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... analysis, treatment and time were the independent factors using all 23 subjects The second analysis separated and analyzed the data according to gender The third analysis assessed the data for differences ... value was calculated from VO2 and VCO2 The RER was used as an index of fat and carbohydrate oxidation Heart rate (Polar HR Moni- http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sci 2011, tor, Stamford, CT) and blood ... Statistical significance was established at p

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... larval development (blastula, gastrula, trochophore larvae, D larvae, and 14 days post fertilization larvae, pediveliger larvae and metamorphosing larvae) were used as samples Although Cg-BMPR1 and ... interact with both BMPs and activins via its double extracellular ligand binding domains Such promiscuous behaviour has already been described for the Drosophila sax [42] and Caenohabditis elegans ... contained 10 cysteines and these are also shown in bold and the cysteine knot is boxed The C1 and C2 domains appeared to be joined by a ‘linker’ sequence Also boxed are the transmembrane domain and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... AACGAGgtaggc ATCAAGgtaaga ACACAGgtttga GCAAAGgtaatg GAGAAAgtaagt CTTCAGgtaatt ACCACGgtaggc TTGCAAgtatgc ACCAGGgtaagt AACAAGgtaaga TACCAGgtatga TTGATGgtgaga CAGAAGgtaaca GGAAGGgtgagt 35209 16864 ... 70034 ttacagGTTTCT ctgcagGCTGTG ttttagATTCAA ttgcagGTCTGT ttatagGTTGCT tttcagGATGTG aaccagGTTATT tttcagACCCTA atttagCTTCAT ctttagGGGAAA atctagCATTGA atgtagGCAAAA aatcagGATGTT tttcagCTTTGA gene ... 5¢-GTTCCTGAGCAAAGTCTTCAATG-3¢ and 5¢-GG AATTCAGTGGAAAAACTTTACAT-3¢ for XN73, and the primers 5¢-GGAATTCATGCCGACCACAACCGTT TTAAG-3¢ and 5¢-GGAGACAGTGACAAGTTATCTA GTGCT-3¢ for XPR70 PCR products were resolved on a 1.5%...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... 5¢ACCATGAGTGACTCCAAGGAACCAAGACT-3¢ and 5¢-CGCAGGAGGGGGGTTTGGGGTGGCAGGG-3¢ for DC-SIGN FL; 5¢-ACCATGAGTGACTCCAAGGAACCA AGG-3¢ and 5¢-TTCGTCTCTGAAGCAGGCTGCGGGC TTTTT-3¢ for DC-SIGNR FL; and 5¢-ATAATGGACACCACAAGGTACAGCAAGTA-3¢ and ... agalactosylated cells and internalization of an agalactosylated glycoprotein Identification of agalactosylated glycoprotein ligands for DC-SIGN in human serum In order to identify agalactosylated ... asialo-types of endogenous von Willebrand factor and platelets, and thus modulates homeostasis in blood coagulation In this article, we demonstrated that agalactosylated aAGP, an acute-phase...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... Membranes were washed with antibody dilution buffer and incubated with horseradish peroxidase-labeled secondary antibody (1 ⁄ 2000; Dako, Copenhagen, Denmark) for h at room temperature After washing, ... tolerant to hypoxia [15] and thus more tolerant to higher H2O2 levels For brain and eyes, there was a gradual increase in the amount of H2O2 after hypoxia and reoxygenation In heart, muscle and ... TriZol method (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) was used, followed by LiCl precipitation (Ambion, Austin, TX, USA) cDNA was synthesized using random primers (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) and Superscript...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... Experimental procedures General materials and methods All chemicals were purchased from Sigma-Aldrich Canada Ltd (Oakville, ON, Canada), except where mentioned otherwise For HPLC experiments, a Waters ... 38 tase, a nucleotide-regulated glutamine amidotransferase/ATPdependent amidoligase fusion protein and homologue of anticancer and antiparasitic drug targets Biochemistry 43, 64476463 Holden, ... reported The reported errors are standard deviations Initial rate kinetic data was t to Eqn (1) by nonlinear regression analysis using the program PRISM (GraphPad Software, Inc., San Diego, CA) Vmax...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... calf thymus DNA and its complexes with ActII/ActV determined from DSC measurements All thermodynamic parameters are calculated per mol of DNA base pairs DH and DS, as well as DHbind and DSbind ... DNA and its complexes with drugs, calculated using eqns 2–4 and the binding parameters, DHbind, DSbind and DGbind, are summarized in Table Differences in interaction of ActII–ActV with DNA can ... has shown [28] that intercalation and external binding of ligand with DNA, characterized by the parameter r (the number of mol of ligand per mol of base pairs), depend on the ratio of DNA and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... oxidant- and radical-caused aging and cancer: a hypothesis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1981, 78:6858-6862 51 Sanchez-Lozada LG, Tapia E, Bautista-Garcia P, Soto V, AvilaCasado C, Vega-Campos IP, Nakagawa ... on the causal association between hyperuricemia and selected cardiovascular diseases Simple causal diagrams on the association between hyperuricemia and selected cardiovascular diseases (a) Hyperuricemia ... and cardiovascular disease, so can serum urate be a detrimental factor? Experimental evidence Experiments in animal models have added urate-lowering agents to revert renal vascular disease caused...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... 5-GCAGAAGTTGCCCTCATCGT-3 and 5-AAGCCAAGGAATCACCCATT-3; for the internal reference gene EF1 -a (GSVIVT00024496001-8.4x) the oligos are 5-AGGATGGACAAACCCGTGAG-3 and 5-AAGCCAGAGATGGGGACAAA-3, and the amplicons have ... Seeded and Seedless sequenced Sultanina-derived alleles were aligned and scanned for motifs by PLACE database Additional file 9: Transcript differences between seeded and seedless alleles derived ... derived from the RS ì S progeny Nucleotidic and amino-acidic sequences from seedless (SEEDLESS cDNA VvAGL11) and seeded (SEEDED cDNA VvAGL11) alleles were aligned and compared against the predicted...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... (as summarized in Ref [11]) are underlined Predicted base pairings are indicated by paired parentheses and coloured background shading Substitutions that maintain the predicted base pairings are ... acid sequence alignments and predicted RNA structures Nucleotide and amino acid sequence alignments and predicted RNA structures (A1 ) Nucleotide alignment of ORFX and flanking regions for the sequences ... at the normal IGR-IRES initiation site but in the +1 frame then translation of ORFX would result in an 11.2 kDa, 93 amino acid product in KBV, and 92 and 94 amino acid products in ABPV and IAPV...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... Zealand (NZ) Māori, Pacific Island and Caucasian samples Methods Rs3733591 was genotyped across gout patients (n=229, 232 and 327, for NZ Māori, Pacific Island and Caucasian, respectively) and ... read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgments This work was supported by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and Arthritis New Zealand Jade Hollis-Moffatt was supported by a New ... (db126b)] as reference data, and a quality threshold of 0.9 Results The demographic and clinical characteristics of study participants are presented in Table and genotype and allele distributions...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23

... cardiac surface pressure could lead to a decrease in coronary blood flow because of increased epicardial surface pressure and/ or increased RAP Tucker and Murray [102], for example, reported decreases ... pericardial pressure (Ppc) increase similarly in normal and acute lung injury states for a constant tidal volume despite widely varying lung compliance and a greater mean and plateau Paw during ... showed that the pulmonary vascular resistance index correlated with oxygen delivery (DO2), cardiac index and the pulmonary diastolic gradient (pulmonary artery diastolic-left atrial pressure gradient)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... ATPase, H+ transporting, lysosomal 34kDa, V1 subunit D ATP6V1DL ttttcactagctgaagccaagtt ATP6V1DR gcgctttattgacattttggat VIRvsLTNP CD8 2.0 2.8 BAG3 cagccagataaacagtgtggac BAG3R agaggcagctggagactgg ... TCA cycle and other metabolic pathways including OXPHOS, carbohydrates, lipid, and amino acid metabolisms are also illustrated In the remaining three categories, butanoate and fatty acid metabolism ... p38 cascade and NFKBIA associated with NFKB activation (Figure 6, Additional File 2), indicating the upregulation of p38 pathway In JNK MAPK and granule cell survival pathway, MAPK9 (JNK2) and its...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... the manuscript data are presented as mean values ± standard deviation, if not otherwise indicated Results Tables S1 and S2 of the Additional data file present demographic and clinical data of ... vasopressor dosages appears to be associated with the number of disease-related events and mortality A limitation of our study is that analysed data were collected more than a decade ago and it can be argued ... S1 and S2 of Additional data file Clinical and hemodynamic management Throughout the study, patients were resuscitated according to a strict hemodynamic protocol and local standards of care [13]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... GGCCG.AGG AAC.AUGCC GAUUUGAUA AUCAGCUUGCG.GGCAU UAAAAAACA GCUAAAGC.GGU GCA AAGUGUGGACAGAUUU GAGCAGCUUGCA.ACCACGGAAAAAAAU GCUAAAACACGUC UUG UUCGGCGCC GAUUUGC CUGAUCCGCUUGCG.GGCGCCUCUUAUAAAUCCAGCUAAAGA.GGUCUGAAU ... CGGUCGGCUUGCA.GCCACGUUAAACAAGUC GCUAAAG GACCG.UUG AGCCGUGGU GCUUUG UGCCGGAUUGCGGGCCACGUUAAAGAAACC GCUAAAGA.GGCG AGG ACUCGUGGU CAUUUGAGC.CGGCCGGCUUGCA.GCCACGUUAAACAACUC GCUAAACA.GGCCG.GGG UCCCGUGGU GAUUUGAG.CCGGCCGGCUUGCA.GCCACGUUAAACAAGUC ... GAUUUGAG.CCGGCCGGCUUGCA.GCCACGUUAAACAAGUC GCUAAACA.GGCCGGGGA UCCCGUGGU GAUUUGGC CGGUCGGCUUGCA.GCCACGUUAAACAAGUA GCUAAAAA.GGCCG.GGU AUCCGUGGU GAUUUGGC CGGCCGGCUUGCA.GCCACGUUAAAGAAGUC GCUAAAG GGCCG.AGG...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... then separated by SDS ⁄ PAGE and the major bands, stained with Coomassie blue, were excised and subjected to alkylation and digestion procedures using lysyl endopeptidase C [63] Digestion products ... kDa stained with Coomassie blue were excised from gels after SDS ⁄ PAGE and subjected to proteolysis and MALDI-TOF analysis Data were analysed using MASCOT; accession numbers for each scored ... and 30 before liver excision The PM fraction was prepared as described and immunoblotted as in (A) (C) DPP IV signals obtained in (A) and (B) were submitted to densitometric analysis, and the results...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... Chromatography and mass spectrometry GC-MS was performed at 70 eV on a Finnigan 4500 mass spectrometer using a Galaxy data system and fitted with a Hewlett Packard (HP) 5790 A gas chromatograph and a 30-m ... argon twice to ensure removal of oxygen H2O2 was evacuated and purged with argon separately before addition Reaction products and unreacted substrates were extracted with ethyl acetate, dried ... 15 h at 28 °C Products were extracted and quantitated by GC-MS as described in the text Fig Products identified during the oxidation of nonphenolic diarylpropanes (reactions A, C, and E) and a- keto...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... grants dedicated to the spaceflight-derived data sets, which should include operational medical data, would provide value-added interpretation while ensuring that all data are maximally mined for ... utilization (ISRU); and habitat construction and maintenance Research on the ISS directed toward the second goal could lead to new and fundamental discoveries that would advance exploration and also ... precision of navigation maneuvers performed by crew) that could be linked to data on crew characteristics and made available for data mining Such a database would enable scientists to address such...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... firms See Carpenter and Guariglia (2003), Bond and Meghir (1994), Kaplan and Zingales (1997), Guariglia and Schiantarelli (1998), and Guariglia (2000) for a similar approach 13 See Fisman and Love ... of 8.19% for plant and machinery, and 2.5% for land and buildings These are taken from King and Fullerton (1984) For each observation, we then calculate the proportion of land and building investment, ... investment, as follows: (gross book value of all land and building - accumulated depreciation on land and building)/(gross total fixed assets - accumulated depreciation of total fixed assets), i.e...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... financial services (i.e., both savings and credit) on income (Burgess and Pande, 2005, in India; Bruhn and Love, 2009, and Aportela, 1999, in Mexico; and Kaboski and Townsend, 2005, in Thailand) ... study took place in and around Bumala Town in Busia district, Kenya Bumala Town is a rural market center located along the main highway connecting Nairobi, Kenya, to Kampala, Uganda, and it has ... (all of whom are men), and includes 250 individuals in total We use two main data sources to measure impacts: administrative data from the bank on account usage, and a rich dataset constructed...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20