Iowa Crop and Weather Report, June 19, 2011, Vol. 11. no. 16

Report produced by the The Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Climatology Bureau. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.

Iowa Crop and Weather Report, June 19, 2011, Vol. 11. no. 16

Report produced by the The Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Climatology Bureau. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.

Iowa Crop and Weather Report, May 16, 2011, Vol. 11. no. 11

Report produced by the The Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, Climatology Bureau. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey today commented on the Iowa Crops and Weather report released by the USDA National Agricultural Statistical Service. The report is released weekly from April through October.

Iowa Agri-News, September 20, 2011, Vol. 11, no. 16

Crop and livestock summaries for the state of Iowa, produced by the Iowa Department of Agriculture.

Prolonged remission of juvenile-onset respiratory papillomatosis: a post-expositional role of the tetravalent anti-HPV vaccine?

Juvenile-onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (JORRP) is an HPV-related neoplasm affecting primarily the larynx. JORRP often requires repeated surgical debridement, which yield variable but generally moderate remission periods. We report the case of a 6-year-old boy with severe course JORRP since the age of 2, requiring tracheostomy, that underwent prolonged remission and was decannulated some months after administration of the HPV vaccine. The post-exposure use for the anti-HPV vaccine in JORRP is a topic of capital interest but still poorly characterized. Some published cases suggest a potential post-exposure role of the vaccine in JORRP, but prospective multicentric trials are still needed.

Use of transgenic mice for the characterization of human alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (orosomucoid) variants.

Sera from transgenic mice (TM) carrying human genes of alpha 1-acid glycoprotein (orosomucoid or ORM) have been analyzed by isoelectrofocusing and subsequent immunoblotting with antihuman ORM antibodies. With this technique it is possible to reveal selectively the human protein secreted in the TM sera. Orosomucoid bands present in TM sera have been compared with those of the most common human ORM phenotypes to correlate the products of specific genes to previously identified genetic variants. In this paper, we report the identification of the genes encoding for variants ORM1 F1 and ORM2 A, which are genes AGP-A and AGP-B/B' respectively. The nucleotide sequences of these genes are known; therefore a direct correlation between variants and specific amino acid sequences can be established.

SAFO fragmento 16 V: El Deslumbramiento

E1 fr. 16 V es un breve poema en el que, argumentando con rigurosa lógica y utilizando como ejemplo demostrativo el mito de Helena, Safo formula la más antigua teorización conocida sobre la naturaleza de la belleza. Su modernidad es sorprendente; la belleza no es una cualidad absoluta, sino el producto fantasmático del impulso sexual. Los pormenores de su fenomenalogía se desglosan con el apoyo de la tradición homérica: el deslumbramiento inicial trastorna los sentidos creando apariencias ilusorias, ciega la ruzón, enajena, provoca olvido; pero cuando el deseo se extingue retornan memoria y conciencia, y con ellas el dolor. Se entiende así que la Helena que ya está de vuelta, la de la Odisea, proceda a administrar su seducción como una droga analgésica. El proccso se repite constantemente; sus sujetos somos todos, cualquiera, y su actualización afecta, más alla de la singular experiencia psica-física a las prácticas matrimoniales de la época, donde no se contemplava la elección de pareja y la mujer abandonaba su entorno para inscribirse en el del marido. Así la poesía de Safo, que forma parte de la iniciación a la vida adulta femenina, al poner al descubierto la relatividad de la belleza dentro del mecanismo amoroso, distancia a sus pupilas de sus propias emociones y las protege de la soledad insertándolas en una experiencia religiosa compartida.

Friday Facts, March 16, 2012, Vol. 134

Bureau of Nutrition and Health Promotion part of the Iowa Department of Public Health produces of weekly newsletter about the Iowa WIC Program for the State of Iowa citizen.

Monophyly of beta-tubulin and H+-ATPase gene variants in Glomus intraradices: consequences for molecular evolutionary studies of AM fungal genes.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are an ecologically important group of fungi. Previous studies showed the presence of divergent copies of beta-tubulin and V-type vacuolar H+-ATPase genes in AMF genomes and suggested horizontal gene transfer from host plants or mycoparasites to AMF. We sequenced these genes from DNA isolated from an in vitro cultured isolate of Glomus intraradices that was free of any obvious contaminants. We found two highly variable beta-tubulin sequences and variable H+-ATPase sequences. Despite this high variation, comparison of the sequences with those in gene banks supported a glomeromycotan origin of G. intraradices beta-tubulin and H+-ATPase sequences. Thus, our results are in sharp contrast with the previously reported polyphyletic origin of those genes. We present evidence that some highly divergent sequences of beta-tubulin and H+-ATPase deposited in the databases are likely to be contaminants. We therefore reject the prediction of horizontal transfer to AMF genomes. High differences in GC content between glomeromycotan sequences and sequences grouping in other lineages are shown and we suggest they can be used as an indicator to detect such contaminants. H+-ATPase phylogeny gave unexpected results and failed to resolve fungi as a natural group. beta-Tubulin phylogeny supported Glomeromeromycota as sister group of the Chytridiomycota. Contrasts between our results and trees previously generated using rDNA sequences are discussed.