... performed in September 1998, with the aim of estimating the maximum annual impact of water stress in areas at different levels of landscape degradation a Istanbul Ankara Bursa Izmir Antalya Adana ... growing and water availability was likely high after winter rains Total precipitation during March, April and May 1998 at site H was about 130 mm and air temperatures were between 15 and 25 °C In ... potential, usually assumed to be in equilibrium with ΨL when measured as Ψpd [58] The significance of both Ψpd and Ψmin as indicators of plant water status has been questioned As an example, Ψpd has...
... obtained was used asa template for real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, which was performed with the LC FastStart DNA Master SYBR GreenI® (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) ina LightCycler® ... on pre-activated T cells in pathogen-induced chronic inflammatory joint diseases inflamed joint activated and memory T cells can pass endothelial barriers TLR ligands can activate T cells independent ... joint diseases Any diseases inflammation will cause the induction of chemokine and cytokine production in several tissue-associated cells in the joint, including fibroblasts, macrophages and dendritic...
... supportive care [4,5] KRAS is an important molecule in the EGFR signaling pathway KRAS encodes a membrane-associated GTPase that is an early player in many signal transduction pathways KRAS acts asa molecular ... When an activating mutation occurs in the KRAS gene, the RAS G-protein activates the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling cascade downstream of EGFR This may bypass the need for ligand ... KRAS MT has worse RR and TTP KRAS MT has worse RR KRAS MT has worse RR, TTP, and OS KRAS MT has worse RR, TTP, and OS KRAS WT has worse OS KRAS WT did not respond KRAS MT has worse RR Escalated...
... BIGNONIACEAE Markhamia cauda-felina (Hance) Craib Fernandoa brilletii (P.Dop) Steenis BURSERACEAE Canarium tonkinensis L CAESALPINIACEAE Senna siamea Lam DIPTEROCARPACEAE Hopea chinensis (Merr.) Hand.-Mazz ... Representatives are often families of Rosaceae, Lauraceae, Apocynaceae, Theaceae, Magnoniaceae, Juglandaceae, Fagaceae, Aceraceae, etc (6) Xuan Son National Park has high differentiation on vegetation ... rice-leaf weeds such as Thysanolaena maxima, Saccharum arundicaceum, Miscanthus nepalensis, Miscanthus japonica, Miscanthus japonica, Saccharum spontaneum, Sasa spp., Neyraudia reynaudiana, etc...
... flushing leading to over 30% of a domestic demand (Chap 13, International Plumbing Code) The City of Malibu, California passed laws in 1994 on the standards for greywater systems for installation in ... separate the grey water from the wastewater discharges ina home Some allowance for treatment by chlorination may be necessary where the water has fouled up Components ina Greywater Drip Irrigation ... GREYWATER QUANTITY The quantity of greywater available for reuse ina household may be estimated from the daily household consumption The consumption fora typical home in WA, Australia and Malaysia...
... Balancing automatically excludes servers that are unavailable You can enhance the availability forProxy Server inbound requests by using a combination of multiple proxy servers and round robin ... up aproxy array called proxyarray.msft Each of the servers in the array has a unique IP address, so you need to specify an A- type resource record for each server as follows: proxyarray.msft IN ... reservations, ticketing, baggage handling, and baggage tracking Support fora mission-critical Web-based application that allows customers to make reservations and purchase the tickets over the Internet...
... Rac2 and S10 0A9 Assay of NADPH oxidase activity after oxidase activation The dormant NADPH oxidase of neutrophil membranes was activated by mixing neutrophil plasma membranes and the recombinant ... bicinchonic acid reagent (BCA) (Bio-Rad) using bovine serum albumin as standard Arachidonic acid was dissolved in ethanol and stored asa stock solution, at a concentration of 200 mM Protein fractionation ... Sigma DEAE-cellulose was from Whatman Ampholines pH 3–10 were from Pharmacia Biological preparations A particulate fraction enriched in plasma membranes was prepared by centrifugation on a discontinuous...
... hematopoietic compartment using a CD34+ hESC-derived starting population has been considered asa potential AIDS therapy, and asa way to alleviate secondary effects produced by anti-retroviral ... Nature 460, 909–913 89 Hong H, Takahashi K, Ichisaka T, Aoi T, Kanagawa O, Nakagawa M, Okita K & Yamanaka S (2009) Suppression of induced pluripotent stem cell generation by the p53–p21 pathway ... cell anemia carrying the human mutant variant of the b-globin gene (bS) that is responsible for the disease Fibroblasts from a diseased animal were reprogrammed into iPSCs, and the sickle cell anemia...
... give various final concentrations as described in the results section Each experiment was done in triplicate Caspase-3/7, -8, and -9 activity assay Caspase activity was measured using Caspase-Glo™ ... CA) Relative activity was calculated based on readings measured from untreated cells after subtracting blank values Baseline was set to 100 units Each sample was measured in triplicate Cytokine ... 12, and 24 hours "0" designation represents non-treated controls (a) Activity of capase-3, -8, and -9 was measured using Caspase-Glo assay, and (b) effect on XIAP, Caspase-2, and Bid was determined...
... tissue samples easily assessable in human subjects Abbreviations GCP: glutamate carboxypeptidase; NAAG: N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate; NAA: N-acetyl-aspartate; CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; CNS: central ... Page of Chromatographic analysis was performed using a Waters ACQUITY UPLC (Milford, MA, USA) Separation of the analytes from potentially interfering material was achieved at ambient temperature ... characteristic fragmentation pattern for 2-PMPA was readily detected (Figure 3A) and the chromatographic peaks of 2-PMPA and internal standard (Figure 3B) allowed for quantitation of material in...
... peak areas of individual standards Using this quotient the amine concentrations were estimated with standard curves for each individual isocyanate-amines’ run in parallel Analytical standards for ... median diamine values (expressed as μg/g creatinine) with standard deviations for the patient samples detected with mass spectrometry (analysed against analytical standards for each individual ... this article as: Budnik et al.: Elimination kinetics of diisocyanates after specific inhalative challenges in humans: mass spectrometry analysis, asa basis for biomonitoring strategies Journal...
... tissue samples easily assessable in human subjects Abbreviations GCP: glutamate carboxypeptidase; NAAG: N-acetyl-aspartyl-glutamate; NAA: N-acetyl-aspartate; CSF: cerebrospinal fluid; CNS: central ... Page of Chromatographic analysis was performed using a Waters ACQUITY UPLC (Milford, MA, USA) Separation of the analytes from potentially interfering material was achieved at ambient temperature ... characteristic fragmentation pattern for 2-PMPA was readily detected (Figure 3A) and the chromatographic peaks of 2-PMPA and internal standard (Figure 3B) allowed for quantitation of material in...
... Meteorological data showed that local minimum temperature generally decreased with increasing latitude in eastern China (Climatic Atlas of the People’s Republic of China, 2002) Therefore, the northern ... China, M galloprovinialis in the whole of Europe except for Scandinavia and Siberia, and M scutellatus scutellatus in Alaska and Canada [6, 18, 28] These Monochamus species could have stronger cold ... filter paper in 60 mm diameter Petri dishes Each larva, pupa or adult was placed singly ina mL plastic tube to avoid cannibalism All eggs, pupa and adult individuals were exposed to low temperatures...
... contain information about all chemical constituents of organic material This advantage eliminates the need to initially pinpoint the key factor that determines a specific characteristic NIRS instruments ... structures in lignins by cleavage of arylglycerol-β-aryl ether bonds Asa single method, thioacidolyse has a definite advantage in that it may be used to characterize unambiguously typical and prominent ... in plant breeding), values of and upward are suitable for quality control analysis, and values of above are excellent, and can be used in any analytical situation RESULTS The RMS values obtained...
... secretion may be important for downregulating the endotoxin-induced inflammatory cytokine storm that characterizes early stages of bacterial sepsis In addition, IL-10 may also finely modulate the activity ... chloroquine blocked TLR9mediated signaling Although CpG-DNA fails to induce extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) phosphorylation in B cells, immune complexes containing chromatin were capable ... 34 Tan EM: Antinuclear antibodies: diagnostic markers for autoimmune diseases and probes for cell biology Adv Immunol 1989, 44:93-151 35 Casciola-Rosen LA, Anhalt G, Rosen A: Autoantigens targeted...
... the families Viperidae (for example, rattlesnakes, and adders) and Elapidae (for example, coral snakes, cobras, and mambas) In addition to these lineages that contain commonly used model research ... comparative data to estimate genomic characteristics of the ancestral amniote genome Page of (or the ancestral squamate genome) would be fascinating, including estimation of ancestral gene family ... genome that contains genic and near-genic regions that are assembled and annotated To provide a service to the broader research community, we have released a prepublication preliminary draft assembly...
... observed, including atypical forms, as well as minimal lymphoplasmacytoid inflammatory infiltration of the stroma The diagnosis was consistent with metastatic carcinoma of breast origin Slides ... breast carcinoma in the mandibular gingival tissue that mimicked a periodontal abscess Case presentation A 55-year-old Caucasian woman with subtle pain and tenderness in the area surrounding ... Khalili M, Mahboobi N, Shams J: Metastatic breast carcinoma initially diagnosed as pulpal/periapical disease: a case report J Endod 2010, 36:922-925 19 van der Waal RI, Buter J, van der Waal...
... refrigerator-stable varicella vaccine formulation contains stabilizers such as sucrose, hydrolyzed porcine gelatin, phosphate, glutamate, and urea, as well asa live attenuated varicella virus (Oka/ Merck) and ... sequence-based gelatin fragment (8.5 kDa) that can be used asa substitute for animal-derived material and has been shown to function as an effective alternative stabilizing ingredient ina live attenuated ... attenuated influenza vaccine [11] In this study, FG-5001 was evaluated asa potential replacement for hydrolyzed porcine gelatin in an experimental refrigerator-stable varicella vaccine formulation...
... and animals [5] and is involved in multiple signal transduction pathways, which are fundamental for many intercellular and intracellular interactions [6,7] Calcium plays an essential role in pollen-pistil ... controls at 575 nm was used as background The final Ca2+ amounts were calculated according to the manufacturer’sprotocol and are given in μg per μl of the sample A standard curve was prepared using ... Trewavas AJ: Imaging and measurement of cytosolic free calcium in plant and fungal cells J Microsc 1992, 166:57-86 26 Webb AAR, McAinsh MR, Taylor JE, Hetherington AM: Calcium ions as intracellular...