inhibitory effects of glucocorticoids on the immune system

... vulnerable, population of patients Chemotherapy-induced cognitive decline in the absence of radiation The best data on the cognitive effects of chemotherapy alone have come from studies of children with ... are planned that further reduce the dose of craniospinal radiation to 1,800 cGy, virtually no attention has been paid to the possible contribution of the chemotherapy to the cognitive decline ... either bone marrow transplantation or peripheral stem cell support to boost the immune system, and either no craniospinal radiation or focused radiation to the tumor bed The increased risk of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... macrophages via the complement receptor (CR)-3 The immune response will then be turned on, one of the actions is the phagocytosis of the monoclonal antibody tagged tumor cells Page of 11 (page number ... citation purposes) Journal of Hematology & Oncology 2009, 2:25 http://www.jhoonline.org/content/2/1/25 β-glucan1is one of the key components of the fungal cell wall Figure β-glucan is one of the ... caution as most of the proposed mechanisms are based on in vitro The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells Figure The uptake and subsequent actions of β-glucan on immune cells...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... putamen is the most profused among the four dopaminergic patyways, and constitute about 80% of the dopaminergic systems As part of a system called the basal ganglia motor loop and one of the major ... to nearly all the areas of the brain The projection zones of dopaminergic terminals indict the functional role of dopaminergic neurons and reflect their variability Basically, there are in total ... altered the dopaminergic systems in the prefrontal cortex of SD rats The up-regulation of dopamine receptors expression with concurrent increase in receptor function may have specific implication on...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:30

... Ser137 interacted with the side-chain of the conserved K47 As a result of the interaction, the side-chain nitrogen of the conserved lysine is repelled from the bridging oxygen of the PAPS molecule ... sequence; one being near the amino terminus (Region I) and the other near the carboxy terminus (Region IV) Through the cloning of SULT cDNAs, the consensus sequence that has been identified in Region ... Activity 5.3 Effects of DX On Efflux Of Sulfated Conjugates In Hep G2 Cells 5.4 Effects of DX On Detoxification Via Sulfation Pathway 68 68 Conclusion 75 Future works 76 References 78 Abbreviations 98...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 13:53

... and predict the effects of visuals on reading comprehension, among them, the theory of mental models (Johnson-Laird [20]), the transmediation theory (Siegel [21]), the repetition hypothesis (Gyselinck ... The translation task would evaluate the effects of pictures on students’ understanding of the texts and the questionnaire was used to assess student viewpoints on the effects of pictures on their ... performance On the contrary, the impact of pictures diminishes when they not reflect the linguistic complexities of the text The effect of pictures on reading comprehension largely depends on the quality...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... reproduction has been noted, but this may be due to effects of contaminants on the female of the species, rather than the male Moreover, the mechanisms of action by which some of the effects occur ... survival of this species (Jenssen,2006) The impacts of contaminants on the Svalbard polar bear population are inconclusive but there are suggestions of contaminant-related population level effects ... collections they considered that the proportion of intersex individuals peaked during the period 1946 -1959 The genetic sex of these frogs was not confirmed, but it was believed that the ones with...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... boundary conditions, and the resulting grid was adopted as the boundary condition for one further focused calculation The protein molecules occupied 90% of the box in the final calculations The molecular ... compilation ª 2008 FEBS 1595 Effects of salt on Vibrio endonucleases L Niiranen et al Table Thermodynamic parameters of the thermal unfolding of VsEndA and VcEndA as a function of NaCl concentration ... salt concentration than VcEndA to be able to function optimally Effects of mutations The point mutations are not in the immediate vicinity of the active site situated at the bottom of the positively...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... work, we explored the effects of the surface-to-volume ratio on the sensitivity of a microsensor We further examined the effects of each individual dimension on the sensitivity of a microsensor ... microwire sensors with their lengths and widths kept constant This was done to study the effects of the PPy thicknesses on the sensitivity responses of the microwires The thicknesses of the PPy layers ... calculated from the known volume (i.e., the volume of the chamber) and the density of air at room temperature The concentration of the methanol was calculated from the ratio between the mass of methanol...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:48

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:21

... in the regulation of gait One common way to study effects of cognition on gait is by examining the effect of a secondary cognitive task on the control of locomotion The dual-task methodology ... Furthermore, the addition of an attention demanding task causes an aggravation of this behavior In a sense, the secondary task can be considered a perturbation of the information processing system, ... condition; INCO = incongruent Stroop condition; MOVE = movement related Stroop condition Error bars represent standard errors the effects of dual-tasking and not to the order of presentation of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... amplifier The speaker (Focal JM Lab Chorus 705V) fit snugly in the upper part of the box and the animal enclosure in the lower section The diaphragm of the speaker was 16 cm above the floor of the ... contributed to the writing JMW contributed to data collection LK contributed to the interpretation of the results HS conceived of the study, participated in the design and drafted the manuscript ... of ROS, and in this case of reduced levels of ROS, the administration (in addition to the furosemide) of anti-oxidant drugs which counteract the ROS does not provide further protection [10] On...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... attained of cycles of the former is only one unit less than that of the latter Conclusions 3.3 Effect of Li + ion on the behaviour of positive electrodes An examination was also made of the effects of ... Number of i 50 60 70 cyclea Fig Relationship between the coefficient of utilization of the positive active material and the n u m b e r of cycles on the condition of the electrolyte containing ... Table In view of the above-mentioned effective action of AS on the positive electrode and the important action of graphite on the improvement of the active-material utilization during the initial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 20:21

... predevaluation behavior of the accounts Furthermore, an attempt will be made to isolate the effects of devaluation alone by standardizing for the effects of other exogenous variables 11 The Equations The ... in the residuals test, the improvement is consistent with the predictions of the monetary approach that devaluation will produce a stock adjustment of the money supply On the other hand, there ... patterns of the average residuals of the non-1967 devaluations are essentially the same as the patterns when the 10 1967 devaluations are included T h e conclusions of the paper are therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 15:28

... evaluation Results Effects on a nutritive plant A basic condition of the rapid increase in the nitrogen content in birch leaves was demonstrated by the analysis of its level in the dry matter of leaves ... for the creation of a fat body and eggs Kula (1988) mentions similar results in the increased consumption of food in the creation of a fat body in females of Lochmaea caprae (L.) Differences of ... nutrition of nitrogen according to conclusions on stress impacts (Kaňová, Kula 2004b, 2005) Changed nutrition or stress could affect the quality aspects of food, e.g the production of secondary...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... with the single sugar concentrations, the total sugar concentration, the nitrogen and quercitol concentrations and C:N ratios of the bark and the defoliation as the predictor variables, were conducted ... it can be concluded that the decrease in frost hardiness of the RD trees was not due to a reduction in the concentrations of these sugar compounds In contrast, the concentrations of raffinose ... values of relative conductivity (RC; %) of the incubation solution and the duration of bark tissue incubation (h) during the investigation period The slope is a relative measure of freezing injury,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... Montes et al increases the illumination on the stems and in the case of Q faginea this produces an intense sprouting from the stem, instead of the reoccupation of openings through the horizontal ... using the transformation L(d) of Ripley’s function K(d) Solid lines: K function value for the real distribution of the trees; grey lines: 90% confidence interval boundaries of L(d) of a Poisson ... tree j, and n the number of trees in a circular area of radius d The K value is compared to the expected value of a Poisson distribution obtained through 99 simulations of the Poisson process [25]...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... been conducted to assess the effects of fertilization or liming on different parts of the forest ecosystem In this context, information is available about the concentration of nutrients in the ... cycle of the forest ecosystem Further observations should give us more information about developments during the coming years The response of the ground vegetation plants is a function of their ... soil and the leaves, the crown condition and the tree growth [3, 4, 15, 23, 28, 41] Some authors studied the effect of fertilization on the stocks of elements in different parts of the ecosystem,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... time DISCUSSION Since the trees recovered from all inoculations it may be hypothesized that the length of the reaction zone was proportional to the duration of the struggle between the tree and ... consider the observed variations in the tree defence reactions to be a consequence of variation of stored carbo- sibly a longer (table II) or a more = hydrates These conclusions agree with the ... 1992) The success or failure of each attack depends on the outcome of the struggle between the bark beetle and its associated fungi, and the intensity of the defence reaction at the site of attack...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... the number of pulses observed during the bleeding period Pulse duration was the time between the beginning of the ascending phase of the peak and the end of the descending phase of the peak The ... episodic prolactin secretion and on dopamine concentration, the comparison of values was done by oneway analysis of variance (ANOVA) Finally, to test the existence of an interaction between MTX and ... amplitudes of prolactin peaks, their frequency and the pulse duration The program also calculates the mean half-life of the hormone The absolute pulse amplitude was defined as the difference between the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... Distribution of the codon usage index, ENC, and GC content at synonymous third codon positions (GC3%) The curve shows the expected codon usage of GC compositional constraints alone account for codon ... case, the codon usage variation might be one of factors to drive HBV evolution The effect of mutation pressure on codon usage of HBV To analyze if the evolution of HBV is shaped by mutation pressure ... a the synonymous codon usage pattern of human cell was calculated based on the data of the synonymous codon usage frequencies of human cell The codon usage bias of HBV suggests that some synonymous...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22