factor anti cyclic citrullinated peptide antibodies or erosions

... incubated for 72 hours either with polyclonal rabbit anti- NPY antibody (1:4,000 dilution; Peninsula Laboratories Inc., San Carlos, California, USA) or with polyclonal rabbit anti- VIP antibody (1:5,000 ... Sections for NPY labelling were incubated in 2.5% normal goat serum (Vector Ltd., Burlingam, CA, USA) for hour, before NPY antibody (1:4,000) was incubated with 2.5% normal goat serum for 72 hours ... authors thank Åse Rye Eriksen for technical assistance and Associate Professor Kathrine Skarstein for advice on scoring of inflammation Professor Roland Jonsson (Broegelmann Research Laboratory,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... milieu of inflammatory mediators, ostensibly via the modulation of oxygen- and redox-responsive transcription factors Hence, they are termed redox(y)-sensitive cofactors [12] Also, anti- oxidative ... Animals used for these procedures were treated in strict accordance with the NIH Guide for Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (USA) Chemicals All chemicals were of analytical grade or better AlCl3 ... forebrain cortex The results in Fig show the MDA concentrations (nM MDA/h/mg proteins) in the ipsi- and contralateral forebrain cortex homogenates at h (A) and 30 d (B) after the treatments For...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... partitioned in turn via n-hexan, chloroform, ethyl acetate, n-butanol solvents These extract fractions were lyophilized to obtain n-hexan( 119 Hex), Chloroform (Chlf), ethylacetate (EtOAc), concentrates ... traditional remedies and scientific reports [1,2] Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam) was grown popularly in many countries and was one of important crops in the world Its leaves, the by-products, ... collection and biochemical analysis The blood of mice fasted for 12h was collected from retro-orbital plexus using capillary tubes in to eppendorf tubes containing 120 D.N Lien et al / VNU Journal of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:20

... Shorr, A microcolorimetric method for the determination of inorganic phosphorus, The Journal of Biological Chemistry 202 (1952) 675 – 685 M A Bradford Rapid and Sensitive Method for the quantification ... glucose-6-phosphate to produce inorganic phosphorus (Pi) Produced P i was quantified according to the method described by Taussky [10] The protein concentration was measured by the method of Bradford using bovine ... In order to treat the obese mice, we have designed the experimental schema for daily repeated oral administration (for three weeks) of CGE fractions (1200mg/kg b.w) Obtained results show that anti- obesity...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 10:20

... weight The monitoring indicators for plants growth include plant height and biomass Total Cu in soil and plant tissues, Cu2+ (HNO3 0.43N) in soil was determined by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy ... metals, e.g Cu, at a low dose are essential microelement for plants, but in higher doses they may cause metabolic disorders and growth inhibition for most of plant species Table Effects of added Cu ... of Brassica Acknowledgements The authors acknowledge financial support of the Asian Center through funding from Vietnam National University-Hanoi (VNU) for conducting this research Conclusions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... 1) The majority of women reported current abuse by either the Conflict Tactics Scale (mean score = 111) or the WEB (mean score = 32) Four women had a CTS score of zero and four had scores over ... children, pets and property (for more detail on reports, see [22]) They reported that these experiences affected their physical and emotional health in four general categories: physical functioning, ... the index person or patient, including family members and caretakers[23,27] Such effects are often difficult to measure, yet may make a sig- SF-36: Short-Form 36; SF-12: Short-Form 12; Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... opposed to poor performance that might be expected to follow concomitant disorders such as problems of motor coordination or initiation The Catherine Bergego Scale (CBS) was also used for assessing ... scored using the correct rate and then the score divided into two areas; right and left The subjects performed the special tests in random order for both object-centered and egocentric co-ordinates ... the score of FIM-M and FIM-C of Patient A and B was 42 and 58, respectively The scores indicate that the Patients need for maximal or moderate assistance for achieving an adequate performance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... contralateral primary somatosensory cortex, bilateral secondary somatosensory cortex, the precentral gyrus, the posterior insula, the posterior parietal region, and the posterior cingulate [33] Positron ... Sensorimotor integration in movement disorders Mov Disord 2003, 18:231-240 Lewis GN, Byblow WD: Altered sensorimotor integration in Parkinson's disease Brain 2002, 125:2089-2099 Park S, Horak ... the proprioceptive receptors and central motor pattern generators Sensory feedback is necessary for gait stability in that it provides inputs to the central pattern generators that can instantly...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... 1) The majority of women reported current abuse by either the Conflict Tactics Scale (mean score = 111) or the WEB (mean score = 32) Four women had a CTS score of zero and four had scores over ... children, pets and property (for more detail on reports, see [22]) They reported that these experiences affected their physical and emotional health in four general categories: physical functioning, ... the index person or patient, including family members and caretakers[23,27] Such effects are often difficult to measure, yet may make a sig- SF-36: Short-Form 36; SF-12: Short-Form 12; Page of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... influence of meteorological conditions (1) Air pollution limits for SO2 and NOx for forest ecosystems according to EEC OSN and IUFRO for the vegetation protection (Directive for the Air Quality ... important for the study of the production and health state of stands and for the assessment of reclamation measures in forest stands 1.40 1.20 FD 2005 Carbon content in current needles during dormancy ... SOLBERG S., HYLEN G., CHRISTOPHERSEN N., FRAMSTAD E., 2000 Changes of forest health in Norwegian boreal forests during 15 years Forest Ecology and Management, 127: 103–118 ANDERSON H.R., 1999 Health...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... higher size category After transplanting the plants were grown for another years, then they were used for direct planting or they were put into Jiffy pots Table shows basic morphological characteristics ... sorted planting material of Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) in the course of 11 years after planting to a mountain locality large 2002 2004 2006 Fig Diameter growth of the sorted planting ... (Student’s t-test for unequal sample sizes and equal variance) J FOR SCI., 55, 2009 (3): 112–118 113 Table Development of basic morphological characteristics in the size categories of Norway spruce...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... (EGMGs) recording Gastric electrical activities were recorded on the eighth day after implantation of electrodes Twenty minutes after feeding normal gastric motility was recorded for 60 minutes ... observed for 30 minutes Preanesthetics ® Preanesthetics used were diazepam (Diazepam , Myong In ® co., Korea), acepromazine (Sedaject , Bayer Korea co., ® Korea) and xylazine (Rompun , Bayer Korea ... Korea) Acupuncture Acupuncture was applied to BL-21 (Wei-Yu) The acupuncture needles were maintained for 20 minutes after manual stimulation Then changes of gastric motility were recorded for...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:23

... environments The reason for choosing J thurifera for this study is that it would be useful for use in forestation of agrarian lands, forest repopulation, ecological restoration, xero-gardening, ... estimator of the foliage area [9] based on the same principles used in spectroradiometry This principles are based on the selective light absorption by chlorophyll The dispositive used for the ... some ordinary morphological parameters in studies of plant quality [4, 33, 34, 38, 40, 41] Finally, a correlation analysis was made between these variables in order to find predictive information...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... scenarios: no cold storage (control), cold storage during the last month of storage, or during two months or three months On May 1998, the protocol for pre-treatment of argan stones set forth by Bani-Aameur ... twice with fresh water before seeding A randomised complete block factorial design was used, with 10 mother-trees, four cold storage scenarios and two GA treatments as factors [21] There were two ... emerging seedling was recorded daily for 45 days when it levelled off At the end of the experiment, germination was recorded according to the following categories according to Berrie [6]: (i)...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... to what we observed for prechilling before storage 3.2 Storage for 18 months: comparison of seeds prechilled before storage and seeds prechilled after storage 3.2.1 Laboratory tests With regard ... these conditions tested whether the same dormancy would be equally effective before or after storage, i.e whether seeds were stored in a non-dormant or dormant state In addition, we breakage conditions ... applied before or after storage In fact, several possible combinations between prechilling and storage have been proposed for beechnuts [10, 14]: prechilling before storage, during storage [21]...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... (Cha&jadnr;upka, 1980) Different factors or treatments applied year before flower induction could make the tree apical meristems more susceptible to the influence of some direct floral induction stimulus ... described in Norway spruce an autumn initiation of first bud scale primordia for the bud formed the next growing season Thus it is possible that in a year preceding flower induction GA and /or other ... were obtained for Scots pine (Hejnowicz, 1987) It revealed earlier that an abundant crop in Norway spruce was significantly correlated with specific weather patterns for years before flowering...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... survival of plants depends upon their mycorrhization, since the respiratory activity of mycorrhizal roots was not disturbed when young in fern extract or a mull solution (humus present under the ... the symbiosis is of primordial importance Hence the type of mycorrhiza used in our study (C12: probably involving species of the Russula genus) did not protect the respiratory activity of the plant ... young pines to grow on prairie soils when they were not infected by mycorrhizal fungi Our experimental study in the laboratory, while passing to The injection of each of the solutions into the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... concentrations of nor-NOHA (data not shown) Therefore, we used mM nor-NOHA for the rest of the experiments When the cell lines were cultured in presence of mM nor-NOHA, they incorporated [3H]-thymidine ... electrophoresed in 14% Tris-glycine gels (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) and transferred to polyvinylidiene difluoride (PVDF) membranes (Invitrogen) Immunoblotting were performed with antibodies for arginase ... amount of L-ornithine needed for their cell growth This observation indicates that arginase II is important for CL-19 growth but not for CL-2 and Renca cells due to the positive effect of nor-NOHA...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... everyone in the group to work as a team to accomplish the outcome of the task It is important for everyone to work together When one person is not helping with the group effort or working on their part ... instructions for group work in 2nd year non-English major classrooms at Thai Nguyen University 17 I.2.3 General Strategies for a successful group work  Plan for each stage of group work The first ... powerful motivator for group work (Kohn, 1986) Strategies for promoting interdependence include specifying common rewards for the group, encouraging students to divide up the labor, and formulating...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:58

... Acknowledgments The author wishes to thank Professor Gordon Savin, Professor Gan Wee Teck and Associate Professor Loke Hung Yean for initiating this project, suggestions, comments ... 4.2 PROOF OF THEOREM 4.1.3.2 Proof of Theorem 4.1.3.2 (2) We know from the main theorem of the Plancherel formula for L2 (G) that C ∗ (G) is the span over all f = f[α,O,Pθ ];w,v for all ¯ ¯θ ] ... (G) is used in the proof of the Plancherel formula for L2 (N0 \ G; ψ) This explains the formal similarity with the two formulas 1.1.3 This paper is organized as follows From Section 1.2.1 until...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51