... although the consistency of the evidence is a matter of judgement (see Table 1) Because of the overlap of indicators of asthma and COPD in adults, it is often not clear from observational studies ... to a better understanding of the protective role of diet in lung disease, provided they focus on the temporal effectsof diet and on a careful assessment of the role of smoking and other lifestyle ... intake of vitamin E, C or apples [11] It is thus not clear from these longitudinal studies whether the protective effect of diet on lung function is temporal research article The effectsof diet...
... activity of endomorphins is not dependent on opioid receptors Very probably the neuroprotective effectsof endomorphins result from a combination of the different modes of action In the case of Cu2+-induced ... the protectiveeffectsof EM1, EM2 and GSH against Cu2+-induced LDL oxidation In the presence of 40 or 20 lm EM1, 10 lm Cu2+ caused only a 24.5 or 49.4% Fig Inhibition of the increase in REM of ... CA) All other chemicals were of the highest quality available Protectiveeffectsof endomorphins on huLDL oxidation Determination of conjugated dienes The ability of endomorphins to inhibit Cu2+-mediated...
... mechanisms of action and effectsof both Andro and LA for treatment of diabetes, we conducted experiments to evaluate the efficacy and possible mechanism(s) of action of a conjugate of Andro and ... transfection guideline of lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen), and cultured in Opti-MEM medium (Invitrogen) for h Then medium was changed with the growth medium, and the cells were cultured for another ... were purchase from Promega Corp (Madison, WI, USA) Lipofectamine 2000 and Opti-MEM medium were purchased from Invitrogen Corp (Carlsbad, CA, USA) Mouse IL-1β and IFN-γ were purchased from PeproTech...
... M, Hartmann DJ, Galera P, Loyau G, Pujol JP: Effectsof unsaponifiable extracts of avocado/soy beans (PIAS) on the production of collagen by cultures of synoviocytes, articular chondrocytes and ... 56:207-211 Mauviel A, Loyau G, Pujol JP: Effect of unsaponifiable extracts of avocado and soybean (Piascledine) on the collagenolytic action of cultures of human rheumatoid synoviocytes and rabbit ... prevention of OA cartilage lesion development as well as the protective effect of ASU on the erosion of the calcified cartilage [19] On the other hand, ASU were found to have no effect on the level of...
... effectsof hydrogen-rich saline might prevent the progression of PH To test this hypothesis, we investigated the efficacy of hydrogen-rich saline in monocrotaline (MCT)-treated PH rats Page of ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/12/1/26 Page of Figure Effectsof hydrogen-rich saline treatment on serum levels of TNF-a and IL-6 Administration of hydrogen-rich saline (5 ml/kg once daily for ... as the end-point of our experiment Previous studies have focused on the effectsof hydrogen-rich saline on organ damage been induced by ischemia/reperfusion However, the effect of hydrogen-rich...
... differentiated from the graphs of SPRC or SAC The inhibition of NaHS on Aβ25-35 aggregation calls for attention onto the chemistry of this compound NaHS is a soluble compound that readily hydrolyses in water ... increasing doses of SPRC, in which 50 µM showed the smallest slope of about 1.16 x 10-3 This suggested that SPRC can slow the rate of aggregation of Aβ25-35 The final aggregation products of Aβ25-35 ... increasing doses of SPRC with Aβ25-35 (Figure 13d) The amounts of monomers, or unaggregated Aβ25-35, were largely decreased after a 96 h-incubation, evident from the lack of staining of the 15 kDa...
... 5.1.3.1 Effects on H2S content in cell medium ** 1.3 ** 1.2 # 1.1 0.9 0.8 0.7 SFM SFM SPRC µM SAC µM µM Aβ25-35 Figure 23: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on H2S concentrations in cell medium ... Figure 27: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on DHE fluorescence (a) Representative photos of DHE-stained cells under 60X magnification with the scale bar of 40 µm indicated at the lower left of each ... Figure 32: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on IL-6 expression (a) mRNA expression of IL-6 expressed as fold difference of the untreated control group ± S.E.M (b) Protein expression of IL6 expressed...
... Figure 50: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on DHE fluorescence (a) Representative photos of DHE-stained cells under 20X magnification with a scale bar of 100 µm indicated at the lower left of each ... Figure 56: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on TNF-α expression (a) mRNA expression of TNF-α expressed as fold difference of the untreated control group ± S.E.M (b) Protein expression of TNF-α ... Figure 57: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on IL-10 expression (a) mRNA expression of IL-10 expressed as fold difference of the untreated control group ± S.E.M (b) Protein expression of IL10 expressed...
... Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on IL-6 expression Figure 33: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on TNF-α expression Figure 34: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on IL-10 expression of inflammatory ... 35: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on cell cycle analysis xi Figure 36: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on DNA fragmentation using TUNEL staining Figure 37: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs ... Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on IL-6 expression Figure 56: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on TNF-α expression Figure 57: Effectsof pre-treatment of drugs on IL-10 expression Figure 58: Effects...
... 6OHDA…………………………………………………………………………… …47 Figure 2.3 Role of PKC isoforms in the neuroprotective effectsof NaHS in SHSY5Y cells treated with 6-OHDA………………………………………………… 49 Figure 2.4 The protective effect of NaHS on cell viability ... absence of various PKC isoforms inhibitors…………………………………………51 Figure 2.5 Involvement of PI3K/Akt pathway in the neuroprotective effectsof NaHS…………………………………………………………………………… … 53 Figure 2.6 Effect of ... properties of H S H S is a colourless, flammable, watersoluble gas characterized by an offensive “rotten egg” odour With a structural formula of H-S-H, H S has a similar structure to that of water...
... Use of Laboratory Animals of Seoul National University, Korea Materials The herbal extract mixture was composed of two herbal extracts (alder tree extract: Alnus japonica Steud, labiate herb extract; ... follows: Protectiveeffectsof herbal extract mixture with a single ethanol challenge: For the herbal extract mixture, the rats were divided into four groups (herbal extract mixture ×, herbal extract ... of sylibin (Carduus marianus extract) was used as a control The ethanol purchased from the Sigma-Aldrich (USA) Experiment design To examine protective and therapeutic efficacy of the herbal extract...
... Srong leaf decay in F silvatica in F impaired the water relationship measurements General effectsof water- logging on photosynthesis The effectsof water- logging on A is shown through A vs c relationships ... the effectsof water- logging were much more limited, and only few changes could be observed No clear Mn accumulation was detected in leaves or roots DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION Effectsof water- logging ... 131-146 MJ (1990) Effectsof waterlogging on the growth and water relations of three Pinus taxa For Ecol Lewty Manage 300, 189-201 Osonubi O, Osundina MA (1987) Stomatal responses of woody seedlings...
... cultures from nodal explants of these plants failed because of contamination Comparison of cloning from shoot-tip and nodal explants Cultures from shoop-tip and nodal explants, from both the juvenile ... means of improving the reactivity of cultures established from mature source-plants (Rodriguez, 1982; Meynier, 1985; Walker, 1986) Indeed, Monteuuis (1991) reported that culture establishment from ... contrast, the reactivity of shootture behaviour tips was poor from the grafts of mature trees, especially when compared with that of nodal explants of the source-plants cultured in the growth chamber...
... reduced pressure, yielding 88.8 g of dry powder Approximately 50 g of the ethanol extract were resuspended in L ofwater and then partitioned with equal volumes of n-hexane, AcOEt, and n-BuOH to ... were from Sigma-Aldrich, DNP-bovine serum albumin (BSA) was from Biosearch Technologies, minimum essential medium was from Invitrogen, fetal bovine serum (FBS) was from WelGENE, Degranulation of ... anti-inflammatory effectsof ALBE We examined the anti-allergic effects by checking the release of b-hexosaminidase induced by dinitrophenyl (DNP)-BSA in RBL-2H3 mast cells and expression levels of IL-4...
... Dr Du Gang of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, for his kind assistance on quality analysis of Flos Puerariae waterextract Author details Institute of New Drug ... type A receptor Figure Effectsof puerarin on expression changes of GABAAR a1 and a4 subunits in an alcoholic rat model (A) Changes of expression of GABAARa1; (B) changes of a4 subunit Values are ... detoxification effects against alcohol in liver hepatocytes [25,26] Apart from the detoxification effects, three isoflavonoid compounds, namely puerarin, daidzin and daidzein isolated from Pueraria...
... levels of translucency of noodles made from the soft, low-FSV wheat flour and the soft, high-FSV wheat flour (9.25% protein) were 39.75 and 43.75%, respectively The mean levels of translucency of ... dough from 35 to 38% on yellowness (b*) values of raw WSN sheets (Figs 3, 4, 5) Translucency of thin noodles (1.3 mm thick) made from soft and hard wheat flour increased significantly (P < 0.05) from ... for soft and 49.02 to 52.90% for hard, when water addition to dough was increased from 35 to 38% There was no effect on gloss when water addition to dough was increased from 35 to 38% for soft...
... at all Attitudes: Water treatment at home Filtering water by cloths at home Boiling/warming water at home Alum treatment ofwater at home No treatment ofwater at home Habit of defecation Households ... income < USD30 Utilities: Water supply Households using tap water supply Households using ground water Households using surface water Households using mixed sources ofwater Sanitation system Households ... Households using tap water supply Households using ground water Households using surface water Households using mixed sources ofwater Households in each community ( % ) LSD Filtering water by cloths...
... Journal of Accounting History No Diciembre 2007 148 Cigdem Solas y Sinan Ayhan: The historical evolution of accounting in China: the effectsofculture _ Hofstede ... of Accounting History No Diciembre 2007 149 Cigdem Solas y Sinan Ayhan: The historical evolution of accounting in China: the effectsofculture _ 1.2.2 Hofstede’s ... on Accounting System Development Hofstede developed a model ofculture which was defined as the “collective programming of mind”, so culture includes a set of societal values that drive institutional...