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TRAPS

 
tumor necrosis factor receptor–associated periodic syndrome; see familial periodic fever.
Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.

TRAPS

Tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-receptor associated periodic syndrome; constellation of disease characterized by prolonged attacks of high fever and severe localized inflammation.
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periodic fever, familial, autosomal dominant

A hereditary periodic fever syndrome (OMIM:142680) characterised by recurrent fever, abdominal pain, localised tender skin lesions and myalgia. The main complication is amyloidosis, which occurs in 25% of cases.
 
Molecular pathology
Caused by defects of TNFRSF1A, which encodes a major receptor for TNF-alpha that activates NF-kappaB, mediates apoptosis and regulates inflammation.
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PC Mark Goulding, wildlife and environmental crime officer at South Wales Police, said: "While it is not an offence to possess a gin trap, it is however a banned trap to set under Section 8 of the Pests Act 1954.
The trap check frequency study was conducted in both North Andover, Massachusetts (n = 7) and Bethel, Ohio (n = 7) to determine how often multi-funnel traps needed to be checked.
Before you take new traps into the field, boil them in a pot you don't use for food to clean off the manufacturing oils and lubricants.
Our objective was to identify factors that affect the saturation of lobster traps. The behavior of American lobsters was observed by using a modification of the lobster-trap video system that had been incorporated into previous studies conducted off New Hampshire (Jury et al., 2001; Watson and Jury, 2013).
Material examined.--CAR, Dzanga-Ndoki National Park, Lake 1, platform on the canopy, 45m, "Azobe" Lophira alata, Ochnaceae, Genitalia Roy 4404, UV trap 01 .XII.2010 ([male]) (Collector NM and PA) (RCNM); Buffalos bay, trunk, barcoding BOLD LopeMAN14-236, day capture 26.1.2012 ([female]) (Collector NM and PA) (RCNM); Lake 1, UV trap 10.11.2012 ([male]) (Collector NM and PA) (RCNM); Lake 1, laboratory tent, night capture 23.11.2012 ([male]) (Collector NM and PA) (IDM); Lake 1, platform on the canopy, 45m, "Ayous" Triplochiton scleroxylon, Malvaceae, UV trap 24.11.2012 ([male]) (Collector NM and PA) (IDM); Lake 1, trunk of "M'boko" Balanites wilsoniana, Zygophylaceae, day capture tree-climbing 28.11.2012 ([male]) (Collector G.
To a query about effectiveness of traps on production, he said traps helped to enhance quality of fruits production from 10 to 100 percent.
Disease transmission is another problem associated with the use of dirty traps since Peromyscus are known vectors for Hantavirus (Nichol et al.
All wing traps were assembled using the methods described by Kuenen et al.
When she added up the ants captured during her study, pitchers allowed to dry out naturally caught almost 2 1/2 times as many ants as tumbled into artificially wet traps, Bauer and her colleagues report in the Feb.
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There are currently two different varieties of trap distributed by ADFSC -- a pheromone trap and a light trap.
Pitfall traps were modified from a design proposed by Nordlander [35], which Lemieux and Lindgren [36] demonstrated that it catches carabids in similar numbers but is more efficient at excluding small vertebrate bycatch.
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