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... PDZ binding motif that may represent a virulence determinant PDZ domains are protein-interacting domains that are involved in a variety of cell signalling pathways In addition, Obenauer and colleagues ... gene, induces apoptosis in infected cells [39] The Page of 11 substitution N66S resulted in a more severe infection with higher virus titres and increased production of inflammatory cytokines in ... mucosa, and trachea The chicken/49 and mink/84 virus have also been shown to differ in their ability to induce interferon (IFN) production in mink lung cells [8-10] In an effort to better understand...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... 2006 and Uganda in 2007–2008 [1,8-12] In the absence of outbreaks, the HEV prevalence in rural populations was 4.4% in Ghana, 14.0% in Burundi, 15.3% in South Africa and 67.7% in Egypt, with ... circulating HEV genotypes and to determine the current pathological and risk status in the general population of central Africa Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... antenatal examination in the five main cities of the country: Libreville, the capital city in the northwest; Port-Gentil, the main harbor and economic capital in the west; Lambaréné, in the centre...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... to lg (HOMA-IR) and TG in both bivariate correlation and multiple stepwise linear regression analysis, suggesting a link between IMT, insulin resistance and dyslipidemia Insulin resistance is ... factors in childhood and carotid artery intima-media thickness in adulthood: the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study JAMA 2003; 290: 2277-83 Li S, Chen W, Srinivasan SR, Bond MG, et al Childhood ... classifications and change in dyslipidemia status with carotid intima-media thickness in adulthood evidence from the cardiovascular risk in Young Finns study, the Bogalusa Heart study, and the CDAH (Childhood...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... Hence, dialogue writing and role-play are useful and interesting activities for learners learners’ in meaningful describing and and efficient when teaching idioms A list of idioms in learners’ native ... following: A Contrastive Analysis of Proverbs Denoting Humans with Dispraising Implications in English and Vietnamese An Investigation into Idioms Denoting Humans with Praising Implications in English ... for language teaching and leaning implying Laziness and Selfishness/ Individualism and IDHDIV Firstly, idioms should be taught to upper-intermediate or referring Cold-heartedness and Illusion share...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:31

... dependent on the prion strain used for infection [33,34] Microglial cells can contain infectivity in vivo and may disseminate prion infectivity within the brain during their migratory activities ... CpG), and then incubated for 24 h with RML-infected brain homogenate (co, LPS, CpG) or with uninfected brain homogenate (not infected, n.i.) An immunofluorescence assay was performed, including ... obvious in uence of stimulation By contrast, on RML infection, an increase was observed in PrPSc in LPS-stimulated cells ( 1.4-fold) after 24 h incubation without brain homogenate, and a slight increase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... hybrids in vitro [17] and has been defined as a dsRNA and RNA–DNA hybrid-binding domain (dsRHbd) [18] The function of the dsRHbd in eukaryotic RNase H1 has also been discussed The dsRNA binding and ... nickel–Sepharose column, and eluted with buffer B containing m urea The eluted sample was dialyzed against buffer C containing m urea, loaded on to a HiTrap Desalting Column, and desalted with buffer C ... gene family in C elegans Each domain is indicated as a shaded box dsRHbd, dsRNA or RNA–DNA hybrid-binding domain; RNH, RNase H domain Each gene name is in parentheses below the protein name Numbers...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... associated with T piniperda was investigated by inoculating Scots pine seedlings MATERIALS AND METHODS In Mielec, 24 uninfested Scots pine trees were felled in early March In the other sampling locations ... 56], with O minus and Leptographium wingfieldii being the dominant species In Poland, there is only one report on fungi associated with T piniperda Siemaszko [50] found that O minus, O piceae and ... associated with T piniperda in pine stands near Warsaw The pathogenicity of blue-stain fungi has been studied by fungal inoculation of large trees (with low or high inoculation densities) and seedlings...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... detect IFN-γ in cattle during a chronic infection with F hepatica A predominant Cytokines in cattle and buffaloes infected with Fasciola gigantica 137 Fig Serum IL-6 levels in cattle (a) and buffaloes ... observed in infected and control cattle and buffaloes from to 16 weeks post-infection (Fig 1) Serum IL-6 and IL-8 levels Levels of serum IL-6 were increased in cattle and buffaloes infected with ... cattle and buffaloes and increased IL-8 in infected buffaloes suggests that these cytokines may have a role in the immune reaction during liver fluke infection in some species These cytokines were...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... agar) and incubated at room temperature in darkness height tions were were In 1989, beetle attacks were again induced in pine trees of different vigour and pruning history in the low-vigour stand ... the blue-staining had spread ter blue-stain had Blue-staining sapwood blue-stain developed and only in a few trees (table III) In both years, only minor patches of bluestain were seen in a few of ... apparently dying, since 80-90% of the ing sapwood was non-conducting Both dytrees had been pruned in May 1989, with H dematioides is high and uniform; with L wingfieldii it is low and uniform and with...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... levels and older radiation techniques in some cases Recently, the characterization of late effects after cancer therapy in childhood including chemotherapy, surgery and radiation has been of rising ... insufficient data regarding radiation organ dose levels So this approach turned out to be not sufficient in view of answering open questions regarding the risks of radiotherapy in childhood and ... prospectively with detailed information about organ dose levels With ongoing recruitment and prolongation of follow-up powerful data will be obtained in a few years The described study protocol and the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... autocrine and paracrine activation of EPCs resulting in differentiation or transdifferentiation, proliferation and vascular growth [12] b integrins (LFA-1, Mac-1) and b integrin also mediate homing ... angiotensin II lead to eNOS dependent NO production in EPCs and modulated EPC adhesion and apoptosis [42] Exogenous factors, including drugs like Statins and Thiazolidinediones are also involved in ... observed a cyclical increase in EPC mobilization following a rise in estrogen and VEGF levels during menstrual cycling in uterine tissue [50,51] Recently, the role of estrogen in tumor induced neovascularization...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... Manipur and Nagaland EHA identified NGOs working with drug users in Manipur (n = 7) and Nagaland (n = 4) to establish OST in nine drop -in- centres (DICs) in Manipur and four DICs in Nagaland to ... needles and syringes and condoms; and, referral for voluntary confidential, counselling and testing (VCCT) Methadone is not available in India for clinical use since the time it was taken off the Indian ... As a first step in this advocacy process, the findings of this evaluation were reported to the joint meeting of the NACO and the partner NGOs working with IDUs in India with funding support from...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... strongly associated with externalizing problems, while being a victim of bullying is strongly associated with internalizing symptoms Consequences and correlates of cyber-bullying and cybervictimisation ... internalizing (and externalizing) problems However, as traditional and cyber-bullying forms are strongly associated and frequently co-occur within the same individuals [1,36-39] it is important to investigate ... for nonindependence of the data resulting from the clustered sampling, which can lead to inflated Type I error rates, through the inclusion of a random intercept in the models Clustering in the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Stays in specialized substance abuse and psychiatric facilities are excluded, but stays in psychiatric units within general hospitals are included Information provided in the KID includes principal ... associated with suicide attempt (or self-injurious behavior) Within children with any diagnosis of mood disorder, the percentage with a suicide attempt was 11.0% in 2000, 10.2% in 2003, and 9.7% in 2006 ... in 2000, increasing to 45% in 2006, and, correspondingly, the proportion paid by private insurance decreased from 57% to 45% Over the same period, teaching hospitals accounted for an increasingly...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... Ambrosino, M Ariola, C Cosentino, Finite-Time Stability and Control, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 453, Springer, New York, 2014 [2] J Feng, Z Wu, and J Sun, Finite-time ... Finite-time stability and stabilization of linear time-delay [11] Y Guo, Y Yao, S Wang, B Yang, K Liu, X Zhao , Finite-time control with H∞ constraints of linear time-invariant and time-varying ... of linear singular systems with parametric uncertainties and disturbances, Acta Automatica Sinica, 31(2005), 634-637 [3] G Garcia, S Tarbouriech, J Bernussou, Finite-time stabilization of linear...

Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 10:29

... reaction kinetics and intra-molecular dynamics of macromolecules Additionally, NMR is efficient in determining ligand binding and mapping interaction surfaces of protein/ligand complexes Since first ... reduced in the brain of patients with brain tumor or infectious brain masses (Wang, 1998) In vivo NMR measurements in brain observe the total of both creatine and phosphocreatine as prominent singlet ... metabolites in sample NNI1 were assigned There are isoleucine, valine, leucine, alanine, lactate, lysine, acetate, glutamate/glutamine, creatine, choline, tyrosine, threonine and γ-aminobutyric acid in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 11:35

... PSM NCD Hand washing with soap before eating Hand washing without soap before eating No hand washing before eating Hand washing after defecation with soap Hand washing after defecation without ... defecating in room Households with children defecating in verandah Households with children defecating in latrine Hygiene practices Hand washing with soap before eating Hand washing without soap ... Households with children defecating in open field Households with children defecating in room Households with children defecating in verandah Households with children defecating in latrine   defecating...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... for the injector opening Based on the preset timing and duration the injector was opened for injection and closed after injection The injection timing and injection duration was varied within the ... emission and smoke the NOX reduces by almost times in both port injection and manifold injection and smoke emission reduces by 13 % in port injection and % in manifold injection Since the diesel engine ... with 20 % EGR in port injection and further to 2.43 g/kWh in manifold injection The NOX emission reduces with increase in EGR flow percentage, due to the presence of inert gas (CO2 and H2O) inside...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY -VOLUME Advanced scientific computing in BASIC with applications in chemistry, biology and pharmacology DATA HANDLING IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ... PRonSsING Classical mthods Interpolation Smmthing Differentiation Integratim Spline functions in signal prccessing Interpolating splines Smmthing splines Fourier transform spectral methods Continuous ... coefficients and interpolated valws Local cubic interpolation 5-pint cubic smoothing by Savitzky and Golay Determination of interpolating cubic spline Function value, derivatives and definite integral...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... compared with observations in high-risk patients with melanoma These findings were reinforced in separate meta-analyses of randomized trials investigating IFN-a 2b versus observation in high-risk ... CC, and NM EC, PAA, GP, JMK, and FMM contributed to data analysis and interpretation All authors were involved in manuscript writing and provided final approval of the manuscript Competing interests ... week in the 22 patients with melanoma treated with interferon-a 2b (B)Box plot showing circulating regulatory T cell (Treg) levels by week in the 22 patients with melanoma treated with interferon-a...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20