... EGF is one of many growth factors found throughout the body, including growing antral follicles within the ovary, and has shown to stimulate DNA synthesis and cell proliferation in porcine granulosa ... (GVBD), and to cause cumulus expansion in bovine andmouse COCs Consequently, this study investigates the effect of ovarian estrus stage on oocyte quality and supplementation of medium with β-ME ... and 1% penicillinstreptomycin (P/S) comprised of 10,000 U/ml of penicillin G sodium and 10,000 µg/ml streptomycin sulfate (Sigma) Only grade I & II oocytes >100 µm in diameter were selected and...
... developed in the mouse by the intratracheal instillation of P aeruginosa entrapped in agar beads In this model, the lungs of susceptible mouse strains develop severe lung infection with a strong inflammatory ... aeruginosa Figure Expression of α, β and γENaC mRNA in the lung following infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa Representative Northern blot of α, β and γENaC mRNA expression following infection with ... Results Inflammation in mice infected with P aeruginosa The inflammation process evoked by Pseudomonas instillation in the lung of C57BL/6 mice was monitored by studying the number of total cells in...
... values inferior to 100 keV/μm, the majority of these studies reported similar RBE values in the repair-deficient and -proficient cell lines [3,5,24] pointing to an involvement of the Ku protein in ... (control cell line) and Ku70i (RNAi of Ku70) cell line Actin was used as a protein loading control RNAi of Ku70 caused downregulation of both the Ku70 and the Ku80 proteins Vandersickel et al ... radiation beams with differing LET values is required to draw more general conclusions In addition, our findings are also interesting in the frame of the clinical use of both low- and high-LET radiation...
... determination of synovial autoantibody and immunoglobulin enrichment in biopsy materials obtained in clinical trials Immunoglobulin mRNA correlated with synovial protein levels, consistent with ... immunoglobulin Effect of rituximab on circulating and synovial autoantibodies and immusynovial autoantibodies and noglobulin (a) Circulating levels of autoantibodies and total IgM and IgG weeks ... IgM and IgG were similar in tissues withand without organized lymphoid infiltration (Figure 5c,d) Effect of rituximab on synovial autoantibody and immunoglobulin content Baseline blood and synovial...
... (in EGFR TK domain and -216 promoter) rate was 32% (26 of 81) Mutations in exons 18-21 of EGFR TK domain were detected in 19 (23%) of the 81 NSCLCs in which there were 12 adenocarcinomas, three ... in- frame deletions within exon 19, resulting in the loss of codons 746 through 750 in six tumors, and loss of codon 747 through 752 in one tumor 12 cases had a 2573 T>G mutation resulted in L858R change ... amount of work and time required With this method, -216 promoter region and exons 18-21 of the EGFR gene were amplified with multiplex PCR in a single tube and the detection of mutations in the EGFR...
... measurement of HSV DNA in cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) specimens of women with mostly longstanding HSV-2 infection within the setting of a research cohort with semiannual scheduling of follow up and specimen ... usefulness of monitoring HSV loads in clinical samples [21,23] Some of the challenges in ascertaining these issues are related to intermittent nature and wide variability in the frequency and amount of ... DNA in genital secretions, perhaps due to mild nature of most HSV-2 infections, is limited and restricted mainly to evaluating clinical and virologic efficacy of antiviral compounds and defining...
... Env-Ory1- and Env-Ory2, andof the human andmouse syncytins The tree was determined by the neighbor-joining method using envelope TM subunit sequences (see ref [12]) from murine and human ERVs, and infectious ... placenta (right) and haematoxylin and eosin staining of a day 12 placenta section (left) with the main layers of the placenta indicated (B) Higher magnification of the areas framed in A Abbreviations: ... subunits and the CWLC domain involved in SU-TM interaction indicated in red; the hydrophobic signal peptide and fusion peptide and the transmembrane domain are shaded in light gray, and the putative...
... understanding of tumor-associated silencing In particular, the analysis of sequential samples of the same individual from pre-tumoral to overt leukemia and the documentation of the timing of the ... de Médecine ULB and were conducted in accordance with national and institutional guidelines for animal care and use S2531 was inoculated intradermally with 107 PBMCs isolated from a BLVinfected ... progression of chronic leukemia such as ATL and B-CLL in human In the model of BLV-induced leukemia and lymphoid tumors, viral infection and tumor progression can be monitored over time following injection...
... (1O2) and introduced an electronwithdrawing group on the nitrogen atom of the indole rings in side chain of the heterocycle.70 Toutchkine et al introduced a small cyano group in merocyanine dyes and ... structure of heptamethine and b) tricarbocyanine dyes A variety of tricarbocyanine cyanine dyes can be developed by modification of the side chain of the heterocyclic rings The resulting derivatives ... chain alternating single and double bonds (e.g =CH−CH=CH-) These dyes are also known as polymethine cyanine dyes Polymethine cyanine dyes are defined as pentamethine or heptamethine depending...
... well-established family of cytoplasmic hydrophobic ligand binding proteins and are involved in binding and intracellular transport of PUFAs Human B-FABP, initially identified as a mammary gland differentiation ... acid results in a phosphorylation of Stat5, indicating a potential role of n-3 fatty acid in activating of Stat5 in the mammary gland andinductionof mammary gland differentiation FEBS Journal ... effect of pregnancy Inductionof accumulation of DPA and EPA to mammary gland by mammary derived growth inhibitor related gene (MRG), a brain type fatty acid binding protein (B-FABP) The increased...
... Clustering Taking the linguistic phenomena of MSA as features, we apply clustering techniques to the problem of inducing verb classes We showed in Snider & Diab (2006) that soft clustering performs ... is a soft clustering The random baseline achieves an overall Fβ=1 of 0.205 with comparable settings of 406 verbs randomly assigned to 202 clusters of approximately equal size To determine which ... Australian Languages Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, Canberra N Snider and M Diab 2006 Unsupervized inductionof modern standard arabic verb classes In Proceedings of HLT-NAACL References...
... and no intersystem interference takes place Users can be affected by intra- and intercell interference within one radio technology, however The set of users I can be divided into two subsets and ... request rates and stronger channel variations due to mobility and fading considerable gains in terms of throughput and sum utility are obtained in comparison to a load-balancing strategy Investigation ... nondecreasing SINR-rate mapping curve corresponding to the coding and transmission technology of the RAT a ∈ Aorth By substituting (3) into (2) the achievable rate region of each individual...
... nm using a nonlinear BBO crystal A half wave plate and a polarizer in front of the non-linear crystal were utilized to control the intensity of the pump incident on the sample A small part of the ... eV, and (c) 3.1 eV The Si-NC sample was probed with a super continuum white light with photon energies ranging between 2.75 and 1.26 eV radiative recombinationof the carriers after reaching ... change in the absorption shown in the inset This behavior is independent of excitation and probing photon energy utilized in this work The observed behavior suggests that Auger recombination...
... 50 of age and premenopousal in no-RT group Interestingly any patient with LRR had no extranodal extension in our series As for DM, lymphatic invasion had an impact on LRRs existing in out of ... nodes remains uncertain and is being examined in a randomized clinical trial” Many surgeons and radiation oncologist are not recommending PMRT to 1-3 axillary lymph node positive patients with a ... better information the role of PMRT in this patient group [6] Radiation oncologists often confront patients with 1-3 positive lymph nodes following MRM in their routine clinical practice and which...
... of cytokine profiles with clinical manifestations of scleroderma To determine whether circulating plasma cytokine profiles were associated with clinical involvement in SSc, plasma cytokines in ... an increase in circulating levels of TNFα, IL-6, and IFNγ and a decrease in IL-17 and IL-23 Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Effect of disease duration on cytokine profiles in ... demonstrated increased circulating levels of cytokines in plasma of patients with SSc compared with controls with conflicting results [4,6-11] These conflicting results may be due to the samples being...
... co-morbidity and de-conditioning of the patients [1] One case series of six patients reported one postoperative death due to underlying co-morbid conditions The remaining cases were followed for a mean of ... presentation our patient was frail and emaciated Regarding clinical examination, there were no abnormal abdominal findings A chronic gastric ulcer on the greater curve of her stomach had been first ... excluded locally invasive disease and allowed pre-operative planning in a single step A colonoscopy showed no evidence of primary colonic disease and failed to visualize the fistulous opening (Figure...
... prevalence of antisocial personality disorder [11] The work module in this programme is of particular interest in this regard, since it is a unique way of increasing structure and providing a meaningful ... this meeting and are encouraged to begin tapering their use of substances before admittance for treatment The clinic employs abstinence-oriented Buprenorphine maintenance treatment, in the sense ... dealing drugs during treatment Criminal activities result in discharge from the program The patients must adhere to the ongoing social and medical case management within the clinic This includes...
... Alcohol involvement in burn, submersion, spinal cord and brain injuries Med Sci Monit 2004, 10:17-24 13 Ingebrigtsen T, Romner B, Kock-Jensen C: Scandinavian guidelines for initial management of minimal, ... causes, treatment and outcome of all degrees of head-injury severity in two distinct areas Brain Inj 2010, 24:1491-1504 Page of 20 World Health Organization, Department of Mental Health and Substance ... concentrations of 0.30-0.40‰ [22] Increasing BAC aggravates Page of these effects of alcohol [23] Alcohol consumption resulting in intoxication might alter judgment, cause a more risk taking behavior, and...
... RESEARCH FINDINGS INTO TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TRANSLATION OF ADDRESS TERMS 4.1 Application of research findings into teaching-learning activities and translation of address terms of characters' ... common than the meaning of source language 4.2.2 Researching findings in teaching-learning activities of address terms 4.2.2.1 Research findings in teaching-learning activities of address terms ... Translation of the nouns indicating kinship The number of times was shown in the table 3.3: Table 3.3: The number of times of the characters in the dialogue used the nouns indicating kinship in [I] and...