Inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs), complicated genetic conditions with specific clinical presentations and continually enlarging number of genes identified, are coming to the center stage as a model to showcase the potential of personalized medicine.
"Toronto is at the early stages of erosion as a model city," said Jack Layton, a City Council member and the past president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
ISTANBUL — With his triumphant tour of the countries of the Arab Spring this month, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has managed to set up Turkey on the international stage as a role model for a secular democracy in a Muslim country — as, in his words, "a secular state where all religions are equal".
Egypt's brief and heady moment on the international stage in 2011, as a model of success in the Arab Spring's push for nonviolent political change, has been over for some time, but Tuesday's confirmation, by a high-court judge, of a death sentence against the former President Mohamed Morsi is a testament to that country's reversion to rank authoritarianism.
It is worth mentioning that epimastigotes of T. cruzi are not infective stages, but they serve as a model to analyze whether similar effects would be seen in the infective trypomastigote stage.
Results In this study, the authors describe the value of the yolk-metabolizing stages of the zebrafish as a model for studying lipid and lipoprotein metabolism.
Here, we describe the value of the lecithotrophic, or yolk-metabolizing, stages of the zebrafish as a model for studying lipid metabolism and lipoprotein transport.
The zebrafish system we established here can help to elucidate the response to reduced nutrient availability during developmental stages and may serve as a model to study its physiological consequences.
The second contained only information on tumor stage and was used as a model of current clinical practice.
Our analyses indicate that this intermediate stage may be used as a model system to interpret the origin of oviposition (brood site) mimicry in Epipactis.
