... increase in plasma CD31+EMP
level. There was insufficient data for statistical analysis of
these findings.
Discussion
We have observed a decrease in plasma CD31+EMP fol-
lowing initiation of intramuscular ... essential initial role in cell
adhesion, i.e. slowing and initiating cell rolling, they have
been shown to have a dominant role in allowing non-spe-
cifically activated cells...
... anti-
inflammatory role of Akt in mouse macrophages has been most convincingly demonstrated in a
study in which Akt1-deficient mice injected with LPS showed increases in proinflammatory
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*Corresponding author: Leonid Tarassishin, PhD, Dept. Pathology (Neuropathology), Albert
Einstein College...
... These surprising findings
suggest that TCF4 might be the main binding partner
for b-catenin during development and progression of
colorectal cancer whereas an enhancement of Wnt/b-
catenin transcriptional ... therefore expected
to find TCF4 positivity mainly in central tumour areas
and LEF-1 mainly in the front of invasion. This
assumption seemed to be in accordanc e with studies
showin...
... provides useful prognostic informa-
tion in patients with ovarian cancer. In a clinical setting,
the SGA is invaluable in identifying malnourished
patients in a quick and non-invasive manner. Moreover,
the ... its
prognostic importance in ovarian cancer patients treated
in an integrative cancer treatment setting.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing...
... reproduction in
any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
monotone mapping, T: K ® Hbel-inverse strongly monotone mapping. If g is an
expanding affine continuous mapping and GVI
K
(A, ... one.
Related to the variational inequalities, we have the pro blem of finding the fixed
points of the nonlinear mappings, which is the subject of current interest in function al
analysis....
... channel gain in the RD
link are chosen using similar method to that just described.
However, the solution space will only contain the channel
gains profile of the RD link described as following:
S
=
h
RD
1
e
j∅
2
,
h
RD
2
e
j∅
2
, ... node
selection process in an ad hoc network with 50 nodes.
Both techniques are simulated and the gain of training
the particles is...
... from
different points appeared. In our experiment, the single
DNA rope was distinguished from DNA bundles by using
the method shown in Fig. 3. Figure 3b is a height profile
taken along the line marked in Fig. ... [23–27]. In type
I complex, Ag
?
binds to N7 positions of guanine and
adenine. The metal ion forms interstrand bifunctional AT
and GC adducts in type II complex and binds to...
... com-
bining the output of five different expert classifiers trained
using three different low-level features. In the system intro-
duced in [12], several low-level image primitives were com-
bined in ... concept building using the
multifeature combination metric and using single descriptors.
In order to prove that the multifeature combination met-
ric performs better than any of the combi...
... currently apply-
ing to obtain a Ph.D. degree in electronic
engineering.
J. J. Guerrero graduated in the Electr ical
Engineering Department at the University
of Zaragoza in 1989. He obtained the Ph.D.
degree ... Zaragoza, Spain. His
research interests include electronic instru-
mentation and assistive technology. He re-
ceived an M.S. degree in electrical engineer-
ing in 1990 and a...
... PrP protein (HuPrP82-146) corresponding
to a PrP fragment found in certain prion-infected human
brains [10], a control peptide containing the same amino
acids in a scrambled order (HuPrP82-146scrambled) ... that occurs in AD has been mod-
elled in vitro by incubating neurons with specific peptides
derived from the amyloid-β protein [4]. The neuronal
injury induced by these peptides in...