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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"healthy carriers"”.
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Carrier detection in Duchenne muscular dystrophy
The identification of apparently healthy carriers of the lethal, X- linked gene for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is of importance for genetic counselling purposes. At present the accepted most reliable test for determining DMD carrier status is the estimation of serum creatine kinase activity. …
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Analysis of human cytomegalovirus in the healthy human carrier
… persistence of Human Cytomegalovirus (HCMV) in healthy carriers. However, the exact population of peripheral blood cells that carry HCMV and to what extent they express HCMV gene products in not known. I have examined the sites of HCMV persistence in the peripheral blood of healthy carriers. …
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Effect of rare and common single amino acid substitutions on DISC1 subcellular targeting and functional interaction with ATF4
… of mental illness and/or brain abnormalities in healthy carriers, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. In this thesis, I initially examine the effect of a panel of common and rare single amino acid substitutions on DISC1 subcellular targeting, establishing that the rare mutation R37W and …
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Verbreitung von Meningokokken bei gesunden Trägern in Bayern : unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des hypervirulenten ET-15-Klons
Neisseria meningitidis (Meningokokken) stellen einen häufigen Erreger von bakterieller Meningitis und generalisierter Sepsis bei Kleinkindern und Jugendlichen dar. Diese Bakterienspezies ist sehr kompetent für horizontalen DNA-Austausch durch Transformation, was zur einer sehr heterogenen …