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... sensitive indicator of inflammation than the widely used C-reactive protein Expression of SAA is principally regulated at the transcriptional level by cytokines (TNF-α and interleukins and 6) or ... probability ofsepsis The des-arginine variant of SAA, used by Ng et al., has been investigated in other infectious diseases [12], but not previously in neonatal sepsis Apolipoprotein C-I has ... markers of late-onset sepsis involved in lipid metabolism Serum amyloid A proteins are a family of apolipoproteins associated with high-density lipoprotein in plasma; apo lipo rotein C-II is...
... heparin -binding-EGF, IGFBP3; insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3, IL-18; interleukin-18 Structure of ADAM Proteins The generalised structure of an ADAM protein contains distinct domains ... of disintegrins to integrins has been carried out in vitro using recombinant disintegrin domains [8] The biological relevance of these findings are thus unclear The function(s) of the remaining ... transmembrane proteins Downstream of the MMP domain is the disintegrin domain This sequence, which is found in all ADAMs binds to integrins, a group of adhesion proteins involved in cell Page of 13 Duffy...
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... searching adjacent nodes of previous nodes set and cutsets are computed in accordance with the previously routine, has done in 3-2 and 3-3 Figure 2: Graph with an input and output node In the ... connection matrix, input nodes and output nodes information Output: All minimum cutsets of graph As the algorithm suffices to division of graph by cutset regardless of the input and output nodes, ... John Y Lin Charles E Donaghey, "A Monte Carlo Simulation to Determine Minimal Cutsets and System Reliability," in Proc 1993 IEEE Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium S Hasanuddin Ahmad,...
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