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The PHENIX Experiment at RHIC
The physics emphases of the PHENIX collaboration and the design and current
status of the PHENIX detector are discussed. The plan of the collaboration for
making the most effective use of the available luminosity in the first years of
RHIC operation is also presented.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure. Further details of the PHENIX physics program
available at http://www.rhic.bnl.gov/phenix
Progress in muscular dystrophy research with special emphasis on gene therapy
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked, progressive muscle-wasting disease caused by mutations in the DMD gene. Since the disease was described by physicians in the 19th century, information about the subject has been accumulated. One author (Sugita) was one of the coworkers who first reported that the serum creatine kinase (CK) level is elevated in progressive muscular dystrophy patients. Even 50 years after that first report, an elevated serum CK level is still the most useful marker in the diagnosis of DMD, a sensitive index of the state of skeletal muscle, and useful to evaluate therapeutic effects. In the latter half of this article, we describe recent progress in the therapy of DMD, with an emphasis on gene therapies, particularly exon skipping
Concomitant rotavirus serotypes 1 and 4 infections in a diarrhoeic child from BelƩm, Brazil
Preparation and Characterization of Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibodies with Different Reactivity Patterns to Human Rotaviruses
Further studies of 35-40-nm virus-like particles associated with outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis
Electrophoretic Analysis of RNA Segments of Human Rotaviruses Cultivated in Cell Culture
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