... cDNA of 800 bp was amplified by two rounds of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) from both human testis and brain cDNA libraries The sizeof these products was consistent with the expected size ... respectively This response is accompanied by a corresponding decrease in the hepatic levels of GL and R5 ⁄ PTG proteins All of these effects were restored by the intravenous administration of insulin ... analysis of the mRNA encoding rat R3E revealed that the main tissues of expression are liver and heart, with only very low levels being present in skeletal muscle, analysis of the human tissues...
... 4, 5) These data showed that the transcriptional profiles of CECs in SSc were profoundly different from the transcriptional profiles of CECs of healthy donors, indicating that the two populations ... VEGF is a potent inducer of CTGF mRNA [49,50] Therefore the simultaneous under-expression of both genes is not surprising Another function severely compromised in SSc is the adherence ability of ... Received: October 2009 Revised: June 2010 Accepted: July 2010 Published: July 2010 References Abraham DJ, Krieg T, Distler J, Distler O: Overview of pathogenesis of systemic sclerosis Rheumatology 2009,...
... all) of these relations turned out to be identities, that is, Proof Machines statements whose format is A = B, where A is one quantity and B is another quantity, and the surprising fact isthat ... existence of the computer is giving impetus to the discovery of algorithms that generate proofs I can still hear the echoes of the collective sigh of relief that greeted the announcement in 1970 that ... principle behind these proofs isthat if our set of objects consists of polynomials p(n) of degree ≤ L in n, for a fixed L, then for every distinct set of inputs, say 10 Proof Machines {0, 1, ,...
... accounted for by several mechanisms such as the activation of a c-carbonyl of histone H2B by esterification, followed by a nucleophilic attack by an e-amino group of Lys residue of histone H4 [38], ... fact that the cross-link is formed between Gln9 of H2B and Lys5 of H4 strongly suggests that p28 is produced by a transamidation reaction catalyzed by TG Although the possibility that p28 is produced ... amount of tissue TG in the nucleus is lower than that in the cytosol of normally growing cells [9] On the other hand, nTG is located exclusively in the nucleus of starfish embryos (Figs and 4) This...
... degree of currency mismatches by forcing the banking sector to internalize the currency risk As it was recently used in Brazil and Peru, this is achieved by equalizing the rates of return of credit ... expected nominal rate of depreciation of the domestic currency, and for the country risk premium In turn, the expected nominal rate of depreciation is given by the rate of depreciation of the real exchange ... on these issues is still to be presented But a deeper discussion of the role of MaPPs as complement or substitute to standard interest rate polices deserves better attention This isof particular...
... Those provisions will raise revenues by $18 billion Other policies will reduce outlays by $103 billion between fiscal years 2012 and 2013: Provisions of the Budget Control Act that established ... Run of Reducing Fiscal Restraint If lawmakers changed fiscal policy in late 2012 to remove or offset all of the restraint thatis scheduled to reduce the federal budget deficit by 5.1 percent of ... half of 2013 would probably be deemed a recession by the National Bureau of Economic Research Thatorganization dates the peaks and troughs of U.S business cycles by examining changes in a host of...
... ticket issuance computers provides fast, intuitive ticket issuance and printing, tracking of officer activities, “hotlist” lookup, permit lookup, and a suite of reports for monitoring officers’ ... turned into more of an ordeal that we had planned But it doesn’t need to be that difficult We provide parking solutions that reduce the hassle of parking and make it easier on the motorists Not only ... costeffective solutions that meet the needs of our clients, we want to ensure that customers receive the benefit most important to them: time 30 Seconds is the New Minute Time is unlike any resource...
... is the case, an important finding in this study isthat T20 (and presumably the other Tn constructs) can activate transcription in the context of genomic chromatin, irrespective of the locus of ... level of this construct was almost the same as thatof pST0 ⁄ TLN-7 (not shown) Thus, it was confirmed that the fragment length was irrelevant to the transcriptional activation The effects of right-handed ... ⁄ TLN-6, and the other two contain a single copy of linearized pLHC20 ⁄ loxP ⁄ -2 ⁄ TLN-6 By Fig Southern blot analysis of genomes of the established cell lines Genomic DNAs from HLB8 ⁄ T20, HLB10...
... results clearly indicate that, in S cerevisiae, the stearic and palmitic acid contents of PI are controlled by distinct mechanisms and that the stearic acid content is mediated by Psi1 Experimental ... novo synthesis, it might be involved in the stearic acid incorporation after the de novo synthesis of this lipid (i.e the second hypothesis) According to this hypothesis, previously raised for mammals ... to explain this difference One isthat a different selectivity of PI and PS synthases for particular molecular species of CDP-DAG (or a distinct channeling of molecular species of CDP-DAG to...
... but that over the zero often disappears - so that zero was still (but now differently) distinguished from number symbols Even more to the point isthat this 'O' indicates the absence of a kind of ... floor of the sea, Archimedes makes precise by an ingenious sequence of multiplications Take it, he says, that there are at most 10,000 grains of sand 29 THE NOTHING THATIS in a heap the sizeof ... fifteenth-century Byzantine Greek texts This whole explanation is curtly dismissed by Otto Neugebauer, the leading authority on Greek astronomical texts, on the grounds that the Greeks had already assigned...
... model, the hypothesis that development of colorectal carcinoma is driven by overpopulation of stem cells has been suggested It is believed that the abundance of cancer stem cells is derived from ... in Kojima's study, a totalof 189 patients consisted of 106 cases of colon cancers and 83 cases of rectal cancers with TNM stages varying from I to VI, that is, one group of patients with a definite ... advanced disease among which most of patients would die from metastasis in spite of adjuvant chemotherapy, implying that the overpopulation hypothesis of cancer stem cell seems reasonable as CD133 is...
... this case a ball Agent & theme The boy cut his hair with the scissors In this example, we can notice that there is a tool that helps the Agent to perform the action Thatis the semantic role of ... characteristic of certain pairs of gradable antonyms isthat one is marked and the other is unmarked The unmarked member is the one used in questions of degree We ask: ordinarily, “how high is the ... we say that “a fly is bigger than another” we imply that “big” is to be understood in the context of “flies” Another fact dealing with this type isthat “a small elephant” for example, is much...
... industrial sponsorship of registrants unless they are the lucky recipients of grant money or have been invited by the Congress The vulnerability of this system is obvious The chairman of the scientific ... how many of the 8,300 registered delegates were present during peak hours of the congress A more sensitive risk isthat the Congress would lose paying delegates and therefore make less profit I ... impact factor of over and is next only to the ACR journal Arthritis and Rheumatism in its field The submission rate to the Annals is increasing substantially these days Editors of other journals...
... It is well known that the expression of Arabidopsis GLN2 is regulated by light and sugars [46] We used RNA gel blot analysis to examine the effects of light and sucrose on the expression of ACR11 ... detected in the tip of the pedicel (Figure 7H) Discussion Three distinct groups of ACR proteins in Arabidopsis Figure Expression patterns of ACR11 and GLN2 in Arabidopsis Total RNA (10 μg) from ... well known that the expression of Arabidopsis GLN2 is regulated by light and sucrose [46] We used RNA gel blot analysis to examine the effects of light and sucrose on the expression of ACR11 and...
... characterization of a var2 suppressor line designated TAG-11 We show that suppression of var2 in this line is caused by disruption of SVR3, a gene that encodes a chloroplast homolog of the E coli ... suggesting that chilling sensitivity is induced by defect(s) of a specific aspect(s) of chloroplast translation, rather than to a general compromised translation Page 14 of 18 It is important to note that ... and var2-5, again suggesting that the interaction between these alleles is complex The acquisition of this second allele of svr3 supports our conclusion that At5g13650 is SVR3 SVR3 encodes a putative...
... Rodriguez-Roisin R: Ventilator-associated pneumonia by Staphylococcus aureus Comparison of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-sensitive episodes Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1994, 150:1545-1549 ... Costa de Beauregard MA, et al.: Is methicillin resistance associated with a worse prognosis in Staphylococcus aureus ventilator-associated pneumonia? Clin Infect Dis 2005, 41: 1224-1231 Pujol M, ... Infect Dis 2004, 38:14011408 McCarthy EP, Iezzoni LI, Davis RB, Palmer RH, Cahalane M, Hamel MB, Mukamal K, Phillips RS, Davies DT Jr: Does clinical evidence support ICD-9-CM diagnosis coding of complications?...
... 24h 48h Figure Selective analysis of CpG methylation of two LTRs Selective analysis of CpG methylation of two LTRs Methylation of CpG sites in each plasmid clone is displayed Closed and open circles ... the 300 bp product thatof 3'-LTR NCBI human genomic blast program analysis of the flanking sequences showed that the sequence of the 1.2 kbp fragment corresponds to thatof Chromosome 7, located ... technical assistance This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan to T Ishida and T Watanabe, and by a Grant...
... benefit of large-scale deployment of hydrogen vehicles isthat it could lead to decreased emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone precursors.[43] According to the United States Department of Energy ... main advantage of hydrogen isthat the velocity change of a stage employing it is little different from a stage using denser fuel, while the lift-off weight of the stage is less Particularly when ... cars, stating that "The next major step in Ford’s plan is to increase over time the volumeof electrified vehicles".[4] Similarly, French Renault-Nissan announced in 2009 that it is cancelling...
... apoptosis.[6] Its mutation is widely detected in all types of cancer, including esophageal cancer.[6,7] It is now clear that disruption of p53 pathway, such as through inactivating p53 mutations, is ... has distinct etiologic and pathologic characteristics Squamous cell is cancer located in epithelial cell of the mouth throat or lungs and adenocarcinoma is composed of cells of glandular tissue ... selected study characteristics are listed in Table and Table All studies indicated that the distributions of two polymorphism’s genotypes in the controls were both consistent with Hardy-Weinberg...
... cement of the spacer is not intended as a means of fixing the prosthesis so the mechanical characteristics of the cement is not of primary importance at this stage Thus, large amounts of antibiotics ... of a prosthesis is also often made more difficult because of scarring, tissue shrinkage and osteoporosis caused by inactivity [37,40,41] In addition, abrasion of zirconium dioxide particles is ... re-implantation The disadvantage of the cemented revision technique is related to the fact that the osseous bed of the prosthesis has not only been enlarged by the loosening of the primary prosthesis but also...