... effects of MSCs in vitro mediator of the cells paracrine anti-fibrotic effects These findings help to improve our understanding of the cellular and molecular basis of MSCs’ anti-inflammatory and paracrine ... presence and absence of IL-10 *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 versus Cont group (D) Representative western blots for collagen I and III in the presence and absence of 0.1 lM angiotensin II and IL-10 ... hypoxia ⁄ SD for h anddetectionof relative mRNA levels of IL-1b and TNF-a by real-time PCR *P < 0.05 and **P < 0.01 versus hypoxia ⁄ SD treatment group (D) A representative pattern of the nuclear...
... of 2008 has aroused the interest of U.S policymakers in the mechanisms of corporate governance, compliance, and ethics, and their collective role in preventing and mitigating excesses and scandals ... options back-dating scandals and the mutual fund market-timing scandals of the mid-2000s Of course, the most recent set of corporate scandals has broadly swept across the mortgage and banking sectors, ... sector and other parts of the economy It is in this context that RAND convened a March 5, 2009, conference entitled “Perspectives of Chief Ethics and Compliance Officers on the Detectionand Prevention...
... Automatic Correction of Errors In this section we propose our algorithm for automatic correction of errors, which consists out of the following steps: Automatic detectionof error candidates, i.e cases ... results different to gold-standard Substitution of the annotation of the error candidates by the annotation proposed by one of the parsers (in our case MSTParser) Parse of the modified corpus with ... detectionand correction of errors and compared it to the only other work we have found in this field Our results show that both approaches are rather complementary and find different types of...
... analysis of metabolites Reactions were initiated by the addition of 100 ll of a solution of enzyme (200 lgÆmL)1) to 0.9 mL of a solution of 50 lg of substrate in 10% (v/v) dimethyl sulfoxide and incubated ... 0.1 mL of EC or CY to 1.0 mL of VM containing 10 lg of GOU For HP and M, reactions were initiated by addition of 0.1 g of HP or M to 1.0 mL of VM containing 10 lg of GOU After incubation for 12 ... by 2BW-1 cells 2BW-1 cells were suspended in VM and cultured without agitation at 28 °C Pieces of hyphae were collected with 1.0 mL of culture solution at 24 h intervals, and 10 lg of GOU were...
... immuno-nanogold incubation Incubation of trastuzumab- conjugated gold NPs with KPL4, Hela cellsand imaging of the cells Coverslips containing KPL4 and Hela cells were washed times with 500 µl ... Co and Pt atoms would continously deposited on the particles and at the end we would have a film of CoPt The presence of PVP around NPs created a steric forces that limit the growth of NPs and ... fluorescent intensity of FITC on KPL4 cells than that of FITC on Hela cells in all the three types of trastuzumab-conjugated gold NPs Because KPL4 is the cell line having a high level of Her2-expression,...
... stages of treatment, the services offered and available, and the course of treatment and recuperation expected As important, is educating the woman and her family in the early detectionof any ... goal of screening should be focused on detectionof breast cancer at early stages of the disease and offering opportunities for timely treatment and a change in the overall course and outcome of ... the role of the professional as the initial point of contact between potential cancer patients and the health care system These professionals must be aware of the early signs and symptoms of cancer,...
... whose official sector definitions correspond to a U.K equity mandate Panel A of Table I shows the evolution of this group of funds The number of domestic equity funds grows from 425 at the start of ... by month, and calculate the difference between the average returns of the highest and the lowest 30% of firms.13 II Determinants of Money Flows To understand better how different types of investors ... Rouwenhorst (1998) and Nagel (2001) 96 The Journal of Finance Table III Regression of Components of Money Flows on Lagged Flow and Performance Each row of this table summarizes the results of 96 (January...
... fragments and filled pauses) in the corpus were of this type Table shows the distributions of these repairs with respect to two parameters: the length in words of the matched string, and the number of ... a preliminary study of cue words such as "no" and "well." And third, we discuss how acoustic information can aid in the detectionof word fragments, which occur frequently and which pose difficulty ... 200-203 Shriberg, E., Bear, 3., and Dowding, J (1992 a) "Automatic Detectionand Correction of Repairs in Human-Computer Dialog" Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop,...
... h a t since the filler of the role Queen of England is not likely to change within the time of the conversation and the speaker, the hearer, and N a d i a are all aware of who fills t h a t role, ... intensionality of the descriptor, the time of reference of the descriptor, and the agents of the descriptor We m u s t establish the "level" of each factor in the target sentence and then determine ... intensionality, time, and agent of the descriptor equivalence asserted in the background assumptions to those of the target descriptor, and then assert the intensionality, time, and agent of the descriptors...
... more intricate, and thus more easily influenced folding of the strands (Highsmith, 1999) Detectionand analysis of genetic alterations in normal skin and skin tumours The detectionof fragments ... Principles of methods used for detectionof mutations/variations at defined positions 15 Detectionand analysis of genetic alterations in normal skin and skin tumours Pyrosequencing The principle of ... follicle Sebaceous gland Sweat gland Fat Figure Histological section of normal epidermis (A) and a schematic picture of the different layers of the skin (B) 25 Detectionand analysis of genetic alterations...
... The presence of the added water increases the intensity of the bands at about 3500 and 1650 cm 21 (b) Major disruption of the Al environment is indicated by the loss of the Si–O–Al band at 810 ... presence of monovalent cations such as Na or K Some of the details of polysialate formation and technology are still not fully understood The purpose of this work is to elucidate aspects of the ... consisting of randomly developed Al– Si polyhedra with a lack of periodically repeating atomic ordering A selection of 11.7 T solid-state MAS NMR spectra of the starting material (metakaolinite) and...
... reaction contained µl of cDNA from the RT reaction, µl of 10× PCR Buffer, 1.5 mM MgCl2, µl of 10 mM each of dATP, dCTP, dGTP, and dTTP per reaction, µM each of primers and 2.5 units of Platinum Taq ... Sub-Programme (Dept of Agriculture and Food, Republic of Ireland) Thank you to Mr Noel Shanaghy and Mrs Breda Doody of Waterford Regional Hospital, Mr Eddie Beggan of Limerick Regional Hospital and Dr Jim ... Amplification of GII standards showing fluorescence versus cycle number concentration of × 107 – × 101 molecules are shown from left to right (B) Standard curve of GII assay R2 1.00 and a slope of -3.7...
... Deviations in the tree order ofindividual sequences andof group of sequences between fragments of defined length indicate conflicting phylogenetic relationships Alternatively, individual non-recombinant ... Recombination detection program RDP [48], GENECONV [19] and MAXIMUM CHI SQUARE [49], selected following the conclusions of studies on evaluation of different methods of recombination detection [50,51] ... forms, recombination hot spots and frequency of recombination documented in this study would provide new information for understanding the diversity and evolution of tomato-infecting begomoviruses...
... as the number of links between those two nodes (i.e., the number of times X and Y were co-cited) divided by the square root of the product of the frequency of X and the frequency of Y in the overall ... systematic analysis of publication and citation data from tens of thousands of articles can capture important features of active fields of scientific research, in this case in both cancer and cardiac ... importance of standardization and regulatory tools for both research and clinical care[34] Citation analysis also reveals evidence of ritual use of citations It is likely that many of the recent...
... reaction contained µl of cDNA from the RT reaction, µl of 10× PCR Buffer, 1.5 mM MgCl2, µl of 10 mM each of dATP, dCTP, dGTP, and dTTP per reaction, µM each of primers and 2.5 units of Platinum Taq ... Sub-Programme (Dept of Agriculture and Food, Republic of Ireland) Thank you to Mr Noel Shanaghy and Mrs Breda Doody of Waterford Regional Hospital, Mr Eddie Beggan of Limerick Regional Hospital and Dr Jim ... Amplification of GII standards showing fluorescence versus cycle number concentration of × 107 – × 101 molecules are shown from left to right (B) Standard curve of GII assay R2 1.00 and a slope of -3.7...
... Deviations in the tree order ofindividual sequences andof group of sequences between fragments of defined length indicate conflicting phylogenetic relationships Alternatively, individual non-recombinant ... Recombination detection program RDP [48], GENECONV [19] and MAXIMUM CHI SQUARE [49], selected following the conclusions of studies on evaluation of different methods of recombination detection [50,51] ... forms, recombination hot spots and frequency of recombination documented in this study would provide new information for understanding the diversity and evolution of tomato-infecting begomoviruses...
... HBVRegDB the GBrowse software package was chosen because of its flexible configuration and efficient handling of large amounts of data, although a limitation here is the lack of ability to represent ... database contains data on individual sequences and groups of sequences and facilitates comparative genomic analysis The complexity of the HBV genome has challenged development of this resource but ... There are many functional and non-functional variants of HBV and it is not the focus of this database to show them; this is done by existing databases – e.g HepSEQ and SEQHEPB [12,13] Annotated...
... extraction of RNA The isolation of virus on C6/36 cells led to successful isolation of Dengue type 2, and viruses (Table 1) RNA was extracted from culture supernatant and used as template in RT-PCR and ... and negative control Sensitivity and Specificity of multiplex RT-PCR The detection limit of both dengue complex and the Multiplex RT-PCR assay was determined through 10 fold serial dilution of ... samples collected over a period of six years from India Preparation of RNA standard The detection limit of this assay was determined using RNA standards The RNA standard was produced using T7 transcription...
... Green Monkey Kidney (GMK) cells The CPE resembled that of enteroviruses, including rounding and blebbing, http://www.virologyj.com/content/5/1/26 shrinking, and detachment ofcells from the monolayer ... recombination in the nonstructural protein genes of BNI-788st andof HPeV3 prototype strains underlines the lack of knowledge on the genesis and ecology of human parechoviruses More research into parechovirus ... Microarray-based detectionand genotyping of viral pathogens Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002, 99:15687-15692 Allander T, Andreasson K, Gupta S, Bjerkner A, Bogdanovic G, Persson MA, Dalianis T, Ramqvist T, Andersson...
... In the present study, out of 420 organ samples tested, 75% of spleen, 68.3% of bone marrow, 70% of thymus, 53.3% of liver, 46.7% of duodenum, 66.7% of ovary and 48.3% of oviduct tested were positive ... majority of the hens (96.15%) tested for CAV antibodies suggesting high level of occurrence of vertical transmission of viral DNA to the progeny The detectionof CAV DNA in the ovary and oviduct of ... we report detectionof CAV and characterization of isolates based on sequence and phylogenetic analysis of partial VP1 gene from commercial broiler breeder chickens in Malaysia Level of transmission...