microorganisms are what cause the genetic mutations seen in cancer and control angiogenesis; that these pathogens spread by hiding in tumor cells and M2 or M2-like macrophages and other phagocytic immune cells and traveling inside them to distant sites camouflaged by platelets, which they also reprogram, and prepare the distant site for metastasis; that risk factors for cancer are sources of energy that pathogens are able to utilize; and that, in accordance with our previous unifying theory of disease, pathogens utilize melanin for energy for building and sustaining tumors and metastasis. …”
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Ultrastructural and Molecular Changes in the Developing Small Intestine of the Toad Bufo regularis by S. A. Sakr, G. M. Badawy, H. T. El-Borm

“…The molecular investigation involved examining DNA content and fragmentation. The results showed that the DNA content decreased significantly during the metamorphic stages 60 and 63 compared with both larval (50 and 55) and postmetamorphic (66) stages. …”
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Glucocorticoid receptor gene (NR3C1) methylation, childhood maltreatment, multilevel reward responsiveness and depressive and anxiety symptoms: A neuroimaging epigenetic study by Yajing Xu, Shan Yang, Cong Cao

“…Background: Although epigenomic and environment interactions (Epigenome × Environment; Epi × E) might constitute a novel mechanism underlying reward processing, direct evidence is still scarce. We conducted the first longitudinal study to investigate the extent to which DNA methylation of a stress-related gene—NR3C1—interacts with childhood maltreatment in association with young adult reward responsiveness (RR) and the downstream risk of depressive (anhedonia dimension in particular) and anxiety symptoms. …”
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Development of Genome-Wide Unique Indel Markers for a Heat-Sensitive Genotype in Wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) by Huijie Zhai, Kunpeng Xu, Meng Wang, Zhenchuang Wang, Ziyang Cai, Ao Li, Anxin He, Xiaoming Xie, Lingling Chai, Mingjiu Liu, Xingqi Ou, Zhongfu Ni

“…To develop wheat inter-varietal CSSLs with E6015-3S (a heat-sensitive genotype) being the recipient parent, genome-wide unique DNA markers are urgently needed for marker-assisted selection. …”
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