... pathways and activation of intrinsic apoptotic mechanisms Mol Endocrinol 2009, 23:1291–1305 110 Harada T, Taniguchi F, Izawa M, Ohama Y, Takenaka Y, Tagashira Y, Ikeda A, Watanabe A, Iwabe T, Terakawa ... Santanam N, Murphy AA, Parthasarathy S: Macrophages, oxidation, and endometriosis Ann N Y Acad Sci 2002, 955:183–198 discussion 119-200, 396-406 104 Kajihara H, Yamada Y, Kanayama S, Furukawa N, ... placenta of women with preeclampsia Placenta 2009, 30:342–347 195 Sharma JB, Sharma A, Bahadur A, Vimala N, Satyam A, Mittal S: Oxidative stress markers and antioxidant levels in normal pregnancy...
... documents that contain information about reproductive hazards in the workplace: National Occupational Research Agenda— DHHS (NIOSH) Publication No 96–115 Reproductive issues are an important part of the ... regularity and ovulation Because these sex hormones have effects throughout a woman’s body, severe or long-lasting hormone imbalances may affect a woman’s overall health Infertility and Subfertility ... Copies of this and other NIOSH documents are available from Publications Dissemination, EID National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health 4676 Columbia Parkway Cincinnati, OH 45226–1998 Fax...
... 1989) One remarkable advantage of international collaborative linkages is the access to large international markets In general, building up a global organization and an international competitive ... (Dehejia and Wahba; Villalonga, 2000) as well as the interaction variable method (Rajan and Zingales, 1998) to untangle the causality 1.2 Organization of this thesis The following chapters are organized ... explain the emergence of different organizational modes with respect to 26 The Effectsof External Linkages on Innovation organizational dynamics The search for organizational balance may be carried...
... (mgCOD/l) Half saturation constant (mgN/l) Fig Maximum specific growth of heterotrophs Phase 5.00 40 Days of Operation 0 20 40 60 80 Days of Operation Fig Half saturation concentration Ks of heterotrophs ... 40 50 Days of operation nitrosomonas nitrobacter 60 70 Fig Half saturation concentration Ks of nitrifiers 60 80 Nitrobacter Fig Maximum specific growth of nitrifiers Half saturation constant (mgCOD/l) ... half saturation concentration, Ks, had a low sensitivity The purpose ofa sensitivity analysis is to check if the model parameters can be adequately determined with the aid of the available data...
... Studies of an Age-Cost Relationship Cost Data Are Lacking in Key Areas Acritical factor hampering studies of an age-cost relationship is the lack of detailed maintenance-related data for all relevant ... studies have typically focused on the spare parts portion of Operation and Maintenance (O&M) accounts, because good maintenance labor hour data are lacking The lack of labor data, as well as the failure ... and Donita Wright at the Army Materiel Command Logistics Support Agency for providing database extracts of tank year -of- manufacture and usage Abimael Castro, Team Abrams Operations Officer at Fort...
... afforestation on cropland and pastureland and through soil management at a carbon price of $34 per CO2e Figure 4—Carbon Sequestration Potential by Region (based on carbon price of $34/MT CO2e) Pacific ... EPA has conducted its own analysis of returns from offsets that take into account the costs of implementing land management practices EPA’s analysis projects annual net returns to farmers of about ... CO2e) Pacific Mountain Delta States South East Afforestation from cropland Appalachia Afforestation from pasture Great Plains Corn Belt Tillage changes Lake States North East 50 100 150 200 MMT...
... Management Agency INEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology NOAA National ... Engineering Institute of Canada; Golden Plate Award, American Academy of Achievement; International Award of Merit in Structural Engineering, International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering; ... Foundation; Halliburton Young Faculty Research Excellence Award, University of Houston; Martin Minta Award, American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics He has also been the chairman of...
... AAATACTCTGAAGTACTCAAAGATGCCCAG-3¢), SK TM-1R (5¢-CTGGGCATCTTTGAGTACTTCAGAGTA TTGTC-3¢), SKTM-K70T (5¢-AAAGATGCACAGGAG Muscular actin was purified from acetone powder of chicken pectoralis major and ... Fig Effect of ionic strength on Tm polymerization The determinations were carried out in triplicate, and the data are shown as the average ± standard deviation Assay conditions: Tm was dialyzed in ... recombinant human Tm produced in P pastoris, to investigate the effectsof cardiomyopathic-related mutations on the human skeletal Tm Our data indicate that the main effectsof mutations A6 3V, K70T and...
... A franciscana is refractory to inhibition by BKA As mentioned above, BKA was without an effect on Ca2+ uptake rate and capacity in Artemia mitochondria Atypical Artemia ANT Fig Effect of Ca2+ ... FEBS ` C Konrad et al Fig Quantification of the Ca2+–Pi-rich areas of Ca2+-loaded Artemia mitochondria by adaptive thresholding (A) Images of Artemia mitochondria loaded with Ca2+: (i) incubated in ... component of mitochondrial permeability transition and mediates neuronal cell death after focal cerebral ischemia Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 102, 12005–12010 Nakagawa T, Shimizu S, Watanabe T, Yamaguchi...
... lights all day have decreased mental capabilities, agitated physical behavior, and fatigue 18 Daylight also produces ultraviolet radiation Dr Ott claims, “trace amounts of certain wavelengths of ... light…can have a staggering affect on your health” (Liberman 1991) Ott also said that the trace amounts of UV light, measured as parts per trillion, are important because “we need a basic amount [of ... needs only to put down sand, beach umbrellas, and hand out pi a coladas.” Occupants of both daylit and nondaylit buildings that are improperly designed have had complaints One problem was that “office...
... the effectsof an attention demanding task on the gait of healthy young and older adults [35,36] When healthy young or older adults are asked to walk and perform an additional task simultaneously, ... fear of falling that appears to be related to this increased stride variability, and have an increased risk of falls [8,9] Further, the extrapyramidal, limbic systems, and the frontal lobe apparently ... over fall at least once each year [14] and among patients with a HLGD, falls are apparently much more frequent [9] Previous studies have demonstrated that impaired vision is an important and independent...
... concentration of caffeine, the appearance of Von-Kossa staining was decreased and the residual cells lost their reaction to Von-Kossa staining exposed to 5.0 and 10 nM caffeine showed the characteristic ... matrix maturation, and mineralization of the bone extracellular matrix [28] Alkaline phosphatase expression is considered an early differentiation marker of the osteoblasts phenotype, while the von-Kossa ... http://www.josr-online.com/content/1/1/7 DNA degradation analysis For the DNA fragmentation, a concentration of × 106 cells/100 μl was added to 90 mm disc From day one of culture, six different concentrations...
... NE, USA) PCBM as an electron acceptor was purchased from Nano-C (Westwood, MA, USA) Aluminum as a cathode was purchased from CERAC™, Inc (Milwaukee, WI, USA) Device fabrication The pre-patterned ... [18] As the annealing temperature increases, the grain surface also increases, leading to enhanced interfacial adhesion between buffer layer and active layer phases It is observed in typical organic ... structural properties, and electronic transport J Appl Phys 2003, 93:347-355 12 Yoneya N, Noda M, Hirai N, Nomoto K, Wada M, Kasahara J: Reduction of contact resistance in pentacene thin-film transistors...
... treatment as main factors and date nested within year Anatomical data were analysed with a factorial ANOVA taking year and treatment as main factors When main factors were significant, a Duncan test ... Distribution of foliar carbon and nitrogen across the canopy of Fagus sylvatica: adaptation to a vertical light gradient, Acta Oecol 16 (1995) 525–541 [34] Niinemets Ü., Kull O., Leaf weight per area and ... same letter were not significantly different Table III Summarised results of two-way ANOVA testing the effect of year and treatment on anatomical parameters Year and treatment were taken as main...
... and atmospheric inputs MATERIALS AND METHODS 2.1 Site description The study was carried out ona mature (25 year-old) Pinus radiata D Don plantation located 10 km east of Lugo (NW Spain) at an ... Chile The amounts of nutrients contained in the organic horizon were considerably lower than those reported by Barraqueta and Basagoiti [4] for another Pinus radiata plantation located ona more ... reported by Barraqueta and Basagoiti [4] for another Pinus radiata plantation in a less limited site in Northern Spain The P content of the total biomass was slightly lower than the amount contained...
... Goda H, Sasaki E, Akiyama K, Maruyama-Nakashita A, Nakabayashi K, Li W, Ogawa M, Yamauchi Y, Preston J, Aoki K, Kiba T, Takatsuto S, Fujioka S, Asami T, Nakano T, Kato H, Mizuno T, Sakakibara ... accumulation of various amino acids and sugars such as glucose and fructose In particular, the dehydration-inducible accumulation of BCAAs (branch-chain amino acids), saccharopine, proline, and ... stress responses Plant J 2007, 50(2):347363 Takahashi S, Seki M, Ishida J, Satou M, Sakurai T, Narusaka M, Kamiya A, Nakajima M, Enju A, Akiyama K, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki K, Shinozaki K: Monitoring...
... evidence of apoptosis in primary human small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) Primary human small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) were treated with media alone (control) and various concentrations of ... chromatin condensation, whereas necrotic or late apoptotic cells had normal/condensed nuclei that were brightly stained with ethidium bromide and appeared red Percentage of viable (white bars), apoptotic ... effectsof cigarette smoke on oxidative stress and proinflammatory cytokine release in primary human airway epithelial cells and in a variety of transformed alveolar epithelial cells Respir Res 2006,...
... Detailed search strategy is attached as an appendix Abbreviations AUSCAN: Australian/Canadian osteoarthritis hand index; CI: confidence interval; CMC: carpometacarpal; DIP: distal interphalangeal; ... likely lack of studies in this area, and instead included one quasi-RCT [39] and two crossover trials [33,35] on the assumption that hand OA is a non-curable condition and that carry-over of treatment ... SMD were based on the following hierarchy: (a) for pain, measures of global hand pain took precedence over pain on motion and the Australian/Canadian OA hand index (AUSCAN) pain subscale [18];...
... in primary human small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) Primary human small airway epithelial cells (SAEC) were treated with media alone (control) and various concentrations of CSE; a) control, ... quantitative determination of nanogram amounts of total and oxidized glutathione: applications to mammalian blood and other tissues Anal Biochem 1969, 27:502-522 Rahman I, Antonicelli F, MacNee ... changes, such as cell shrinkage, condensation and fragmentation of nuclear material Necrosis on the other hand, is a passive response characterized by cytoplasmic swelling, rapid loss of plasma...
... systemic application of PGI2 [8] – was associated with an improvement in global haemodynamics and a restoration of LV preload The reduction of RV afterload was associated with a paradoxical decrease ... Choussat R, Morin E, Thomas D: Effectsof prostacyclin on the pulmonary vascular tone and cardiac contractility of patients with pulmonary hypertension secondary to end-stage heart failure Am J Cardiol ... performance and cardiac loading conditions in an experimental model for acute PHT as well as in healthy animals with intact and pharmacologically blocked ANS Materials and methods This investigation...