Báo cáo y học: "Termites in the woodwor" potx

... biochemical analysis of some of the enzymes they discovered. The team began by sampling the luminal contents of the P3 hindgut segment, pooling the material from 165 adult worker termites. This is the largest ... and estimated from the redundancy in these phylotypes that what they had found represented about 70-90% of the total diversity. This is roughly similar to the div...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... not maintained by the neighbouring tyrosine, while the W121F /Y1 22F mutant activity may be viewed as a commitment of the tyrosine residue to support the (somewhat higher) residual activity of the ... not address the question whether any other (aromatic) side chains in this or the neighbouring position might be able to support electron transfer to the Cu A site, thereby func...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... a similar apparent binding affinity (K d ) for the large lipid particles, are notably distinct in their maximum binding capacities (Table 2). In particular, the binding footprint for the apoE4 isoform, ... obtained by analytical ultracentrifugation using the direct binding assay as des- cribed in Experimental procedures. Inset: Linearized plot of the binding data for apoE(263–2...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20

... state of the art in endoscopic sinus surgery includes many recent innovations. Prob- ably the most fundamental change in sinus surgery has been the adaptation of rigid endoscopes for use in the nose. ... con- trol recurrent inflammatory disease. Further, in some instances, surgical cleaning of polyps and obstructing mucosal hypertrophy can result in long-term control or “cur...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... modulating the immune function [42,43] might affect the initial steps in the inflammatory cascade and thus influence alterations in the functional activity of the major mediator of the inflammatory ... protein C3 is the initial point of the alternative pathway,and,atthesametime,aconvergepointofall three complement activation pathways, i.e. starting point for the terminal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... that pain fibers can be identified in the synovium, in ligaments especially near their insertions, in bone, in muscle, and in the outer third of the meniscus in the knee. In an unusual study in which ... When the joint is young and healthy, complex and overlapping systems protect it from injury. These include the muscles across the joint which contract in a smo...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... ultimately, of the upregulation of proinflammatory cyto- kines [19,20]. By whichever means they themselves become activated, they induce a plethora of inflammatory products, including degradative enzymes, ... most if not all of the total phenotypic expression of RA, including joint destruction. The fact that CRP is induced by the proinflam- matory cytokine interleukin-6 (IL-6) and th...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... of the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Index (BASDAI) [21], the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI), and the Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Metrology Index (BASMI) (all ... or more of the following criteria: fulfilling the clinical symptom of inflammatory back pain, being positive for HLA-B27, or showing evidence of sacroiliitis by imaging [11]. Analyzing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... generically as a pyrin domain (PYD) in other proteins that have homology with pyrin’s N-terminal sequence [12]. Members of the death domain superfamily are involved in the assembly and activation ... exceptionally rare autosomal dominant disease is caused by mutations in the proline serine threonine phosphatase- interacting protein-1 (PTSTPIP) gene encoding a protein also known as...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... procollagen prolyl hydroxylases (P4HA1 and P4HA2), lysyl oxidase (LOX) and lysyl hydroxylases (procollagen lysyl hydroxylase and procollagen lysyl hydroxylase 2). Similar links between hypoxia and ... responses to hypoxia. Upregulation of prolyl hydroxylase domain activity in chronic hypoxia Interestingly, PHD2 and PHD3 are induced by hypoxia in a HIF-1α-dependent manner, thereby creating...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22