roles in feedback control of gonadotropins

... oxytocin, vasopressin and prolactin Increase in the release of ACTH, oxytocin and prolactin ? ? No effects Increase [52,53] ? ? PrRP GPR10 (hGR3, UHR-1, PRLHR) Table Amino acid sequences of PrRP ... Brain oxytocin receptor antagonism blunts the effects of anorexigenic treatments in rats: evidence for central oxytocin inhibition of food intake Endocrinology 129, 785–791 18 Blevins JE, Eakin ... distributed within the brain [44] Expression of the main receptor for RFRP, GPR147, is broadly distributed within the brain, including the septal areas, amygdala, bed nucleus of the stria terminalis,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... linearization control Design of nonlinear state feedback control began in the early eighties for certain simple classes of single-input-single-output nonlinear systems Feedback linearizable and input-output ... Neuro Feedback Linearization in the Control of Robotic Manipulators Ngoo May Jin (B.Eng.(Hons), M.Sc.) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ... signal vector Learning by, or training of, a neural network is done by presenting it with training pairs of vectors of inputs and the corresponding desired outputs Based on these training pairs, the...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 22:57

... set point Figure 2.18 demonstrates the response of the feedback controller in order to maintain the same particle velocity and temperature levels in the presence of a 10% Feedback Control of Particle ... and Improving the imaging performance of atomic force microscopes using robust control is covered in Chap and the control of optically trapped particles is discussed in Chap The control of MEMS ... presented in Chap Finally, quantum control is presented in Chap 10 with an emphasis on controlling spin dynamics in quantum mechanical systems In the final chapter, a review of some of the common...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:20

... C-terminal sequence of OPN and the N-terminal sequence of dentin matrix acidic phosphoprotein (DMP1) [27,28] and long sequences of Glu residues in, for example, integrin-binding sialophosphoprotein ... aS1-casein; CSN1S2, aS2-casein; CSN2, b-casein; IBSP-II, integrin-binding sialophosphoprotein II; MEPE, matrix extracellular bone phosphoglycoprotein Potential sites of phosphorylation are shown in ... osteopontin C Holt et al details of the model are provided in Doc S3 (see Supporting information) The Ca2+ binding isotherm of OPN 1149 was determined by measuring the concentration of free Ca...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20

... (A) crude enzyme of the DY-59 strain, (B) chitinase activity staining of the DY-59 strain, (C) crude enzyme of the VS-9 strain, (D) chitinase activity staining of the VS-9 strain ... pathway They contain a chitin-binding domain (CBM 18 according to the CAZy classification) and tandem lysin motifs (LysMs), which are short peptide domains implicated in binding of peptidoglycan ... Chitinases are considered as playing a key role in the parasitic mechanism of fungi into host cells containing chitin (e.g cell walls of fungi, eggshells of nematode eggs, exoskeletons of insects)...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 16:03

... visual input in the development and setting of postural control system in PWS Such anomalous modulations of the systems involved in balance maintenance are confirmed by the result obtained using ... only using the traditional methods in time domain, the aim of this study was to analyze the postural control in PWS individuals using not only posture analysis in time domain but also applying the ... adds information to the traditional time and frequency domain analysis of the CoP in individuals with PWS, providing a more informative description of their posture Page of The main limit of this...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... line in Fig 4g) The latter is caused by the surface roughening of the 2D Ge wetting layer surface associated with the formation of a high density of dimer vacancy lines and subsequently missing ... improves and the initial 3D diffraction spots completely disappear (see Fig 1b) Continuation of buffer growth, results in the appearance of faint additional diffraction streaks inclined by 25° to ... facet spots sharpen and strongly increase in intensity This indicates an initial rapid expansion, i.e., growth of the {113} sidewall facets of the stripes During further Si growth at 520°C, however,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... breaking of cambial dormancy (Little and Wareing, 1981Moreover, ABA content increases again in reactivating cambium, for example, in the trunk of Pinus contorta (Savidge and Wareing, 1984), and in ... (Little and Wareing, 1981) show that ABA peaking in late summer is rather incidental and drought-induced During winter, a decrease in the ABA level, often associated with an increase in conjugated ... mainly by exo- and endocytosis A renewal of endo-membranes during this period might be associated with a seasonal inactivation of auxin receptor and carrier proteins Later on, the breaking of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... hurdle in to our understanding of the roles of the various corepressors in oxidant mediated glucocorticoid insensitivity and in disease is the lack of knowledge regarding the individual functional ... understanding of the roles of these co-repressor complexes and thereafter their roles in disease In summary cigarette smoke exposure reduced HDAC2 activity and the expression of mSin3a and Mi-2α in ... Morris A, Kinnear G, Wan WYH, Wyss D, Bahra P, Stevenson CS: Comparison of Cigarette Smoke-Induced Acute Inflammation in Multiple Strains of Mice and the Effect of a Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitor...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20

... hurdle in to our understanding of the roles of the various corepressors in oxidant mediated glucocorticoid insensitivity and in disease is the lack of knowledge regarding the individual functional ... understanding of the roles of these co-repressor complexes and thereafter their roles in disease In summary cigarette smoke exposure reduced HDAC2 activity and the expression of mSin3a and Mi-2α in ... Morris A, Kinnear G, Wan WYH, Wyss D, Bahra P, Stevenson CS: Comparison of Cigarette Smoke-Induced Acute Inflammation in Multiple Strains of Mice and the Effect of a Matrix Metalloproteinase Inhibitor...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 06:22

... carboxyl terminus of peptides and proteins In the case of fibrin, removal of carboxyl-terminal lysine residues renders the fibrin less sensitive to lysis by decreasing the ability of plasminogen and ... C4b-binding protein from the complement system cannot bind to APC [2,22,23] In addition to inhibition of fibrin formation, APC also promotes fibrinolysis in vitro by inhibiting two important inhibitors ... C4b-binding protein is upregulated in inflammation, and binds and inactivates protein S Protein S is an endogenous coagulation inhibitor that enhances the activity of APC as an inhibitor of factors...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:21

... participate in inhibiting HIV-1 entry in the decidua These findings also suggest that the first trimester maternofetal interface is a relevant model for studying determinants of natural protection against ... dAPC were the main sources of CCL-3 and CCL-4 in the decidua Decidual soluble factors can inhibit HIV-1 infection To examine the role of the cytokine environment in the inhibition of viral replication, ... IgG staining (red) Staining for one representative donor is shown (B) The mean fluorescence indexes (MFI) of b-chemokine staining were obtained for each cell population after subtracting the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:21

... level of transcription observed during post-integration latency (reviewed in [9]): the inaccessibility of the integrated provirus to the transcriptional machinery, the absence in resting cells of ... activation of the HIV-1 ISRE element Implication of IRF8 in the maintenance and NCoA3 in the reactivation of the viral latency may thus provide new insights into the control of HIV-1 replication in latent ... microarrays Since chromatin remodeling is involved in the regulation of HIV-1 gene expression (reviewed in [10]), differential expression of cellular genes in latently infected cells following treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... prosthesis inserted into the portal vein and the inferior vena cava of the in vivo rabbit model Figure Diagram of silastic H-shaped prosthesis inserted into the portal vein and the inferior vena cava of ... Figure of intra-portal injection of (a) ATP and (b) adenosine on changes in hepatic arterial flow (∆ HAF) in vivo The effect The effect of intra-portal injection of (a) ATP and (b) adenosine on ... cross-clamping at point "b", distal to the point of entry of the splenic vein into the portal vein perfusate significantly inhibited the HA response to 10-8 moles 100 g liver-1 intra-arterial adenosine...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... receptiveness of supporting cells to such developmental signals might depend on the mechanism of deafening and the amount of time after deafening The findings may indicate that the failure of supporting ... have gained tremendous understanding of the roles of these genes in inner-ear development and function This meeting signaled a new era of hearing research, highlighted by recent discoveries in the ... elucidation of genes contributing to complex-trait hearing impairment is in its infancy and is far behind the investigation of the genetics of other complex diseases Gene-environment interactions...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... position control in the plane of the surface This is the case in milling and grinding, surface finishing, etc In applications such as MEMS assembly, where highly nonlinear forces including van ... Neural network controller for flexible-link robotic system designed using a variety of techniques including H-infinity robust control and LQG/LTR Such controllers are capable of compensating for the ... on the higher-level linguistic and reasoning abilities of humans, and offer intriguing possibilities for use in feedback control systems The idea of using backpropagation tuning to tune fuzzy logic...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2015, 04:05

... expressing the recombinant proteins in E coli  Raising and characterizing specific polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies against GGT  Determining the subcellular localization of GGT in H pylori  Investigating ... of GGT may be mediated by importin β1 Indeed, siRNA knockdown of importin β1 significantly inhibited the nuclear import of GGT, confirming our hypothesis Interestingly, nuclear localization of ... after IPTG induction 90 13 SDS-PAGE protein profile of soluble and insoluble protein fractions 92 14 His-Tag affinity purification of recombinant proteins 93 15 Identification by MALDI-TOF mass...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:58

... staining with Scott’s tap water for minutes Wash the slides in tap water for minutes Counterstain in eosin for minutes (staining time can be modified depending on desired staining intensity Rinse ... water for minutes Stain the sections in hematoxylin for 2-3 minutes (staining time can be modified depending on desired staining density) Wash the slides in running tap water for minutes Identify ... Distribution of fluorescein–labeled moesin siRNA after in vivo delivery of moesin siRNA by iontophoresis into the cornea…………….52 10 Effect of moesin siRNA on the expression of moesin in the corneal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 18:51

... sensory inputs into three types: inhibition input, triggering input and modification input The purpose of this classification is to make the feedback design easier With these three types of sensory inputs, ... robust insect locomotion CPG has also been used for controlling swimming robots Anguilliform swimming is one kind of swimming Its forward motion is obtained by a traveling undulation of the elongated ... UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SINGAPORE 2.4 Summary 27 with this coordination connection is developed to control the walking of a bipedal robot NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE SINGAPORE 28 Chapter Coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:01

... countries, HCC arises in cirrhotic liver mainly because of HCV infection which accounts for 60-70% of the incidences of HCC in Europe, 50-60% in North America and 70% in Japan In contrast, in the less ... DNA, assembly of virions and lastly, the release of viruses into the circulation of the host The initial phase of HBV infection involves the binding of HBV virion to the membrane of the host hepatocyte ... regions thereby resulting in the inhibition of the expression of these mRNAs Binding of ASO to its target mRNA generally leads to the blockage of protein translation In some cases, intracellular RNase...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 12:11