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Machado-Joseph disease enhances genetic fitness : a comparison between affected...

Background: Machado-Joseph disease (MJD SCA3), a spinocerebellar ataxia related to expansion of a CAG tract, has already been related to anticipation and meiotic drift. However, fitness of MJD carriers has been little studied. Objective: To analyze genetic fitness of MJD patients, comparing them to their unaffected relatives and to the general population (GP) of origin. Subjects and methods: 182 informants, bel...

As manifestações depressivas na doença de Machado Joseph

Determination of ochratoxin A in maize bread samples by LC with fluorescence de...

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a secondary fungal metabolite produced by several moulds, mainly by Aspergillus ochraceus, A. carbonarius, A. niger and by Penicillium verrucosum. The present work shows the results of comparative studies using different procedures for the analysis of OTA in maize bread samples. The studied analytical methods involved extraction with different volumes of PBS/methanol, different extraction ...

Estimation of ochratoxin A in portuguese population: New data on the occurrence...

With increasing knowledge of the persistence of OTA in the food chain, exposure to this mycotoxin is a potential human health hazard to humans, and evaluating its presence in populations has become highly important. ; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T6P-4JXR90G-4/1/ae320edca66d234021aec8fcdd0203fa

A novel H101Q mutation causes PKCgamma loss in spinocerebellar ataxia type 14

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 14 (SCA14) is an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative disorder, first described in a Japanese family, showing linkage to chromosome 19q13.4-qter. Recently, mutations have been identified in the PRKCG gene in families with SCA14. The PRKCG gene encodes the protein kinase Cgamma (PKCgamma), a member of a serine/threonine kinase family involved in signal transduction important for sever...

Phenotypes of spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 and familial hemiplegic migraine ca...

Background: Different mutations in the 1A-subunit of the brain P/Q-type calcium channel gene (CACNA1A) are responsible for familial hemiplegic migraine (FHM), episodic ataxia type 2, and spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6). Missense and splice site mutations have been found in FHM and episodic ataxia type 2, respectively, whereas a CAG repeat in the CACNA1A gene was found expanded in patients with SCA6. Objec...

Trinucleotide repeats in 202 families with ataxia: a small expanded (CAG)n alle...

BACKGROUND: Ten neurodegenerative disorders characterized by spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) are known to be caused by trinucleotide repeat (TNR) expansions. However, in some instances the molecular diagnosis is considered indeterminate because of the overlap between normal and affected allele ranges. In addition, the mechanism that generates expanded alleles is not completely understood. OBJECTIVE: To examine the...

High germinal instability of the (CTG)n at the SCA8 locus of both expanded and ...

Abstract The autosomal dominant spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) are a group of late-onset, neurodegenerative disorders for which 10 loci have been mapped (SCA1, SCA2, SCA4-SCA8, SCA10, MJD, and DRPLA). The mutant proteins have shown an expanded polyglutamine tract in SCA1, SCA2, MJD/SCA3, SCA6, SCA7, and DRPLA; a glycine-to-arginine substitution was found in SCA6 as well. Recently, an untranslated (CTG)n expansi...

Determination of tetracycline and its major degradation products by liquid chro...

A liquid chromatographic method of tetracycline and its major degradation products on a C8-reversed phase column with acidic mobile phase and fluorescence detection is described. The quantification limit, measured as the amount of sample that gave a signal ten times the peak-to-peak noise of the baseline, was: 0.25 ng for tetracycline (TC) and epitetracycline (ETC), 25 ng for and 4-epianhydrotetracycline (EATC)...

Rapid method using high performance liquid chromatography for the purification ...