... harvesting complex (LHCI), consisting of four members (Lhca1–4) of the chlorophyll a ⁄ b binding protein family LHCI is bound along one side of PSI only, in the vicinity of the PSI-F and PSI-J ... shown in Fig 4C Interestingly, both tags are recognized more efficiently in the context of the PSI-G loop region than at the C-terminus Topology of PSI-G invivoIn order to examine the topology of ... disrupting protein–protein interactions within PSI, or by altering the conformation of the loop His-tags were employed in a topological study of the major light harvesting chlorophyll a ⁄ b binding...
... [27] In rats Fig Western blot analysis of p53 and c-Jun in liver and lung Total protein extracts were obtained as described in experimental procedures A single band of about 53 kDa was detected in ... liver and lung indicating that the amount of p53 protein was significantly increased in the liver and lung from vitamin A-deficient rats that in controls c-Jun protein was significantly decreased in ... cared and handled in conformence with the Guiding Principles for Research Involving Animals and Humans, approved by the Council of the American Physiological Soceity The School of Medicine Research...
... number of dose-contributing catheters increases Therefore, the catheter contribution index increases with the number of contributing catheters In case of a single contributing catheter, IP = In case ... contribution index (Eq 2) shown in color coding In case of two equally contributing catheters, Di/Dtot = 0.5 and IP = 2.0 IP is always in the range between and indicates that the catheter contribution index ... 5.4 mm andof interstitial edema (T2-w images) -5 ± 6.0 mm in plane, indicating a shift of the irradiation effect volume against the corresponding tolerance dose volume in the direction of the...
... detected an increasing NAD(P)H autofluorescence representing an intracellular inadequate oxygen supply Both changes are accompanied by increasing markers of liver cell injury Future therapeutic interventions ... disturbances inoxygen supply and those ofoxygen utilization Conclusions There is a significant reduction in hepatic sinusoidal HbsO2 during the early stages of systemic inflammation In parallel, ... that the intravenous infusion of a special oxygen quenching dye allowed the visualization of the oxygen distribution on the liver surface using intravital videomicroscopy The fluorescence of the...
... CPS and O-chain LPS are composed of linear trisaccharide repeating units containing 3-linked 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-D-quinovose, 4-linked 3-[(N-acetyl-L-alanyl) amido]-3-deoxy-D-quinovose and 3-linked ... O-chain containing L-rhamnose, 2-amino-2-deoxy-D-mannose and D-glucose [11], confirming that the novel CPS and O-chain polysaccharide were produced during the 72-h invivo culture period In addition, ... (GalNAcAcontaining trisaccharide repeating unit) (Fig 4A, inset), based on this ratio about 40% of GalNAcA in both CPS and O-chain polysaccharides was present in the form of a primary amine When...
... Effects of active immunization of sheep against an amino terminal peptide of the inhibin αC subunit on intrafollicular levels of activin A, inhibin A and follistatin Journal of Endocrinology ... in mediating the effects of FSH on inhibin-A, activin-A, oestradiol and progesterone secretion and also important in mediating IGF-I stimulated inhibin-A, activin-A, follistatin, oestradiol and ... for luteinizing hormone and its interaction with insulin: activation of Janus kinase/signal transducer and activator of transcription and phosphoinositol 3-kinase/Akt pathways Endocrinology 2003,...
... reaction and the O2 electrode Fourth, to 10 μl of standard medium containing from to 400 nmols of ADP were added into the cell and the system again incubated until the O2 and ATP (contaminating the ... O2 and protein Thus, when the concentration of protein is increased maintaining constant the concentration of O2, the energy directly involved in the synthesis of ATP is substantially reduced Indeed, ... first seconds of the process ofoxidativephosphorylation Each unit of O2 uptake in the y-axis represents 0.036 nmols of O for the additions of 0.92 and 2.76 nmols of O, and 0.197 nmols of O for the...
... available in insulin-sensitive organs such as liver, kidney, muscle and adipose tissue Activation of insulin signaling upon binding of insulin to insulin receptors causes suppression of gluconeogenesis ... predominant insulin resistance with relative insulin deficiency or predominant insulin secretory defect with insulin resistance The etiology of this form of diabetes is wide and complicated, ranging ... quality of life Before the introduction of the therapeutic use of insulin, diet 11 is the main form of treatment of the disease, and dietary measures included the use of traditional medicines which...
... between invivoandin vitro findings, confirming that not only Th2, but also Th17 cells play an important role in the context of allergic inflammation IL10 producing CD4+ T cells showed a distinct ... treatment were used in the following invivoandin vitro studies 3.3 In vitro Study To mimic the functional response of Th17 and other Th cell subpopulations to HDM allergens, an in vitro allergen ... changes of T-cell phenotype to the nasal mucosal inflammation following SIT therapy In conclusion, our invivoandin vitro studies presented the evidence that not only Th2 but also Th17 mediated inflammation...
... lung, and kidney were fixed in 10% phosphate buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin, sectioned, and stained with hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) Invivo pharmacokinetics and bioavailability Invivo ... stability and toxicity of PANs, and further investigated the sustained release behavior invivoof drug loading in PANs PA was firstly synthesized and characterized by FT-IR and 1H NMR, and then ... after i.v at a dose of 200 mg/kg Invivo pharmacokinetics The plasma levels of EPI were determined following a single i.v injection of EPI or PA/EPI (10 mg/kg EPI equiv.) in female Wistar rats...
... members of this family including UspA itself (Fig 2), and one larger protein consisting of two UspA domains in tandem [17] The small members of this family are proteins of 142–144 amino-acids ... identified by other means as an invivo substrate of GroEL [27] Interestingly, GatY is also included in a list of proteins that aggregate at 42 °C in E coli containing a dnaK deletion mutation (DnaK ... Department of the Weizmann Institute by a single injection of 150 lg of the purified protein, followed by two booster shots of the same amount of protein at 2-week intervals Serum was collected and used...
... understanding of the production and function of miRNA invivo as well as for monitoring the therapeutic potential of miRNAs in cancer Bioimaging of microRNA biogenesis The molecular mechanisms involved ... vector containing three tandem repeat regions of miRNA23 binding sequence (reprinted with permission [11]) information for understanding the miRNA biogenesis related to human diseases Imaging miRNA ... et al [22] obtained quantitative in vitro images of nine transcripts that were predicted to be miRNA9 targets using the ensemble machinelearning algorithm However, invivo imaging of miRNA regulation...
... ratio of apparent dissociation constants for binding GST-IjBa in the presence and absence of ATP, and the value of a indicates whether the binding of one substrate (ATP) affects the afnity of the ... = Intensity of nucleus Intensity of cytoplasm Intensity of nucleus Scheme This is a simplication of a cell as seen by analysis software, where the software measures the intensity of NF-jB in ... providing the recombinant IKK2 (rhIKK2) and Nandini Kishore for providing the SC-514 inhibitor We thank also Paul Hayter, Sasha Sreckovic and Matthew Strawbridge with help in growing and analyzing...
... and NOS isozymes in rat brainand aorta The level of HSP90 and the type of NOS isoform present in rat brainand aorta were determined by immunoblotting (Fig 1) In brain, nNOS was the most preferentially ... al Invivo degradation of NOS and HSP90 by calpain B A C D Fig Invivo digestion of NOS and HSP90 in NMS rats during HSD treatment Aliquots (20 lg protein) of rat brain soluble material (A) and ... previously to induce an increase in the level of [Ca2+]i and a correlated calpain activation [28] This increase in [Ca2+]i is more intense in aorta than inbrain Under these conditions, in brain, no...
... variability in the variables of interest in these patients, andin particular, the ceiling effect may constrain the variation in EQ-5D index scores In the patients studied here, the EQ-5D index scores ... [33,34], and was assumed to be 0.05 in the primary analyses of many of the studies used here Changes in ETT and CCS that have been considered clinically important differences in many of the cardiac studies ... index for a ten year increase in age, males versus females, a one minute increase in ETT, a one class increase in CCS, a 10 unit increase in the SAQ scales and a 0.1 unit change in SF-6D as these...
... height of 175 cm and average body mass index (BMI) of 21.8 kg/m2) were included in this study None of the participating subjects had subjective complaints of ankle pain, previous history of ankle injury ... inversion and internal rotation Strain in the CFL was found to increase in dorsiflexion and inversion Ozeki et al.[7] investigated strain changes in central fibers of the lateral ankle ligaments in ... numerous in- vitro studies which investigated the changes in ATFL and CFL strain in response to loading in various positions Colville et al.[10] measured strain in lateral ankle ligaments in 10 cadaveric...
... small intestine (Huang and Adams 2004) The experimental results of Casula and Cutting (2002) suggest that B subtilis germinates in the jejunum and ileum The adverse conditions in the small intestine ... strain of Bacillus showing the greatest in vitro potential for its effectiveness in improving piglet performance and faecal flora Materials and methods Bacterial strains, growth media and initial ... the performance and faecal microflora of weanling pigs is shown in Tables and Over the 4-week feeding trial, all diets containing Bacillus supplements resulted in increased weight gain compared with...
... verification of their immunomodulating properties ininvivo mouse model MATERIAL AND METHODS Survival of Lactobacillus strains at low pH andin the presence of bile salt Lactobacillus strains isolated ... the mixture of bacteria was, therefore, used for invivo experiment in mice During studiesin mouse model the selected strains were safe and affected significantly the cytokine profile toward ... KALLIOMAKI M., KIRJAVAINEN P., EEROLA E., KERO P., SALMINEN S., ISOLAURI E.: Distinct patterns of neonatal gut microflora in infants in whom atopy was and was not developing, J.Allergy Clin.Immunol 107,...
... study of diurnal regulation of the water status in Acer pseudoplatanus and Fraxinus excelsior trees growing in well-watered floodplains (site 1) The experiments were carried out in June 1999 and ... characteristics in F excelsior, A pseudoplatanus and A opalus trees 3.2 Regulation of water status in Fraxinus excelsior and Acer opalus trees growing in lowwatered floodplains (site 2) During these ... on expanding leaves determined in other years [10] In contrast to ash leaves, the leaf water potential of Acer pseudoplatanus showed low diurnal variations During the first part of the morning,...
... model of autoimmunity Transient autoimmunity can be induced in mice by the administration of a single high dose of LPS This induces a pulse of nucleosomes and chromatin in the plasma within the ... protein and the level of free G-actin in the circulation at sites of inflammation inhibiting the DNase I activity Our data obtained by a transgenic expression of the mutant protein (ash.DNase I) in ... identificantion of circulating DNA and renal localization of DNA-anti-DNA complexes J Exp Med 1977, 145:1115-1130 Fish F, Ziff M: The in vitro andinvivo induction of anti-doublestranded DNA antibodies in...