... inflammation was suggested to be associated with increased risk of chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and insulin resistance [22] Inflammation involves macrophage and T lymphocyte ... and activation of caspase cascade [52] and/ or via the activation of tumour suppressor p53 by ROSdependent c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase (JNK) activation, thereby increasing p53 phosphorylation and ... alanine transaminase (ALT) and aspartate transaminase (AST) [94] Andrographolide significantly induced the expression of CYP1A1 and CYP1A2 mRNAs in a concentrationdependent manner, and synergistically...
... column was assigned with high permeability of 10-5 m/s which was in the order of to horizontal permeability of surrounding clay This was contrary 12 to the studies as mentioned before and it was claimed ... cement and dissociates a product known as calcium hydroxide Dissociation of calcium hydroxide increases the electrolytic concentration as well as the pH of the pore water, and dissolves the SiO2 and ... curves of direct tension test Left: light cemented sand by Das and Dass, 1995; Right: cemented Toyoura sand by Koseki et al (2005) Figure 2.14 Tension-softening relation for cemented Toyoura sand...
... SPARC has been in use in Agency programs for several years, providing chemical and physical properties to Program Offices (e.g., Office of Water, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, Office ... SPARC databases The strength of the electrostatic interaction between S and C depends on the magnitude and relative orientation of the local fields of S and C and the dielectric properties and distances ... government as assessments are made of potential pollutant exposure and risk Although a wide variety of approaches are commonly used in regulatory exposure and risk calculations, knowledge of the...
... H Shimano Physiologyand pathophysiology of the SREBP family SREBP-1c and lipogenesis The SREBP family consists of three isoforms: SREBP1a, SREBP-1c, and SREBP-2 Each isoform has a different ... cells, and it activates the synthesis of a variety of lipids, such as fatty acids, triglycerides, and phospholipids, as well as cholesterol, presumably for the supply of membrane lipids It has been ... Triglyceride 617 Physiologyand pathophysiology of the SREBP family H Shimano at G1 [19] In particular, p21 is a direct target of SREBP [20] The role of SREBP-1a in the regulation of cell growth and the...
... properties of chitinase A from Vibrio carchariae lytic activity of chitinase A resulting in the production of a broad range of chitooligosaccharide products was measured simultaneously by means of quantitative ... wild-type and mutants D392N and E315M, migrating with an Mr of 63 000 (Fig 4A) In the case of the E315Q mutant, an additional faint band was also seen at an Mr of 43 000 This band appeared as a ... substrates As judged by the patterns of the product formation, the release of dimers, trimers and tetramers from the hexamer was considered to result from direct action of the enzymes On the other hand,...
... common value was usedas an answer • NOCB: No boundary and no comparison data were collected and processed (Pcompare and Pbounds were empty) We only collected and processed a set of values for ... objects • NOB: As in FULL but no boundary data was collected and processed (Pbounds was empty) • NOC: As in FULL but no comparison data was collected and processed (Pcompare was empty) 4.2 Automated ... created two QA datasets, Web and TREC based Web-based QA dataset We created QA datasets for size, height, width, weight, and depth attributes For each attribute we extracted from the Web 250 questions...
... stabilization of hexameric native Pta, as none of the truncated Ptas was able to assemble as a hexamer (Fig 3B) Specifically, the P-loop NTPase domain is important for native hexameric stabilization, as ... in JW2294 was performed as described by Datsenko and Wanner [17] The cat+ cassette in plasmid pKD3 was amplified using primers with 60 bp of perfect identity for the 5¢-end and 3¢-end of acs: delacs ... primer, 100 ng of DNA template, lL of 5· GoTaq DNA polymerase buffer, and 0.6 U of GoTaq DNA polymerase (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) The amplification protocol was as follows: one cycle of at 94 °C;...
... In his case, as in the case of the young woman, there has been absolutely no conscious sexual stimulation; in the case of neither individual has there been a thought of sex as such or of their ... principle of biology was first discovered and formulated by the great German Biologist, Weissmann Summary of Principles a The propagation of offspring and the protection and support of the young and ... belongs to the vertebrate class, mammalia, andas a member of that class he possesses over the cutaneous surface of the body, excepting the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, hair follicles...
... present in the MALDITOF mass maps from the 60 kDa band were also present in the mass map from the 78-kDa band, suggesting that the 60-kDa band represents a fragment of the 78-kDa band Similar related ... N-Terminal sequencing of the kininogens was only successful from the 42-kDa band of wolffish kininogen (XLVQPGVLI…, Table 1) The major bands of both kininogens and also the 60-kDa band of cod kininogen ... partly ascribed to heterogeneous glycosylation The yield of reversed-phase purified cod kininogen from 200 mL of cod skin extract was 800 lg A cysteine proteinase inhibitor was isolated from wolffish...
... contrast, the system of (Briscoe and Carroll, 1997) distinguishes 163 verbal subcategorisation classes by means of a statistical shallow parser, a classifier of subcategorisation classes, and a ... approaches of (Magerman, 1994) and (Collins, 1997) for the purpose of differentiating between complement and adjunct In the case of (Xia et al., 2000), invalid elementary trees produced as a result of ... frequency of just six subcategorisation verb classes In addition, all prepositional phrases are treated as adjuncts For 1565 tokens of 33 selected verbs, they report an accuracy rate of 83% (Briscoe and...
... globotriaosylceramide, and globotetraosylceramide was purchased from Matreya A standard mixture of partially methylated alditol acetates was from BioCarb Anti-paramyosin mAb PM was donated by T Nakamura (Kitasato ... galactose and glucose: 75.5% and 24.5% in A-1, 68.8% and 31.2% in A-2, and 70.5% and 29.5% in A-3 MALDI-TOF MS spectra (Fig 4) proved that three fractions were CMH, and each of them was found ... fucose and/ or hexoses were also detected, as in the case of A-7 described above The structure of A-9 was concluded to be Gal1–4(Fuc1– 3)Glc1–3(Gal1–6)Gal-Cer A-10 (from adults) and P-5 (from plerocercoids)...
... behavior of the acid itself as well as its salts has been made the subject of thorough investigation carried out chiefly Bartoli The by by Brester, and Papasogli Renard* and Bourgoin, progress of the ... based on the phenom- l ena of decomposition, andfrom this deduced certain formulae which make i* possible to predict the nature products resulting from the electrolysis of monobasic and dibasic ... cm high and 2.5 cm in diameter This variation of current density was, however, of second- Solutions of the ary importance potassium salts having a specific gravity of 1.08-1.12 were usedas Current...
... decision of writing down the value of assets and the magnitude of write-down allow management of listed companies to exercise discretion in determining the recoverable value of relevant assets and ... OBJECTIVES OF THE THESIS The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate the impact of state ownership and auditors' locality on the magnitude of asset impairment and on the reversal of asset ... managers of non-listed SOEs 33 2.5 ACCOUNTING REGULATIONS ON ASSET IMPAIRMENTS 2.5.1 Accounting Standards in Developed Economies Evaluation of fair value and assessment of impairment of assets...
... crashes; that is, as the legal age was lowered, the number of crashes increased, andas the legal age was raised, the number of crashes decreased (From here on, we use the term crashes to include ... legal drinking age and other outcomes; that is, as the legal age was lowered, the number of problems increased, andas the legal age was raised, the number of problems decreased Of the 61 analyses, ... age and traffic crashes In short, more than half of all analyses found that a higher legal drinking age is associated with decreased rates of traffic crashes Of the 102 analyses of traffic crashes,...
... both limbs They also used molecular-clock based time estimates to infer rates of digit change, and claimed that transitions from five to no Journal of Biology 2009, 8:19 Journal of Biology 2009, ... has an intermediate body form with reduced limbs whereas (c) the species at the bottom (Lerista ameles) has the elongate snake-like body form and lacks external limbs and digits The photos of ... dweller, in which much of the overall body length is tail, and which often lives in dense grass The other is the shorttailed burrowing morph, which has a short tail, elongate trunk, and typically lives...
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... procurement of 66% of their isolates from male patients and 34% from females Madani et al[27], 2001 also report a 65.8% recovery from males and 34.2% from females in Saudi Arabia Similarly, from the eastern ... increased amounts of peptidoglycan, and the increased quantities of unprocessed D-Ala-D-Ala cause increased 'trapping' and 'clogging', resulting in higher vancomycin MICs of 8–16 µg/ml and the ... occurring agent produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens and has successfully been used to reduce substantially the nasal and hand carriage of MRSA[16,17] This regimen is least effective in patients with...
... 1991 and 1992, the dates of starting and termination of shoot growth, as well as the rate of shoot elongation, were established on branches from the same part of the crown of trees Terminal and ... 1992 - from 03.05 to 11.10 of vegetative buds from the in Picea abies was studied weekly Also information was usedfrom another study on the same clone and on ramets of the same age Material was ... (spring-summer of year n-1) as well as on conditions during bud/shoot elongation (May of year n) Cytohistological zonation of the apex was activity of the peripheral and pith-rib meristems was high and...
... analyses of efflux data allowed data to be separated into fluxes and pool sizes for compartments: cell wall/free space, cytoplasm and vacuole was There was rapid influx and efflux of potassium ... and Rygiewicz, 1986) Influx and efflux of cations (ammonium, potassium, calcium, H and anions ) + (phosphate, sulfate, chloride and bicarbonate) were measured using stable and radioisotopes and ... potassium About 95% of all potassium entering roots was subsequently released; net accumulation was only 5% of total flux Mycorrhizal fungi did alter fluxes, with more storage of potassium in the vacuoles...
... attentions from classical problems such as hearing loss from middle ear and cochlear pathologies Also in these areas of hearing new knowledge has contributed to better understanding of pathologies of ... success of such prostheses Thus, optimal implementation of such prostheses requires understanding of basic auditory physiology The advent of these new aspects in treatment of disorders of the ... Schwannoma and their diagnosis Because of the complexity of many disorders of the auditory system the clinician must have a thorough understanding of the basic functions of the entire auditory system and...