Survey for positively selected coding regions in the genome of the hematophagous tsetse fly Glossina morsitans identifies candidate genes associated with feeding habits and embryonic development.

abstract：:The PPARγ nuclear receptor regulates the expression of genes involved in lipid and carbohydrate metabolism, and it has protective effects in some patients with type 2 diabetes. Nevertheless, the therapeutic value of the PPARγ nuclear receptor protein is limited due to the secondary effects of some PPARγ ligands. Becau...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lizcano F,Vargas D

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tabebuia sp. is native to tropical rain forests throughout Central and South America. Although the biological and pharmacological effects of bark extracts have been intensely studied, little is known on the extract obtained from the flower. Herein, the genotoxic potential of a flower extract from T. impetiginosa ("ipê...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lemos OA,Sanches JC,Silva IE,Silva ML,Vinhólis AH,Felix MA,Santos RA,Cecchi AO

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Screening of mutations that cause β-thalassaemia in the Bangladeshi population led to the identification of a patient with a combination of two rare mutations, Hb Monroe and HBB: -92 C > G. The β-thalassaemia major male individual was transfusion-dependent and had an atypical β-globin gene cluster haplotype. Of the tw...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Moosa MM,Ayub MI,Bashar AE,Sarwardi G,Khan W,Khan H,Yeasmin S

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tobacco farmers are routinely exposed to complex mixtures of inorganic and organic chemicals present in tobacco leaves. In this study, we examined the genotoxicity of tobacco leaves in the snail Helix aspersa as a measure of the risk to human health. DNA damage was evaluated using the micronucleus test and the Comet a...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： da Silva FR,Erdtmann B,Dalpiaz T,Nunes E,Ferraz A,Martins TL,Dias JF,da Rosa DP,Porawskie M,Bona S,da Silva J

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this research was to investigate the linkage disequilibrium between rs9263726 and HLA-B*58:01 in different Chinese ethnic groups (Han, Tibet, and Hui) and to study the feasibility of rs9263726 replacing HLA-B*58:01 as an efficient indicator of potential allopurinol hypersensitivity syndrome. In this study,...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Zhang X,Jin L,Wu Z,Ma W,Chen Y,Chen G,Wang L,Guan M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The D-genome progenitor of wheat (Triticum aestivum), Aegilops tauschii, possesses numerous genes for resistance to abiotic stresses, including drought. Therefore, information on the genetic architecture of A. tauschii can aid the development of drought-resistant wheat varieties. Here, we evaluated 13 traits in 373 A....

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Qin P,Lin Y,Hu Y,Liu K,Mao S,Li Z,Wang J,Liu Y,Wei Y,Zheng Y

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.; family Poaceae) is a warm-season C4 perennial grass. Tillering plays an important role in determining the morphology of aboveground parts and the final biomass yield of switchgrass. Auxin distribution in plants can affect a variety of important growth and developmental processes, incl...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Xu K,Sun F,Wang Y,Shi L,Liu S,Xi Y

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indica and japonica are two main subspecies of Asian cultivated rice (Oryza sativa L.) that differ clearly in morphological and agronomic traits, in physiological and biochemical characteristics and in their genomic structure. However, the proteins and genes responsible for these differences remain poorly characterize...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Yang Y,Zhu K,Xia H,Chen L,Chen K

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic niche conservatism can be investigated at multiple scales on an explicit geographical context. Haplotype-based comparative analyses of lineages occupying the same region, and thus subjected to similar environmental factors, allow decoupling shared evolutionary and ecological patterns, as well as multiple ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Barros MJF,Silva-Arias GA,Segatto ALA,Reck-Kortmann M,Fregonezi JN,Diniz-Filho JAF,Freitas LB

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabies is a fatal zoonotic infection of the central nervous system of mammals and has been known to humans for millennia. The etiological agent, is a neurotropic RNA virus in the order Mononegavirales, family Rhabdoviridae, genus Lyssavirus. There are currently accepted to be two cycles for rabies transmission: the ur...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Oliveira RN,Freire CC,Iamarino A,Zanotto PM,Pessoa R,Sanabani SS,Souza SP,Castilho JG,Batista HBCR,Carnieli P Jr,Macedo CI,Watanabe JT,Brandão PE

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D exerts an immuno-modulatory activity on several immune system cells through the vitamin D receptor (VDR). Herein, we verified that age and a therapeutic regimen containing protease inhibitors are associated with failures in antiretroviral therapies (ARVs). In addition, we assessed whether a VDR SNP (rs115688...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Silva RCD,Alves NMP,Pereira JJS,Coelho AVC,Arraes LC,Brandão LAC,Crovella S,Silva JA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol dehydrogenases belong to the large superfamily of medium-chain dehydrogenases/reductases, which occur throughout the biological world and are involved with many important metabolic routes. We considered the phylogeny of 190 ADH sequences of animals, fungi, and plants. Non-class III Caenorhabditis elegans ADHs ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Thompson CE,Freitas LB,Salzano FM

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) is an oral inflammatory condition, mediated by host immune system reaction, presenting basal membrane damages with inflammatory lesions in the mouth and/or skin. In this study, the role of functional polymorphisms in the MBL2 gene, encoding for Mannose-Binding Protein C (MBP-C), a member of th...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Polesello V,Segat L,Biasotto M,Ottaviani G,Gobbo M,Di Lenarda R,Crovella S,Zupin L

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic variation was estimated in ten samples populations of Aedes aegypti from the Brazilian Amazon, by using a 380 bp fragment of the mitochocondrial NADH dehydrogenase subunit 4 (ND4) gene. A total of 123 individuals were analyzed, whereby 13 haplotypes were found. Mean genetic diversity was slightly high (h = 0.6...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lima RS Jr,Scarpassa VM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the influence of two SNPs (rs846910 and rs12086634) of the HSD11B1 gene that encodes 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1(11β-HSD1), the enzyme that catalyzes the conversion of cortisol to cortisone, on variables associated with obesity and metabolic syndrome in 215 individuals of bot...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Turek LV,Leite N,Rodrigues Souza RL,Lima JK,Milano GE,Timossi Lda S,Osiecki AC,Osiecki R,Alle LF

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of conventional, silicon-based computers has several limitations, including some related to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the von Neumann "bottleneck". Biomolecular computers based on DNA and proteins are largely free of these disadvantages and, along with quantum computers, are reasonable a...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Sakowski S,Krasinski T,Waldmajer J,Sarnik J,Blasiak J,Poplawski T

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Serrasalmidae family is composed of a number of commercially interesting species, mainly in the Amazon region where most of these fishes occur. In the present study, we investigated the genomic organization of the 18S and 5S rDNA and telomeric sequences in mitotic chromosomes of four species from the basal clade o...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Ribeiro LB,Matoso DA,Feldberg E

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of glutathione (GSH) in alternative cellular roles to the canonically proposed, were analyzed in a model unable to synthesize GSH. Gene expression analysis shows that the regulation of the actin cytoskeleton pathway is strongly impacted by the absence of GSH. To test this hypothesis, we evaluate the eff...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Zepeta-Flores N,Valverde M,Lopez-Saavedra A,Rojas E

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1 (DGAT1) is a microsomal enzyme that catalyzes the final step of triglyceride synthesis. The DGAT1 gene is a strong functional candidate for determining milk fat content in cattle. In this work, we used PCR-SSCP (polymerase chain reaction-single-strand conformation polymorphism) and D...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Raut AA,Kumar A,Kala SN,Chhokar V,Rana N,Beniwal V,Jaglan S,Samuchiwal SK,Singh JK,Mishra A

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to understand the genetic ancestry and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity of current Colombian horse breeds we sequenced a 364-bp fragment of the mitocondrial DNA D-loop in 116 animals belonging to five Spanish horse breeds and the Colombian Paso Fino and Colombian Creole cattle horse breeds. Among Colombian...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Jimenez LM,Mendez S,Dunner S,Cañón J,Cortés O

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed to use gene chips to investigate differential gene expression profiles in the occurrence and development of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The study included 12 AMI patients and 12 healthy individuals. Total mRNA of peripheral bloodwas extracted and reversed-transcribed to cDNA for microarray anal...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Fan L,Meng H,Guo X,Li X,Meng F

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether treatment with electroacupuncture (EA) inhibited mitochondria-dependent apoptosis in annulus fibrosis (AF) cells in a rat model of cervical intervertebral disc degradation induced by unbalanced dynamic and static forces. Forty Sprague-Dawley rats were used in this s...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Liao J,Ke M,Xu T,Lin L

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Machado-Joseph disease (MJD) is an autosomal dominant, late-onset neurological disorder and the most common form of spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) worldwide. Diagnostic genetic testing is available to detect the disease-causing mutation by direct sizing of the CAG repeat tract in the ataxin 3 gene. Presymptomatic testin...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Schuler-Faccini L,Osorio CM,Romariz F,Paneque M,Sequeiros J,Jardim LB

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The population of India harbors one of the world's most highly diverse gene pools, owing to the influx of successive waves of immigrants over regular periods in time. Several phylogenetic studies involving mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosomal variation have demonstrated Europeans to have been the first settlers in Indi...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Tiwari SK,Sharma V,Sharma VK,Gopi M,Saikant R,Nandan A,Bardia A,Gunisetty S,Katikala P,Habeeb MA,Khan AA,Habibullah CM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential effect of electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted from video display terminals (VDTs) to elicit biological response is a major concern for the public. The software professionals are subjected to cumulative EMFs in their occupational environments. This study was undertaken to evaluate DNA damage and inciden...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Lakshmi N,Tiwari R,Bhargava S,Ahuja Y

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We genotyped 15 microsatellite loci in order to evaluate the effects of habitat fragmentation, caused by flooding of the Tucuruí reservoir, on the genetic structure of Alouatta belzebul in eastern Amazonia. The analysis included two populations sampled in 1984, representing both margins of the Tocantins river, and thr...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Bastos HB,Gonçalves EC,Ferrari SF,Silva A,Schneider MP

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact and mechanism of co-blocking of costimulatory signals CD28-B7-CD40-CD40L during immune allograft rejection. Forty-eight recipient rabbits were prepared as a high-risk corneal allograft model. After surgery, the animals were randomly divided into: control group, MR1 grou...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Zhao HX,Li XY,Guan WY,Han XT

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catalase (CAT) is a common antioxidant enzyme in almost all living organisms. Currently, detailed reports on cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) CAT (CsCAT) genes and tissue expression profiling are limited. In the present study, four candidate CsCAT genes were identified in cucumber. Phylogenetic analysis indicated that Cs...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Hu L,Yang Y,Jiang L,Liu S

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The freshwater family Siluridae occurs in Eurasia and is especially speciose in South and Southeast Asia, representing an important aquaculture and fishery targets. However, despite the restricted cytogenetic data, a high diploid number variation (from 2n=40 to 92) characterizes this fish group. Considering the large ...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Ditcharoen S,Sassi FMC,Bertollo LAC,Molina WF,Liehr T,Saenjundaeng P,Tanomtong A,Supiwong W,Suwannapoom C,Cioffi MB

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood methylated cell-free DNA (cfDNA) as a minimally invasive cancer biomarker has great importance in cancer management. Guanylate binding protein 2 (GBP2) has been considered as a possible controlling factor in tumor development. GBP2 gene expression and its promoter methylation status in both plasma cfDNA and tumo...

journal_title：Genetics and molecular biology

authors： Rahvar F,Salimi M,Mozdarani H

更新日期：2020-11-17 00:00:00