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... stressor results in the rapid synthesis of these stress proteins, which are in the range of 60 to 70 kDa and 80 to 90 kDa, and the suppression of synthesis of other proteins Although the cellular mechanisms ... DISRUPTIONS OF ENDOCRINE FUNCTIONS The synthesis and secretion of hormones are cellular processes under control either of other chemicals in the body fluids or of the nervous system Contaminants ... through the following avenues: • • • Blocking the synthesis of hormones Mimicking the natural hormones Providing receptors that inhibit cell synthesis of hormones (Arnold et al 1993) Undoubtedly, the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... wounds because the birds land on each other or otherwise struggle or panic as they try to regain their bearings Raj (1998b) speculates that these skin wounds not only reduce the value of the carcass, ... 2001), the USDA states, “Poultry that die from causes other than slaughter are condemned under the cadaver category These birds are not dead when they enter the scald vat When submerged in the water, ... birds are then dipped into the contaminated water, which necessitates excessive rinsing with water later down the line Furthermore, the dumping of live birds onto the conveyor under the electrical...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... to the teacher for classroom use, we will wish to clarify the distinction between them These scenarios lead to the difference in the nature of the evaluation process In the first place, in the ... programme with the aims at developing the four skills and at the end of the course they can communicate successfully First of all, besides the acknowledgements, the table of contents, the introduction, ... information, all the data will be analyzed and drawn into the conclusion 1.6 Organization of the study Besides the Introduction and Conclusion which begins and concludes the thesis, the thesis consists...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:25

... that the vast majority of the research indicates that the younger the learner the more nativelike the pronunciation” (p 11) Adult ESOL learners must make themselves understood by the people they ... lessons for authenticity, one must consider at least three issues First, there is the authenticity of the text (how natural the language sample is) Second, there is authenticity of the task (what ... People not learn the pieces of the language and then put them together to make conversations Instead, infants acquiring their first language and people acquiring second languages learn the components...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20

... and the like These processes are applied to documents entering the text collection, and the results are stored as meta-data tables The tables link the results of the off-line processing to the ... companies), the object of the endeavor is to identify the relation that holds between them (e.g., acquisition or subsidiary) We turn this around: starting with the head of the relation, we try to find the ... events, for example, these roles include the object of the acquisition, the buying agent, the bought assets, the date of acquisition, and so forth (a total of six roles) E.g In the fourth quarter...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... epithelia during the ‘warm’ periods [11] The impaired function of ion pumping systems, together with the inability to prevent ⁄ restrict ion leakage down the electrochemical gradient, led to the reduction ... extended survival times in the cold-exposed insects under FTR The slight, but nonsignificant, accumulation of the other polyols (myo-inositol, ribitol and sorbitol), and the synthesis of arabinitol ... likely to be related to the thermal stress We found that breakdown of proteins occurred within the first days of cold exposure The synthesis of Gln, an amino acid than can hide the free ammonia for...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... enterocytes in the microvilli of the intestine and to the hepatocytes of the liver (Fig 4A,B) The I-FABP mRNA was similarly localized to the enterocytes of the intestine, but was not detected in the Ó ... CRBPII The molecular mass of the CRBPII protein in zebrafish, based on the predicted amino-acid sequence, is 15.8 kDa The molecular mass of this zebrafish CRBPII is comparable to other members of the ... underlined and in bold font The position of the nucleotides corresponding to the 5¢ or complimentary to the 3¢ primers used for PCR amplification of the CRBPII cDNA probe used for Northern blot and radiation...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... chondrichthyans) They arose from the Agnatha, the jawless fishes, in the late Silurian period, approximately 450 million years ago The lineage leading to cartilaginous fishes split from the lineage ... Biosciences) The quality of cDNA was tested in PCR with the abovementioned b-actin primers The cDNA produced was used as a template for PCR with the specific primers for the receptor genes (see below) The ... EDTA); this resulted in a single band in Southern blots To estimate the length of the bands on the Southern blots images were overlaid with images of the ethidium bromidestained gel and length...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 15:20

... thought of as the query “date” and the MEs are ordered based on how close or far they are from each other and the admission date The features extracted for each ME include the the type of clinical ... the temporal order of the event instance in the chain Multiple MEs could occupy the same rank Based on the rank of the starts and stops of event instances relative to other event instances, the ... to which the tense of the verb is expressed is not always clear Based on the type of clinical narrative, when it was generated, the reference date for the tense of the verb could be in the patient’s...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... stimulated us to check whether the dot plot scores generated by the central reviewers overlaps with the judgement of the individual investigators that had to record whether they consider any given ... Stratified by Close and Distant Gating Style (left) The gating style of the participants were classified as close or “distant” based on the gating strategy applied The table outlines the median ... of the data and manuscript writing SJ did the overall project management, coordinated the distribution of material for the study, helped to interpret the data, wrote the manuscript and did the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... interquartile range that contains 50% of the values The whiskers extend from the box to the highest and lowest values The line across the box indicates the median Kruskall-Wallis test was used ... Monosan (clone 6F2, Uden, The Netherlands) Morphometric investigation was aimed at determining the area density occupied by the immunoreactive glial cells in the cortical layer The area density (%) ... participated in the design of the study, performed the statistical analysis and prepared the manuscript ESvH carried out the immunohistochemical analyis and quantification of the immunohistochemical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... stimulated us to check whether the dot plot scores generated by the central reviewers overlaps with the judgement of the individual investigators that had to record whether they consider any given ... Stratified by Close and Distant Gating Style (left) The gating style of the participants were classified as close or “distant” based on the gating strategy applied The table outlines the median ... of the data and manuscript writing SJ did the overall project management, coordinated the distribution of material for the study, helped to interpret the data, wrote the manuscript and did the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... is lending either from bank or their neighbours hence they are concerned about threats to the viability of the operation Survey of farmers' practices on fishpond waste treatment: The survey of ... Management The sub -contract was sent to CLRRI in July and signed in August The baseline survey was delayed mainly because finds were not sent until the sub -contract was signed and then a delay ... parameters fail to meet the Vietnamese water quality standards, how frequently breaches occur, where they occur and the key risk factors From first principles, it is likely that the water pollution...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... epididymis, and prostate using the TRIzol reagent (Life Technologies, Gaithersburg, MD, USA), according to the manufacturer’s instruction [22] The RNA pellet obtained in the final step was dissolved ... using a Pelter thermal cycler (MJ Research Inc., Waltham, MA, USA) Total RNA (1.0 mg) was synthesized by using the 1st strand cDNA synthesis kit (Boehringer Mannheim, Germany) following the manufacturer’s ... epididymis, compared to the control (p < 0.05) The PHGPx expression in the epididymis was much higher by genistein than by 17β-estradiol (Fig 5) There were no significant differences in the expression...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... identify the genes controlling this disease the group has made crosses between susceptible and resistant rat strains Several loci that control the onset of arthritis, the severity and chronicity of the ... The results indicated that there is redundancy in pathogenic TNF sources (bone marrow cells in the TNF∆ARE model or stromal-radioresistant cells in the Tg197 hTNF+/– model) that suffice for the ... all cases examined, the indispensable receptor for the arthritic process is TNF-R1 in recipient mice The research within EUROME also focuses on the identification of possible therapeutic targets...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... 3D) for the first time off HAART We therefore investigated whether there was a correlation between the percentage of time off HAART and the total HIV-specific immune responses to either the peptide ... The height of the stacks in each the bar represents the number of SFC/106 PBMC induced by each positive stimulus The height of the bar is the cumulative magnitude of the response to the peptide ... and either the increase in the magnitude or the breadth of HIV-specific immune response; VL improvement is the difference between the TI#1 and TI#2 VL plateau; increase in the magnitude is the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... oxygenated carotenoids The mutant also exhibited reduced synthesis of ABA However, the specific alteration of the carotenoid biosynthesis pathway in Pinalate is currently unknown [17] The nan spontaneous ... mobilization of the sequestered iron and maybe other metals and mineral elements to the cells requiring them The category of “transport” was also enriched with cDNAs coding for other several kinds ... [32] of the 233 residues long protein deduced from the cDNA confirmed a high similarity to other members of the GCC subgroup We used the SMART [33] and COILS [34] applications to localize the GARP...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions ANK reviewed our patient's history and wrote the first draft of the manuscript SW performed the LAGB ... the liquid within the balloon, which in turn either tightens or loosens the LAGB An uncomplicated left laparoscopic hand-assisted donor nephrectomy was eventually performed on the donor (wife) ... inner tubing The tubing is connected to a reservoir under the skin of the abdomen and can be accessed by inserting a needle, thus allowing for a non-invasive increasing or decreasing of the liquid...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... pharmacies in the beginning of the year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling of the drug outside the influenza-season[10] In November 2005 the Norwegian ... from the Wholesales Register and NorPD and participated in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation of the ... drug induced selection pressure in Norway Furthermore, the persistence of resistance throughout the season indicates that the resistant viruses sustained their fitness independently from a selection...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... pharmacies in the beginning of the year In the US, increased media attention on the pandemic flu also caused private stockpiling of the drug outside the influenza-season[10] In November 2005 the Norwegian ... from the Wholesales Register and NorPD and participated in drafting of the manuscript; KB, OH and SD all participated in the drafting of the manuscript and PA participated in the initiation of the ... drug induced selection pressure in Norway Furthermore, the persistence of resistance throughout the season indicates that the resistant viruses sustained their fitness independently from a selection...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21