... pregnancy and gestation Complete details of the study, including a description of reproductive effects in parents and offspring, are included in Section In the F1 offspring there were no effects ... Some evidence of no adverse effects Clear evidence of no adverse effects development and reproduction These studies reported that exposure of pregnant dams to relatively high doses of DIDP causes ... adverse effects Concern for adverse effects Some concern for adverse effects Developmental effects Reproductive effects Minimal concern for adverse effects Negligible concern for adverse effects...
... variety of computers including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers It exists because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from people in all walks of life Volunteers and ... moral character of men; that it often creates a thirst for spirituous liquors; that it allures to clubs, and grog-shops, and taverns, and thus helps to make idlers and spendthrifts; and finally, ... meeting of the Medical Society of the County of Oneida, on the 5th of March, 1830, a communication was received, signed by a number of highly respectable gentlemen from this and other counties of...
... than the developmental effects observed at “high” doses on survival and growth and the “low” dose effects on brain and behavior, mammary gland, prostate gland, and onset of puberty in females ... the incidence of a variety of other ovarian and uterine proliferative lesions and cysts were also reported Replication of these findings and further study of the linkage of early and late occurring ... confirm these findings and include longer periods of follow-up to understand the significance of the structural and cellular effects observed in fetuses and to clarify the relevance of prostate intraepithelial...
... splicing A variety of tools are available to us for this purpose and further investigation of these sequence variants will not only further our understanding of the splicing mechanism and improve clinical ... sites, most of them still lack experimental approaches directed at identifying the exact mechanism involved In spite of the well-known lack of reliability of in silico approaches, many of the synonymous ... (mouse–rat and human–dog) [10] This analysis showed a strong purifying selection at silent sites in a critical region of this gene [10], spanning the 3¢ end of exon 10 and the 5¢ end of exon 11...
... screening of 4Ær and no cut-off was used Minimum-energy conformers of b- and a-amino acids were generated by molecular dynamics at high temperature followed by energy minimization Two thousand structures ... grid searches of b-amino acids were initially carried out at intervals of 30° for each torsion angle /, h, and w and were subsequently refined by varying /, w angles in intervals of 10° and setting ... shifts and random coil values, are commonly used to detect secondary structures in peptides and proteins [38] They are reported in Fig Stronger upfield shifts of Ha (Fig 3A) and downfield shifts of...
... ii Abstract The Effectsof Land Use on the Mobility of Elderly and Disabled and Their Homecare Workers, and the Effectsof Care on Client Mobility: Findings from Contra ... University of California, Berkeley, for his advice and encouragement at every step of the way; Professor Elizabeth Deakin, Department of City & Regional Planning, Director of the University of California ... with survey design and thinking about the interaction of land use and transportation variables; Professor Paola Timiras, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley,...
... depositing at the feet of the chains of huge deposits of sand, gravel and clay There then followed a phase of general increased marine predominance, lasting a good part of the Miocene and all the Pliocene ... submersion of the margins of this major Tyrrhenian island The coastlineThe complexity of the peninsula's relief is echoed in the diversity of its coastal profile Along the low and sandy Adriatic ... with the exceptions of the bulge of the Po delta andof the two rocky promontories of the Conero and Gargano The Ionian and Tyrrhenian shores are very different, their extensive sandy curves, corresponding...
... protein sequence with that of other species (Xenopus, Drosophila, mouse isoforms 1, 2, and 4, rat isoforms and 2, bovine isoforms 1, 2, 3, and 4, and human isoforms 1, 2, 3, and 4) is shown in Fig ... applies to Artemia mitochondria, we tested the effect of ADP and ATP in the presence and absence of the ANT inhibitory ligand cATR, andof the F0F1ATP synthase inhibitor oligomycin The results ... well-characterized, inhibitors of ANT have also been reported [37] Mindful of (a) the well-established ligand profile of ANT, (b) the modulatory role of ANT in the mammalian PTP, and (c) the absence of a Ca2+-induced...
... proof of apoptosis, cleaved caspase-3 was determined in cell extracts by western blot (G) Representative blot of n = experiments showing 17 and 19 kDa caspase-3 cleavage bands and the levels of ... pancreatic b-cells The objective of the present study was to investigate the expression and antioxidant effectsof PHB in pancreatic b-cells exposed to ethanol Effectsof prohibitin in b-cells * 80 ... production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and mitochondrial dysfunction [9,10] Increased ROS production is one of the earliest events in glucose intolerance and it may be a mechanism of pancreatic...
... understanding of the mechanism of action of IFN-a 2b may facilitate the development of treatment strategies to increase efficacy and reduce toxicity, ultimately leading to a better standard of care ... understanding of the mechanism of action may help to potentiate the clinical efficacy and reduce the toxicity [13] of IFN-a 2b/PegIFN-a 2b Numerous studies suggest that the mechanism of action of ... stage and course, and modulating effectsof high-dose interferon-a 2b treatment Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 8:76 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ...
... the risk of AD, delaying the age of onset, and slowing the progression of disease and cognitive impairments [42,43] Despite the potential for NSAIDs and steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs in the ... understand how steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs may suppress CAA-related neuroinflammation and cellular pathology within the cerebral vessel wall, we determined the effectsof dexamethasone and ... expression and activation of MMP-2 in response to Dutch mutant Aβ40 (Figure 5) On the other hand, indomethacin and ibuprofen, which did not block HCSM cell death, did not suppress expression and activation...
... absence of C/EBPb specifically in microglia This strongly supports a role of C/EBPb in the regulation of potentially neurotoxic effectsof microglia and suggests that the neuroprotective effectsof ... Ascherio A: Use of ibuprofen and risk of Parkinson disease Neurology 2011, 76:863-869 59 in’t Veld BA, Ruitenberg A, Hofman A, Stricker BH, Breteler MM: Antihypertensive drugsand incidence of dementia: ... treatment, and in nuclear levels of both activating (Full/LAP) and inhibitory (LIP) C/EBPb isoforms 24 h after treatment The increases in C/EBPb mRNA and protein induced by LPS and LPS+IFNg were of similar...
... as a substrate of the enzyme After rinsing the cells the freshly prepared AP-buffer was added and Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2007, ... concerning the effect of both factors (PDGFbb and IGF-I) on osteoblast differentiation are controversy Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2007, ... synergistically [40] Therefore, for optimal stimulation of bone repair the controlled and local delivery of factors and factor combinations is mandatory [14,41,42] In the present study the growth...
... usual practice (standard of care) and followed over time using standardized methods and forms to make possible a valid and reliable description of case-mix, pattern of care and outcomes Subjects ... characteristics of a large sample of cancer patients in terms of case mix (patients characteristics), pattern of care (pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments) and relevant efficacy (analgesic and ... epidemiology of cancer pain andof its treatments, the quality of analgesic-drug therapy and the effect of alternative analgesic strategies in a large, prospective, unselected cohort of cancer patients...
... 30 mM MgCl , mM KCl salt solution, and 4% of S9 fraction Each of fresh bacterial suspension, 0.1 ml of S9 mixture (or 0.5 ml phosphate buffer), and 0.1 ml of the test substance were mixed in ... administration of acrylamide were measured and compared Rats were sacrificed by decapitation, and testes were removed and weighed After isolation of left epididymis from each testis, the tail region of each ... concentration of acrylamide (2,500 and 5,000 µg/plate) in the presence and absence of S9 mixture Moreover, numbers of revertants in TA100 increased significantly (p < 0.01) at higher concentration of acrylamide...
... indicated the presence of foci of inflammatory cells and corresponded to diffuse inflammation The sum of steatosis and inflammation scores was used in the results Persons unaware of our experimental ... Protective effectsof herbal extract mixture against toxicity 35 Table Results from serum analysis and histopathological grade of the protective effect of herbal extract mixture and yogurt to ... Protective effectsof herbal extract mixture and yogurt with a single ethanol challenge Ethanol-induced liver damage was evaluated by measuring liver injury markers (AST, ALT and total bilirubin) and...
... works, and the energetic substitution effectsof a consequent energetic use of residual and (post-consumer) waste wood For the political assessment, GHG effects occurring abroad and GHG effects ... heavy and thus nationally produced, C-pool and substitution effectsof wood products 895 Figure Substitution effectsof different wood products due to an increased use of wood, in Switzerland (CH) ... storage effects in landfills of wood are disregarded, as the dumping of waste wood is prohibited in Switzerland 3.4 GHG emissions dynamics of an increased use of wood The GHG emissions dynamics of...
... distribution of germination The species of Quercus, which not have dormancy, have transient soil seed banks and one of the features of their reproductive strategies is based on the development of banks of ... another group of treatments with germination rates of between 80 and 90% These are 60 ºC–5 and 110 ºC–5 Finally, the treatment of 150 ºC–5 obtained the lowest value with a germination rate of only ... Germination rates at the end of a year of incubation The germination rates of Q robur and Q pyrenaica after a year of incubation are very high: around 85% in Q robur and at 93% in Q pyrenaica (Fig...