intestinal barrier function implications for the neonate and beyond

... the study, designed the study, performed the statistical analysis, interpreted the results, and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The ... perform Hip and knee flexion were scored similarly For analysis, results on the lock and key test were categorized into quartiles, and range of motion of the shoulders Louie and Ward Health and ... meters and then dividing by the time in seconds needed to complete the test We categorized performance on both tests into quartiles, with the bestperforming quartile as the reference group The lock...

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... which the binding of the ligand to a segregated site transmits the conformational change to the rest of the LBDs to trigger the rotation Furthermore, the extent of the applicability of the conclusions ... ligand interaction and channel gating of the ARTLGICs The current model for the mechanism of these channels posits that the binding of the ligand causes a preferential rotation of one of the ... superfamily These observations suggest that the diversification of the prokaryotic forms preceded the emergence of the eukaryotic forms and thus that the root of the tree is more likely to lie in the...

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... been conducted by the Bank for International Settlements (the “Promisel Report”), the Bank of England, the Group of Thirty, the Office of the U.S Comptroller of the Currency, the Commodity Futures ... Can these activities be effectively regulated? The challenges posed by these questions are no different for derivatives than they are for other banking activities IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICY The ... payments, the replacement cost is the cost to the firm of replacing the swap on the same favorable terms 18 These include both swaps and forward contracts 24 Alternatively, there may be an argument for...

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... if the need is overwhelming and other options are inadequate may offer a balance of benefits and risks for as long as the United States chooses to retain nuclear forces Both the forces and the ... U.S Nuclear Forces: Implications for U.S Strategy Future Nuclear Threats The most important and dramatic change remains the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact and the ratcheting ... Field commanders have voiced these complaints for decades These complaints not only resonate at the operational level, but they also have fundamental implications for grand strategy Finally, the flip...

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... History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the U.S and reportedly forced the government to shut down some factories and reduce the level of official cars on the road.71 The Chinese government ... Challenges, and Implications for the U.S are in the United States (and China) Thus, one dollar exchanged for local Japanese currency would buy fewer goods and services there than it would in the United ... Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the U.S Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in China China’s trade and investment reforms and incentives led to a surge in FDI beginning in the early 1990s Such...

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... social and psychological functioning according to the functions of the workers and the priority conditions they are required to handle Under the Information/Data collection system An organized information ... to advocate for the promotion of services for children and their families Specific provisions of the Convention support the removal of barriers to care including discrimination, and the avoidance ... minimize these They included, using a glossary of terms, cross-checking the new information with already available information and supplementary questions and clarifications to the key informants • The...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... standards for research quality and objectivity Alternative Futures and Army Force Planning Implications for the Future Force Era Brian Nichiporuk Prepared for the United States Army Approved for ... 9/11, much of the dynamism and change occurring at the start of the 21st century is favorable for the United States and its security interests The spread of information technologies and their positive ... structure, and design The research was part of the RAND Arroyo Center “Capstone Future Forces” project that was conducted for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans (DCSOPS) The analysis...

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... explores the concept of the long war and identifies potential ways in which it might unfold as well as the implications for the Army and the U.S military more generally Framework for Understanding the ... understanding of the components of the long war, provided the basis for a set of seven strategy options for the United States in the long war xvi Unfolding the Future of the Long War Divide and ... Agriculture, and the Department of Justice would become the focus of the new U.S strategy Implications for the U.S Army We now describe some implications for the Army arising from the trajectories...

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... solute–box of 14 A The various systems comprised 3899 and 4516 SPC molecules for the agonist and the antagonist in water, respectively, and 817 and 927 Me2SO molecules for the agonist and the antagonist, ... using the standard protocols The ambiguous interaction restraints for docking calculations were defined for the P4, P6 and P9 pockets of the peptide-binding groove of the MHC II (I-Au), based on the ... superimposed on DR2 and I-Au) and Y26b/Y26b form the P4 pockets; N62a/N62a, V65a/T65a and Y13b/F11b form the P6 pockets; N69a/ N69a, I72a/V72a, D57b/D57b and Y60b/Y60b form the P9 pockets of DR2/I-Au]...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... 2) The kcat app obtained in the presence of 100 lm NADH and FAD and 115 lm O2 is 8.2 s)1, which correlates well with the catalytic constant observed for the CoADR reaction Thermostability and thermoactivity ... thermoactivity of the CoADR phCoADR is stable for months at both )80 °C and )20 °C, and has half-lives of > 100 and 39 h at 85° and 95 °C, respectively Figure shows the dependence of the oxidase and phCoADR ... Discussion The phCoADR is only the second CoADR characterized to date, and is the first from a hyperthermophile and Archaeon Moreover, the enzyme displays distinct differences from the S aureus CoADR The...

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... communities where the need for information and action is greatest | 15 Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention ... Addressing the Impact of Household Energy and Indoor Air Pollution on the Health of the Poor Implications for Policy Action and Intervention Measures | Review of the evidence for health effects There ... energy for the poor may vary according to the level of development, resources, technical and other capacity For many of the poorest countries and communities, where there may have been little in the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... red The heme cofactor is shown in ball and stick representation, as are the methionine and histidine side chains that coordinate the heme iron, and the cysteine side chain that forms a thioether ... coordinated by the Ne of the histidine of the ‘AXXCH’ (actually AAQCH) heme-binding motif, and the sulfur of Met91 The ˚ heme iron–ligand distances were restrained to A (his˚ (methionine), and the model ... interactions between the apocytochrome and other thiol proteins in the IMS; and ⁄ or (b) prevent the formation of an undesirable intramolecular disulfide bond in the apocytochrome for which no suitable...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:21

... fragments were selected for further study The genes for these fragments were isolated and shuffled to produce a mutant library, the members of which were then monitored for their ability to confer ... close to the N-terminus of the fragment ) it lies between the start of the fragment and the predicted start of the domain (Fig 1) From the round mutants, three were selected for further characterization: ... improving the solubility of the domain In the case of the AMPP protein, the boundary of the domain would have been better determined from an inspection of the structure rather than by the experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... health and functional status of the population; the availability of family members and other unpaid, “informal” caregivers; the financial status of various generations and the degree to which they ... the availability of caregivers On the one hand, divorces may estrange families and deter caregiving On the other hand, the new configurations of families may expand the pool of caregivers in the ... providers who comprise the formal and informal workforce Next I review the major issues that affect financing, delivery, and workforce development Then this paper identifies trends and projections that...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... implications of these for HIV risk, prevention and care? This paper seeks to move beyond the epidemiology and the measurement of behaviours and associations and enable us to understand these empirical ... to understand these problems and the implications of them for responses to HIV A decade of cross-sectional research from African countries, including Rwanda, Tanzania, South Africa and more recently, ... when they call, and to have them willing to free themselves from whatever they are engaged in and be ready for sex on demand [33] It is hardly surprising Page of 11 that women with violent and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... cells as well as the effect of IL-1β and TNF-α on cytokine gene expression and the expression of the associated receptors and endogenous antagonists There Page of 10 (page number not for citation ... studied These studies investigated the protein expression of these receptors rather than gene expression and separated the groups according to age rather than Page of 10 (page number not for citation ... unclear whether this is the case in the IVD and how important TNF-α is to human IVD degeneration One possibility is that TNF-α upregulates IL-1β, which then upregulates itself and IL-1α and further...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... finally being deleted RK: If there is a good chance that the data are going to be used by others, then yes, there is a good case for storing them Just storing the raw data for the sake of it, however, ... exchange, and archiving PF: As with any archiving project, one needs to con­ sider the cost of storage relative to the potential future reuse In the course of the 1000 Genomes project, for example, the ... genomics, and so on) For all of these applications, however, there needs to be more attention focused on the specifications/ guidelines/requirements of the derived data, which will become the primary...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... Cain, and the rest of the veterinary staff at the Center for Comparative Medicine at Northwestern University for their assistance with animal care from the inception of the amputation model and ... demonstrates, the mean cross-sectional area of the median nerve at the distal end for the amputation group had a 1.7-fold increase compared to that for the control group (p = 0.001), and the median ... radial, and ulnar nerves–were exposed and identified as they exited the brachial plexus, and the median, radial, and ulnar nerves were each transected cm distal to where they branched off of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... Potaptchik and Ruth Lucio and Benjamin Nganda for their efforts in gathering cost data at the country level; and Tessa Tan Torres for her input in the development of the methods used The work represents ... gives the median and not the mean The smearing method described by Duan (1983) corrects for the back transformation bias [74] This was done by multiplying the anti log of the product of the model ... performed the analysis and drafted the manuscript SE and BJ contributed to the selection of variables and model applications DE participated in the development of the methodology, selection of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... is the volume fraction of the second phase), not only the shape and size of the erythrocytes but also the irregular arrangement of the particles and their collisions with each other and with the ... - u2, the particle size a, the quantities and shapes of inclusions, and the physical properties of the phases (see equation 1) (The effects of the shape and multiplicity of particles, and of ... transient conditions for the formation of rouleaux or for the interlacing of existing rouleaux that have formed in the flowing blood [16], since there is no breaking force at zero shear and yield velocity...

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