Leukemia (2010) 24, 1437-1444; doi:10.1038/leu.2010.132; published online 10 June 2010″
“Purpose: We identified a girl with Hirschsprung’s disease (HSCR) whose mother and grandmother had HSCR associated with multiple sclerosis (MS). The aim of this study was to outline mutations click here in HSCR-related genes and MS susceptibility alleles in these three individuals.\n\nMethods: The phenotypes were reviewed based on medical records. The three subjects had rectosigmoid HSCR verified with histopathology. The mother and grandmother fulfilled the McDonald criteria

for MS. DNA was isolated from EDTA-preserved blood according to standard procedures. Exome sequencing aiming mainly at analyzing HSCR associated genes as well as Sanger sequencing for confirmation was performed.\n\nResults: All affected individuals carry a novel heterozygous nonsense mutation in the EDNRB gene (c.C397T, p.R133X, refNM_000115), changing an arginine at position 133 into a premature MX69 stop codon. None of the subjects were homozygous

for the HLA risk alleles for MS.\n\nConclusion: We report a novel non-sense EDNRB gene mutation in a girl with HSCR and her mother and grandmother with HSCR and MS. We propose that this EDNRB gene mutation plays a role in the etiology of HSCR and also makes the subjects susceptible to MS. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.”
“Lyme disease has not been officially reported in Cuba. However, clinical cases have been serologically reported. Seroprevalence survey of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto antibodies in humans in the country has not

been conducted.\n\nObjective: To estimate the prevalence of borrelial antibodies in inhabitants of a village with historically high level of tick infestation.\n\nMethods: Serum specimens from 247 persons randomly selected from the population of the village were examined by IgG Western blot using B31 strain for estimating the prevalence of antibodies profile.\n\nResults: A seroprevalence value see more interval (95% CI) of 0.6%-7.2% was estimated for the studied population. The prevalent borrelial protein bands on immunoblots were 41, 72, 90/93, 34, 47, 60, 58, 56,65/66 and 31 kDa in a decreasing order of significance.\n\nConclusion: These results support the previous serological findings, suggesting the presence of this borreliosis in Cuba. (C) 2012 Elsevier Editora Ltda. All rights reserved.”
“Photoinduced current transient spectroscopy was used to investigate the defect states and capture kinetics of charge carriers for traps in low temperature polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) films. A broad deep trap was found to be located 0.30 eV from the conduction band edge of poly-Si with capture cross section of 1.51 x 10(-15) cm(2). The variation of the trap capture kinetics with filling pulse time showed extended traps and linear arrays of traps, which might be grain boundary defects.