... of these studies were registry-based and all were questionnaire-based, so the level of proof that they offer regarding EC exposure and the disorders is relatively poor Nevertheless, the best designed ... For the diseases of interest here, there is surprisingly little visible public interest, probably because they are mostly not life-threatening and because of the embarrassing nature of the defects ... higher the exposure the greater the risk Environmental factors, including lifestyle, diet and ECs, are clearly responsible for the progressive increase in incidence of TGCT in recent decades Certain...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20
... complicates interpretation of the results since the changes observed include responses both to the increase in ppGpp concentration, and to the ppGppindependent effects of starvation The levels of ppGpp ... for each experiment detailed below, the quality controlled array data were filtered in GeneSpring to remove genes deemed to be expressed at a level below reliable detection by determining those ... stress Ten genes were found in both the ppGpp-repressed and the ppGpp-induced gene lists, including five from the cda cluster All appear repressed in the 30 minute sample, but induced in the 60...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20
Stress and obstructive airway diseases association and the mediating role of neuropeptide y
... by the adrenal cortex In the meanwhile, the coeruleus activates the sympathetic nervous system, and releases adrenaline and noradrenaline at the sympathetic nerve endings The released catecholamines ... contribute to the heterogeneity 149 Since the chosen covariates were not expected to explain all the heterogeneity of the studies, mixed-model metaregression was used in consideration of the presence ... elevated levels of other neuropeptides Doniec et al examined the serum level of NPY (and leptin) in children with mild asthma and observed no difference of NPY levels between the asthmatics and the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:28
Elucidation of the physiologic role of TRIP br2 in cell cycle regulation and cancer pathogenesis
... development of human cancer Alterations in the E2 F4 gene involving changes in the trinucleotide repeat element have been observed, but there is no evidence as yet that these alterations have an ... (E) , serine (S), theronine (T) residues] These protein sequences have been shown to be required for efficient ubiquitin-mediated cyclin proteolysis at the end of a cell cycle phase (Glotzer et ... manner and is regulated by different cellular proteins Key regulatory proteins include the cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), a family of serine/threonine protein kinases that are activated at specific...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 20:18
Tài liệu SICK WATER? THE CENTRAL ROLE OF WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pdf
... supplies can result in either smothering of sea grasses and coral reefs, or if restricted reduce the essential supply required for the accretion of coastal wetlands, resulting in the decline of these ... concern affecting the functioning of marine and freshwater ecosystems To address these challenges we must apply the principles of integrated ecosystem-based management so that the ecosystem services ... all aspects of life, the defining feature of our planet Ninety seven and a half per cent of all water is found in the oceans, of the remaining freshwater only one per cent is accessible for extraction...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20
báo cáo sinh học:" Wrong schools or wrong students? The potential role of medical education in regional imbalances of the health workforce in the United Republic of Tanzania" potx
... acceptable views, and in our case, the data were collected in personal interviews in which the researcher filled in the questionnaire while sitting with the respondents It seems reasonable to believe that ... medicine and public health; hence, these two are the only ones included in the regression analysis The results when we include the motivation variables are presented in Table under the column entitled ... for medical studies and the influence of training institutions As, at the time of writing, these students are not yet working out in the field, however, it is not possible to examine the residency...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
báo cáo hóa học: " On the potential role of glutamate transport in mental fatigue" ppt
... starts early in some neurodegenerative disease such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, being prominent for long time in these diseases and also in neuroinflammatory diseases, in meningitis, encephalitis ... also the abluminal side of the blood vessel wall (right) The endothelial cells covering the luminal (blood) side of the vessel wall and the astrocytic processes make up the blood brain barrier ... glutamate transport in experimental systems and could be of interest in the pharmacotherapy of mental fatigue Interestingly, even AMPA receptor modulators have been demonstrated as cognitive enhancers...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20
The important role of newspaper andmagazines in our lives ppt
... This enables us to broaden our knowledge of English in every aspect In conclusion, well-grounded and best-selling newspapers and magazines are worth reading They are the mouthpiece of the nation ... object we want to buy in the advertising page, a missing relative in the finding missing relative column and condolence news in the agony column Fourthly, the Police Newspapers and Magazines help ... newspapers and magazines supply us with a variety of news every day They keep us informed of the political situation of the world By reading newspapers and magazines we can know what is happening...
Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo y học: "The critical role of arginine residues in the binding of human monoclonal antibodies to cardiolipin" ppsx
... Patterns of CDR arginine residues in the cloned VH and VL sequences were altered by site-directed mutagenesis or by CDR exchange The altered heavy chains and light chains were expressed transiently ... positions in the VH and VL sequences of anti-DNA antibodies has been examined by many groups, by expressing the antibodies in vitro and then altering the sequence of the expressed immunoglobulins by ... These hybrid sequences were named by combining the names of the two parent antibodies such that the first letter represented the antibody from which CDR1 was derived and the last letter represented...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo khoa học: " Ruminal acidosis and the rapid onset of ruminal parakeratosis in a mature dairy cow: a case report" doc
... rumen epithelium To examine the expression of a prominent gene involved in ketogenesis, rumen papillae were biopsied from the Figure 14) diets during the high forage measurements taken every minute ... properties of the rumen epithelium [4] In the fed state, the rumen epithelium synthesizes more ketone bodies, acetoacetate, and BHBA from the metabolism of butyrate and acetate, compared to synthesis ... immunological responses [2] One can speculate that the observed increases in lymphocyte-like cell infiltration into the upper layer of the ruminal epithelium during the feeding of the HG diet is a systemic...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22
THE REGULATORY ROLE OF MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES IN T CELL ACTIVATION
... N-terminus, and contains a cysteine residue in the conserved sequence PRCXXPD The cysteine within this conserved sequence is termed the “cysteine switch” due to its interaction with a Zn2+ ion in the catalytic ... types present B cells are involved in the humoral immune response, whereas T-cells are involved in cell-mediated immune responses Cell-mediated immunity involves direct interactions between T cells ... the development and extent of metastases in the lung and 19 lymph nodes (53) MMP2 and MMP9 have been reported in human prostate cancer tissue, with the increase in MMP2 correlating to the degree...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 11:37
Becoming bodhisattvas practices and the popular discourse of kuan yin in kuala lumpur
... sea of devotees They stood out in their crisp all-white attire looking fresh and clean There were eleven of us from KYCO that evening Swee Kiat2, one of the most active members of KYCO and the ... founder-leader of the international Sai Baba movement, are regarded as compelling evidence of the divine presence in the human world These figures are believed to be virtuous, efficacious and responsive; ... “sameness” as an empathetic attitude, the Lotus conveys a message that “emptiness” is inherent in the “true nature” of all things: the intent of those expressions of vastness and ideas of “emptiness”...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:19
A plague o both your houses medicine, power and the great flu of 1918 1919 in britain and singapore
... purpose would have been enhanced had it been published at the beginning instead of in the middle of the outbreak.41 The call for more resolute measures, in view of the spike in the number of cases ... medicine resulted, for example, in lowering the typical death rate of European soldiers in the tropics by ninety per cent between the early nineteenth century and the eve of World War One.7 In ... history, the development of medical ideas translates into evolving expressions of power and control In this chapter, we investigate the relationship between ideas of disease and the experience of the...
Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:54
The Rise the Fall and the Emerging Recovery of Project Finance in Transport
... thus enable more leverage in the project finance structure • Required Return (Cost) of Equity: The higher the required level of return on the equity share of the project, the higher the overall ... no longer viable Mezzanine Finance Mezzanine finance falls somewhere between senior debt and equity Examples include subordinated debt and preference shares Payments are made to these investors ... guarantees are still helpful in attracting debt capital on better terms However, the level of revenue guarantees required to generate the much-higher expected equity returns is likely to be extremely...
Ngày tải lên: 22/04/2016, 07:56
The moderating role of biomass availability in biopower cofiring d A sensitivity analysis
... of investment and prices of heat and electricity They varied these parameters to determine how and to what extent the performance results are in uenced Another sensitivity study was performed ... constraint is the energy requirement constraint, which ensures that the energy used to produce a certain amount of electricity does not exceed the total energy contained in the biomass feedstocks ... (RPS), requiring investor owned electric utilities to increase their use of renewable energy sources to 15% by 2021 With proposed guidelines from the U.S EPA in 2014 to reduce the national level of...
Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2016, 15:41
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Induction of uPA gene expression by the blockage of E-cadherin via Src- and Shc-dependent Erk signaling docx
... expressing siRNA against E- cadherin or mouse NCAM were generated by the stable transfection of the pSuper retro vector (OligoEngine, Seattle, WA, USA) containing the respective sequences These cell ... progression, the understanding of these underlying intracellular events is of importance In the present study, we explored the signaling pathway linking disruption of E- cadherin- dependent cell–cell ... of E- cadherin function induces uPA S Kleiner et al the invasive phenotype could be achieved by ectopic expression of E- cadherin [3,5] While E- cadherin expression is maintained in most differentiated...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Mechanisms of obesity and related pathologies: Role of apolipoprotein E in the development of obesity potx
... difference in the ability of human ApoE3 and murine ApoE to promote obesity in response to a high-fat diet may be the result of intrinsic differences between these two peptides Interestingly, in our experiments, ... related to glucose metabolism and diabetes In obese men, the expression of the ApoE4 isoform was correlated with higher plasma insulin and glucose levels than in obese men expressing the other ... disease [36,37] Despite the pivotal role of obesity and dyslipidemia in the development of the metabolic syndrome and heart disease, the functional interactions between adipose tissue and the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21
Tài liệu The Role of BCG Vaccine in the Prevention and Control of Tuberculosis in the United States: A Joint Statement by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis and the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices docx
... meta-analysts used a random-effects regression model to explore the sources of the heterogeneity in the efficacy of the BCG vaccine reported in the individual studies Using a model that included the geographic ... precluded the inclusion of these factors as covariates in the random-effects regression model However, these researchers determined that vaccine efficacy rates were higher in studies conducted of ... lack of rigorous case definitions; and differences in either BCG dose, vaccine strain, or method of vaccine administration These methodologic weaknesses and the heterogeneity of the results were...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Models and mechanisms of O-O bond activation by cytochrome P450 A critical assessment of the potential role of multiple active intermediates in oxidative catalysis doc
... distortion of the geometry of the immediate heme vicinity: the I-helical ễkinkế seen in the wild-type enzyme is still apparent, but the centre of this feature is shifted one residue toward the N-terminus ... [53] Therefore, P450 mutants devoid of the active-site threonine were regarded ideal means for testing the direct involvement of hydroperoxo-iron in epoxidations Indeed, a drastic increase in the ... mutated P450s, bearing alanine or some other amino acid in place of the highly conserved active-site threonine; the latter residue is believed to be the direct proton donor to the ironlinked oxygen...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The role of N-glycosylation in the stability, trafficking and GABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1 Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporter pptx
... All other values were expressed relative to this value Each time point represents the mean ± SEM of three separate experiments Solid lines represent the exponential fit with half-lives of 22 and ... the absence of GABA, the amount and voltage dependence of external Na+ interaction with the transporter can be determined [7] From the time course of the exponential current decline, the rate constant ... plasma membrane expression (B) The protein bands obtained in western blotting were analyzed by phosphoimager scanning Each value represents the mean ± SEM of three separate experiments The total...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20