Recently added articles from British Journal of Biomedical Science:
Fluorescence (FISH) and chromogenic (CISH) in situ hybridisation in prostate carcinoma cell lines: comparison and use of virtual microscopy
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Chromogenic in situ hybridisation (CISH) has become an attractive alternative to fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) due to its permanent stain which is more familiar to pathologists and because it can be viewed using light microscopy. The aim of the present study is to ...
Correlation of Bmi-1 expression and telomerase activity in human ovarian cancer
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This study investigates the correlation between the oncoprotein Bmi-1 and telomerase activity in ovarian cancer. A real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method is used to detect the messenger RNA (mRNA) expression of Bmi-1 protein in 47 ovarian epithelial cancer cases, and ...
Comparative in vitro antimicrobial procedural efficacy for susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas species to chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin and cefaclor
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The present study assesses the reliability of the in vitro susceptibility tests E-test, disc diffusion and Alamar blue-based microbroth dilution assays for evaluating the efficacy of chloramphenicol, ciprofloxacin and cefaclor against clinical and reference isolates of ...
Reduction of Staphylococcus epidermidis adhesion to indwelling medical devices: a simple procedure
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The present study aims to find a method to reduce Staphylococcus epidermidis adhesion to acrylic and silicone -two materials used commonly in medical devices - by heparin and gentian violet surface preconditioning. Different periods of heparin preconditioning are studied to ...
Detection of ESBL bacteria from clinical specimens: evaluation of a new selective medium
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Selective screening media for extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing bacteria are needed to guide antibiotic therapy and institute appropriate infection control measures. This study evaluates a selective cefpodoxime-incorporated chromogenic agar (CCA) medium for ...