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... 1.49 ± 0.29 × 106 and 1.70 ± 0.20 × 106 after incubation with samples obtained before and after days Pycnogenol intake 1.24 ng/mL when monocytes were incubated with plasma obtained after days Pycnogenol ... Inhibition of NF-kB activation (%) Figure teers before and after matching plasma and MMP-9 of inhibition of LPS-induced NF-κB of five volunCorrelation release by five days intake samples activation Correlation ... of the design and execution of the project and wrote the ethic's committee application 19 P.H conceived of and designed the study and wrote the manuscript 20 21 22 All authors read and approved...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... [15] and Pedrycz [30] in fuzzy neural nets, Bezdek in pattern classification [3], and Zimmerman [50] and Yager [48] in fuzzy tools and techniques needs special mention ♦ Artificial Neural Nets: Artificial ... principle: A C D Z AND B E AND Y Fig 1.12: A Petri-like net representing non-determinism in a reasoning system with initial states A and B and goal state Z Principle for testing determinism: After deriving ... inferences Fig 1.10: Basic steps in scene interpretation Speech and Natural Language Unde r standing: Understanding of speech and natural languages is basically two class ical probl ems In speech...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 01:16

... environment; and To millions of the poor and down-trodden people of my country and the world, whose sacrifice and tolerance paved the royal road of my education,, and whose love and emotion, smile and ... traditional and the modern aspects of ‘AI and Soft Computing’ in a clear, insightful and highly comprehensive writing style It provides an in-depth analysis of the mathematical models and algorithms, and ... tools and techniques of AI and Soft Computing through case studies The readers, through these case studies, will understand the significance of the joint usage of the AI and Soft Computing tools and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 01:16

... protein-2 (betaGRP-2)from Manduca sexta; an acute-phase protein that binds beta-1,3-glucan and lipoteichoic acid to aggregate fungi and bacteria and stimulate prophenoloxidase activation Insect Biochem ... microbial surface polysaccharides, leading to activation of serine proteinases to produce an active Toll ligand called Spatzle [4,6] The ¨ Spatzle ligand and Toll receptor also establish the dor¨ ... in proSpatzle-1A and Thr119 in proSpatzle¨ ¨ 1B) The putative activation cleavage site, identified by alignment with D melanogaster and B mori proSpat¨ zle (Fig 2), is located after IAQR169 in...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... a PI3-kinase-sensitive and brefeldin-sensitive ARF GTPase-regulated mechanism and provide evidence that the lipid products formed after PLD activation have an unexpected and differential effect ... Effect of PI3-kinase and ARF inhibitors on O2 À and PLD activation Selective pharmacological inhibitors were used to assess the role of PI3-kinase and ARF proteins on the activation of PLD As ... subcellular distribution of PLD and the consequences of priming and activation were determined using immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis of neutrophil cytosol and membrane fractions using...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... processing and activation of procaspases and in cell-free cytosolic extracts by amplification of the low-dose cyt-c-mediated effects AFP synergistically enhances cyt-c-mediated processing and activation ... c-mediated caspase activation (Eur J Biochem 270) 4395 Fig AFP positively regulates formation of Apaf-1 apoptosome in cell-free extracts and promotes caspase activation and release of caspase and from ... caspase 3, c-IAP-2 and AFP To study further the interaction between AFP, cIAP-2 and caspases and 3, we precipitated pure recombinant active caspases and (His-tagged) with nickel resin and then incubated...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... platelet morphology: (a) cell remodeling typical of activation at early time points (after 30 and, more markedly, 90 min), and (b) platelet aggregation after 24 h With regard to cell remodeling, we ... proteins Bax and Bak, caspase activation and cell death [2,3] In addition, the physiological platelet agonist thrombin also induces Bid, Bax and Bak translocation to the mitochondria and endogenous ... A (both opsonized and non-opsonized) Samples treated with FCCP alone were also studied Platelets were analyzed at various time points (5, 10, 20, 30 and 90 and 6, and 24 h) after treatment with...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... 0.65, 1.6 and 2.6 m, and that of D40G was 8.5 lm When D36A + D40G was used instead of D40G, the final concentrations of the double mutant and sodium azide were 26 lm and 2.3 m, respectively After ... CsnN174 (GH46) C-end of a-1 helix b-1 strand E36 (alternative general base) D40b (general base) T45 (water positioning) Loop between b-1 and b2 strands b-2 strand Hen egg-white lysozyme (GH22) T japonica ... incubated at 37 °C and colonies were picked up after 48–72 h Revertant characterization was completed by sequencing their chitosanase genes Chitosanase purification and assay Chitosanase and protein...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 04:20

... minimal autoactivation in the absence of Ca2+ or at Ca2+ concentrations up to 0.1 mM (Fig 1A), and significant autoactivation was observed only at Ca2+ concentrations of 0.5 mM and Fig Autoactivation ... anionic and cationic trypsinogens and trypsins during trypsinogen activation The experiments presented in Figs 1–7 provided a detailed biochemical characterization of the autocatalytic activation and ... 270) Fig 11 Autoactivation of physiological (67% Hu1–33% Hu2) and pathological (33% Hu1–67% Hu2) mixtures of human trypsinogens at pH 8.0 in 50 lM Ca2+ (A) and pH 5.0 (B and C) Autoactivation experiments...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... degradation and removal of CS-chains from the complex resulted in the disappearance or a large reduction of the bands in the stacking gel and the band at Ó FEBS 2003 300 kDa, and new bands around ... stopped by 10 mM EDTA after 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60 and 120-min incubation, which showed that the bands at 80, 85 and 100 kDa were intermediates, with maximum intensity between and 15 (Fig 4A) The ... both these bands either disappeared or were strongly reduced, and new bands with lower Mr appeared (Fig 3A, lane 2) Two weak bands at 80 and 85 kDa were seen along with a strong doublet at 74/76...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... participate in the constitutive and long-term activation of ERK [22] This activation ultimately results in the activation of caspases-3 and -8 and in apoptosis [46] ERK activation has also been involved ... activation of the MAPK cascade leading to ERK activation, and in the inactivation of MKP3, which would stabilize ERK activation These two mechanisms could act together to induce the delayed and ... cellular signaling, including the activation of ERK [49] PMA mimics classical cell stimulation by growth factors, and PKC activation results in a strong and transient activation of ERK [50] Interestingly,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... and B2RwtL For both wild-type cell lines, several bands were detected between 50 and 65 kDa with densities that largely reflected their relative expression levels, and two weaker bands at 42 and ... one way or another, in either G protein activation or receptor sequestration [5,6] Basic and hydrophobic residues in the second and third ICLs (ICL-2 and ICL-3, respectively) of the muscarinic ... domains III and VI, and the additional cytosolic helix VIII, is drawn after the structure published for inactive bovine rhodopsin [25] Table [3H] binding data, and basal and BK-induced IP accumulation...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... tethered ligand that binds to the receptor and autoactivates it PAR-2 is activated by trypsin and mast cell tryptase and is known to mediate airway inflammation both in vitro [7,8] and in vivo ... of MEK and ERK were examined until 24 h after the treatment Phosphorylation of MEK and ERK was observed within of the HAT treatment; however, dephosphorylation occurred 30 after treatment After ... phosphorylation of MEK and ERK, a second, less extensive round of MEK and ERK phosphorylation was observed, which began 120 after the HAT stimulation and lasted until 480 after treatment (Fig 4A)...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... through the muscle proteins actin and myosin, and to create and maintain electrical gradients, such as the ones that neurons use to communicate and compute Storing and transporting energy in complex ... sugar (ribose in RNA and deoxyribose DNA), and one or more phosphate groups The purine nucleotides are adenine (A) and guanine (G), and the pyrimidines are cytosine (C) and thymine (T) Nucleotides ... the field of mathematical linguistics and its applications, and reviewing and extending some basic results regarding structural and functional phenomena in DNA and protein sequences Implementation...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:43

... environment; and To millions of the poor and down-trodden people of my country and the world, whose sacrifice and tolerance paved the royal road of my education,, and whose love and emotion, smile and ... [15] and Pedrycz [30] in fuzzy neural nets, Bezdek in pattern classification [3], and Zimmerman [50] and Yager [48] in fuzzy tools and techniques needs special mention ♦ Artificial Neural Nets: Artificial ... tools and techniques of AI and Soft Computing through case studies The readers, through these case studies, will understand the significance of the joint usage of the AI and Soft Computing tools and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2014, 02:04

... beliefs, hopes and goals When programs interact with people or other programs they often perform speech acts in the sense studied by Austin and Searle I had called this the design stance, and I thank ... occurrence and its suboccurrences? He went to Boston How? He drove to the airport, parked and took UA 34 responsiveness When is the answer to a question responsive? Thus \Vladimir's wife's husband's ... performance of Mycin-like programs and chess programs is limited by their lack of common sense and philosophy, and many applications will require a lot For example, robots that what they think their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 15:15

... Copeland Part I The Computer Turing Machines Standard Descriptions and Description Numbers 10 Subroutines 12 The Universal Computing Machine 15 Turing, von Neumann, and the Computer 21 Turing and ... solve the halting and printing problems, and moreover in a Wnite time See B J Copeland, ‘Super Turing-Machines’, Complexity, (1998), 30–2, and ‘Accelerating Turing Machines’, Minds and Machines, ... Braithwaite, Geoffrey Jefferson, and Max Newman Artificial Life 507 Jack Copeland 15 The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis (1952) 519 16 Chess (1953) 562 17 Solvable and Unsolvable Problems (1954)...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:37

... that allow and support the opposition between life and technical objects—the organic and inorganic (or fluid and flexible versus rigid and mechanical), reproduction and replication, phusis and techne ... like the watch and the pendulum, and we have found their properties few and trivial, or they have been like the dog and the human being, and we have found their properties so rich and remarkable ... (and further elaborate in the book), our understanding of this becoming-machinic involves changes in our understanding of the nature and scope of computation in relation to dynamical systems and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:52

... effector and CD44+CD62L+ memory phenotypes prior to and days after the B/I activation (Fig 1D, top panel) While effector CD4+ and CD8+ T cells were reduced after activation (18% to 9% and 21% ... activation, however, induced Foxp3 and CD25 expression in CD4+ and CD8+ T cells (Fig 1A, middle panel) Upon B/I activation, CD4+CD25+Foxp3+ T cells were increased from 1% to 23% (P = 0.016) and ... increased and days after the B/I stimulation and expansion in the presence of IL-2 (Fig 1B) Activation of T cells by means of anti-CD3/CD28 Abs for days produced similar results as for B/I activation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... depolarization and cellular caspase activation in NB4-R2 cells (A) VX-680 treated NB4-R2 cells were stained with JC-1 probe and measured by flow cytometry X- and Y-axes were indicative of monomer and aggregates, ... measure CD11b expression, NB4 and NB4-R2 cells (5 × 105/ml) were plated in 6-well dishes and cultured with ATRA (1 μM) After days, Cells were washed twice with PBS and incubated with primary mouse ... cell lines NB4 and NB4-R2 were treated with ATRA and cell differentiation was evaluated by quantifying CD11b expression, a marker of myeloid differentiation After exposure of NB4 and NB4-R2 cells...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20