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... the combined use of ALN and OPG had greater inhibitory effect on osteoclastogenesis than the use of OPG and ALN alone [3] At present there is no published data on the effect of combined use of ... reduced the RANKL protein expression to 60% of baseline level; ALN treatment further reduced the RANKL protein expression to 40% of the baseline level; the RANKL protein expression in the OPG-Fc+ALN ... value than that of all the other groups at the given time, p < 0.05 Mechanical Properties Measurements At 24 weeks post OVX, the OVX group had significantly reduced the mechanical strength of L3...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... the combined use of ALN and OPG had greater inhibitory effect on osteoclastogenesis than the use of OPG and ALN alone [3] At present there is no published data on the effect of combined use of ... reduced the RANKL protein expression to 60% of baseline level; ALN treatment further reduced the RANKL protein expression to 40% of the baseline level; the RANKL protein expression in the OPG-Fc+ALN ... value than that of all the other groups at the given time, p < 0.05 Mechanical Properties Measurements At 24 weeks post OVX, the OVX group had significantly reduced the mechanical strength of L3...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... in the activities of other genes will affect this phenotype (for review [4]) If changes in the activity of one gene affect the loss -of- function phenotype of a second gene, then these two genes ... unlikely that the redundancy between these 14 genes has been maintained for more than 80 million years of evolution merely as a consequence of the rate of neutral evolution, that is, that there has ... consequence of their having duplicated more recently Rather, we suggest that the protein sequences of redundant gene pairs have been maintained relative to each other since duplication as the result of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22

... manual scoring of the gel pictures 2.4 Data analyses The molecular weights of the different alleles were scored using Alpha Ease Fc 5.0 software The marker data was analyzed using the software Graphical ... on chromosome 1), and confirmed the effect of the shoot Na–K ratio with an LOD of 6.6 and R2 of 43% using 54 RILs [7] While neither of these studies presented the percent variation explained ... while the Saltol effect on SES scores in the QTL population and backcross lines was much smaller The fact that Saltol affected the Na–K ratio more than other traits supports the possibility that the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2015, 09:15

... exploit the therapeutic effect of MSCs, few have proved to be significantly effective It has been suggested that the current bottleneck of MSC cell therapy is the lack of understanding of their ... suggested that other factors than differentiation and proliferation must be contributing to the therapeutic effect of MSC in clinical trials However, the actual mechanism of the effect of MSCs in ... motivation of the study is to obtain insights of the in vivo characteristics of pericytes and MSCs Although the in vivo function and properties of MSCs and pericytes are beyond the scope of this...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:13

... Directory youll find a list of more than 8,500 institutions worldwide that rely on the TOEFL test as the most accurate measure of English language skills Helsinki University of Technology http://www.tkk.fi/English/ ... Psychiatric Nurses of Alberta http://www.rpnaa.ab.ca/ Edmonton DI Code: 9752 EDLANTAEducation Abroad www.edlanta.com Sofia DI Code: 3212 Embassy of The United States Sofia Bulgaria Sofia DI Code: ... of Physical Therapists of British Columbia http://www.cptbc.org/ Vancouver DI Code: 9906 Lester B Pearson College of the Pacific http://www.pearsoncollege.ca/ Victoria DI Code: 9244 College of...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:20

... in the clinical improvement of the patient, since he was now tolerating oral liquids, and due to the patient’s unaided ambulation to the bathroom, he acted less fatigued The question of whether ... subtle findings On the other hand, it can be argued that the edema present on the CT scan could have been caused as a result of the fluid resuscitation given to the patient The CT showed a 6.1 ... Transverse view of brain subfalcine shift, with effacement of the posterior horn of the left lateral ventricle, thus causing sequestration of the ipsilateral temporal horn Neurosurgery evaluated the patient...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... various kinds of generating functions in the proof Let fw (z) denote the [ij] generating function of the [ij] walk with width w And let gw (z) denote the generating function for the corresponding ... corresponding irreducible version of the walk Note that, at the end of [00] the day, we need a recurrence relation for Fw := fw Theorem Let Fw be defined as above Then it satisfies the following recurrence ... are slightly modified Following the steps of the previous proof yields the result the electronic journal of combinatorics 14 (2007), #R19 Numerators and Denominators of Fw Using (8), we will now...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... significantly improve the survival of fetuses with complete CHB [29] As discussed previously, the treatment of fetal incomplete CHB may change in the future, depending on the results of the PRIDE study ... in three others Of the 16 infants, died from congestive heart failure, required cardiac transplantation, was awaiting it, and exhibited recovery of the shortening fraction None of the 16 myocardial ... reported EFE predominantly involving the left ventricle in 13 children with complete CHB The date of diagnosis was prenatal in half of the cases, and postnatal in the other half Severe ventricular dysfunction...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... of the MetS had a non-significant association (data not shown) In addition to the originality of most of the findings, this study has several other strengths These include the use of all of the ... 2001 [19] WHO [20] EGIR [22] IDF [21] Number of criteria Three or more of: Three or more of: And two or more of: And two or more of: And two or more of: Obesity WC ≥ 102 cm (men), WC ≥ 88 cm (women) ... higher rates of the MetS [40] This discrepancy may be a consequence of the ongoing inflammatory burden in the RA population, altering some of the components of the metabolic syndrome The factors...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... database to document the FA profiles of the studied microalgal strains Results and Discussion A database of FA profiles from diverse microalgae The characterisation of FA profiles of the SAG microalgal ... 2071 The frequency of PUFAs is shown as the percentage of the total number of strains examined per group 10.96 ARA had the highest proportion of total FA in the Rhodophyta; there even about 77% of ... Ulvophyceae was the smallest of the three with just 49 strains and, therefore, random samples of almost the same size (54) from each of the other two classes were used for the statistical analyses The CVA...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... the concentration of serum albumin in the concentrated sample would be 0.11-0.165 g/l, which is more than 200 times lower than the concentration in plasma (usually 35-50 g/l) The apparently more ... (ProteinCenter, Proxeon) Figure An overview of the procedure used for analysis of the urinary proteome An overview of the procedure used for analysis of the urinary proteome 1D, one-dimensional; ... transform (LTQ-FT) instrument These researchers combined their set of urinary proteins with others derived from the literature to yield a total of about 800 proteins Some of these five largest urinary...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 17:22

... METFORMIN – MORE THAN ‘GOLD STANDARD’ IN THE TREATMENT OF TYPE DIABETES MELLITUS DISCOVERY OF METFORMIN The work of Dr Jean Sterne, a French clinician and his colleagues led to the discovery of metformin ... glucose levels by further 5%, raising the incidence of gastrointestinal side effects The risk of hypoglycemia was low, almost the same as in the placebo group (8) Lactic acidosis is the most dangerous ... generally smaller than the effect of the intensive lifestyle intervention included in this trial It suggests that reductions in the risk of macrovascular endpoints with metformin, showed in the UK Prospective...

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2015, 15:49

... of the thesis III .The objectives of the thesis IV .The scope of the thesis V The methods of the thesis Part II Contents Chapter I: Background I: England in the 18th century and the English Enlightenment ... Jonathan Swift- the greatest satirist of the 18th century English Enlightenment Table of content Acknowledgement Part I Introduction I The reasons of choosing the thesis II The aims of the thesis ... - The life and literary career of Jonathan Swift - Analyzing some of his typical satires and comparing with the works of the others’ of his time with the aim to clarifying the main themes VI The...

Ngày tải lên: 19/12/2013, 10:39

... is the relevance of the education to the professional future of a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature of the ... are “working in the trenches” of building the web Most of the people in this latter segment of responders came to the survey by invitation because they are on the email list of the Pew Internet ... other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge of the next five years—I say the because of the importance of education for the entire global labor force and the importance of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... security for the communities in which they live; and for a say in what affects their health and that of their communities 23 These expectations resonate with the values that were at the core of the Declaration ... disengagement of the state on the other, by the inclusive, participatory, negotiation-based leadership required by the complexity of contemporary health systems leadership reforms The fi rst of these ... increases since then The other low-income African countries share many of the characteristics and circumstances of the fragile states in fact many of them have suffered protracted periods of confl...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... introduction of the student to the life of America and of the modern world, the completion of the task undertaken by the grammar and high schools of equipping [that student] for the full duties of citizenship ... economic and social The social impact is confounded by the social history of the US The political process of effecting change is therefore made more volatile than usual, to say the least It will ... INTRODUCTION There is an ideal at the heart of everything American, and the ideal at heart of the American university is intellectual training, the awakening of the whole [person], the thorough...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... fiscal year 2010, more than five times the cost of benefits in the years immediately preceding the downturn.62 more than half of that amount represents the cost of extended benefits The federal government’s ... effects overview oF Current unemPloyment anD lonG-term unemPloyment The United states is in the midst of one of its worst periods of unemployment since the end of the World War ii The unemployment ... but people on the unemployment rolls are receiving only a fraction of the income they would be getting if they were working As a result, they are paying only a fraction of the taxes The recession...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... disapprove of the job the Democrats in Congress are doing in office? Direction of the Country Asked of National Adults Question Wording: In general, thinking about the way things are going in the country, ... thought the nation needed a new compass, 31% believed the country was traveling along the right course, and 5% were unsure Page of How the Survey was Conducted Nature of the Sample: National Poll of ... points The error margin increases for crosstabulations Nature of the Sample: Adults Nature of the Sample: Registered Voters President Obama Handling of the Federal Budget Deficit Asked of Registered...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... can restrict the ways a customers use the asset And, at the end of the time period, all rights revert to the owner In addition to these two obvious kinds of rights, there is one other less obvious—but ... Instead, we either split the revenue evenly across all of the different models that were included in the segment or, if the text implied that one model was much more important than the others, we ... other companies While these other measures are useful for evaluating the overall performance of a company and its management, they are not as direct a measure of the operating performance of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20