... brought in by traders and friendly scouts floated hither-thither rumors of mysterious remarks, of secret councils, of a collecting of arms and powder, and a sharpening of knives and hatchets, even ... the Miamis, and the Wyandots of Indiana.Several thousands of miles had the Bloody Belt traveled, when in March, of 1763, it was caught and stoppedby Ensign Holmes, the young commander at old ... territory disputed by Virginia and Pennsylvania. It was under command of LordDunmore himself, governor of Virginia for the king of England.The Division of Southern and Eastern Virginia, fifteen...
... between human AChE and BChEThe T variants ofhuman AChE andhuman BChE arecomposed of a catalytic domain of approximately 500residues, followed by small C-terminal t peptides of 40 and 41 residues, ... letters(A and B), whereas the small t peptides are designatedby lower case letters (a and b), so that the wild-typeAChE and BChE are Aa and Bb, and the chimeras areAb and Ba. Comparisons of wild-type ... by mutation of the aromatic residues toleucines [3–6].However, the major function of the t peptides is thatthey allow the assembly of tetramers of AChET[7] and of BChET[8] and their association...
... and to characterize the non-linear mechanical behaviour of this layer.4 Chapter 1Figure 1.2: Schematic view of the cross-section of the upper part of the human skin showing theepidermis and ... collagen, elastin and minute quantities of reticulin and a supp orting matrix orground substance. Collagen comprises about 75% of the fat free dry weight and 18-30% of the volume of dermis (Ebling ... consisting of one layerrepresenting the dermis and the epidermis. The influence of superficial skin hydration and the influence of the size of the aperture diameter on the mechanical response of the...