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... induce apoptosis in various cell lines [8–15,29], the inhibitory effect of TS on the cell growth at higher concentrations might prevent the increase in the enhancing effect of TS on LPS/IFN-induced ... fetal bovine serum in a CO2incubator at 37 °C with CO2 in humidified air Then, the medium containing serum was removed, and the cells were washed with phosphate buffered saline Next, mL of the medium ... for 5min The amount of protein of the solubilized cells was determined with a bicinchoninic acid protein assay kit (PIERCE, Rockford, IL, USA) using bovine serum albumin as a standard The solubilized...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... revealed the importance of the arginine residue in the transmembrane domain of the immunoglobulin receptor However, the cytoplasmic domain of these FcRs is not essential for binding to the FcR c-chain ... activated with the GPVIspecific ligand convulxin, resulting in phosphorylation of the protein kinase Syk, therefore reproducing the proximal events of GPVI signalling in platelets The FcR c-chain is We ... suggesting that it may associate with GPVI in the absence of the FcR c-chain Convulxin also induced an increase in calcium in GPVI-expressing Jurkat cells (Fig 10D) In contrast, however, neither...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... administered to establish the role of protein synthesis in insulin-induced HO-1 expression (Fig 2B,C) CHX abrogated HO-1 protein induction following insulin treatment but, in agreement with other ... oxidative insult Insulin is a polypeptide hormone that regulates glucose, lipid and protein metabolism and promotes cell growth and differentiation On ligand binding, the insulin receptor tyrosine kinase ... treated in a similar manner with insulin (200 nm) for increasing periods of time (Fig 1E) A robust induction of HO-1 protein was observed Insulin-mediated induction of HO-1 is PI3K dependent In our...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... cells) in serum-free media containing 0.5% fatty acid-free bovine serum albumin Then, cells were incubated in either the presence or absence of mM 8Br-cAMP for 30 After washing the cells, they ... steroidogenesis using 300 lm AA in the presence of albumin These different results can be explained by the fact that protein binding can increase the overall concentration of fatty acids present in an aqueous ... results may explain the mechanism by which in these situations there is a remaining 20% of steroid synthesis, due to the direct effect of AA ⁄ AA-CoA produced within the mitochondria by the action...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... 18,000-20,000 yr BP [9] The fall in sea level led to the lowering of the base level of the river, resulting in an incised valley The MR1 core was within this incised valley system Following the last glacial ... showing that the marine area occupied the delta except for some upland in the northern part of the island in the MRD [9] A marine transgression succession, incised-valley fill sediments including ... thick in the MR1 core In comparison with the pro-delta in the VL1 core, which is 10 m thick, the pro-delta in MR1 is so thin The coarsening-upward succession can be seen most clearly in the delta...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... aspects into pre-service training of health workers and in- service training of current staff  Incorporate quality indicators into routine monitoring and reporting systems; add quality monitoring ... participate together in collaborative improvement, the results achieved in any of them are spread to the remainder in the same learning community The participating sites re-organize their delivery ... pointing the time of main interventions that lead to the increase, or decrease, of the value of the indicator (Zeribi and Franco 2010) Figure shows the run chart used to monitor progress in institutionalizing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... nucleus in the brain, and to the intermediolateral grey column in the thoracic spinal cord, respectively From these sites of initial CNS invasion at the level of the thoracic spinal cord and the ... efferents synapse in intrinsic ganglia of the enteric nervous system (ENS) which innervates numerous targets in the intestinal wall, including the mucosa and submucosa [114] Thus, the alimentary ... spread of infection and intestinal neuroinvasion following ingestion of TSE agents Neuroinvasion, sympathetic and parasympathetic spread to the CNS, and propagation from the brain and spinal cord...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... cracked into it When the sparking ceased, Noah stared in terror at the smouldering body of the young man welded to the panelling Then he dragged himself through into the inner chamber, the suppurating ... stumbling through the opening, unaware of the glittering electronic 'watchdog' in the domed ceiling? Gradually they progressed round the chamber, the console swaying precariously in their combined ... conscious There was a hideous sensation in his injured arm, as if a column of stinging ants was forcing its way through the veins He squeezed through the opening into the access tunnel and dragged the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2014, 22:52

... increase the interuser interference, in which the multiplexing gain makes transmit power saving, but inter-user interference induces transmit power wasting In order to maximize BPJ-EE, the trade-off ... 3GPP-LTE Therefore, we will focus on the maximizing energy efficiency problem in the downlink MIMO systems in this article Previous works mainly focused on maximizing energy efficiency in the single-input ... Φd−λ Ψ is the large-scale fading including path loss and shadowing fading, in which dk , λ denote the distance k from the BS to the user k and the path loss exponent, respectively The random...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... increase the interuser interference, in which the multiplexing gain makes transmit power saving, but inter-user interference induces transmit power wasting In order to maximize BPJ-EE, the trade-off ... 3GPP-LTE Therefore, we will focus on the maximizing energy efficiency problem in the downlink MIMO systems in this article Previous works mainly focused on maximizing energy efficiency in the single-input ... Φd−λ Ψ is the large-scale fading including path loss and shadowing fading, in which dk , λ denote the distance k from the BS to the user k and the path loss exponent, respectively The random...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... increase the inter-user interference, in which the multiplexing gain makes transmit power saving, but inter-user interference induces transmit power wasting In order to maximize BPJ-EE, the trade- ... ζk = d−λ is the large-scale fading including path k loss and shadowing fading, in which d k, l denote the distance from the BS to the user k and the path loss exponent, respectively The random ... (12) i=k is the inter-user interference plus noise part Problem definition The objective of this article is to maximize the BPJ-EE in the downlink MIMO systems The BPJ-EE is defined as the achievable...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... (13) and then calculate the NEE based on (11) The same principle is applied in the other schemes in the rest of the article 3.2.2 Inter-cell interference cancellation ICIC is a scheme in which ... when the system becomes interference limited and then any transmit power increasing cannot further increase the capacity + After checking the feasibility and obtaining both Pt,i and ∗ Pt,i, the ... from two reasons The first one comes from the SINR improvement through exploiting the inter-cell interference and the second one comes from the joint EE power control The exciting result here...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... reflects the velocity of two fibers passing through the carpal tunnel and another passing outside the carpal tunnel from an in an indirect -conduction velocity of only one fiber passing through the ... CMAP in the prolonged CRL group (n = 84, r = 0.46, p < 0.0001) There was no significant difference between the two groups detect disorders of the cervical spine in the diagnosis of the CTS In the ... changes on the proximal fibers of median nerves were found in CTS patients [15-18] We doubted whether the influence of another nerve-fiber site could be neglected in the clinical diagnosing of the paresis...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... duration, the ankle joint (18.9%) was the second most frequently involved joint after the knee (47.3%) in those with monoarthritis In oligoarthritis (2-4 joints affected) the distribution of joint involvement ... practice should include specialist training in diagnostic ultrasonography (using recognised training pathways, for example the PGcert in Medical Ultrasound); corticosteroid injection therapies; non-pharmacological ... disease and monitoring, and the introduction of biological therapies However, despite these advances evidence indicates that active disease in the foot is an ongoing problem in clinical practice...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... emerging findings through interviews The process of data analysis will be repeated in month five, and the researchers will again return to the field in month six to verify their findings through ... embed the emerging theory in the language that is actually used within long-term care facilities to describe knowledge use in practice, thereby aiding in the dissemination and clarity of the findings ... derive key themes, and then these themes will be considered in conjunction with the findings from the other data sources Additionally, analysis will be conducted within sites and then, in order...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... ripening The presence of a gene coding for a ferritin-like protein in the listing of down-regulated cDNAs ([GenBank:CX307912]; Table 3) may exemplify the relevance of these transporters in the ... g-terpinene synthase, involved in the biosynthesis of the monoterpene g-terpinene in immature green fruits [24], is in the list of up-regulated genes (Table 2) Interestingly, the transcriptomic study ... due to the presence in flavedo of photosynthetically active green chloroplasts Several cDNAs coding for proteins involved in light harvesting, photosynthetic electron transfer chain, Calvin cycle...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... emerging findings through interviews The process of data analysis will be repeated in month five, and the researchers will again return to the field in month six to verify their findings through ... embed the emerging theory in the language that is actually used within long-term care facilities to describe knowledge use in practice, thereby aiding in the dissemination and clarity of the findings ... derive key themes, and then these themes will be considered in conjunction with the findings from the other data sources Additionally, analysis will be conducted within sites and then, in order...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... suggests that the synthesis occur close to the epithelium rather than in deeper sub-epithelial tissues of the udder Interestingly, the relative concentration of IgA in milk compared to that in afferent ... epithelial permeability between tissue and milk, as shown in elevated BSA CR, was not reflected in the CR of IgM The findings further indicate that the IgM transfer through the mammary epithelium ... hampered during this time of the inflammatory reaction The underlying mechanism remains to be explained IgG2 Before endotoxin infusion the relative transfer of IgG2 through the endothelium to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... [52] Cũng theo số thống kê Chính phủ Singapore, tổng số sinh viên nước có mặt Singapore lên đến 50.000 sinh viên vào năm 2010 Theo dự đoán Chính phủ số tăng lên gấp ba, tức 150.000 sinh viên vào ... 64 Bảng 2.9 Độ tin cậy biến: Hỗ trợ tài FIN 64 Bảng 2.10 Độ tin cậy biến: Cơ sở vật chất INS 64 Bảng 2.11 Độ tin cậy biến: Quản lý đào tạo MAN 64 Bảng 2.12 Độ tin cậy biến: Kiểm ... nghiên cứu sinh, sinh viên, người tiêu dùng, nhà sản xuất kinh doanh) kết nối mạng thông tin gọi mạng STU - mạng làm việc lâu dài mà cho phép giảng viên cung cấp cho sinh viên thông tin đa chiều...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2014, 11:55

... Ph.D.) Training quality is assessed by how well they achieve the training objectives set out for a training program Training quality is the result of the training process is reflected in the characteristics ... ENTERPRISE Partnering with businesses in the recruitment process of the students Universities have participated in training and retraining the existing workforce in enterprises Joining the exchange ... participate in training While 11.8% of the enterprises were not sure about whether or not to participate in training, 70.6% of firms not participate in the training This is the main reason affecting the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2014, 13:13