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... change the result All of the results remained insignificant in relation to risk for distant metastases Combination of CYP19A1 SNPs and CYP1A2 To investigate whether the findings regarding risk for ... Since circulating estrone levels may influence the risk for early events in breast cancer, this is in line with the findings of no significant association between these SNPs and early events in ... critically for important intellectual content HJ has been involved in acquisition of data, in conception and design of the study, analysis and interpretation of data, in drafting the manuscript,

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... successfully formulated a gelatin nanoparticle-based system for delivery of gemcitabine, the frontline drug used in treatment of pancreatic cancer In the present work, we study the efficacy effect of gelatin ... triggering the apoptotic pathway Combination wt-p53/gemcitabine treatment shows remarkable inhibition in tumor growth We studied the efficacy of wt-p53 and gemcitabine combination treatment in subcutaneous ... biodistribution profile Another important aim of the study was to investigate the efficacy result of individual gene or drug treatment and compare it with therapeutic outcome of gene/drug combination treatment

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... channel in the treatment of main bile duct stones” with two objectives: To study the value of magnetic resonance imaging in the the diagnosis of main bile duct stones To evaluate the results of laparoscopic ... as the rate of stones and bile spillage into the abdominal cavity, reducing the operative time, increasing the rate of stone clearance, and reducing abdominal cavity infection as well as the ... choledocho-cutaneous channel in the treatment of main bile duct stones Chapter LITERATURE REVIEW 1.1 The value of magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of cholelithiasis 1.1.1 In other countries In developed

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... available The Role of Rifamycins in Tuberculosis Treatment Despite the complexity of these drug interactions, the key role of the rifamycins in the success of tuberculosis treatment mandates that the ... guidelines for rifabutin in the setting of antiretroviral therapy (see Table 3) In addition to their complexity, there is another potential problem of using rifabutin for tuberculosis treatment ... rifampin induces the activity of the CYP2C19 and CYPD6 isozymes The rifamycins vary in their potential as CYP450 inducers, with rifampin being most potent, rifapentine intermediate, and rifabutin

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... utilize cysteine as the source of sulfur [19]. Therefore, the level of sulfuration of recombinant XDH may be in? ??uenced by the redox state of the thiols in the cell. Indeed, the level of XDH AB activity observed ... an FAD into the recombinant enzyme. Therefore, the host organism has to be able to provide these cofactors and the means for their incorporation into the expressed protein in order to form an ... potential by increasing aeration levels is expected to reduce the level of cysteine and increase the level of cystine in the cell, thus reducing the availability of a sulfur donor for the sulfuration

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... located at the C-terminus of the protein although binding of the C-terminus half (CH) is only half of the full-length protein (Fig. 3). Interestingly, the binding efficiency of the full-length mutant ... analysis of the BDd RNA, the high affinity binding molecule. Defining the binding site of HCF152 in the psbH-petB transcript In order to further characterize the HCF152 binding site, we synthesized ... neighboring sequences is involved in formation of the binding site. Together, these experiments defined several target sequences for high affinity RNA-binding of HCF152. These included the 21 nucleotides

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... disease*, and in coping* processes and skills* It should also contribute to reducing the cost* of long-term... means of maintaining or improving their quality of life10 Profiles of therapeutically ... therapeutic, for the patients, and learning*, for the educators It includes training in the evaluation* of education* (programme evaluation*) and learning* (competencies* acquired) It includes ... The need for reference training programmes for health. .. through a variety of media It is multiprofessional, interprofessional and intersectoral*, and includes networking* It includes

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

... between the N- and C-terminal domains of SSIII in vitro Mapping of the CD-binding region in the N-terminal SBDs In order to identify the SBD region required for the SBD–CD interaction, we performed ... domains, respectively, but not the individual starch-binding domains, are involved in the interaction with the catalytic domain We also determined that the residues W366 and Y394 in the D2 domain ... in the D2 domain and D(495–535) in the D3 domain This result is in agreement with our previous studies using truncated SSIII isoforms, showing the importance of the D23 domain in starch binding

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... analyses of the relative levels of the indicated proteins after western blotting (as in D) were carried out Similar experiments were performed five times and the intensity of the individual bands in ... However, the detailed roles of human CIDEC in the differentiation of human adipocytes remain unknown In the present study, we found that the expression of CIDEC increased during the differentiation of ... and informed consent was obtained from the patient The COS-7 and 293T cells were obtained from the Cell Bank of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Shanghai, China) Isolation and induction of pre-adipocytes

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... these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published chapters. The ... advances in the therapy of ischemic stroke. Intensive preclinical and clinical research in what used to be an almost incurable disease is finally putting at the clinicians’ disposal powerful therapeutic ... are now administering intravenous thrombolysis off-label between 3 and 4.5 hours from symptoms onset. At the time of this writing (January 2012) we are waiting for the results of the IST-3 trial,

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... propose that the loss of CARP dimerization promotes the binding to titin by improving the accessibility of the titin-binding domain. Interestingly, the importance of CARP inter- action for its function ... protein spanning half the sarcomere [3,14,15]. Two of these regions, the N2A region and the M line, are involved in the transmission of mechanical signals to signaling path- ways. In the M line, ... NF-jB pathway and an increase in muscle fiber apoptosis [8]. The participation of NF-jB signaling in the pathogen- esis of LGMD2A is therefore an interesting possibility. The findings obtained in the present

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... algorithm for prediction of hinge regions in the closed conformation (PDB identity: 1v4s), the highest score was obtained for residues in two of the regions connecting the L- and the S-domains [i.e in ... residues were individually mutated (C) The spacial proximity of active site residues in the L-domain and connecting region II which are potentially involved in the binding of D-glucose in the super-open ... E290) and the S-domain (residues T168 and K169) (Fig 1B) To identify the contact residues involved in the initial binding of Glc to the super-open state (Fig 1C) of this two domain hinge-bending enzyme,

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... Lgt4 Results In order to investigate the function of the glycosyltransferase enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of LOS of M catarrhalis, and to gain some insights into the mechanism of serotype ... irradiating each of the anomeric signals in turn to obtain the H chemicals shifts of the corresponding remaining ring protons Again, assignment of the Kdo residue was possible from examination of ... investigate the function of the glycosyltransferase enzymes involved in the biosynthesis of lipooligosaccharide of M catarrhalis and to gain some insight into the mechanism of serotype specificity for

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20

... the protein arose from the translation from Met at the 24th position of the expec- ted full-length of the archaeal enzyme (except for the polyhistidine-tag). In contrast, a distinct protein of slightly ... centrifuga- tion of the cell lysate, whereas the other two were found in the precipitate. Therefore, in this study, we attempted to purify the recombinant protein encoded in AF0464 in order to understand ... DGGGPS). The mixture was incubated at 55 °C for 1 h and then used directly in the GGR assay as the substrate mixture that mainly contains DGGGP. To synthesize the substrate mixtures containing mainly

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... expression of proteins involved in the cell cycle (G1/S phase) p53 functions as the “guardian of the genome” by inhibiting the cell cycle via interactions with specific cyclin/CDK complexes or inducing ... methods, and screening for adverse 258 GENE THERAPY IN THE TREATMENT OF CANCER effects related to vaccination including the induction of autoimmunity The approach of dendritic cell vaccination has been ... by the variability of expresion of the cytokine of interest To overcome this problem, cells such as fibroblasts can be engineered to express the cytokine of interest These cells then can be co-injected

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2014, 22:11

... role in the initiation and propagation of hypoxia/ischemia-induced inflammation by secreting inflammatory chemokines that attract neutrophils and monocytes into the brain However, triggers of chemokine ... Journal of Neuroinflammation BioMed Central Open Access Research Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 (HIF-1) is involved in the regulation of hypoxia-stimulated expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 ... HIF-1 binds to HIF-1-binding sites in the target genes and activates their transcription We have recently shown that hypoxia-induced expression of IL-1β in astrocytes is mediated by HIF-1α In this

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... down-regulation of NgR1 in matDCs promotes their adhesion to myelin, resulting in the selective accumulation of matDCs rather than immDC in the myelin debris-containing lesion This would result in further ... This could indicate a possible role for NgR1/2 outside the CNS, perhaps in the activation of DCs or in homing of DCs to specific tissues This is supported by the findings of the non-myelin associated ... The interaction of DCs with myelin provides insight into how DCs act when in the presence of CNS myelin, such as during neurodegeneration and/or neuroinflammation The down-regulation of myelin-associated

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... Problems The class of problems 1.1 appears in many nonlinear phenomena, for instance, in the theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3, in the generalized reaction-diffusion theory ... 4, in the turbulent flow of a gas in porous medium and in the non-Newtonian fluid theory 5. In t he non-Newtonian fluid theory, the quantity p is the characteristic of the medium. If p<2, the ... complement other works see, e.g., 8–20 and references therein for more general nonlinearities in the terms f and g which include the cases considered by them. The principal theorem in 7 considered,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... taken into account. In this case, for a link of interest in sector 1 in BS 1, the interference will comprise 18 (6 BS × 3 sectors) intercell and 2 intracell links. The SINR obtained for chunk j of ... considering the effect of intercell interference and intracell interference on the sector of interest in the central cell (denoted as sector 1 in BS 1). For this purpose, the interference from the ... the UTs, as shown in Figure 1. This feedback is then provided to the BS in the uplink duration of the frame j +1 and can be utilized for scheduling purposes at the MAC layer in the downlink of

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... applying the matrix inversion lemma to (A.4), and taking into account the approximate orthogonality of the in- volved vectors, we end up with the following expression for the inverse of the diagonal ... decoupling of the cost function in (25), the delay estimates acquired through the line search during the first cycle of the algorithm are expected to be close to the optimum point. In fact, if the ... step, that is, at the beginning of the line search for a de- lay parameter. Without taking into consideration the block diagonal form of R η , as well as the order recursive form of S (P−1) between

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