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Antioxidant and chemopreventive properties of polyphenolic compounds derived from Greek legume plant extracts

Spanou, C.; Bourou, G.; Dervishi, A.; Aligiannis, N.; Angelis, A.; Komiotis, D.; Skaltsounis, A. L.; Kouretas, D. (2008)

Recently, phytochemical compounds present in legumes have gained a lot of interest because they are considered to be possible chemopreventive agents. In the present study, 14 polyphenolic compounds were extracted and ...

Application of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers to evaluate intraspecific genetic variation in red mullet (Mullus barbatus)

Mamuris, Z.; Apostolidis, A. P.; Theodorou, A. J.; Triantaphyllidis, C. (1998)

The random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) technique was used to evaluate genetic affinities among eight red mullet (Mullus barbatus L., 1758) samples from the Mediterranean Sea. Twenty-nine random primers were used. ...

Application of rpoB sequence similarity analysis, REP-PCR and BOX-PCR for the differentiation of species within the genus Geobacillus

Meintanis, C.; Chalkou, K. I.; Kormas, K. A.; Lymperopoulou, D. S.; Katsifas, E. A.; Hatzinikolaou, D. G.; Karagouni, A. D. (2008)

Aim: To investigate the applicability of rpoB gene, which encodes the beta subunit of RNA polymerase, to be used as an alternative to 16S rRNA for sequence similarity analysis in the thermophilic genus Geobacillus. Rapid ...

Assessment of Osteoarthritis Candidate Genes in a Meta-Analysis of Nine Genome-Wide Association Studies

Rodriguez-Fontenla, C.; Calaza, M.; Evangelou, E.; Valdes, A. M.; Arden, N.; Blanco, F. J.; Carr, A.; Chapman, K.; Deloukas, P.; Doherty, M.; Esko, T.; Aleta, C. M. G.; Carnota, Jjgr; Helgadottir, H.; Hofman, A.; Jonsdottir, I.; Kerkhof, H. J. M.; Kloppenburg, M.; McCaskie, A.; Ntzani, E. E.; Ollier, W. E. R.; Oreiro, N.; Panoutsopoulou, K.; Ralston, S. H.; Ramos, Y. F.; Riancho, J. A.; Rivadeneira, F.; Slagboom, P. E.; Styrkarsdottir, U.; Thorsteinsdottir, U.; Thorleifsson, G.; Tsezou, A.; Uitterlinden, A. G.; Wallis, G. A.; Wilkinson, J. M.; Zhai, G. J.; Zhu, Y. Y.; Felson, D. T.; Ioannidis, J. P. A.; Loughlin, J.; Metspalu, A.; Meulenbelt, I.; Stefansson, K.; van Meurs, J. B.; Zeggini, E.; Spector, T. D.; Gonzalez, A.; arc, Ogen Consortium (2014)

Objective. To assess candidate genes for association with osteoarthritis (OA) and identify promising genetic factors and, secondarily, to assess the candidate gene approach in OA. Methods. A total of 199 candidate genes ...

Assessment of Parkinson's disease risk loci in Greece

Kara, E.; Xiromerisiou, G.; Spanaki, C.; Bozi, M.; Koutsis, G.; Panas, M.; Dardiotis, E.; Ralli, S.; Bras, J.; Letson, C.; Edsall, C.; Pliner, H.; Arepalli, S.; Kalinderi, K.; Fidani, L.; Bostantjopoulou, S.; Keller, M. F.; Wood, N. W.; Hardy, J.; Houlden, H.; Stefanis, L.; Plaitakis, A.; Hernandez, D.; Hadjigeorgiou, G. M.; Nalls, M. A.; Singleton, A. B. (2014)

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been shown to be a powerful approach to identify risk loci for neurodegenerative diseases. Recent GWAS in Parkinson's disease (PD) have been successful in identifying numerous ...

An Association Study between Hypoxia Inducible Factor-1alpha (HIF-1 alpha) Polymorphisms and Osteonecrosis

Chachami, G.; Kalousi, A.; Papatheodorou, L.; Lyberopoulou, A.; Nasikas, V.; Tanimoto, K.; Simos, G.; Malizos, K. N.; Georgatsou, E. (2013)

Bone hypoxia resulting from impaired blood flow is the final pathway for the development of osteonecrosis (ON). The aim of this study was to evaluate if HIF-1 alpha, the major transcription factor triggered by hypoxia, is ...

Attempted discrimination of Myzus persicae and Myzus nicotianae (Homoptera : Aphididae) by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymerase chain reaction technique

Margaritopoulos, J. T.; Mamuris, Z.; Tsitsipis, J. A. (1998)

Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis was applied to several clones of the Myzus persicae (Sulzer) group from Greece to assess genetic markers that could distinguish the tobacco feeding clones from those feeding ...

Atypical PrPsc distribution in goats naturally affected with scrapie

Sofianidis, G.; Psychas, V.; Billinis, C.; Spyrou, V.; Argyroudis, S.; Vlemmas, I. (2008)

The brain and spinal cord of 48 goats from two Greek herds in which scrapie had been reported were examined. All animals were symptomless at the time Of euthanasia. Notably, no lesions were observed either at the level of ...

Bacterial live vaccines with graded level of attenuation achieved by antibiotic resistance mutations: transduction experiments on the functional unit of resistance, attenuation and further accompanying markers

Linde, K.; Fthenakis, G. C.; Fichtner, A. (1998)

At least 10% of spontaneous chromosomal antibiotic resistant mutants of bacteria express a strain-dependent graded reduction of virulence; this correlates linearly with a prolonged generation time. Occasionally, these ...

Bacterial phylotypes associated with the digestive tract of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus and the ascidian Microcosmus sp

Meziti, A.; Kormas, K. A.; Pancucci-Papadopoulou, M. A.; Thessalou-Legaki, M. (2007)

We used sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes from bacteria that are associated with the esophagus/pharynx, stomach and intestine of two marine sympatric invertebrates but with different ...

Behavioral responses of Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky adults to conditioned grain kernels

Trematerra, P.; Ianiro, R.; Athanassiou, C. G.; Kavallieratos, N. G. (2013)

Laboratory experiments were conducted in order to assess the intra- and inter-specific interactions in cereal kernels and behavioral responses of maize weevil (Sitophilus zeamais) adults. For that purpose, conditioning of ...

Bridge health monitoring system based on vibration measurements

Ntotsios, E.; Papadimitriou, C.; Panetsos, P.; Karaiskos, G.; Perros, K.; Perdikaris, P. (2009)

A bridge health monitoring system is presented based on vibration measurements collected from a network of acceleration sensors. Sophisticated structural identification methods, combining information from the sensor network ...

The Byzantine wall paintings from the protaton church on Mount Athos, Greece: tradition and science

Daniilia, S.; Tsakalof, A.; Bairachtari, K.; Chryssoulakis, Y. (2007)

The present work is a study of the wall painting complex in the Protaton Church (1295) on Mount Athos, Greece. These paintings, high in artistic value, are themselves a monument-representative of the Macedonian iconographic ...

Carbapenemase-producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa from central Greece: molecular epidemiology and genetic analysis of class I integrons

Liakopoulos, A.; Mavroidi, A.; Katsifas, E. A.; Theodosiou, A.; Karagouni, A. D.; Miriagou, V.; Petinaki, E. (2013)

Background: Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a serious challenge for antimicrobial therapy of nosocomial infections, as it possesses several mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. In Central Greece, a sudden ...

CDNs Content Outsourcing via Generalized Communities

Katsaros, D.; Pallis, G.; Stamos, K.; Vakali, A.; Sidiropoulos, A.; Manolopoulos, Y. (2009)

Content distribution networks (CDNs) balance costs and quality in services related to content delivery. Devising an efficient content outsourcing policy is crucial since, based on such policies, CDN providers can provide ...

Central Role of SREBP-2 in the Pathogenesis of Osteoarthritis

Kostopoulou, F.; Gkretsi, V.; Malizos, K. N.; Iliopoulos, D.; Oikonomou, P.; Poultsides, L.; Tsezou, A. (2012)

Background: Recent studies have implied that osteoarthritis (OA) is a metabolic disease linked to deregulation of genes involved in lipid metabolism and cholesterol efflux. Sterol Regulatory Element Binding Proteins (SREBPs) ...

Changes of the bacterial assemblages throughout an urban drinking water distribution system

Kormas, K. A.; Neofitou, C.; Pachiadaki, M.; Koufostathi, E. (2010)

We analyzed the bacterial 16S rRNA gene diversity throughout the major components of the drinking water distribution system of a ca. 52,000-inhabitants city (Trikala City, Greece) in order to describe the changes of the ...

Clear detection and typing of Herpes Simplex Virus types 1 and 2 by an indirect ELISA assay: Comparison with three different combined methods - Capture ELISA, restriction enzymes, and polymerase chain reaction

Markoulatos, P.; Fountoucidou, P.; Marinakis, G.; Krikelis, V.; Spyrou, N.; Vamvakopoulos, N.; Moncany, M. L. J. (1997)

The severity and recurrences of Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) infection depend on the type of the infectious agent (HSV-1 or HSV-2), which induces the necessity of a nonambiguous detecting typing. The commonly used capture ...

Combined 5 ' UTR RFLP analysis and VP1 sequencing for epidemic investigation of enteroviruses

Kyriakopoulou, Z.; Tsolis, K.; Pliaka, V.; Tsakogiannis, D.; Ruether, I. G. A.; Gartzonika, C.; Levidiotou-Stefanou, S.; Markoulatos, P. (2013)

Enteroviruses, the main cause of aseptic meningitis, consist of 100 serotypes, and many of them have been associated with large outbreaks. In the present study, a comparison of RFLP analysis of the 5' untranslated region ...

A comparative study of immunocapture ELISA and RT-PCR for screening clinical samples from Southern Greece for human influenza virus types A and B

Plakokefalos, E.; Markoulatos, P.; Ktenas, E.; Spyrou, N.; Vamvakopoulos, N. C. (2000)

An immunocapture (IC) ELISA and reverse transcriptase (RT)-PCR assays were evaluated as screening methods for the detection of influenza virus types A and B in clinical samples collected from individuals presenting with ...