... 21-carbon skeleton, called a pregnane skeleton (C21) In similar manner, the estrogens possess an estrane skeleton (C18) and androgens, an andrane skeleton (C19) (Figure 1) Progestogens are named ... cells, Steroids - From Physiology toClinicalMedicine MIH (Müllerian inhibitory hormone), which prevents the embryonic Müllerian ducts from developing into fallopian tubes and other female reproductive ... types responsive to FSH and LH Ovarian granulosa cells and testicular Leydig cells are responsive primarily to LH and synthesize andro‐ gens Ovarian thecal cells and testicular Sertoli cells as...
... factors Vascular growth factors are potent chemoattractants and mitogens Factors such as platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) and basic Wbroblast growth factor (bFGF) are thought to play an ... it and causes it to translocate from the cytoplasm to the membrane, where it can phosphorylate numerous substrates Phorbol esters are powerful activators of PKC that act in a similar manner to ... MMMM An Introduction to Vascular Biology From basic science toclinicalpractice SECOND EDITION Edited by Beverley J Hunt Departments of Haematology and Rheumatology, Guy’s and St Thomas’...
... Nanomaterials: FromResearchto Applications This page intentionally left blank Nanomaterials: FromResearchto Applications H Hosono, Y Mishima, H Takezoe, and K.J.D MacKenzie Tokyo Institute ... system and the atomically flat ITO transparent electrode is applicable to other organic materials with larger mobility, leading to further improvements of transparent OTFTs 14 Nanomaterials: FromResearch ... corresponding to a monolayer of ITO is clearly seen 12 Nanomaterials: FromResearchto Applications an atomically flat surface (Rrms ∼ 0.2 nm @ × cm2 ) on the (111) surface of YSZ at 900◦ C [18] This atomically...
... REAL-TIME IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING: FROMRESEARCHTO REALITY from obtaining an enhanced image to intelligent scene analysis Digital images and video are essentially multidimensional signals and are ... IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING: FROMRESEARCHTO REALITY adaptability, flexibility, and total system cost are important aspects of a design and in practice, one usually has to trade one aspect for another ... rather difficult to navigate the road fromresearchto reality without some guidelines RealTime Image and Video Processing: FromResearchto Reality is intended to provide such guidelines and help bridge...
... Cell and Gene Therapy Section is to advance this field by reporting the results of translational medicine studies and by being a forum for the exchange and discussion of new information, ideas and ... contributions from all those participating in this field; clinicians, scientists, and engineers from academia, industry and the regulatory community Author details Department of Transfusion Medicine, Clinical ... Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program 2009, 682-689 Herrmann JL, Abarbanell AM, Weil BR, Wang Y, Wang M, Tan J, Meldrum DR: Cell-based therapy for ischemic heart disease: a clinical update Ann...
... (FGF)s, angiopoietins, PECAM-1, integrins, and VE-cadherin, and the angiostatic factors are angiostatin, endosatstin and thrombospondin (Distler 2003) Angiogenic factors such as angiopoietins and (Ang ... resulting in apoptosis of EC (Carmeliet 1999) Tie2, an endothelium-specific tyrosine kinase receptor and its ligand Ang1 and Ang2 are modulators of vascular development and angiogenesis Ang1 does not ... are an imbalance between vasodilatation and vasoconstriction, coagulation and fibrinolysis, and between cell proliferation and apoptosis In response to infection, inflammatory mediators or oxidant...
... specific analyte it is possible to enhance the performance of the device These kinds of devices can be employed in arrays as electronic tongues, and they can analyse a large number of analytes from ... titanium precursor to yield CNT/titania hybrid nanostructures with quite uniform titania coatings After removal of CNT cores from CNT/titania nanohybrids via calcination treatment, anatase and ... nanomagnets are coupled toan electronic nanodevice, and to the observation of the magneto-Coulomb effect As another typical example, Li et al [Li et al., 2006] explored to use 1-aminopyrene to...
... nitrogen nanotubes calculated at the density-functional theory level range from 1.42 to 1.52 Å (J.L Wang et al., 2006) To analyse the bond lengths and bond angles inside each nanotube layer, all nanotube ... hydrogen atom, and nitrogen atom, respectively; and n is the total number of layers in the nanotube EC was calculated as EC E CNT – 6n EH / 6n (3) 10 Carbon Nanotubes - FromResearchto Applications ... 0021-9606 26 Carbon Nanotubes - FromResearchto Applications Wang, J.L.; Lushington, G.H & Mezey, P.G (2006) Stability and electronic properties of nitrogen nanoneedles and nanotubes Journal of...
... the Canada Research Chair in Cellular Signaling Work in the author’s laboratory was supported by grants from the National Cancer Institute of Canada, the Cancer Research Society and the Canadian ... Frémin and Meloche: From basic researchtoclinical development of MEK1/2 inhibitors for cancer therapy Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2010 3:8 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... function, significantly decreases the response of KRAS mutant cancer cells to MEK1/2 inhibitors [102] Importantly, simultaneous inhibition of the ERK1/2 and PI3K pathways was found to exert a marked...
... Computerized tomography imaging of the liver, 508 Daniel T Cohen and Dushyant V Sahani 5.6.3 Magnetic resonance imaging, 521 Christoforos Stoupis 5.6.4 Angiography, 531 Sanjeeva P Kalva and Dushyant V ... disease and management in liver transplantation, 2010 Xavier Forns and Antoni Rimola 25.6 Post-transplantation management and complications, 2019 Faouzi Saliba and Didier Samuel 25.7 Liver transplantation ... of Medicine New Haven, CT, USA Fernando E Membreno MD MSc Director of Hepatology and Liver Transplantation Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital San Antonio, TX, USA Giorgina Mieli-Vergani...
... development FGF from the myotome induces epithelial to mesenchymal transition and translocation of dermomytomal cells into the central region of the myotome [57], a process known to contribute to the ... Watanabe K, Totsuka T, Uramoto I, Sano M, Sakamoto K (1998) Differential adaptations of insulin-like growth factor-I, basic fibroblast growth factor, and leukemia Molecular and Cellular Mechanism ... divided into canonical and non-canonical types Canonical signalling acts via catenin and the activation of TCF/LEF transcription factors [29] while non-canonical signalling acts via planar cell...
... hard copies can be obtained from orders@intechweb.org Progress in Hemodialysis – From Emergent Biotechnology toClinical Practice, Edited by Angelo Carpi, Carlo Donadio and Gianfranco Tramonti ... Dialysis Adequacy Monitoring: Small Uremic Toxins and Contribution to UV-Absorbance Studied by HPLC 143 Kai Lauri, Jürgen Arund, Jana Holmar, Risto Tanner, Merike Luman and Ivo Fridolin Chapter ... coefficient was derived from fitting toclinical data 12 Progress in Hemodialysis – From Emergent Biotechnology toClinicalPractice 3.2 Urea KT/V and creatinine clearance for the kidneys To assess the...
... development FGF from the myotome induces epithelial to mesenchymal transition and translocation of dermomytomal cells into the central region of the myotome [57], a process known to contribute to the ... Watanabe K, Totsuka T, Uramoto I, Sano M, Sakamoto K (1998) Differential adaptations of insulin-like growth factor-I, basic fibroblast growth factor, and leukemia Molecular and Cellular Mechanism ... divided into canonical and non-canonical types Canonical signalling acts via catenin and the activation of TCF/LEF transcription factors [29] while non-canonical signalling acts via planar cell...
... instrumental research use was reported as moderate-high to high, conceptual and persuasive research use ranged from moderate-low to high, and overall research use ranged from moderate-high to high ... specific research- based practices The TIAB score can range fromto 4, with indicating maximum research use; by equally dividing the possible range of scores into quartiles we were able to categorize ... interventions to promote research utilization) research is commonly held to be the prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) RCTs can be either explanatory or pragmatic in nature Explanatory trials...
... production of anti-inflammatory cytokines [9] Typically, IL-6 (which has anti-inflammatory properties) is the first cytokine to rise during exercise, increasing up to 100-fold greater than pre-exercise ... and then declines shortly after discontinuation of exercise (
... biomasses were sized to the range of 0–6 mm and further dried at 105 °C for 10 h in an oven The dried biomass samples containing 3–5 wt% moisture due to the transfer from oven to biomass hopper ... useful and delicate tool to provide information on the aromatic ring systems in tars from the pyrolysis and gasification of coal and biomass [3,4,14,15] To minimise the possible self-absorption and ... H-catalyst Fig FT-Raman spectral characteristics of R- and H-catalysts before and after being used (a) Band intensity ratio of I(GR+VL+VR)/ID and (b) Raman peak area The total Raman area of spent...