... David Canning, and Günther Fink, "Population Agingand Economic Growth", forthcoming in Spence, Michael, and Danny Leipziger (eds.), Global Challenges and Growth, Commission on Growth and Development ... savings in anticipation of retirement, and the flexibility of capitalist economies to adapt to changes in labor supply and demand and to alter management and labor practices in light of changing ... well-off consumers and that benefits from extraordinary demand for its exports, the forces of supply and demand will tend to raise wages in sectors where labor is in greater demand Such increases...
... various tumors Overexpression of NRP1 in rat tumor cells results in enlarged tumors and substantially enhanced tumor angiogenesis On the other hand, soluble NRP1 (sNRP1) is an antagonist of tumor ... capillaries and hemorrhaging NRP1 knockouts have defects in yolk sac, embryo and neuronal vascularization, and in development of large vessels in the heart Tumor cells express NRPs and bind VEGF165 ... vasculature, and limb;11 many adult tissues such as the heart, placenta, lung, kidney and epidermis,12-14 and uterine glandular epithelium;15 and many cell types such as endothelial cells (EC),11 tumor...
... genotoxins and genomic instability L Guerra et al (DNA resection); and (c) phosphorylation ⁄ activation of CHK2 and p53 that lead to cell cycle arrest and, in ultimate instances, to apoptosis or senescence ... ssDNA ends and modulates the activity of effectors, such as BRCA2 and Rad51, which execute the recombination process by performing strand invasion and Holliday junction formation and resolution ... pro-inflammatory (TNF-a, IFN-c and Cox-2, IL-6 and TGF-a) and anti-apoptotic (Bcl-2 and Bcl-XL) genes, as well as upregulation of hepatic mRNA levels of components of the NF-jB pathway (p65 and p50) [70] The...
... overconfidence and points above would show underconfidence Fig contains these scatters for both older and younger subjects, along with standard errors and significance tests for differences in accuracy and ... offer was randomly determined and not based on the actual value of the item (Becker et al., 1964) For sellers, if WTA was less than or equal to the random offer, they gave up their item and received ... Fellowship, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation are gratefully acknowledged.For their reading of and helpful responses to early versions of our paper, we thank an Associate Editor and an anonymous...
... healthy agingand serve as a catalyst for improvement and advancement We hope that health care professionals, policy makers and everyone interested in the challenges and consequences of our aging ... National Report Card on Healthy Aging 04 The State-by-State Report Card on Healthy Aging 09 Mental Health andAging 12 Training the Health Care Workforce—Present and Future 15 Appendix 19 III The ... Database and arthritis) and diseases (including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and certain cancers) in later life Older Americans consume too much saturated fat and too few fruits and vegetables...
... Rnf33 mRNA in the testis and in two mouse testicular cell lines: TM3 and TM4 (Fig 2) TM3 and TM4 are nontumorigenic epithelial cell lines derived from mouse testicular Leydig and Sertoli cells, respectively ... the p65 and p50 NF-jB subunit proteins in testicular cells (A) RT-PCR detection of p50 and p65 transcripts in the testis (Te) and in TM3 and TM4 cells (B) Western blot analysis of the p50 and p65 ... TM3 and TM4 cells, a protein-induced band shift was observed (Fig 6A, lanes and 7, arrowhead) In the presence of increasing amounts of the unlabeled wild-type probe sequence, the shifted band...
... serum and phenol red were washed with NaCl ⁄ Pi, and the DMEM without fetal calf serum and phenol red was added (2 mL per 60-mm dish) followed by the addition of CSE (2% final concentration) and ... using two different dilutions (1 : and : 729) of template cDNA from the control clone (lanes and 3) and the same dilutions of cDNA from the KD-1 clone (lanes and 4) Control reactions with b-actin ... targeting PRDX5 cDNA (exons and underlined) were: TTTGAGA ACCTCTTGAGACGTCGATGACGTCTCAAGAGGTTC TCTTTTT (top strand) and CTAGAAAAAGAGAA CCTCTTGAGACGTCATCGACGTCTCAAGAGGTTCT (bottom strand) Targeted segments...
... Introduction, ix xiii Aging, Senescence, and Lifespan, T h e Nature of Cellular Senescenceand Death, T h e Evolution of Senescenceand Death, 21 41 Of Embryos and Worms and Very Old Men: T h ... Genetics of Senescenceand Lifespan, 59 Human Genetic Diseases T h a t M i m i c the Aging Process, 73 Cycling to Senescence, Replicative Immortality: Cancer and Aging, 115 Caloric Restriction and Maximum ... death and programmed death (senescence) Maximum lifespan, on the other hand— and this is a very important distinction—is determined solely by the rate and timing of the onset of senescence, and...
... developed tumors, and from vaccinated mice that did not develop tumors These two RNA pools were analyzed for T-cell and B-cell activation (SA Biosciences, cat # PAMM-053), and for T-cell anergy and ... tumors can indirectly suppress anti -tumor immunity; therefore, immunotherapy modalities aimed at concurrently stimulating anti -tumor immune reactivity, while diminishing tumorinduced immune suppression ... reasonable understanding of anti -tumor effector mechanisms, clinical studies investigating spontaneous anti -tumor immune responses have yet to lead to reproducible or consistent tumor regression...
... host animal induced tumor regression and reduced bone marrow and liver metastases by a dual mechanism of action, restraining growth of both tumor cells andtumor vasculature Methods CHS 828 The ... the inhibition of angiogenesis, and direct tumor cell toxicity The two processes (angiogenesis inhibition andtumor cell toxicity) may have different kinetics and may vary in proportion with ... Statistical analysis (Mann-Whitney U test) indicates group differences in tumor volume, tumor weight andtumor index (tumor weight/final body weight × 100) Click here for file [http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/supplementary/14795876-7-16-S1.doc]...
... undergoing tumor resection RNA was extracted from the macroscopic center of the tumorand from unaffected colonic mucosa at least cm from the macroscopic border of the malignant lesion Age, sex, and ... unaffected colon and carcinoma tissue (paired, pCD = 0.471, pn(F) = 0.2783, Figure 4C) Comparison of elevated families in different compartments For 16 patients, samples of tumorandtumor free colon ... of these patients a single family was elevated in both tumor tissue and corresponding unaffected colon For nine CRC patients, blood andtumor samples were available Four of these patients had...
... with physiologic aging resulting in increased randomness and noise in the neuromuscular system They suggested that this may be one of the reasons for the increase in falling due to aging Body weight ... evaluate the benefits of BWS and observe whether gait could be recovered The original results for these animal models were encouraging and thus, the usage of BWS has been expanded in human patient ... (magnitude; standard deviations and coefficient of variations) and nonlinear (structure; Lyapunov exponents) measures [37] It was hypothesized that increased levels of BWS would decrease both linear and...
... in the physical demands, problem solving, and random presentation of practice tasks, sufficient practice and patient empowerment [30] Even with a one-hour immersion in VE and exposure to sensory ... stance, subjects were exposed to random visual and/ or surface perturbations consisting of ramp-andhold tilts of 8° (peak velocity of 36°/s) in each direction of the pitch and roll planes Visual perturbations ... digitized, band-pass filtered (10–400 Hz lowpass) and sampled at 1,080 Hz EMG signals were further full-wave rectified and lowpass filtered at 100 Hz during offline analysis Functional balance and mobility...
... isolates belonging to the same serotype Ni2 and CI4, or, CI63 and BF1 isolates (Figure 3C, lanes and or and 5) We also noted that the diversity of silencing suppression displayed by these RYMV isolates ... Movement of P1 protein and silencing suppression Movement of P1 protein and silencing suppression (A) Schematic representation of the experimental design to distinguish delivery (del) and distal (dis) ... plant at 35 or 40 dpi and separated into two independent samples before being ground for proteins (fluorimetry, ELISA and western) and RNA extractions Plasmid construction and biolistic delivery...
... benign and borderline tumors compared to grades 1, and tumors (c2 = 14.33, df = 4, P = 0.006) To further analyze differences between each individual tissue andtumor types Kruskal Wallis and Dunn’s ... grade and grade ovarian tumors Medians are shown as horizontal lines Significant differences in the extent of epithelial and stromal Brn-3a(l) staining between normal and grades 1, and tumors ... staining Staining was confined to both nucleus and cytoplasm (Figs 2d and 2e) The staining intensity in both the epithelium and stroma of grades 1, and tumors was also enhanced None of the tissues...
... subtraction Wiener suppression rule Magnitude spectral subtraction Figure 8: Standard suppression rules 20 30 Alternative Suppression Rules for Audio Signal Enhancement Narrowband speech 16 12 ... 5: MAP approximation suppression rule gain difference Figure 3: Ephraim and Malah MMSE suppression rule Gain difference (dB) 1047 Gain difference (dB) Gain (dB) Alternative Suppression Rules for ... freedom and pa2 rameters (σk , s2 ) k When combined with the optimal phase estimator of Ephraim and Malah (i.e., the observed phase ϑk ), this estimator also takes the form of a suppression rule and...
... scores between winter and spring (23.58 ± 6.61 vs 30.29 ± 6.60, p = 0.025) and between spring and summer (30.29 ± 6.60 vs 21.29 ± 4.68, p = 0.008) and in HAS scores between spring and summer (38.29 ... Dexamethasone Suppression Test (DST) [9] According to the DST protocol, mg of dexamethasone was given orally at 23.00 on day 1, and three samples of blood were taken at 23.00 on day and at 16.00 and 23.00 ... were reported by Hare in 1975 [21] That study was conducted in England and Wales, using patients born between 1921 and 1955, and reported that compared with all live births, manic depression was...
... IL32γ, and IL-32δ IL-32α is present in intracellular locations, and IL-32β is secreted from the cells IL-32α and IL-32β are thought to be the major expressed variants The sequences of IL-32β and ... variant and as a secreted protein from the cells, and the sequences of IL-32β and IL-32γ were basically similar [13] We demonstrated that IL-32 is expressed in various lymphoid cells, and in the ... (BM-hIL32) The expression and secretion of TNFα were increased in resting F4/80+ splenic macrophages of BM-hIL-32 mice, and the expression and secretion of TNFα, IL-1β, and IL-6 were increased...
... radiotherapy and concurrent chemotherapy with fluorouracil (5-FU) and Mitomycin C (MMC) Secondary endpoints were acute toxicity, local and regional tumor control, colostomy-free survival and overall ... with a T4 tumor received a boost of external beam radiation of Gy and 10 Gy directed to the primary tumor with another concurrent cycle of 5-FU and MMC for persistent disease Ninety-five and 89% ... local and the regional control according to the node-status was N0-75% and 88% and N(1-3)-85% and 93% respectively Among the eleven patients who had a local relapse, had isolated local relapse and...
... factors responsible for SUV measurements and therefore tumor contours: the metabolic activity, tumor heterogeneity, andtumor motion [21] Despite the effect of tumor motion can be neglected in RT ... contouring of hypermetabolic areas Delineation of CT-based tumor volume On the basis of axial CT images, contouring of the tumor volume and normal and critical structures was performed without knowledge ... between the SUVmax and the C-pGTV values in our patient cohort (Figure 4) Also, there was no correlation between the maximum tumor diameter and the SUVmax Correlation of sTL with C-pGTV and SUVmax Figure...