... marrow stem cells, are the most potent antigen-presenting cells of the immune system They play a central role in the initiation of primary immune response and in the enhancement of secondary immune ... the RNA content and cDNA synthesis in the different preparations Furthermore, the PCR primers for glyceraldehyde3-phosphate dehydrogenase and FAAH were selected on the basis of the sequence of ... one of the enzymes mostly involved in endocannabinoid inactivation The heterogeneous distribution of CB2 receptors among cells of the immune system suggests that these receptors might exert their...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20
... Biosynthesis of H2S 24 1.2.2 Regulation of H2S biosynthesis 25 1.2.3 Metabolism of H2S .26 1.2.4 Mechanisms of action of H2S .27 1.2.5 H2S and the cardiovascular ... regulated at the systemic level predominantly by the sympathetic nervous system and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) Blood flow may also be regulated at the tissue level (local regulation) ... inhibition of iNOS restored the normal catecholamine-mediated up -regulation of alveolar liquid clearance Some of these deleterious effects of NO could be attributed to the formation of RNS (see...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:24
Role of hydrogen sulfide in the cardiovascular system implications for treatment of cardiovascular diseases
... function of these channels in the heart Therefore, the effect of H2S on APD is probably attributed to the opening of KATP channels86 H2S is capable of opening KATP channels directly87, 88 Furthermore, ... probably reflect the status of H2S activity Whether such changes in H2S level are the causes or consequences of these diseases warrants further investigations 1.3.5.1 Effect of H2S on atherosclerosis ... Catabolism of H2S The vast majority of H2S is oxidized to sulfate which leaves the body via the kidneys 42, 66-68 The primary site for this oxidation is in the liver, but all cells in the body...
Ngày tải lên: 01/10/2015, 17:27
THE structure of the multiprogramming system
... proved the eon'eetness of the system with a rigor and explicitness that is unusual for the great majority of mathematical proofs A Survey of the System gtructure Storage Allocation In the classical ... in their homing position Each process blocked in the course of task execution relies on the other processes for removal of the barrier Essentially, the proof in question is a demonstration of the ... the value of the semaphore called "sem" by If the resulting value of the semaphore concerned is positive, the V-operation in question has no further effect; if, however, the resulting value of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
Developmentof the Microfinance system in Russia
... 4.5 millions of individual entrepreneurs); 90 % of the total number of establishments; 44 % of GDP; 45 % of employment Sources of financing Business partners, relatives or other people ... stimulation of goods and services production and distribution, and also for a mutuality of start-up enterprises in the acquisition of getting profits and a capital accumulation experience Main tasks of ... of Microfinance to stimulate efficiency access to the financial resources; to create work places; to grow of tax proceeds; to create a credit history for the further development of SMEs...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 03:15
The Critique of the Morality System
... with the historical facets of his position, some with the philosophical, and some with both.4 What are the defining features of the morality system? At the end of Chapter 10 of Ethics and the Limits ... Kant, some of the most fundamental moral obligations concern the promotion of general ideals or ends such as our own perfection and the happiness of others The obligations of the morality system ... 66216 The Critique of the Morality System July 11, 2007 113 KANT AND THE MORALITY SYSTEM Now that we have a better idea of what Williams means by the morality system, ” what are we to make of his...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
an overview of the financial system
... An Overview of the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments ... shortage of funds (borrowers) • Direct finance vs Indirect finance 2-2 An Overview of the Financial System II 2-3 Structure of Financial Markets I Debt Markets • Short-term (maturity < year) – the ... expertise and taking advantage of economies of scale 2- Function of Financial Intermediaries III Risk Sharing • Create and sell assets with low risk characteristics and then use the funds to buy assets...
Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:55
Tài liệu Color Atlas of Pharmacology (Part 12): Inhibitors of the RAA System ppt
... impair the pumping action of the heart, or when there is a threat of other complications The choice of drug is empirical If the desired effect is not achieved, another drug is tried Combinations of ... membranous sacs of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR); c) Ca2+ bound to the inside of the plasmalemma The plasmalemma of cardiomyocytes extends into the cell interior in the form of tubular invaginations ... terms of their positive inotropic effect, !-sympathomimetics, unlike dopamine (p 114), are of little therapeutic use; they are also arrhythmogenic and the sensitivity of the !-receptor system...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Regulation of the members of the mammalian heat shock factor family doc
... activities of HSF1, HSF2 and HSF4 As the functions of the HSF family members differ, so also the molecular mechanisms by which they are regulated Albeit they all recognize and bind HSEs, the Regulation ... altered [88] These results shed light on the regulatory mechanisms steering the developmental expression pattern of HSF2, and they also provide the first example of involvement of miRNAs in the HSF ... development of the lens and maintenance of the olfactory epithelium [102] The first evidence for a developmental function of HSF4 was provided by population genetic studies where mutations of the Hsf4...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20
Tài liệu REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL doc
... and the use of the designation "European Venture Capital Fund" should be sanctioned by the prohibition of the use of the designation and the removal of the venture capital fund manager of the ... threshold of EUR 500 million or, in the Member States where the Euro is not the official currency, the corresponding value in the national currency on the date of the entry into force of this Regulation ... decision of revocation shall put an end to the delegation of the power specified in that decision It shall take effect the day following the publication of the decision in the Official Journal of the...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Regulation of the actin–myosin interaction by titin doc
... remained in the pellet independently of the other components and the ionic strength of the mixture In the presence of ATP, the amount of bound HMM was very similar (average value of 52.5 ± 1.1%) ... solution On the other hand, the acceleration of the sliding velocity (and the lower number of stops) of thin filaments could be related to a diminution of the load in the actin–myosin interface The properties ... movement in the absence of Ca2+, independent of the addition of T800 This result, together with the fact that T800 increased the average and maximum velocity values of moving filaments, both in the absence...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Control of the coagulation system by serpins Getting by with a little help from glycosaminoglycans pptx
... the RCL of the serpin inserts into the major A b-sheet causing the protease to be rapidly translocated from the top to the bottom of the inhibitor [6] In the process, the structure of the protease ... polymers of serpins, where the insertion of another molecule’s RCL takes place [8] Both of these result in the irreversible inactivation (generally) of the serpins, and, in the case of the anticoagulant ... ‘crushed’ against the bottom of the inhibitor [7] In particular, this deformation of the protease affects the geometry of the catalytic triad, preventing the completion of catalysis beyond the acyl intermediate...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The Second Release of the RASP System" pdf
... account both of the probability of derivations yielding a specific relation and of the proportion of such derivations in the forest produced by the parser A weighted set of GRs from the parse forest ... general) level in the hierarchy The micro-averaged precision, recall and F1 score are calculated from the counts for all relations in the hierarchy The macroaveraged scores are the mean of the individual ... to some extent tune the parser to different genres without the need for retraining The current version of the grammar finds at least one parse rooted in S for about 85% of the Susanne corpus (used...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20
Aging of the Respiratory System: Impact on Pulmonary Function Tests and Adaptation to Exertion pdf
... recoil of the lung (Fig 2) [9] The kyphotic curvature of the spine and the anteroposterior diameter of the chest increase with aging, thereby decreasing the curvature of the diaphragm and thus its ... Conversely, there is a progressive decrease in vital capacity to approximately 75% of best values Because of the increased stiffness of the chest wall, the age-related diminished elastic recoil of the ... intercept) and a decrease in the surface area of airspace wall per unit of lung volume beginning in the third decade of life The decrease in surface area of airspace wall per unit of lung volume approximately...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Calmodulin-mediated regulation of the epidermal growth factor receptor doc
... control of ligand binding [86] This is a result of the interaction of the distal segment of the JM, particularly the E663–S671 residues, with the C-terminal lobe of the kinase domain of the apposed ... Nck [72] The binding of these proteins could prevent the interaction of the Ca2+ ⁄ CaM complex to the receptor if the CaMBD were occluded at least in part Nevertheless, the docking of these adaptor ... activation of the EGFR, where the C-terminal lobe of the kinase domain of one of the monomers forming the dimeric receptor interacts with the N-terminal lobe of the apposed monomer [19,47,84] Of relevance...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22
PROTOCOL ON THE STATUTE OF THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF CENTRAL BANKS AND OF THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK pdf
... months of the publication of the decision or of its notification to the plaintiff or, in the absence thereof, of the day on which it came to the knowledge of the latter, as the case may be 14.3 The ... 17 of the Act concerning the conditions of Accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of ... equal to the sum of: — 50% of the share of its respective Member State in the population of the Community in the penultimate year preceding the establishment of the ESCB; — 50% of the share of its...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Protein transport in organelles: The composition, function and regulation of the Tic complex in chloroplast protein import pptx
... because the demand of the chloroplast is ‘sensed’ inside the organelle, the IEM is closest to the origin of the signal, and thus regulation at the Tic complex could be one of the fastest ways to ... which anchor the protein in the membrane The position and function of the long C-terminal tail on the other hand remains a matter of controversy [10,11,13–15] According to one hypothesis, the hydrophilic ... is the recruitment of FNR from the stroma or even thylakoids to the Tic complex in order to become part of the hypothetical electron transfer chain mentioned above However, the involvement of the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20
REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on the Cohesion Fund and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1084/2006 pot
... 1084/2006 THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular the second paragraph of Article 177 thereof, ... respect the principle of subsidiarity as the tasks of the ERDF are set out in the Treaty and the policy is implemented in accordance with the principle of shared management and respecting the institutional ... increasing the use of conditionalities and simplifying the delivery are among the major hallmarks of the proposal This Regulation sets out the provisions governing the Cohesion Fund, and repealing Regulation...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Unique features of the hemoglobin system of the Antarctic notothenioid fish Gobionotothen gibberifrons ppt
... and C mawsoni) However, the lack of a clear relationship with the Hb sequences of other nototheniid species suggests that in this case the evolution of the oxygen-transport system has occurred in ... species of the family Nototheniidae have one major and one minor Hb (Hb and Hb 2, 95% and 5% of the total, respectively) [2, 4,14] The two Hbs have the b-chain in common, with the exception of those ... cancels the contribution of the N-terminus to the Bohr effect These substitutions are also found in the two Hbs of G gibberifrons, characterized by the Bohr and Root effects However, these Hbs...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo Y học: Differential regulation of the Fe-hydrogenase during anaerobic adaptation in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii pot
... indicating another regulation system for the expression of the hydrogenase At the moment it is not clear if this effect rests upon a new synthesis or a higher stability of the hydA mRNA As with other ... hydrogenase of a photosynthetic eukaryotic cell, represents a novel type of Fe-hydrogenases Parts of the deduced amino-acid sequence of the cDNA correspond to the polypeptide sequence of the tryptic ... [50,51] Anaerobic treatment of maize seedlings alters the profile of total protein synthesis [52,53] It is known that the induction of the anaerobic proteins is the result of an increased mRNA level...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20