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Glyphosate resistance in a Chilean Lolium multiflorum.

Lolium multiflorum (Italian ryegrass) has recently demonstrated itself to be poorly controlled with glyphosate in cereal crops of South Chile. The concentration of glyphosate necessary to reduce shoot length by 50% (ED50) in seedlings, after eight days of root contact was 7.3-fold in the resistant Vil-1 than in the susceptible (S) biotype. The obtained spray retention values were higher on S than the resistant (Vil-1) biotype. Contact angles measured on the adaxial surface of S and Vil-1 were similar. However, on the abaxial surface contact angles were of 63 degrees on Vil-1 as compared to 42 degrees on S. A greater glyphosate uptake was observed through the abaxial surface of S. Regarding translocation, glyphosate accumulated mainly in the tip of the treated leaf of Vil-1, 24 h after treatment. It was afterwards also well distributed to the rest of the leaves and roots, as in the susceptible biotype. Nevertheless, 14C-glyphosate remained higher in the foliar apex of Vil-1. Hence, resistance to glyphosate by the Vil-1 Lolium multflorum biotype seems to involve a lower uptake through the abaxial leaf surface and a different migration pattern.

Adaptation, Physiological↗

The new face of refugee resettlement in Wisconsin: what it means for physicians and policy makers.

BACKGROUND: Historically, Wisconsin has received refugees from 3 large geographic areas: Southeast Asia, the Former Soviet Union, and the former Republic of Yugoslavia. However, recent trends demonstrate a dramatic increase in the number of countries from which current refugees originate. Further, state migration patterns show that most counties in Wisconsin have sizable per capita refugee populations and can expect more. OBJECTIVE: This paper describes past and current refugee resettlement trends and their ramifications on health care delivery, health policy, and social development in Wisconsin. METHODS: Statistical data on national, regional, and state refugee resettlement trends was obtained from the US Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development. Additional data was obtained from Milwaukee-based refugee service agencies. Further, discussions were held with health officials in Barron County and around the Midwest. FINDINGS: Beginning in the 1980s, with the influx of Laotian Hmong refugees, and continuing through the late 1990s with the end of the Balkan Wars, Wisconsin has provided safe refuge for thousands of refugees. Over the last 5 years the diversity of refugees being resettled in Wisconsin has accelerated to include an array of countries. This phenomenon has led to an increase in the range of health behaviors and health needs characteristic of these populations. The new face of refugee immigration has profound implications on Wisconsin's health landscape, not only in terms of clinical disease, but also in health policy, planning, and social development.

Asia, Southeastern↗

Two forms of the bovine brain Go that stimulate the inositol trisphosphate-mediated Cl- currents in Xenopus oocytes. Distinct guanine nucleotide binding properties.

Heterotrimeric GTP-binding proteins from bovine brain were resolved by fast protein liquid chromatography chromatography using Mono Q columns. Two distinct forms of the protein Go were identified. Both forms had stochiometric amounts of alpha- and beta gamma-subunits. The a-subunits of both forms were recognized by an alpha o-specific antiserum, but not by any of the alpha i-specific antisera. The two forms showed distinct migration patterns on 9% sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gels containing 4-8 M urea gradients. Neither form comigrated with the recombinant alpha o1. Both the recombinant alpha o1 and the most abundant form of Go were recognized by an antiserum, H-660, against a peptide encoding amino acids 3-17 of alpha i2. H-660 has been shown previously to recognize alpha o and alpha i (Mumby, S. M., Pang, I. K., Gilman, A. G., and Sternweis, P. C. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 2020-2026). This more abundant form is called Go A most likely corresponds to the cloned alpha o1. The less abundant form, Go B, was not recognized by H-660. However, both forms of bovine brain Go were recognized by GC/2, an antiserum against the N-terminal region of alpha o1. Hence alpha oA and alpha oB may be different in their N terminus regions. Neither form of bovine brain Go was recognized by an antisera made to a peptide encoding the unique regions of the cloned alpha o2 from HIT cells (Hsu W. H., Rudolph, U., Sanford, J., Bertrand, P., Olate, J., Nelson, C., Moss, L.E., Boyd, A. E., III, Codina, J., and Birnbaumer, L. (1990) J. Biol. Chem. 265, 11220-11226). Go A and Go B have similar guanine nucleotide binding and release properties. Both release GDP within 1 min in the absence of added Mg2+. Both bind guanosine (GTP gamma S) rapidly as well. However Go A binds GTP gamma S about 2.5-fold faster than Go B, in the absence of added Mg2+ ion. Both forms of Go as well as the recombinant alpha o (alpha o1) can increase muscarinic stimulation of inositol trisphosphate-mediated Cl- current in Xenopus oocytes. These data indicate that we have identified two structurally distinct forms of Go that have different guanine nucleotide binding properties and are capable of functioning in the receptor-regulated phospholipase C pathway in Xenopus oocytes.

Animals↗

Characterization of the colorectal carcinoma-associated antigen defined by monoclonal antibody D612.

Monoclonal antibody (MAb) D612 recognizes an antigen expressed on the cell surface of normal and malignant gastrointestinal epithelium. It is a murine IgG2a/kappa which has been previously shown to mediate killing of human colon carcinoma cells using human effector cells (which could be enhanced in the presence of interleukin-2). Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) analyses of MAb D612 immunoprecipitates of extracts of L-[35S]methionine-, L-[3H]leucine-, and D-[3H]glucosamine-labeled human colon carcinoma cells showed that the D612 antigen is a Mr 48,000 glycoprotein. Similar estimates of molecular mass were obtained from SDS-PAGE analyses of MAb D612 immuno-precipitates of radioiodinated extracts of surgically resected colon carcinoma and adjacent normal colonic mucosa. D612 antigen was not detectable in immunoprecipitates of supernatant media from radiolabeled cell cultures, suggesting that the antigen is not readily shed from the surface of cultured cells. The D612 antigen was shown to be clearly distinct from previously described gastrointestinal carcinoma-associated glycoproteins: the D612 antigen shows a migration pattern of SDS-PAGE distinct from those of the antigens recognized by MAbs KS1/4 and GA733, and reciprocal immunodepletion analyses of D-[3H]glucosamine-labeled colon carcinoma cells utilizing MAbs D612 and GA733 revealed no cross-reactivity between these antibodies. Similarly, competitive binding studies between MAbs 17-1A and KS1/4 and MAb D612 revealed no similarity between the epitopes recognized by MAb D612 and MAbs 17-1A and KS1/4. MAbs D612 and 17-1A were also titered in immunoperoxidase staining assays on serial frozen sections of normal and malignant colon. MAb D612 showed a higher titer of immunostaining reactivity with both normal and malignant colon than did MAb 17-1A. MAb D612 showed roughly equivalent immunostaining titers against normal and malignant colon; whereas MAb 17-1A showed higher titer of immunostaining reactivity against the normal colon tissue than against the malignant colon. Flow cytometric analysis of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C-treated colon carcinoma cells revealed no loss of D612 antigen from the cell surface, suggesting that the mechanisms of attachment of the D612 antigen to the cell surface does not involve linkage to a phosphatidylinositol glycan.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

Antibodies, Monoclonal↗

Growth and fecundity of Schistosoma japonicum in mice maintained at different environmental temperatures.

On weeks 7 and 9 post infection (PI), the number of Schistosoma japonicum in mice maintained at low (5 degrees C) and high (32 degrees C and 35 degrees C) temperatures did not differ from those in controls (25 degrees C), but shorter males were observed in hosts at 5 degrees C. Further, both male and female worms recovered on week 7 PI from mice kept at 35 degrees C were shorter than those recovered from controls. Staining analysis revealed that worm maturation was not affected in mice kept at 5 degrees C and 32 degrees C. However, some female worms from mice kept at 35 degrees C had no eggs in the uterus. The day of patency of worms in the temperature-stressed mice did not differ from that in controls. EPG in mice kept at 32 degrees C rose to a high level on weeks 7-8 PI which was about 10 times as many as those in control mice, while EPG in mice kept at 5 degrees C appeared to be lower than in controls. The 7-week tissue egg count revealed that the hot- and cold-stressed mice supported significantly less egg productivity per female worm than control mice. The environmental temperature could not alter the migration pattern of schistosomula from the skin to lungs in mice.

Animals↗

Molecular epidemiology of human rotavirus infections in Chandigarh (India).

Molecular epidemiology of rotavirus infections was studied in children with acute gastroenteritis attending the Nehru Hospital, Chandigarh. A total of 87 stool samples were studied for RNA migration pattern by polyacrylamide gel electropherosis. Only 33 strains could be electropherotyped and two different RNA types 'Short' and 'Long' were observed. Fifteen had a Short RNA pattern and 18 had a Long RNA pattern. There were no intergenomic variations between the Short or Long RNA types. On analysis of subgroup specificity by ELISA using monoclonal antibodies, all Long strains belonged to subgroup 2 and all Short strains to subgroup 1. Our results show that only two electropherotypes were prevalent in the area studied and during a particular peak of infection, only one electropherotype was predominant.

Acute Disease↗

[AIDS-related mortality among Puerto Rican women in New York City, 1981-87].

The present study analyzes the impact of AIDS on the mortality experience of Puerto Rican women in New York City for the time period 1981-1987. This study shows that Puerto Rican women in New York City are at higher risk for AIDS than any other racial or ethnic group. Economic and sociocultural factors in the Puerto Rican community related to the use of intravenous drug use, as well as trends in migration and marriage, are associated to the high risk of AIDS in this group. This information is of particular interest for Puerto Rico and New York City given the migration patterns of Puerto Ricans traveling between Puerto Rico and New York City.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗

[Plasminogen deficiencies in 2 Spanish families. Response to the administration of DDAVP].

We describe two families with heterozygous plasminogen deficiency. In the first the patient was a 27 year-old female who suffered an acute episode of ischemic cerebrovascular disease affecting the left temporal lobe documented by arteriographic, gammagraphic and CAT studies. She had no family history of thrombotic conditions. In the other family the propositus was a 31 year-old man with spontaneous deep venous thrombosis in the left leg. His father was also symptomatic, with a history of recurrent thrombotic complications after predisposing factors, that included multiple venous thrombosis and a pulmonary embolism. Laboratory data showed normal hemostasis test results. Antigenic and functional levels of protein C, protein S and antithrombin III were within normal limits. The only abnormality found was decreased plasminogen activity in plasma; antigenic and functional levels were reduced to about half-normal levels. In both cases crossed immunoelectrophoresis revealed a normal migration pattern of plasminogen. Thus, we conclude that our patients were carriers of congenital hypoplasminogenemia or familial type I plasminogen deficiency, due to decreased synthesis. We also reported on fibrinolytic response to infusion of DDAVP, a synthetic analogue of the antidiuretic hormone. Fibrinolytic activity was normal in basal conditions as well as in response to DDAVP infusion.

Adult↗

Cell surface expression of invariant gamma-chain of class II histocompatibility antigens in human skin.

A rat monoclonal antibody (McAb 21:9) reactive with the human invariant gamma-chain of class II major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded antigens was isolated and was shown to react with the carbohydrate-carrying, COOH-terminal part of the gamma-chain. The McAb 21:9 binds to a molecule that is identified as the gamma-chain for the following reasons: it has an apparent m.w. of 33,000, similar to that of the gamma-chain; it has a two-dimensional gel migration pattern identical to that of the gamma-chain; and it associates with immature, but not processed class II antigens. When used for immunohistochemical staining on sections of normal human skin, only dendritic, class II MHC antigen, and anti-Leu-6 reactive Langerhans cells are labeled in the epidermis. HLA-DR-expressing keratinocytes present in the tuberculin reaction, cutaneous T cell lymphoma, and lichen planus, however, did not react with the anti-gamma-chain antibody, nor with a HLA-DQ-reactive antibody. Cell surface expression of the gamma-chain was observed on 1 to 3% of normal viable epidermal cells in suspension. By using double indirect immunofluorescence, it was possible to demonstrate the simultaneous binding of anti-gamma-chain, anti-HLA-DR, anti-Leu-10, and anti-Leu-6 antibodies, respectively, on the same cells, thus confirming their identity as Langerhans cells. The presence of the gamma-chain on the surface of the immunocompetent Langerhans cells may indicate that the cell surface, not the cytoplasm as has been suggested, is the site of the primary function of the gamma-chain.

Adult↗

Restriction endonuclease analysis of human cytomegalovirus isolated in immunocompromised patients.

Cytomegalovirus is frequently isolated from immunosuppressed patients or from patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Twelve patients were studied for several months. In 7 patients more than 1 Cytomegalovirus was isolated; in one of these patients three viruses were isolated, two of them show small differences in their migration pattern and the third seems to be a different strain after restriction analysis of CMV genome. This could reflect variation in the genome of the CMV virus as it has been already shown for viruses from other families in immunocompromised patients and shows the occurrence of multiple strains infection in a single patient.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗

Electrophoretic study of the genome of human rotavirus in rural Indian community.

A rural cohort of 507 children, less than 3 yr of age was kept under weekly surveillance for 12 months, for morbidity due to diarrhoea. Stool specimens for rotavirus detection were obtained in 346 of the 360 diarrheal episodes occurring in 354 children and in 211 children without diarrhoeal symptoms. Rotavirus was detected by an ELISA test in 4 per cent of children with diarrhoea and 6.6 per cent of control subjects. Viral genome RNA was extracted by phenol chloroform method from all the positive samples and analysed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by silver staining. All the strains isolated, exhibited the same electropherotype with a 'long' RNA migration pattern. This result contrasts with the genomic variability amongst rotavirus strains usually observed in different settings.

Child, Preschool↗

[Electrophoretypes of the genome of rotaviruses isolated from Senegalese children].

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis allowing study of rotavirus genome was applied to 213 faecal specimens from children with acute gastroenteritis living in Dakar area, Senegal. We were able to define an electrophoretype in 41 cases (19.2%). Five different RNA electrophoretypes were shown. The electrophoretype 4 was the most frequent (41.4%). "Long" and "short" electrophoretic migration patterns were found in 36 and 5 cases, respectively. We found 34.1% of electrophoretypes in children aged from 6 to 11 months. The electrophoretypes 1, 3, 4 and 5 have co-circulated throughout the study period (March 1985 to August 1986). No mixed infections were found. Large surveys of this type would allow to evaluate the general situation in Senegal in urban areas as well as in rural areas.

Child, Preschool↗

Proliferating cell nuclear antigen/cyclin is an interleukin 2-responsive gene.

Previously, we have shown that a protein designated p36 is synthesized at a high rate during interleukin 2-driven proliferation of a cloned T lymphocyte, L2. Biosynthesis of p36 increases 1000-fold during the initial mid-G1 phase of the cell cycle and remains high while the cells proliferate. In this report, we show that p36 has the same migration pattern by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis as proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA)/cyclin and that antiserum to PCNA/cyclin selectively immunoprecipitates p36. In addition, by indirect immunofluorescence, PCNA/cyclin accumulates in the nucleus of interleukin 2-stimulated L2 cells during proliferation and is not detectable prior to the initial S phase or after proliferation ceases. These data indicate that PCNA/cyclin expression is induced by interleukin 2 and that PCNA/cyclin accumulation is closely associated with T lymphocyte proliferation.

Autoantigens↗

Different electrophoretypes of human rotaviruses in Hungary.

Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of rotaviral double-stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) extracted directly from faecal specimens collected in three different parts of Hungary was applied to characterize and distinguish 21 randomly selected viral isolates. This technique made it possible to define 7 different electrophoretypes. Of the isolates 11 exhibited an identical "long" electrophoretic migration pattern. "Short" RNA pattern was found in two cases, and one atypical rotavirus was also revealed. This is the first description of rotavirus RNA electrophoretypes in Hungary.

Child, Preschool↗

Dopamine D2 receptor binding subunits of Mr congruent to 140,000 and 94,000 in brain: deglycosylation yields a common unit of Mr congruent to 44,000.

The ligand-binding subunit of the porcine striatal dopamine D2 receptor was identified by photoaffinity labeling with [125I]N-azidophenethylspiperone ([125I]NAPS). Upon photolysis, [125I]NAPS covalently incorporated into a broad band of apparent Mr congruent 140,000 with an appropriate pharmacological profile for D2 receptors as assessed by autoradiography after sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Smaller subunits of apparent Mr congruent 94,000 and 34,000 were specifically labeled by [125I]NAPS with an appropriate D2 receptor profile and were similar to the major ligand-binding subunits of photoaffinity-labeled canine striatal D2 receptors. Photoaffinity labeling in the absence or presence of multiple protease inhibitors did not alter the migration pattern of the Mr congruent to 140,000/94,000 subunits upon denaturing electrophoresis in either the absence or presence of thiol-reducing/alkylating reagents. In order to investigate the possible basis for the existence of these high molecular weight forms of the D2 receptor, we assessed the carbohydrate nature of photolabeled D2 ligand-binding subunits by the use of lectin affinity chromatography and specific exo- and endoglycosidase treatments. Both photoaffinity-labeled D2 receptor proteins from porcine striatum (Mr congruent to 140,000 and 94,000) were glycoproteins as indexed by their absorption and specific elution from wheat germ agglutinin lectin resins. The exoglycosidase neuraminidase altered the electrophoretic mobility of both the Mr congruent to 140,000 and 94,000 labeled subunits to a single band of apparent Mr congruent to 51,000. Prior removal of sialic acid residues did not alter the reversible binding characteristics of [3H]spiperone to D2 receptors. Complete removal of receptor-associated N-linked carbohydrate by the endoglycosidase glycopeptidase F (peptide-N4[N-acetyl-beta-glucosaminyl]asparagine amidase) produced a further increase in the mobility of the Mr congruent to 51,000 subunit to apparent Mr congruent to 44,000. The porcine Mr congruent to 34,000 photolabeled peptide is an N-linked glycoprotein as assessed by lectin affinity chromatography and susceptibility to digestion by glycopeptidase F to a peptide of apparent Mr congruent to 23,000.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

Affinity Labels↗

Epizootiological study of bluetongue virus infection in California livestock: an overview.

An epidemiologic program was undertaken in California to study bluetongue virus (BTV) infection in domestic livestock. The study was designed to determine: a) prevalence of BTV infection, b) serotypes of BTV actively causing infection, c) seasonality of infection and d) species infected. A total of 8,751 cattle, 14,639 sheep and 4,785 goats were tested over the 3 1/2 year study. Serologically, 41% of the cattle, 42% of the sheep and 21% of the goats were positive. Virologically, 2.4% of the cattle, 1.4% of the sheep and 0.7% of the goats were viremic. One BTV isolation was made in April (sheep) and 3 in June (1 each from sheep, cattle and goats); the remainder of the BTV isolations (a total of 359) were made in the months of July through early December. No isolations were made from January through March. Four serotypes of BTV (10, 11, 13 and 17) were isolated from all species tested (sheep, goats and cattle) and Culicoides variipennis. The serotypes isolated from C. variipennis correlated with the serotypes isolated from livestock in given areas. Multiple serotypes were isolated from single herds, flocks and individual animals on single given days. In addition to multiple serotypes being isolated, extensive heterogeneity in the electrophoretic mobility of the RNA genome segments was observed. These different migration patterns (electropherotypes) were observed between and within serotypes. No single serotype could be identified by a given pattern. No clinical disease was associated with BTV infection of cattle. Clinical disease was observed in infected sheep; however, BTV was also isolated from flocks with no overt clinical signs of disease. No reproductive problems could be associated with BTV in cattle in this endemic study area; however, BTV infection of pregnant sheep appeared to be associated with abortion and birth of dummy lambs in certain flocks.

Animals↗

Enteric viruses in diarrheic turkey poults.

Thirty-three intestinal samples from 10-to-21-day-old diarrheic turkey poults were examined for the presence of enteric viruses by electron microscopy. Samples originated from 32 flocks in six commercial operations located in six states. Mortality in these flocks ranged from 3 to 15%, and birds from recovered flocks varied greatly in size. Rotavirus-like agents (RVLA) were the most common viruses associated with diarrhea outbreaks in the flocks examined, occurring in five out of six operations. Other viruses detected either singly or in combination, in order of prevalence, were astroviruses, reoviruses, rotaviruses, enteroviruses, and adenoviruses. With the exception of RVLA and rotaviruses, the other viruses were identified solely on the basis of morphology. Salmonellae were isolated from only one of the intestinal samples. By electron microscopy, RVLA were morphologically indistinguishable from rotaviruses, occurring as both 55-nm single-shelled and 70-nm double-shelled particles. However, immune electron microscopy was useful for antigenic differentiation of these two viruses. Turkey rotaviruses reacted with antisera to porcine and bovine rotaviruses, whereas turkey RVLA did not. Neither turkey rotaviruses nor RVLA reacted with antisera to porcine para-rotavirus or an antigenically distinct bovine rotavirus (bovine rotavirus-like agent). Similarly, convalescent anti-turkey RVLA serum (from recovered specific-pathogen-free poults) reacted with homologous virus but did not react with mammalian or avian rotaviruses or reoviruses. Further, RVLA were found to possess RNA electrophoretic migration patterns unlike those of conventional rotaviruses or reoviruses. This trait was used as an additional means of differentiating these viruses.

Animals↗

Sequence relationships of United States prototype and wild-type bluetongue virus RNA genomes investigated by northern blot hybridization analysis.

The 10 double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genome segments of various isolates of bluetongue virus (BTV) were separated on a polyacrylamide gel, denatured in NaOH, and blotted onto 2-aminophenylthioether paper. Blotted dsRNA segments were detected, using radioactive probes, a cloned copy of DNA 70% fragment of genome segment 7 of BTV-17, whole genome BTV-17 copy DNA, or whole genome BTV-17 dsRNA. These probes detected sequence diversities in different isolates of BTV and these diversities are discussed in relation to the serotype and the electrophoretic migration patterns of the isolates.

Base Sequence↗