contribution to vascular inflammation and early atherosclerosis

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Yellow-cedar and western redcedar ecophysiological response to fall, winter and early spring temperature conditions" pdf

Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Yellow-cedar and western redcedar ecophysiological response to fall, winter and early spring temperature conditions" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 00:22
... redcedar and yellow-cedar during the fall, winter and early spring period This study determined the shoot growth pattern, plus photosynthetic and freezing tolerance patterns of western redcedar and ... exposed to the normal seasonal decline in fall photoperiod and temperature on both field sites, while the low elevation site was exposed to winter through early spring seasonal photoperiod and temperature ... Pn to fall, winter and early spring temperature con- Figure Changes in maximum net photosynthesis (Pn) of western redcedar (low at 570 m and high at 900 m) and yellow-cedar (low at 570 m and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Activation of transforming growth factor-β1 and early atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus" pptx

Báo cáo y học: "Activation of transforming growth factor-β1 and early atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 08:22
... cell death and/ or a defect in non-inflammatory phagocytosis of apoptotic cells Failure to achieve programmed cell death and to clear apoptotic cell fragments could be a key pathogenic factor in the ... undergoing apoptosis: control individuals versus SLE patients Index Cells were stained with annexin-V and propidium iodide to differentiate early apoptotic cells from necrosing and late apoptotic cells ... active TGFβ1 in the vascular wall is required to maintain the normal vascular wall structure and controls the balance between inflammation and extracellular matrix deposition in atherosclerosis TGF-β1...
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Báo cáo y học: " Early atherosclerosis in systemic sclerosis and its relation to disease or traditional risk factors" pdf

Báo cáo y học: " Early atherosclerosis in systemic sclerosis and its relation to disease or traditional risk factors" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:23
... the increased cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the aforementioned autoimmune diseases, attention has been given to the presence and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors Despite increased ... (partly due to cardiac involvement), cardiovascular risk factors and the presence of macrovascular disease have been emphasized less [12,13] In this study, we assessed signs of early atherosclerosis ... number (percentage) Family history of cardiovascular disease, number (percentage) Cardiovascular history, number (percentage) Cardiovascular Cerebrovascular Peripheral vascular disease C-reactive...
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Tài liệu Determinants of Productivity for Military Personnel - A Review of Findings on the Contribution of Experience, Training, and Aptitude to Military Performance pdf

Tài liệu Determinants of Productivity for Military Personnel - A Review of Findings on the Contribution of Experience, Training, and Aptitude to Military Performance pdf

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 22:20
... South Hayes Street, Arlington, VA 22202-5050 201 North Craig Street, Suite 202, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-1516 RAND URL: http://www.rand.org/ To order RAND documents or to obtain additional information, ... dangerous to excellent The effect of a career decrease in training hours of 10 percent led to a 10 percent increase in the number of unsatisfactory landings, from 14 percent to 24 percent of the total, ... contributes to understanding the effects of personnel experience, training, and aptitude on productivity and performance - xiii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author would like to thank James Hosek and John...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Insights into and speculations about snake venom metalloproteinase (SVMP) synthesis, folding and disulfide bond formation and their contribution to venom complexity pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Insights into and speculations about snake venom metalloproteinase (SVMP) synthesis, folding and disulfide bond formation and their contribution to venom complexity pdf

Ngày tải lên : 18/02/2014, 18:20
... metalloproteinases and venom complexity J W Fox and S M T Serrano proteins are synthesized in the cytoplasm of secretory cells in the gland and transferred to the rough endoplasmic reticulum, and then ... von Willebrand factor promotes site-specific proteolysis of von Willebrand factor and inhibition of von Willebrand factormediated platelet aggregation FEBS J 274, 3611–3621 50 Kishimoto M & Takahashi ... attributed to the combination of individual activities of discrete toxins in the venom as well as, in some cases, synergistic effects among the toxins, and therefore understanding venom complexity and...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of ATP-NADH kinase isozymes and their contribution to supply of NADP(H) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of ATP-NADH kinase isozymes and their contribution to supply of NADP(H) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 01:20
... pos5 cell on SG solid medium and on and in solid and liquid media lacking arginine (Fig and Table 6), thereby supporting the partial contribution of Utr1p and Yef1p to mitochondrial functions (Fig ... believed to play a significant role in NADPH biosynthesis in mitochondria [2,3], the contribution of Yel041wp and Utr1p to cellular function and the precise function of Yel041wp is yet to be clarified ... ATP-NADH kinase; it was shown to be localized in the mitochondrial matrix and to be important to several NADPH-requisite mitochondrial processes, e.g resistance to a broad range of oxidative...
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Tài liệu REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME AND UNESCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECADE doc

Tài liệu REPORT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON THE UNITED NATIONS DECADE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME AND UNESCO’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DECADE doc

Ngày tải lên : 21/02/2014, 17:20
... decision-making To achieve this, basic education must be reoriented to address sustainability and expanded to include critical-thinking skills, skills to organize and interpret data and information, and ... governments and other potential funding sources to assess the existing resources and needs related to ESD in their jurisdictions and to reallocate existing resources and find ways to create new ... points out gender disparity and how to address it “The most urgent priority is to ensure access to, and improve the quality of, education for girls and women, and to remove every obstacle that...
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Exposure to ambient air pollution and prenatal and early childhood health effects potx

Exposure to ambient air pollution and prenatal and early childhood health effects potx

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 19:20
... reproductive factors, travel time to work and walking to work Newborn Newborn Socioeconomic characteristics, other two pollutants Sociodemographic characteristics, reproductive factors, alcohol and tobacco ... alcohol and drug consumption, active and passive cigarette smoking, urban and rural residence Year, sex and deprivation score and region Sociodemographic characteristics, reproductive factors, ... activation of the apoptosis [34], or the binding to receptors of placental growth factors, resulting in the decreased exchange of oxygen and nutrients [3] (5) High exposure near to the end of gestation...
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Recent Advances in Immunology to Target Cancer, Inflammation and Infections Edited by Jagat R. Kanwar ppt

Recent Advances in Immunology to Target Cancer, Inflammation and Infections Edited by Jagat R. Kanwar ppt

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 20:20
... ability to produce and secrete the inflammatory cytokine TNF- (Sakuishi, Apetoh et al 2010) At later time points of the persistent infection, the cells also fail to produce IFN- and lose their cytotoxic ... co-stimulatory signals activate the CTLs to proliferate and gives them license to kill virus infected cells through their effector functions including the release of the cytotoxic molecules perforin and ... into viral persistence and failed to produce effector cytokines such as IL-2 and TNF- Recently, IL-21 was identified as an essential component of CD4+ T cell help to sustain CD8+ T cell effector...
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Neuropilin: From Nervous System to Vascular and Tumor Biology potx

Neuropilin: From Nervous System to Vascular and Tumor Biology potx

Ngày tải lên : 14/03/2014, 21:20
... binding of VEGF165 to VEGFR2 and VEGF165-mediated chemotaxis NRP1 expression is regulated in EC by tumor necrosis factor-α, the transcription factors dHAND and Ets-1, and vascular injury During ... (+/+), heterozygous (+/-), and homozygous mutant (-/-) embryos at E9.5 (A and B), E10.5 (C and D), and E12.5 (E and F), to reveal defects in cranial nerves III, oculomotor nerve; IV, trochlear ... receptors that express high levels of NRP1 and low levels of the PlexA1, and the Plex-predominant receptors that express high levels of PlexA1 and low levels of NRP1 These olfactory receptor subclasses...
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alfred hitchcock and his contribution to hollywood

alfred hitchcock and his contribution to hollywood

Ngày tải lên : 21/03/2014, 21:55
... getting better and to prove it he steps up on a step stool and climbs to the top of it Then he looks out the window and sees how far above the ground he is and he gets dizzy and begins to fall When ... of what was to turn into a whole industry They spawned a lengthy series of short story anthologies with titles like "Stories They Wouldn't Let me Do on TV" and "Tales My Mother Never Told Me", ... He helped to make television an okay medium even after Hollywood shunned it His use of black and white and his lack of gore made suspense movies what they are today Today many directors feel...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Retinal pigment epithelial cells secrete neurotrophic factors and synthesize dopamine: possible contribution to therapeutic effects of RPE cell transplantation in Parkinson''''s disease" doc

báo cáo hóa học:" Retinal pigment epithelial cells secrete neurotrophic factors and synthesize dopamine: possible contribution to therapeutic effects of RPE cell transplantation in Parkinson''''s disease" doc

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 15:20
... Authors' contributions The studies were designed by MM and WL and were performed by MM, XL, and XF Human RPE cells were separated and cultured by QG DY, LL and SC gave advises on the work and helped ... containing transplants and mounted to gelatin coated slides Adjacent sections were processed for hematoxylin-eosin (HE) stain and immunohistochemistry The sections were stained against cytokeratin antibody ... UK) and peroxidase-coupled avidin-biotin staining kit (ABC kit, Vector Laboratories, UK) were used For HE staining, the tissue sections were submerged into the hematoxylin solution (0.5% hematoxylin,...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Daily physical activity and its contribution to the health-related quality of life of ambulatory individuals with chronic stroke" pot

báo cáo hóa học:" Daily physical activity and its contribution to the health-related quality of life of ambulatory individuals with chronic stroke" pot

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 16:20
... the factors reported to contribute to HRQL are not modifiable (e.g age), other factors are more difficult to modify after stroke (e.g severity of neurological impairment) and some factors are ... expected to be supplementary to the other well known health benefits of PA [5] and our results emphasize the importance of PA after stroke PA has been reported to improve motor function, ADL and decrease ... of the SF-36 and were not entered into the regression models Using linear regression, lower extremity impairment was first entered to control for the stroke motor severity and found to account...
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from dust to stars studies of the formation and early evolution of stars

from dust to stars studies of the formation and early evolution of stars

Ngày tải lên : 03/07/2014, 21:09
... On the one hand, it is necessary to understand the underlying physics to be able to properly describe the manifold of different processes involved On the other hand there is a story to tell about ... include Orion, ρ Ophiuchus, and IC 1396 Second, an attempt is made to relate the early history of our Sun and the Solar System to the current knowledge of star formation and early evolution by investigating ... Newton It took humankind until the dawn of the New Age to put basic pieces together and to accept proof over belief and superstition The geocentric concept of Claudius Ptolemaeus, or Ptolemy, dominated...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Taxonomical impact of morphological variation in Quercus robur and Q petraea: a contribution to the hybrid controversy" pps

Báo cáo khoa học: " Taxonomical impact of morphological variation in Quercus robur and Q petraea: a contribution to the hybrid controversy" pps

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 19:21
... MATERIALS AND METHODS (for details see Aas, 1988) Oaks chosen from 30 different stands in and Poland (stands of pedunculate oak, sessile oak and mixed stands; the number of specimen trees per stand ... BMDP 2M) allows the 279 trees to be divided into two large (1 and 2) and one small group (3) (fig 1).In table I, the mean values are indicated for each of the groups, and the F-values of the variance-analytical ... varied between and 20) The majority of the trees were sampled randomly Of special interest were intermediate were Germany not be assigned to the respective species For this reason, some stands were...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Estimation of clonal contribution to cone and seed crops in a Sitka spruce seed orchard" potx

Báo cáo khoa học: "Estimation of clonal contribution to cone and seed crops in a Sitka spruce seed orchard" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 23:22
... of male and female gametes among the orchard clones); 2) reproductive phenology synchrony; 3) random mating; 4) no incompatibility and selection between fertilization and germination; and 5) minimal ... males and females; 2) temporal variation in population number; and 3) greater than binomial or Poisson variability in the number of progeny per plant (Crow and Kimura, 1970; Crow and Denniston, ... 48°35’N, longitude 123°24’W) and consists of 139 clones (averaging 9.3 ramets per clone) selected from elevations between and 415 m on western Vancouver Island, Washington and Oregon The orchard was...
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Báo cáo y học: "Practical and theoretical barriers to the prevention of accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Practical and theoretical barriers to the prevention of accelerated atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus" docx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 01:22
... long-standing and severe SLE, reasons for non-participation have included, ‘I’m flaring and don’t want to take another medication that might make me sick’, ‘I’m trying to get healthy’, and ‘I’m too ... damage to the endothelium as does lower-grade inflammation or exposure to traditional risk factors for many years? In addition, a better understanding of patient social and cultural factors will ... approach to the prevention of ASVD in SLE The etiologic factors responsible for vascular injury in SLE need to be understood more precisely For example, shortterm hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and...
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Báo cáo y học: " Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively" docx

Báo cáo y học: " Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively" docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 08:22
... and C, neoplastic and/ or haematological diseases, autoimmune and storage diseases, unstable medical conditions, drugs inducing hepatic steatosis and prior use of medications known to affect inflammation, ... benign obesity" that is not accompanied by IR and early atherosclerosis has recently been postulated to exists in humans [14] The aim of this study was to ascertain j) the differences, if any, between ... independent variables CRP, ALT, SAAT, VAT, SLD and HS at US, was evaluated to predict IR Results In order to allow readers to gauge how well the study findings apply to their patients (external validity)...
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