... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 7, No 2, 2009 Increase in number of rhizome nodes compactness of the substrate brought about by the combined effects of the high density of ACS ... these two set of experiments caused the discrepancy Eelgrass plants used for the experiment of effect of particle size were collected in December, 2005 while plants used for the effect of DS addition ... forces of eelgrass taken in different sampling time (with two months interval), it was found that uprooting force values were different for the two sets of eelgrass by 1/3 to 1/2 of the other...
... performed to determine the effect of CCL25 Discussion A major cause of the high mortality rates due to OvCa is chemotherapy resistance Cisplatin is often the first drug of choice for OvCa treatment ... Apoptosis Assay OvCa cells were cultured with or μg/ml of cisplatin, along with no additions or 100 ng/ml of CCL25 plus μg/ Page of ml of anti-CCR9 or isotype control antibodies for 24 hours ... expression of death-activating proteins, such as Fas ligand (FasL) and Bim [12] Phosphorylation of FKHRL1 at Thr32, Ser253 and Ser315 prevents translocation of this protein to the nucleus and loss of...
... terms of the clinical/ Page of 11 biomedical details of both therapies and the active ingredients used as therapeutics It is unlikely that population groups other than clinicians and health officials ... ideologies Rather, a significant proportion of American supporters of the current anti-vaccination movement are of members of the middle class and have some level of university education [69] By and ... consequences of an illness already prevalent amongst the population Relative to other allergy treatment strategies (e.g., pharmacotherapy, avoidance), IT has notable advantages Of most significance...
... activity or in the titer of Figure Deletion of the NA coding RNA segment of A/OK/323/03 Deletion of the NA coding RNA segment of A/OK/323/03 NA-specific RT-PCR products of H3N2 virus stocks from ... conditions of infection One was limiting dilution, using μl of the last well that showed infection to infect the first well of the next passage each time In the other condition, we used μl of the ... deletions of the neuraminidase coding sequence The resulting loss in NA activity has no detrimental effect of growth of the viruses in MDCK cells Results We used four H3N2 influenza viruses that...
... table, as flies is the number of isofemale lines and heterogeneity can be classified only as is the number of flies heat or cold shocked for each isofemale line In 10 isofemale lines and n > 50 flies ... individuals of each isofemale line in uncrowded conditions, the right wing of five females per line was removed and mounted on slides, from which wing area was measured (MTV3 program of Data Crunch ... the induction of thermotolpopulations of D melanogaster from temperate and subtropical areas we in Our aim was to identify if this resistance relates to the climate of the localities of origin If...
... Director of the Department of Nuclear Energy Science and Engineering, the Director of the Department of Power Engineering and the Superintendent of the Postgraduate School Now, he is the Dean of the ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 3, Issue 4, 2012, pp.505-520 Figure Effect of τ on the characteristic of (ui )Π versus π max 513 Figure Effect of τ on the characteristic of (π ... parabolic-like, but the value of (ηex )Π changes characteristics of (ηex )Π max, max, slightly with the changes of a and b The characteristic of (ηex )Π max, versus U T is similar to that of Π max, versus...
... on the expression of a limited number of classical heat shock genes, HSF1 was recently revealed to regulate the expression of numerous other genes in the absence or presence of heat shock Comprehensive ... Overexpression of mouse HSF3 or chicken HSF1 in the HSF1-null MEF cells restored the marked induction of expression of PDZK3, whereas knockdown of mouse HSF3 completely abolished the induction Induction of ... showed the relatedness of mouse HSF3 with chicken HSF3 to be much weaker than that of mouse HSF1 with chicken HSF1, that of mouse HSF2 with chicken HSF2, or even that of mouse HSF4 with chicken...
... relative amounts of normalized mRNA were plotted as a function of time and the slope of this curve was used to calculate the interval period within which half of the original amount of mRNA had decayed ... establish the specificity of action of Rho GTPases on CTGF/CCN2 expression, we examined the ability of the constitutively active forms of Rho GTPases to enhance the expression of the endogenous CTGF/CCN2 ... protein levels of MAP kinases remain unchanged throughout the course of stimulation, dephosphorylation by phsophatases would be the key factor in the type of pattern of activation of the MAP kinase...
... obtained at pH 6.0 No preferential loss of signal in the region of any of the aromatic residues was observed, suggesting a global loss of the tertiary structure of ovorubin Enzymatic digestion with ... and pH 12.0 (Fig 6) show a red shift of its emission maxima (from 330 to 338 nm) and an intensity decrease at pH 2.0, indicative of the exposure of some of the tryptophan residues to the aqueous ... known that the UV spectrum of ASX undergoes a large bathochromic 4524 Fig Electron microscopy analysis of ovorubin from the eggs of the apple snail (A) Electron micrograph of negatively stained ovorubin...
... drug used in the generation of chemoresistance A better understanding of these mechanisms may lead to the development of novel strategies to circumvent the problem of drug resistance Background ... represents 3% of all the new cancer cases in women, but accounts for 5% of all the cancer deaths [1] This discrepancy is due, in part, to the common resistance of ovarian cancer to current chemotherapy ... lack of alternatives for the treatment of drug resistant disease are responsible for a 5-year survival of approximately 30% in ovarian cancer patients with advanced disease Indeed, 90% of the...
... household variables (household characteristics, land uses and area, professional, labour) - Technical variables: Number of sows, pigs and other animals, sow reproductive variables, feeding variables ... the age of farmers, in table age of household headed, more farmers in period of ages 46 -55 (60) years old, 42 % in total investigated farms 3.2 Education levels Table Educational levels of farmers ... 15% by weight of crude proteins and from to 5% by weight of crude fats The metabolic energy of the composition is preferably 2000 to 3200 kcal/kg The compared with requirement of sows in different...
... transform structure of the Laplacian Pyramid In this section, we attempt to show the robustness of our watermarking Table 2: Results of embedding more amounts of data into 16th and another directional ... subband of the host image The quality of the watermarked image was good in terms of perceptibility and PSNR (average of 39.4107 dB) measures We showed that we can embed a remarkable amount of data ... watermarked image Table shows the results of embedding data in the Lena test image with different sizes The size of the watermark is 25% of the size of the host image 4.2 Resistance to Various...
... written under the attentive support of the following institutions: Institute of Physics of the Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic(AV0210100521); Faculty of Applied Science, the West Bohemian ... other scientific concepts are really independent of our human scale location and the scale of locality Vopenka [19] in 1989 proposed a simplifying program of naturalization of certain parts of ... the often repeated factor of "publish-or-perish" which is worthy of serious re-thinking, particularly now in the age of resourceful computing We have the means of safeguarding the originality of...
... immunoregulatory effect of IL-10 during the active phase Increased expression of cell surface IL-10R1 on RA CD4+ T cells The functional receptor complex of IL-10 consists of two subunits, the primary ... expressed as the ratio of the mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of staining with anti-IL-10R1 to control antibody Values are the mean ± standard error of the mean n, number of samples tested RA ... results of STAT3 phosphorylation in CD4+ T cells from three synovial tissue samples of RA patients and three peripheral blood samples of HC are shown Values are the mean ± standard error of the...
... prediction of normal tissue toxicity after radiotherapy by us [21,22] and other authors [14,19,20] However, some other studies reported no correlations between individual radiosensitivity of cancer ... CO2 After extraction of cellular pellet, it was resuspended in 100 μl Annexin V buffer Kit (Pharmingen, Becton Dickinson) After the addition of μl of Annexin-V-FITC and 10 μl of propidium iodure ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/6/1/60 Page of subcutaneous toxicity In a previous observation, 10 years after RT [17], 65% of patients were free of severe late cutaneous toxicity (c2 test, P = 0.463); while 29% were free of severe...
... Journal of Inflammation 2009, 6:6 Introduction The risk of death from all causes enlarges throughout the range of moderate and severe increase of body weight for both men ... be very often Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Inflammation 2009, 6:6 used in clinical practice for the routine assessment of regional adiposity [25], although other methods ... pressure of at least 130/85 mm Hg, and serum triglyceride concentration of at least 150 mg dL-1 NAFLD was associated with recent US feaPage of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Inflammation...
... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/11/114 Page of 13 Figure Stilbenoid profiling of the Merzling × Teroldego cross Double-y plots of the concentrations (μg/g fw) of the 16 stilbenoids in infected leaves of the 106 individuals of the ... concentrations of stilbenoid viniferins in the leaves and the progress of infection was demonstrated Moreover, a comprehensive transcriptome profiling of resistant and Page of 13 susceptible individuals of ... fw) and percentages (%) of the 16 stilbenoids identified in a pooled sample of the second and third leaves of the shoot (2+3) of one replicate (r) of the 106 individuals of the cross at dpi Individuals...
... reduced In order to have a volume of cell inoculum similar to that of control cells, subculture of TA-habituated cells had to be performed every other week instead of weekly TA-habituated cells were ... suggest that a sub-population of TA(-)hab cells remained susceptible to TA Because the modified composition of the cell walls of TA(-)hab cells was reminiscent of that of DCB- and IXB-habituated ... presence of IXB in contrast to TA(-)hab cells that were subcultured in the absence of TA As mentioned earlier, there is experimental evidence suggesting that the mode of action of TA resembles that of...
... application of the Kosambi mapping function Marker positions were determined using a minimum LOD score threshold of 3.0, a recombination fraction threshold of 0.35, ripple value of Page of (page ... explained in the next section, 120 of the marker loci were mapped and significant deviation from the expected 1:1 and 3:1 ratios was detected at 25 of these A total of 118 of the 136 molecular marker ... base chromosome number of Rubus, generally at a LOD of 5.0 or above (Figure 1) The exceptions to this were two regions that were associated with other markers, but at a LOD of just 2.0; LG4 markers...