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... MS (p ≤ 0.011) at the 60th day into the experiment and FL > HS/ MS (p < 0.005) and LS > HS (p < 0.067) at the end of the experiment At the end of the experiment, total biomass and each biomass ... depicts the relationship between ETR and the driving force of electron transport to the reduction of the redox state of the primary electron acceptor of PS II, which is approximated by 1–qP Figure ... before the start of the experiment and, unlike seedlings growing under FL and LS, only a small portion of the leaves actually initiated their growth after the start of the experiment The significant...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... Total RNA was then isolated and the levels of G-CSF and GAPDH mRNAs were determined by RT-PCR The result is representative of those obtained in three similar experiments (B) The levels of G-CSF protein ... 200 ngÆmL)1 of rapamycin before LPS treatment for h, then the Oct-2 and GAPDH mRNA levels were measured by RT-PCR The levels of Oct-2 mRNA were normalized to those for GAPDH and the results were ... levels of both iNOS and G-CSF during inflammation, and the expression of these two genes should be tightly controlled and regulated by similar mechanisms Activation of PI3K leads to the production of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... base-pairing of the DIS of two RNA molecules is a major determinant in the selection of the copackaged RNA partners, and the identity of the DIS plays an important role in the copackaging of RNAs ... with the reduced production of infectious virions, thereby reducing the overall infectivity of the virus In support of this hypothesis, we found that the compensatory mutations did not rescue the ... very close to the major splice donor of the SL2 in the 5′ leader sequence We determined whether dimerization and splicing of the RNAs were affected by the deletion in SL1 Because the SL1 contains...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... subfamily of the Bcl-2 family involved in the initiation of apoptosis through the mitochondrial pathway The key event in the mitochondrial pathway is the release of proapoptotic factors from the mitochondrial ... there could be a link between EGF-induced reduction in Bid and tBid levels and the ubiquitin ligase activity of Itch In this study, we first examined the ability of Itch to interact with Bid and ... lysed and analysed for caspase activity by measuring degradation of the Ac-DEVD-pNA peptide (right panel) The graphs represent average cell survival as a percentage of the control and the average...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... go from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead) A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... fruitful ways of investing public (and private) money RESULTS The energy cost-benefit analysis One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected ... partridges and wolves) and a very rich diversity of flower The first HSR proposal dates back to the end of the eighties, and soon after the opposition in the Susa Valley started In 2011, the new...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20

... go from one end of the country to the other, taking real advantage of the high speed (they tend to use the air services instead) A study commissioned by the Mountain Community of the Susa Valley ... fruitful ways of investing public (and private) money RESULTS The energy cost-benefit analysis One of the main ecological justifications of the HSR projects would be the energy savings and the expected ... partridges and wolves) and a very rich diversity of flower The first HSR proposal dates back to the end of the eighties, and soon after the opposition in the Susa Valley started In 2011, the new...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... plants and facilities, and to handle our raw materials and products in a manner that protects the environment, and the safety and health of our employees and the public ¥ To make safety, health and ... addresses the design, operation, and maintenance of LPG storage facilities from the standpoints of prevention and control of releases, Þre protection design, and Þre-control measures The history of ... primarily on the size and shape of both the pool and the vessels, and the wind conditions The distance required for a speciÞc case should be determined by an engineering analysis The chance of ßame...

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 14:07

... in reason of the magnitude of its hardening exponent and strength coefficient On the other hand, the decrease of the stress concentration factor Kσ after yielding and the increase of the strain ... values well below to the values observed in the other directions, these results allow to assume the hypothesis that the material inside the component and in the neighbourhood of the notch develop ... loadings of 15, 30 and 45kg C To determine the value of the isochromatic fringe at the border, on the hole surface, the image of the isochromatic pattern was projected on a screen where, using the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:32

... generation of ATP Due to the higher proliferation rate, cancer cells demand higher ATP synthesis and therefore have higher turnover of NAD+ and an upregulated NAMPT enzyme to meet this energy demand ... dilution, and the sections were incubated for h Endothelial cells were used as positive controls, and the omission of the neuraminidase solution served as a negative control The percentage of TUNEL- and ... between the groups There were no adverse effects of CHS 828 on the general status of the animals CHS 828 did not affect the body or organ weight (liver, spleen, lung and kidney) in any of the treated...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... for a more complete understanding of its mechanisms of action and therefore, for a better assessment of its antitumor efficacy The experimental hepatic colonization of B16 melanoma (B16M) is a ... IL-18 by enhanced Page of 11 proliferation [15] and increased adhesion to HSE via a VLA-4-dependent mechanism [17] In this study, we investigated the effect of RVL on the microvascular phase of the ... either RVL or vehicle 30 prior to being treated with B16M-CM for hours and the level of IL-18 was measured in the supernatant by ELISA As shown in Figure 3B, RVL abolished the augmentation of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... assess the strength of association between the low ficolin-3 and high CRP levels on the one hand and the unfavorable outcome of the disease on the other hand, we repeated the analysis as above in the ... as the outcome of the disease Finally, we assessed the relationship between the baseline NIH scale as an indirect measure of the severity of the stroke, the concentration of the S100β in the ... detection in these assays is ng/ml of ficolin-2 and ng/ml of ficolin-3 The inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) is 7.1% and 4.7% and the intra-assay CV 4.3% and 3.9% for the ficolin-2 and ficolin-3...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... characterize the abnormality and exclude other significant pathologies, are presented in Table In subjects with knee OA, the prevalence of lesions was approximately 2.3% By means of the clinical and imaging ... contrast, other imaged areas, such as the hand and wrist imaged for rheumatoid arthritis, may be less likely to show these abnormalities [15] Although 28% of enchondromas are seen in the hand, these ... MRI scans: they are not usually trained in musculoskeletal radiology or MRI beyond the measurements they perform The researcher is obliged to put the health of the participant above the study,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... obtained by projecting it onto the subset of rows I and subset of columns J Denote by X i, J the sub-matrix X [i,i],J , and by X I, j the sub-matrix XI,[j,j] Let D be a domain of elements, and ⊗ and ... X and Y are of the same size, define the result of the matrix addition X ⊕ Y to be the matrix Z of the same size as X and Y, where Zi, j = Xi, j ⊕ Yi, j When X and Y have the same X number of ... columns, denote by the matrix obtained Y by concatenating Y below X When X and Y have the same number of rows, denote by [XY] the matrix obtained by concatenating Y to the right of X The following...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... collection and acquisition of the data and draft of the manuscript HT helped collection and acquisition of the data and draft of the manuscript TA and TK was involved in the interpretation and design of ... ± SD of that in the PBMCs of healthy individuals The levels of the hRasGRP4 transcripts were higher than the normal levels in 41% of our RA patients (p < 0.0001) (Figure 2) The levels of the hRasGRP4 ... first defined the normal range of ∆∆-CT value as the mean ± SD of the healthy volunteers The levels of the hRasGRP4 transcript in the RA patients were then quantitated The expression of hRasGRP4...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... regard to the ‘critical factors‘ It then describes the strategic objectives of the study, the methodological approach and the countribution and outlook of the study Chapter provides the theoretical ... careful design of regulation for the Nagoya Protocol Action to see whether the architecture of the Protocol, as designed by the ABS negotiators, will stand the 38 test of time, or whether it will ... represent the results as they came from the interviews The discussion is structured around the findings and interpretation of the results from the interviews by stakeholders This is then followed by...

Ngày tải lên: 02/12/2015, 01:11

... denoting the objects covered by the scope of the notion expressed in the word, and the significative function is the function of expressing the content of the respective notion The function of rendering ... mentioned The men, especially the husband and the grandfather, sip alcohol and tell their family members what they see and hear or remind them of right or wrong things in life The others also ... conditional breakfast They often have cereal or porridge, egg and bacon followed by toast and marmalade and coffee and tea or they may just have a toast and marmalade and coffee and tea *Elevenses...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 15:11

... over the life of the long-term bond • Buyers of bonds not prefer bonds of one maturity over another; they will not hold any quantity of a bond if its expected return is less than that of another ... n The n-period interest rate equals the average of the one-period interest rates expected to occur over the n-period life of the bond Expectations Theory • Explains why the term structure of ... Risk and Term Structure of Interest Rates • The risk structure of interest rates looks at bonds with the same term to maturity and different interest rates • The term structure of interest...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:56