A group of schools in the US is set to vote today on introducing a $100 cap on presents teachers can receive from parents, in a bid to curb a culture of "out-of-control gift-giving".
If anything, DePalma's "Carrie" was a meditation on our fear of the female body, and just as Carrie doesn't understand her cycle, she couldn't control her gift.
The positive antibiotic control clarithromycin (gift of Abbott Chicago IL) was dissolved in methanol.
Two FAK shRNAs and one control shRNA (gift from Dr. Tadashi Yamamoto) were used for FAK silencing [68].
For complementation of the Xcv 85* ΔxopD mutant strain, pLAFR6 vectors carrying either an HA-tagged GUS control (kind gift of Laurent Deslandes, LIPM, Castanet-Tolosan, France), XopD216-760 or XopD1-760 were introduced into Xcv 85* ΔxopD by triparental mating.
Arl2, a member of the Ras superfamily of small GTPases, was used as control (kind gift of Mandy Miertzschke, Max Planck Institute of Dortmund, Germany).
DNA from a patient with mitochondrial myopathy, characterised by a 4976-bp mtdeletiontion, was used as a positive control (kind gift of Professor R Taylor, Newcastle University).
In some experiments, a frameshift mutant of NOD2 (fsNOdevoidvofd of NF-κB activation capacity in response to NOD2 ligand was used as a negative control (kind gift of Dana J Philpott, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada).
Accordingly, EPEC strain E2348/69, a spontaneous Cif− mutant, was transformed with the CifEc expression plasmid pCifwt or vector control pBRSK (gift from Drs E Oswald and F Taieb, University of Toulouse, France) (Marches et al., 2003; Oswald et al., 2005).
