... Acknowledgments Chapter INTRODUCTION 1.1 Medical Imaging 1.2 IonizingRadiation Detectors Development: High Energy Physics versus Medical Physics 1.3 IonizingRadiation Detectors for Medical Imaging 1.4 Conclusion ... Intentionally, this book‘s coverage is limited to IonizingRadiation Detectors; thus Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy and other non -Ionizing Radiation Detectors have not been considered ... restrict the topics to the field of ionizingradiation and in particular to the detectors developed and used in radiology and nuclear medicine 1.2 IonizingRadiation Detector Development: High...
... JNK in radiation- induced mitochondrial cell death M.-J Kim et al Fig Ionizingradiation induces expression of Fas and activation of caspases in human cervical cancer cells (A) Ionizing radiation- induced ... cell-death events after ionizing irradiation and development of molecular targets for cancer treatment Results To examine the kinetics of the apoptotic cell death induced by ionizingradiation in human ... h after radiation treatment However, the level of Bcl-xL did not alter over the time course examined in HeLa cells In addition, we observed phosphorylation of Bcl-2 after ionizing irradiation...
... Pennsylvania Gertler, Paul, et al (2003) Losing the presence and presents of parents: How parental death affects children Berkeley, CA: Haas School of Business Greene, Margaret E., & Thomas Merrick ... three reproductive health measures and each of the three poverty measures we selected Our results show that reproductive health outcomes—particularly very early pregnancy—most strongly affect overall ... Asia ranged from 20 to 30 percent Early childbearing is more prevalent among poorer women, as shown in Table In the 55 countries surveyed, the average fertility rate among the poorest women is...
... factor dependency of Egr-1 promoter activation by ionizingradiation However, in contrast to the immediate-early expression observed for c-Jun, radiationinduction of Egr-1 seems to be a rather ... to a single dose of Gy of ionizingradiation generated by a linear accelerator (Mevatron 6MeV, LINAC) as described elsewhere [20,21] Cells were harvested 48 h after irradiation and assayed for ... pD7egrGFL-transfected U87 cells to a single dose of 4Gy of ionizing irradiation could be observed to be maximal after 40±48 h post IR (data not shown) As compared to sham-irradiated controls luciferase...
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... Further ionizingradiation potently causes DNA damage, which has been shown to induce miRNA expression via the p53 network [12] Here we investigated the miRNA response in EC after ionizingradiation ... of endothelial cells is modified after irradiation by altered radiation- induced miRNAs Discussion The expression profiling by microarray showed that irradiation at the clinically relevant dose ... applications of ionizingradiation One of the up-regulated miRNAs in response to radiation was a member of the let-7 family (let-7g) Other let-7 family members were not regulated upon radiation treatment...
... any apoptosis in PC3 cells in response to ionizingradiation (Figure 2C) However, despite reducing the number of viable cells in the WST-1 assay, ionizingradiation did not induce significant apoptotic ... treatment with ionizingradiation or low concentrations of ErPC3, a pronounced increase of apoptotic cell death was already observed when combining 12.5 µM ErPC3 and ionizingradiation The radiation- induced ... Results Antineoplastic efficacy of ionizingradiation and ErPC3 in prostate cancer cell lines In a first step, the anti-neoplastic effects of ErPC3 and ionizingradiation alone were analyzed in...
... the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGF-R) following ionizingradiation might serve as a paradigm Irradiation-induced Niemoeller et al Radiation Oncology 2011, 6:29 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/6/1/29 ... after irradiation can be found in the additional file Discussion The data presented here show that ionizingradiation with clinically relevant doses of Gy stimulate significant changes in microRNA ... Niemoeller et al Radiation Oncology 2011, 6:29 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/6/1/29 central regulators of radiosensitivity However, irradiation-induced alterations in microRNA...
... systems for translational research in radiation oncology Acta Oncol 1999, 38:829-838 doi:10.1186/1748-717X-6-66 Cite this article as: Riesterer et al.: Ionizingradiation and inhibition of angiogenesis ... genetic mutations might contribute to the increased radiation resistant phenotype of allografts derived from this cell line On the other hand, increased radiation sensitivity of spontaneous tumors in ... a potential IoA-dependent increase of tumor hypoxia might impair the treatment response to ionizingradiation Obtaining preclinical data with spontaneous tumor models is highly laborious and...
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... Instead, it is a result we seek to explain by exploring how governance affects firm behavior, which might then explain why governance affects share price Lower cost of capital (the inverse of ... firm market value, but little evidence on the channels through which governance affects market value We first show that higher scores on a Korean Corporate Governance Index (KCGI) predict higher ... that firm level corporate governance affects firm market value in emerging markets, but little evidence on the “channels” – the ways in which governance affects firm behavior – through which...
... Instead, it is a result we seek to explain by exploring how governance affects firm behavior, which might then explain why governance affects share price Lower cost of capital (the inverse of ... firm market value, but little evidence on the channels through which governance affects market value We first show that higher scores on a Korean Corporate Governance Index (KCGI) predict higher ... that firm level corporate governance affects firm market value in emerging markets, but little evidence on the “channels” – the ways in which governance affects firm behavior – through which...
... maxilla and teeth In contrast with radiationbased CT, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) presents substantial health advantages to the patient MR imaging has no ionizingradiation and provides visualization ... maxillofacial x CONTENTS images with 3D data taken from imaging modalities with little or noionizing radiation An approach for segmenting the human mandibular body from MRI was firstly presented ... image and smoothed image 88 5.3 Illustration on how to select the initial slice 89 5.4 Illustration on how the active contour works to segment two consecutive slices...
... memorable text The fact that it’s not clear how to construct a collection of “non-memorable” counterparts to slogans appears to pose a technical challenge However, we can still use a language-modeling ... tense are relative to all past and present verbs.) and compare how likely each slogan is to be produced according to these two models As shown in the middle column of Table 5, we find that slogans ... shows that slogans employ general language, in the sense that for each of our generality metrics, we see a slogans/memorablequotes/non-memorable quotes spectrum 3.4 Prediction task We now show...
... Guthrie, and Biing-Hwan Lin How Food Away From Home Affects Children’s Diet Quality ERR-104 U.S Dept of Agriculture, Econ Res Serv October 2010 ii How Food Away From Home Affects Children’s Diet ... Because past research shows that the healthfulness of the school food environment declines as students progress through the school system (see How Food Away From Home Affects Children’s Diet ... at 145 calories 14 How Food Away From Home Affects Children’s Diet Quality/ ERR-104 Economic Research Service/USDA Even after controlling for CSB consumption, FAFH adversely affects HEI-2005 total...
... cohesive if our indicators of social cohesion only look at how busy our community centres are, how lively our neighbourhoods are, and how much in-person time grandparents and grandchildren spend ... when they are online, how their online behaviour is interrelated with their offline behaviour, and how it is embedded in people’s lives The findings reveal a twosided tale of how social cohesion ... rapid and profound entry into our lives quite understandably makes people wonder how we have been affected by it However, questions of the type: “Has the Internet been good or bad?” “Have our societies...