... Whereas a dramatic play is realized as a live performance by actors on a stage, a movie is show ina cinema, not as a live event, and can theoretically be repeated infinitely without change Like ... understanding culture and the meanings that culture contains as well participating in social activities (Sormunen and Saari, 2006) The fact that Erin Brockovich was not a lawyer and did not have any ... development of creative thinking (Laius and Rannikmäe, 2005) Science teaching can be conceptualized in terms of introducing learner to one form of the social language of science A distinction can be drawn...
... et al worked with adenoviruses, and participated in growth and maintenance of FLS DJP performed the majority ofchemotaxis counting, while MVV participated inchemotaxis counting as well as in ... (data not shown) FLS locomotion can be regarded as an important pathogenic mechanism contributing to the invasion of cartilage and bone in RA Grafting of RA FLS alone to SCID mice, in the absence ... tumorigenesis in mice Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1999, 96:6382-6387 Nakayama K, Ishida N, Shirane M, Inomata A, Inoue T, Shishido N, Horii I, Loh DY, Nakayama K-I: Mice lacking p27Kip1 display increased body...
... vascular responsiveness to norepinephrine in renal failure Kidney Int 1995, 48:806-813 65 Allegra A, Galasso A, Siracusano L, Aloisi C, Corica F, Lagana A, Frisina N, Buemi M: Administration of ... lifespan [35] After successful clinical trials of EPO in the treatment of anaemia of end-stage renal failure [36,37], its use has been extended to the treatment of anaemia in malignancy, human immunodeficiency ... hypoxia-inducible factors [38] Several in ammatory cytokines increase expression of EpoR and EPO, including insulin-like growth factor, IL-1β, IL-6 and TNFα, suggesting arolein inflammation...
... binding between the DNA-binding domain of p53 and the acidic domain of MDM2 [18,19] It is now thought that it may be this second stage of binding that is critical for ubiquitination of p53, and ... Mirzadeh Z, Soriano-Navarro M, Rasin M, Wang D, Shen J, Sestan N, Garcia-Verdugo J, Alvarez-Buylla A, Jan LY, Jan YN: Post natal deletion of Numb/Numblike reveals repair and remodeling capacity in ... through interaction with the ubiquitin ligase Itch It is interesting to note that rather than inhibiting ubiquitination, Numb can enhance the degradation of Gli1 by Itch - again pointing to a rather...
... investigated the roleof plasma membranes (PM) in the transformation of MSSAE into a dimeric protein 125I-labelled MSSAE was incubated with isolated membranes from SVT2 broblasts (0.45 mgặmL)1 of ... repeats Nature 366, 751756 Papageorgiou, A. , Shapiro, R & Acharya, K (1997) Molecular recognition of human angiogenin by placental ribonuclease inhibitor an X-ray crystallographic study at 20 A ... broblasts were grown at 37 C in the presence of 20 lgặmL)1 of radioactively labelled 125I-labelled MSSAE in binding buffer (DMEM containing mgặmL)1 BSA and 25 mM Hepes at pH 7.5) At increasing...
... b-hexosaminidase is in uenced by SG Although b-hexosaminidase activity was already detected at day 0, the intracellular content of this enzyme increased markedly after days of culture, and reached a ... maximal storage seen after 26 days of culture mMCP-6 storage showed similar kinetics as for mMCP-5 In contrast, CPA protein was detected as early as after days of culture, and a maximal plateau ... radioactivity As an internal standard, 200 lL ofa mixture of unlabeled heparin (4 mgÆmL)1) and CS -A (5 mgÆmL)1; Sigma, Stockholm, Sweden) was added to each sample before anion exchange chromatography analysis...
... to C&AG PAC Reports to Dáil Roleof the Department of Finance Minister for Finance Appoints Accounting Officer Department of Finance Attendance at PAC Minute of Minister for Finance to the PAC ... to Accountability Responsibilities of Accounting Officer in relation to Internal Audit Traditional Roleof Internal Audit VFM Roleof Internal Audit since 1993 Act Internal Audit and Risk Management ... Internal Control Internal Financial Control Evaluation of Internal Controls recommended by Mullarkey Report Internal Control & the C&AG Internal Audit Scope of Internal Audit Internal Audit as an aid...
... inhibitor) and GF109203X (protein kinase C inhibitor) indicating that each of these pathways has a modulatory rather than a mandatory role to play in mediating the proliferative response In contrast, a ... explain the lack of efficacy of current PAR2activating peptides in our model system A number of signalling pathways and intermediates such as Ca2+ mobilization, the ERK pathway, PtdIns 3-kinase and ... of PAR4 [27] Thrombin has been shown to cleave and activate PAR1, PAR3 and PAR4, whereas trypsin cleaves and activates PAR2 As duodenase is capable of cleaving certain substrates with trypsin-like...
... HLAB51 cases and HLA-B65 cases, each due to a single homozygote ofa relatively rare allele All other alleles were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in both cases and controls (Tables &2) Linkage ... disease and vascular dementia: a case-control study Lancet 2001, 357:436-439 Small GW, Scott WK, Komo S, Yamaoka LH, Farrer LA, Auerbach SH, Saunders AM, Roses AD, Haines JL, Pericak-Vance MA: No association ... Katzman R, Price D, Stadlan EM: Clinical diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease: report of the NINCDS-ADRDA work group under the auspices of Department of Health and Human Services task force on Alzheimer's...
... Rintahaka J, Søby S, Horan KA, Poltajainen A, Østergaard L, Paludan SR, Matikainen S: Early innate recognition of herpes simplex virus in human primary macrophages is mediated via the MDA5/MAVSdependent ... Cambridge, MA), STING (Abcam, Cambridge, MA) or a mouse monoclonal antibody against gG1 (Abnova, Taipei, Taiwan) for 24 hours at 4°C, blots were washed and incubated in the presence of an horseradish ... HSV-1 and elicit inflammatory CNS damage Replicating DNA viruses generate genomic DNA that serves as a ligand for DAI DAI then associates with IPS-1 and STING, subsequently activating NF-kB via the...
... added to cultures at a final concentration of 10–50 µg/ml or 10 µl of concanavalin A (ConA) (Difco) at a final concentration of µg/ml These concentrations had optimal stimulatory effects as assessed ... Germany), diluted 1:20,000 was added and incubated for hour at 37°C This step was followed by washing and incubation with a 1:1000 dilution of alkalinephosphatase-conjugated streptavidin (Dianova) ... that genes regulating apoptosis are involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases, including RA [26-29] Indeed, the success of anti-TNF therapy points to a major rolefor this important apoptosis...
... corresponding to amino acids 317–616 mapping at the carboxy terminus of RANK of human origin [H-300]) or against RANKL (rabbit polyclonal antibody raised against the epitope corresponding to amino acids ... staining for RANKL in synovial cells and in the infiltrating (inflammatory) cells (Fig 4h) There was a marked increase in RANKL expression, consistent with the increase in inflammatory cells and ... RANK/ RANKL in inflammatory cells, in inflamed synovium, in articular cartilage and at the invading front of bone erosions It has been long recognized that pro-inflammatory cytokines are intimately...
... M: Mammalian MAP kinase signalling cascades Nature 2001, 410:37-40 Palanki MS: Inhibitors of AP-1 and NF-kappa B mediated transcriptional activation: therapeutic potential in autoimmune diseases ... TNF-α activates nuclear translocation of NF-κB, which plays a central rolein inflammatory diseases such as RA through induction of transcription of proinflammatory genes [15] NF-κB is retained in ... transduction pathway is involved in the TNF-α-mediated increase in Cyp7b activity in human FLS Signaling pathways that mediate the effects of TNF-α include mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) and...
... all information regarding genetic factors, antibodies and matching variables was available This same sample set was used for the frequency analysis of rs729749 We used the SAS software for Windows ... files 12 13 The following Additional files are available online: Additional file An Word file containing a table that shows a table of all SNPs evaluated for association with RA in this study See ... 71% and 72%, respectively, are female; the mean age was 51 ± 13 years in cases and 54 ± 12 in controls Information about RF and anti-CCP antibody status was available for 1,315 of the patient samples;...
... Kit (Qiagen Inc., Valencia, CA, USA) from a small tail snip taken between and weeks of age just prior to weaning Each DNA sample was used as a template in polymerase chain reaction amplification ... presence of ANAs, in particular anti-SS -A/ Ro and antiSS-B/La in the sera of human patients, is one parameter in the diagnosis of clinical SjS Concomitantly with the appearance of mononuclear leukocytes ... recombinant founder pair was identified, the RI line was maintained via a single line of descent All RI lines were bred and maintained under specific pathogenfree conditions in the animal facility...
... significant in the ANOVA Each value included in the analysis was the average of two technical repeats to protect against slight fluctuations in reading and small pipetting errors Field trial of winter ... flowering time QTL in barley Breeding Sci 2011, 61:183-188 Cuesta-Marcos A, Casas AM, Yahiaoui S, Gracia MP, Lasa JM, Igartua E: Joint analysis for heading date QTL in small interconnected barley ... (FT) of Arabidopsis thaliana [20,21] Strong evidence indicates that VRNH3 plays a central rolein promoting flowering as an integrator of the vernalization and photoperiod pathways in temperate...
... quantitate the viral amplicon, a TaqMan dual 5′-6-carboxyfluorescein-and 3′-6-carboxytetramethylrhodamimine-labeled probe was used: 5′-(FAM)-CAGTGGCGCCCGAACAGGGA(TAMRA)-3′ (Integrated DNA Technologies) ... infected as described above (Fig 1A) were immunoprecipitated with antibodies against HDAC2 and HDAC6, as indicated Terminology as above, * indicates samples from A (C) Effect of an integrase inhibitor ... vector DNA prior to integration, in an integration-independent manner Retroviral integration induces the formation of HDAC4 foci in infected cells HDAC4 was reported to form foci in irradiated cells...
... bp; and 4) gB: forward primer, 5'AACGCGACGCACATCAAG-3', reverse primer, 5'-CTGGTACGCGATCAGAAAGC-3'; and probe, 5'-FAMCAGCCGCAGTACTACC-3' – Amplicon length = 72 bp As an internal control, a set of ... disruption of the STAT1 gene in mice revealed arolefor STAT1 in the JAK-STAT signaling pathway [40] The JAK-STAT signaling pathway is involved in mediating biologic responses induced by many cytokines ... Post Infection Figure Replication of HSV-1 in macrophages Replication of HSV-1 in macrophages Analyses of virus replication, viral gB mRNA, and viral genomic DNA in macrophages was done as in Fig...
... bp; and 4) gB: forward primer, 5'AACGCGACGCACATCAAG-3', reverse primer, 5'-CTGGTACGCGATCAGAAAGC-3'; and probe, 5'-FAMCAGCCGCAGTACTACC-3' – Amplicon length = 72 bp As an internal control, a set of ... disruption of the STAT1 gene in mice revealed arolefor STAT1 in the JAK-STAT signaling pathway [40] The JAK-STAT signaling pathway is involved in mediating biologic responses induced by many cytokines ... Post Infection Figure Replication of HSV-1 in macrophages Replication of HSV-1 in macrophages Analyses of virus replication, viral gB mRNA, and viral genomic DNA in macrophages was done as in Fig...