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Frenkel YV, Das K, Clark AD, Lewi PJ, Arnold E. Hydrophobic drug aggregates: structure and biology. Acta Crystallogr A 2005. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767305082395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Das K, Clark Jr AD, Lewi PJ, Hughes SH, Janssen PAJ, Arnold E. Structure-based design of new AIDS drugs: overcoming drug resistance. Acta Crystallogr A 2005. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767305094973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Das K, Jain B, Gupta P. Photophysics of Coumarin 500 and Coumarin 151 in AOT reverse micelles. Chem Phys Lett 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2005.05.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun B, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bennett R, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Boyle K, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Campbell S, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cleven CR, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, d'Enterria D, Dahms T, Das K, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Dion A, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Drees KA, Dubey AK, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, Egdemir J, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Forestier B, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Garpman S, Gastineau F, Germain M, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Gunji T, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Henni AH, Haggerty JS, Hagiwara MN, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Harada H, Hartouni EP, Haruna K, Harvey M, Haslum E, Hasuko K, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holmes M, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Hur HM, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Isobe T, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jin J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kawagishi T, Kazantsev AV, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kim YS, Kinney E, Kinnison WW, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Komkov B, Konno M, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurihara N, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee MK, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Malik MD, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Moukhanova TV, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagata Y, Nagle JL, Naglis M, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nguyen M, Nilsson P, Norman B, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Omiwade OO, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Parmar A, Pate SF, Pei H, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Peressounko DY, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qu H, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rukoyatkin P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Sahlmueller B, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Sharma D, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Shimomura M, Shohjoh T, Shoji K, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Simon-Gillo J, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Skutnik S, Smith WC, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Suire C, Sullivan JP, Sziklai J, Tabaru T, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Valle H, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Vertesi R, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wagner M, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, Wessels J, White SN, Willis N, Winter D, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Wysocki M, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Younus I, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zaudkte O, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zimányi J, Zolin L. Saturation of azimuthal anisotropy in Au + Au collisions at (square root)s(NN) = 62-200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:232302. [PMID: 16090463 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.232302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2004] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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New measurements are presented for charged hadron azimuthal correlations at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at (square root)s(NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV. They are compared to earlier measurements obtained at (square root)s(NN) = 130 GeV and in Pb + Pb collisions at (square root)s(NN) = 17.2 GeV. Sizeable anisotropies are observed with centrality and transverse momentum (pT) dependence characteristic of elliptic flow (upsilon2). For a broad range of centralities, the observed magnitudes and trends of the differential anisotropy, upsilon2(pT), change very little over the collision energy range (square root)s(NN) = 62-200 GeV, indicating saturation of the excitation function for upsilon2 at these energies. Such a saturation may be indicative of the dominance of a very soft equation of state for (square root)s(NN) approximately 60-200 GeV.
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Das K, Lau W, Sivaswaren C, Ph T, Fook-Chong S, Sl T, Cheng C. Chromosomal changes in prostate cancer: A fluorescence in situ hybridization study. Clin Genet 2005; 68:40-7. [PMID: 15952985 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.2005.00452.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The incidence of prostate cancer (PC) is increasing steadily with the aging population in Singapore. As the pattern of chromosomal aberrations in Asian men with PC is poorly understood, we investigated the numerical aberrations for chromosomes 7, 8, 11, and 17 by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). FISH was performed on standard sections and tissue microarrays of 54 PC and 33 benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) specimens. Among the 54 PC specimens, FISH detected 44 cases as aneusomy and two as disomy and was unsuccessful for eight cases. Cytogenetic alterations of two or more chromosomes per tumor were detected in 33/46 (72%) PCs. The most frequent alteration was aneusomy of chromosome 8 detected in 34/46 (74%) cases followed by numerical aberrations in chromosome 7 (61%). Gain of 8q24, loss of chromosome 7, and gain of 11q13 were associated with higher Gleason score and were statistically significant. Gain of chromosome 7 was more common in locally advanced disease, while gain of chromosome 11q13 and chromosome 7 was more common in metastatic disease.
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, d'Enterria D, Das K, David G, Deák F, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Fields DE, Finck C, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Germain M, Glenn A, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hasuko K, Hayano R, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kazantsev A, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Newby J, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls JM, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Willis N, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X. Nuclear modification factors for hadrons at forward and backward rapidities in deuteron-gold collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2005; 94:082302. [PMID: 15783879 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.082302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We report on charged hadron production in deuteron-gold reactions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. Our measurements in the deuteron direction cover 1.4<eta<2.2, referred to as forward rapidity, and in the gold direction -2.0<eta<-1.4, referred to as backward rapidity, and a transverse momentum range p(T)=0.5-4.0 GeV/c. We compare the relative yields for different deuteron-gold collision centrality classes. We observe a suppression relative to binary collision scaling at forward rapidity, sensitive to low momentum fraction (x) partons in the gold nucleus, and an enhancement at backward rapidity, sensitive to high momentum fraction partons in the gold nucleus.
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Das K, Kar P. Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. THE JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIA 2005; 53:195-9. [PMID: 15926603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) represents only a part of a wide spectrum of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its prevalence is only 2 - 3% in the general population. Obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia and female sex are important risk factors for NASH. Two hit theory describes very well the pathogenesis of NASH wherein hepatic steatosis, the first hit is followed up by the second hit, one of which may be reactive oxygen species. Mitochondria is the main source of reactive oxygen species which may trigger steatohepatitis by lipid peroxidation, cytokine induction or induction of fas-ligand. Insulin resistance syndrome is the only metabolic syndrome that has been consistently associated with NASH. The diagnosis rests on the hallmark histological features and rigorous exclusion of significant alcohol consumption. Most patients are asymptomatic, have mild-to-moderate elevations of serum aminotransferase levels, clinical hepatomegaly and features of fatty liver on imaging. Liver biopsy is essential for positive diagnosis and prognostication of NASH. Histologically, fat deposition is typically macrovesicular and inflammation of steatohepatitis is predominantly lobular. Neutrophilic cells in lobular inflammatory infilterate are a distinguishing feature of steatohepatitis and differentiate it from other chronic hepatitis. The pattern of collagen deposition is perivenular & peri-sinusoidal spaces in zone 3. NASH is a progressive disease in more than one in four and has spontaneous regression in less than one in six. Therapy options include weight reduction in obese, good control in diabetics and exercise. Ursodeoxycholic acid has membrane stabilizing, cytoprotective and immunological effect and normalizes raised transaminases. Liver transplantation has been done in NASH but transplanted liver shows re-development in more than two thirds. Many more therapies are in the pipeline and show promise for the future.
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Das K, Jain B, Dube A, Gupta P. pH dependent binding of chlorin-p6 with phosphatidyl choline liposomes. Chem Phys Lett 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2004.11.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Agarwal A, Das K, Lerner N, Sathe S, Cicek M, Casey G, Sizemore N. The AKT/IκB kinase pathway promotes angiogenic/metastatic gene expression in colorectal cancer by activating nuclear factor-κB and β-catenin. Oncogene 2004; 24:1021-31. [PMID: 15592509 DOI: 10.1038/sj.onc.1208296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Our laboratory has delineated that the phosphatidylinositol 3' kinase (PI3K)/AKT/I kappa B kinase (IKK) pathway positively regulates NF kappa B and beta-catenin, both important transcriptional regulators in colorectal cancer (CRC). Therefore, we investigated the effect of inhibiting the PI3K/AKT/IKK alpha pathway in regulating the inappropriate constitutive activation of NF kappa B and beta-catenin in CRC cell lines. SW480 and RKO CRC cell lines demonstrate constitutive activation of AKT as well as both NF kappa B- and beta-catenin-dependent transcription. The constitutive activation of NF kappa B- and beta-catenin-dependent transcription is inhibited by transiently transfecting either kinase dead (KD) IKK alpha, which blocks IKK alpha kinase activity, KD AKT, which blocks AKT activity, or wildtype (WT) PTEN, which inhibits PI3K and AKT activity. The ability of KD IKK alpha, KD AKT or WT PTEN to decrease beta-catenin-dependent transcription is independent of their effects on NF kappa B. Inducible expression of either KD IKK alpha or WT PTEN strongly inhibits both the constitutive NF kappa B- and beta-catenin-dependent promoter and endogenous gene activation. Targeted array-based gene expression analysis of this inducible system reveals that many of the genes downregulated upon inhibition of this pathway are involved in tumor angiogenesis and metastasis. The activation of this pathway and the expression of the three most repressed genes was further analysed in samples of CRC. These results indicate a role of this pathway in controlling gene expression important in tumor progression and metastasis.
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, d'Enterria D, Das K, David G, Deák F, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Fields DE, Finck C, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Germain M, Glenn A, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hasuko K, Hayano R, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kazantsev A, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li X, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Newby J, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls J, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl S, Rosnet P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen S, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Willis N, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zaudtke O, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X. Double helicity asymmetry in inclusive midrapidity pi0 production for polarized p+p collisions at square root s = 200 GeV. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2004; 93:202002. [PMID: 15600917 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.202002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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We present a measurement of the double longitudinal spin asymmetry in inclusive pi(0) production in polarized proton-proton collisions at sqrt[s]=200 GeV. The data were taken at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider with average beam polarizations of 0.27. The measurements are the first in a program to study the longitudinal spin structure of the proton, using strongly interacting probes, at collider energies. The asymmetry is presented for transverse momenta 1-5 GeV/c at midrapidity, where next-to-leading-order perturbative quantum chromodynamic (NLO pQCD) calculations well describe the unpolarized cross section. The observed asymmetry is small and is compared to a NLO pQCD calculation with a range of polarized gluon distributions.
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Moylan T, Das K, Gibb A, Hill A, Kane A, Lee C, Toye D, Wolstencroft K, Fail M, Stott DJ. Assessment of cognitive function in older hospital inpatients: is the Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (TICS-M) a useful alternative to the Mini Mental State Examination? Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2004; 19:1008-9. [PMID: 15449371 DOI: 10.1002/gps.1181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Alladi A, Rao S, Das K, Charles AR, D'Cruz AJ. Pediatric tracheostomy: a 13-year experience. Pediatr Surg Int 2004; 20:695-8. [PMID: 15449082 DOI: 10.1007/s00383-004-1277-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 07/29/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Pediatric tracheostomy has been reported to be a surgical procedure with significant morbidity and mortality. The use of tracheostomy in airway management has changed over time as regards indication and outcome. A review of the last 13 years' experience in our institution was carried out to focus on this group of patients and the recent trends in airway management. A retrospective analysis of hospital records was done and information collected with respect to age, gender, indication for tracheostomy, duration, complications, and follow-up. Thirty-nine tracheotomies were done in 36 patients, of whom males outnumbered females 2:1. The mean patient age was 41.6 months while nearly a third were newborns. The indications were congenital and acquired obstructive lesions. Apart from nine cases, all have been treated and decannulated. Follow-up ranged from 1 month to 8 years, and decannulation time from 48 h to 45 months. Home tracheostomy care was very well managed by the parents. One tracheostomy-related death was encountered. Complications were minor and transient and occurred post-decannulation in our series, in contrast to the major complications, both acute and chronic, reported in the literature. More neonates and infants are undergoing tracheostomy and surviving. Pediatric tracheostomy is a safe procedure with home care by parents feasible.
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Sizemore N, Agarwal A, Das K, Lerner N, Sulak M, Rani S, Ransohoff R, Shultz D, Stark GR. Inhibitor of kappaB kinase is required to activate a subset of interferon gamma-stimulated genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:7994-8. [PMID: 15148408 PMCID: PMC419545 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0401593101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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IkappaB kinase (IKK), discovered as the major activator of NF-kappaB, plays additional roles in signaling. By using mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEFs) lacking both the alpha and beta subunits of IKK, we find that these proteins are required for induction of a major subset of IFNgamma-stimulated genes and that this requirement is independent of NF-kappaB activation. Furthermore, there is no defect in IFNgamma-stimulated signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (Stat1) activation or function in the IKKalpha/beta-null MEFs. Therefore, although activated Stat1 dimers are necessary for the activation of these genes in response to IFNgamma, they are not sufficient. These results reveal an important additional pathway for IFNgamma-stimulated gene expression in which an NF-kappaB-independent function of IKK is required.
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Van de Vijver KI, Hoff PT, Das K, Van Dongen W, Esmans EL, Siebert U, Bouquegneau JM, Blust R, De Coen WM. Baseline study of perfluorochemicals in harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) from Northern Europe. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2004; 48:992-997. [PMID: 15111049 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2004.02.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2003] [Revised: 01/13/2004] [Accepted: 02/13/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Caudal duplication syndrome is a rare entity in which structures derived from the embryonic cloaca and notochord are duplicated to various extents. The term encompasses a spectrum and often is quoted as one type of incomplete separation of monovular twins. The authors present more evidence giving credence to caudal twining as the mechanism behind the syndrome. The authors report successful surgical management of a full-term infant with a constellation of anomalies of caudal duplication syndrome.
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Hall HP, Awaah MA, Das K. Deep-level dominated rectifying contacts for n-type GaN films. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2004. [DOI: 10.1002/pssa.200306748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Villa R, Das K, Prabhakar SS. 249 PROCALCITONIN MODULATES INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHESIS IN MACROPHAGES. J Investig Med 2004. [DOI: 10.1136/jim-52-suppl1-802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Das K, Das MK, Mastana SS. Genetic diversity of serum proteins in three subpopulations of the Maria Gond tribe of Madhya Pradesh, India. ANTHROPOLOGISCHER ANZEIGER; BERICHT UBER DIE BIOLOGISCH-ANTHROPOLOGISCHE LITERATUR 2003; 61:261-8. [PMID: 14523999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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The phenotype and allele frequency distribution of group specific component (GC), transferrin (TF), alpha-1-antitrypsin (PI) and apolipoprotein E (APOE) was determined by isoelectric focusing of plasma samples from three subpopulations (Bison Horn Maria of the Kuakonda and Tokapal Block, and Abuj Maria of the Abujmar Hills of the Orchha block) of the Maria Gond tribe of Madhya Pradesh, India. A considerable level of allele frequency variation was observed in these subpopulations, which highlighted social and geographical isolation among them. The average heterozygosity for these IEF subtype systems was high (29-39%) and the gene diversity among these subpopulation groups was of low to moderate range (1.4%). The overall analysis showed that these polymorphisms are useful anthropological markers for micro-evolutionary and genetic structure studies.
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Das K, Beans C, Holsbeek L, Mauger G, Berrow SD, Rogan E, Bouquegneau JM. Marine mammals from northeast Atlantic: relationship between their trophic status as determined by delta13C and delta15N measurements and their trace metal concentrations. MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2003; 56:349-365. [PMID: 12738219 DOI: 10.1016/s0141-1136(02)00308-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The relationship between trophic position through delta13C and delta15N and trace metal concentrations (Zn, Cd, Cu and Hg) was investigated in the tissues of six marine mammal species from the Northeast Atlantic: striped dolphin Stenella coeruleoalba, common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, Atlantic white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus acutus, harbour porpoise Phocoena phocoena, white beaked-dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris, grey seal Halichoerus grypus stranded on French Channel and Irish coasts. White-beaked dolphins, harbour porpoises, white-sided dolphins, common and striped dolphins display the same relative and decreasing trophic position, as measured by delta15N values, along both the Irish and French channel coasts, reflecting conservative trophic habits between these two places. Hepatic and renal Cd concentrations were significantly correlated to muscle delta13C and delta15N values while Hg, Zn and Cu did not. These results suggest that Cd accumulation is partly linked to the diet while other factors such as age or body condition might explain Hg, Zn or Cu variability in marine mammals. Combined stable isotope and trace metal analyses appear to be useful tools for the study of marine mammal ecology.
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Halder M, Das K, Chowdhury PK, Kundu S, Hargrove MS, Petrich JW. A Comparative Femtosecond Coherence Study of the Unligated Monomeric Hemeproteins Myoglobin and Leghemoglobin. J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp034828u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, d'Enterria D, Das K, David G, Deák F, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Fields DE, Finck C, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Germain M, Glenn A, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hasuko K, Hayano R, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kazantsev A, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li X, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Newby J, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls J, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl S, Rosnet P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen S, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Willis N, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X. Absence of suppression in particle production at large transverse momentum in sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV d+Au collisions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2003; 91:072303. [PMID: 12935008 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.91.072303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2003] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Transverse momentum spectra of charged hadrons with p(T)<8 GeV/c and neutral pions with p(T)<10 GeV/c have been measured at midrapidity by the PHENIX experiment at BNL RHIC in d+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. The measured yields are compared to those in p+p collisions at the same sqrt[s(NN)] scaled up by the number of underlying nucleon-nucleon collisions in d+Au. The yield ratio does not show the suppression observed in central Au+Au collisions at RHIC. Instead, there is a small enhancement in the yield of high momentum particles.
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Chowdhury PK, Kundu S, Halder M, Das K, Hargrove MS, Petrich JW. Effects of Distal Pocket Mutations on the Geminate Recombination of NO with Leghemoglobin on the Picosecond Time Scale. J Phys Chem B 2003. [DOI: 10.1021/jp030106r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Chattopadhyay S, Zaidi G, Das K, Chainy GBN. Effects of hypothyroidism induced by 6-n-propylthiouracil and its reversal by T3 on rat heart superoxide dismutase, catalase and lipid peroxidation. INDIAN JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY 2003; 41:846-9. [PMID: 15248482] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/30/2023]
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The present study critically evaluates the effects of hypothyroid and hyperthyroid states on lipid peroxidation and two enzymes of active oxygen metabolism, namely superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) in the rat heart mitochondrial and post-mitochondrial fractions. Lipid peroxidation, an index of oxidative stress, was elevated in the heart tissue in hypothyroid state but reduced upon T3 supplementation. Hyperthyroidism registered increased SOD activity in post-mitochondrial fraction. Mitochondrial SOD activity was reduced in hypothyroid state, which was further reduced by T3 administration. In contrast, different thyroid states had no effect on catalase activity in the mitochondrial fraction. The hypothyroid state however, significantly augmented catalase activity in post-mitochondrial fraction. The results suggest that the antioxidant defence status of cardiac tissue is well modulated by thyroid hormone.
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Mohanty S, Das K, Correa MA, D'Cruz AJ. Extranasal glial heterotopia: case report. Neurol India 2003; 51:248-9. [PMID: 14571016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/27/2023]
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Glial heterotopia or the occurrence of isolated non-teratomatous extracranial glial tissue is rare. We report a neonate with extensive extranasal glial heterotopia involving the left buccopharyngeal region, palate and base of the skull and presenting with respiratory distress and a bleeding oral mass. A staged operative approach was adopted to excise the lesion. The literature on the subject is briefly reviewed.
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Das K, Mastana SS. Genetic variation at three VNTR loci in three tribal populations of Orissa, India. Ann Hum Biol 2003; 30:237-49. [PMID: 12850958 DOI: 10.1080/0301446031000064512] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND The variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) loci are robust, simple and rapid tools for genetic characterization of both individuals and populations. This paper presents data on the distribution of three VNTRs (APOB, YNZ22 and D1S80) in three tribal populations (Gadaba, Kuvi-Khond and Paroja) of the Koraput district of Orissa, India with a view to enlarge our understanding of molecular genetic diversity among these tribes and the usage of these VNTRs in anthropogenetic studies. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Three tribal populations were genotyped for APOB, YNZ22 and D1S80 loci using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique. Gadaba are an Austro-Asiatic tribe while Kuvi-Khond and Paroja are Dravidian tribes. All samples were collected, with consent, from unrelated individuals. RESULTS The observed allelic variation in these tribes is comparable with many Indian populations, but they showed significant overall and inter-population variability within the region. Allele *24 was the most common allele at the D1S80 locus in all populations, with Gadabas having the highest frequency (50%) followed by Paroja (32%) and Kuvi-Khond (23%). Gadabas also showed a higher frequency of allele *19 (13%) and *31 (9%) compared to other Indian and European populations. In the Apo B system, allele *37 was the most common in all three populations, with Gadabas having the highest frequency (39%) followed by Paroja (24%) and Kuvi-Khond (21%). This allele is present in high frequencies in other Indian (except Gonds) and European populations. Alleles *33 (17%), *35 (20%) and *45 (12%) were also common in the Gadabas, but Kuvi-Khond showed higher frequencies of *31(10%), *35(13%) and the larger allele *49(16%). Paroja, on the other hand, had higher frequencies of *31 (14%), *33 (17%) and *45 (13%). Allele *49 was also present in Paroja (10%) but was absent in the Gadaba. For the YNZ22 system, allele *4 was the most common in Kuvi-Khond (25%) and Paroja (21.4%), and allele *2 was the predominant allele in the Gadaba (33%). However allele *4 still occurs at relatively high frequency in Gadaba (27%). Allele *2 also occurs at relatively high frequency in Kuvi-Khond (20%) and intermediate frequency in Paroja (11%). Average heterozygosity was relatively low for Gadaba (0.7597 +/- 0.0191) and high for Kuvi-Khond (0.8618 +/- 0.0149) and Paroja (0.8512 +/- 0.0190), perhaps a reflection of effective population size and limitations to mating. The level of gene differentiation is, however, low (3-4%) for the three systems studied in these tribal populations and in data compiled from previous studies from the region. CONCLUSIONS The VNTRs are polymorphic in the tribal populations studied and there is extensive allelic variation. Gadabas are isolated but Kuvi-Khond and Paroja show clear affinities with the Gonds, a major tribal group of Central India. Overall, allele frequency distribution, heterozygosity and genetic diversity analysis show that genetic diversity observed is socially, linguistically and geographically structured in this region.
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