... interproton distances, respectively Distance Geometry (DGII) software was used to generate a family of 50 structures These structures were refined by using simulated annealing protocol with DISCOVER ... described as follows: proton spectra were assigned by using DQF-COSY [17], TOCSY [18] and NOESY [19] The TOCSY and NOESY (400 ms mixing time) spectra were first used to identify individual spin ... determined by MS (Bruker Protein MALDI-TOF spectrophotometer) Peptide analogues (called polymers) were synthesized with Cys-Gly in the C- and N-terminus of each peptide to allow polymerization forming...
... Cidea-null mice had enhanced lipolytic activities Cidea null mice have a hyperactive thermogenesis and increased lipolysis in response to cold and with increasing age compared to wild type mice Notably, ... objective of this work was to investigate the physiological role of Cidea, a molecule presumably related to apoptosis Cidea had been shown originally as an apoptotic effector when ectopically overexpressed ... UCP1 hyperactive Cidea null animals are metabolically inefficient, with energy being wasted as heat and fat storage depleted quickly in response to cold When miceare housed at room temperature under...
... levels in BAT of these treated mice were maintained at roughly similar levels compared tomice of the same age The contrasting changes in Cidea levels with age compared to that of UCP1 suggest that ... null mice we generated provided an excellent tool to test this hypothesis 78 Chapter 4.3 Cidea null mice not exhibit a difference in differentiation and cell death compared to wild type mice ... adipocytes of Cidea-null mice compared to that of wild type mice, consistent with a lesser lipid accumulation in WAT (Figure 32 lower panel, right) The reduced adiposity was not due to a difference in...
... be crossbred with 129 to obtain pure 129 inbred genetic background mice Alternatively the heterozygous of 129/C57BL mice can be crossbred with C57BL/6J mice for several generations to get pure ... mouse blastocysts to generate chimeric mice Because the ES cells are derived from male mice, 21 viable chimeras were generated and all were male The chimeric mice were subsequently crossbred with ... type C57BL/6J miceto obtain germline transmission of the targeted allele Cideb heterozygous mice were fertile and were crossbred to obtain mice homozygous for Cideb deletion The mice genotypes...
... Cideb null mice The targeted ES cells clones with Cidea or Cideb gene disruption were recovered from the frozen master plates and injected into C57BL/6J blastocysts to generate chimeric mice for ... DH5α E coli strain was streaked onto an Luria-Bertani (LB) (pH 7.5) agar plate (containing 1% bacto-tryptone, 0.5% bacto-yeast extract, 1% NaCl, and 1.5% agar) without antibiotics and incubated ... (CIAP/ CIP) was used to remove the phosphate group from the 5’ end of linearized vector DNA to prevent singly digested vectors from self-ligation The reaction was carried out either with the recommended...
... initiator caspase-8 Activation of caspase-9 by several apoptotic stimuli requires release of cytochrome c into the cytosol from the mitochondria Chapter Upon apoptotic stimulation, initiator caspases ... body’s fat stores, a brain receiver analogous to a thermostat, where fat-store reports are compared with a set-point, and a downstream effector system using behavior and metabolic processes to correct ... Although such mice appeared normal, thymocytes from these miceare more resistant to apoptosis than that from wild-type animals (Wu et al., 1999) The degradation of genomic DNA into nucleosomal...
... Cidea deficientmice have lean phenotype and are resistant to obesity Nat Genet 35(1): 49-56 Chen, Z., Guo, K., Toh S.Y., Zhou, Z., Li, P (2000) Mitochondria localization and dimerization are required ... exposure Most strikingly, Cidea-/- miceare much leaner than wild type mice, with a 64% weight reduction in white adipose tissue (WAT) The Cidea-/- miceare resistant to diet-induced obesity and diabetes ... laboratory for his suggestions I am deeply grateful to Drs Bor Luen Tang and Victor Nurcombe for their critical comments on my thesis writing I appreciate very much the friendship with Dr Tong...
... weight loss, failure to thrive and signs of malnutrition) to atypical and silent forms with no gastrointestinal symptoms(3,4) A great deal of research has been carried out into short stature in isolation ... more and is operator-dependent, which can lead to errors(14,17,19,20) Chart – Physical and laboratorial characteristics and signs and symptoms of anti-tTG-positive patients withshort stature Sex ... different studies have compared AEA with anti-tTG in terms of sensitivity and specificity and have concluded that they are similar(21) In patients with little or no symptomology, both tests offer...
... disconnecting the alternator are permitted The engine must continue to run at an idle with the battery disconnected BALL JOINTS: The upper and lower ball joints must remain stock, within the stock dimensions, ... airflow onto the carburetors or air filters Hood louvers may not direct -52- air to the carburetors or air filters The 1934 Chevy and Ford hoods are 26” to 27” in length and may not be shortened ... magnetic, aluminum and titanium bolts are illegal BRAKES: Any of the brake parts that are attached to the rear end or the spindles must remain stock, within the stock dimensions, steel thickness,...
... their complexes with Cu(II), as well as the DAHKam complex with Ni(II) in the presence of 0.1 M KNO3 were performed at 25 C over the pH range 311.5 (Molspin automatic titrator) with 0.1 M NaOH ... In line with electrostatic considerations presented there, this rate enhancement is likely due to the facilitated anchoring of neutral NiHPO4 to nitrogen donors of the peptide, compared to a positively ... pH 7.4 are provided in Table UVVis spectroscopy Table Protonation constants (log b values) for peptides at I = 0.1 M (KNO3) and 25 C Standard deviations on the last digits are given in parentheses...
... antibodies Certain drugs that are commonly used to treat TB, such as INH and RIF, are known to be associated with drug-induced lupus and the production of antinuclear and antihistone antibodies The majority ... findings are mistakenly attributed to an RA disease flare Biologic agents that inhibit tumor necrosis factor ␣ have rapidly become a part of standard therapy in RA, but they are associated with an ... in TB reacts with both CCP and CAP The poor capability of liquid-phase CCP or CAP to cross-inhibit the reactivity of sera from patients with TB compared with sera from patients with RA (Figure...
... compared with Control Untreated # p = NS as compared with Rapamycin 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 Days of Treatment * p < 0.05 as compared with Control Untreated # p = NS as compared with ... Tsc2 +/- mice in a C57BL/6 mixed strain to show that mTOR inhibitor treatment reduces kidney tumor severity, to investigate the timing of mTOR inhibitor Page 13 of 18 treatment, and to show that ... efficacy of alternatives to mTOR inhibitors as either single agents or in combination with an mTOR inhibitor Single agent drugs which are FDA approved for other indications that are effective in mouse...
... accordance with the finding that T cell numbers are lower in the brain of wild type mice compared to MT-I/II-/- mice at DPI Comparison of chemokine and cytokine expression in wild type and MT-I/II mice ... DPI in MT-I/II -/- mice compared to wild type mice In vitro, the aaMF response has been shown to be much less neurotoxic than the caMF response which is purported to be due to the higher production ... antibodies to unstained cells Samples were assayed by flow cytometry (BD Canto II flow cytometer) and were analysed using BD FACS Diva software v6.1.1 A quadratic gate was applied to the scatter...
... length 50 Moreover, using 50 CP symbols with IBI cancellation, the estimator does not perform significantly closer to the full CP performance compared to shorter CP This shows that using long CP ... presented to combat with the deteriorating effects of using short CP for IR UB systems An IBI estimation and cancellation scheme that can be used both with an FD channel estimator and with an FD ... estimator implemented by the FD recursive least squares (RLSs) algorithm, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing a minimum mean squared error (MMSE) FDE, and a repetition decoder to extract...
... of male PPARα-/- mice had severe fatty change with various fat droplets compared to wild type in the cytoplasms (Fig 3E-H) There were many macrovesicles in the cytoplasm of hepatocytes, and some ... peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α (PPARα) deficientmice on mixed background fed high fat diet 241 Fig Histological analyses of livers from male or female PPARα+/+ and PPARα-/- mice at week ... PPARα-/- mice was influenced by other factors, including diet and genetics PPARα-/- micewith unclear genetic background had a late onset, sexually dimorphic, and obese phenotype [5] PPARα-/- mice with...
... that applied on rP27/30-immunized mice compared to those in the control Egg weights in ticks fed rP27/30immunized mice compared to the control exhibited an apparent slight difference Kemp et al ... were immunized with rP27/30, and nine were immunized with control gene 10 proteins One hundred micrograms of the rP27/30 and gene 10 proteins were injected into mice intraperitoneally after emulsifying ... Immunization of micewith recombinant P27/30 protein confers protection against hard tick 49 following feeding on rP27/30-immunized mice were 9.3 ± 0.2 and 10.8 ± 0.3 days compared to 9.1 ± 0.3...
... density of the endocrine cells in the small intestine of Balb/c micewith and without implantation of CT-26 Antisera Serotonin Somatostatin hPP† Gastrin CCK-8‡ Glucagon Non-implanted sham CT-26 ... density of the endocrine cells in the large intestine of Balb/c micewith and without implantation of CT-26 Antisera Serotonin Somatostatin hPP† Gastrin CCK-8‡ Glucagon Non-implanted sham CT-26 ... similar to the sham group (about 8.3% was decreased) (Tables and 3) Discussion CT-26 cells are rectal carcinoma cells that are established by administrating N-methylmorpholine N-oxide to Balb/c mice...
... [36] Only when miceare immunized with collagen in CFA is there an increase in disease severity in IFN-γ receptor -deficient mice Ablation of IFN-γ in these mice is associated with extramedullary ... disease severity in CIA is enhanced in IFN-γ receptor -deficient mice, and loss of the IFN-γ receptor turns mice normally resistant to CIA into an arthritis-susceptible strain [34,35] IFN-γ thus ... 12), and IL-10–/– (n = 11) mice; and (b) WT (n = 13) and IL-10–/– (n = 7) mice * P < 0.05 in comparison with WT mice Discussion These data are consistent with the inhibitory effects of IFN-γ on...
... change and fully stained cartilage to = total loss of toluidine blue staining and erosions in cartilage) These three scores were added together to obtain a total histological score, as previously ... panel (b) data shown are means ± SEM in one experiment Joint swelling was significantly greater on days and in ob/ob as compared with +/? mice, and in db/db as compared to db/+ mice (*P < 0.01) R259 ... administration of leptin [28] OB receptor deficient fa/fa rats also exhibit enhanced LPS-induced hepatotoxicity [29] Similarly, ob/ob and db/db miceare more likely to succumb after administration...
... susceptibility of miceto CIA, the incidence of disease (number of diseased mice divided by total number of mice) , the mean score (total score of diseased mice divided by total number of mice) , and ... a18 of the lpr/lpr mice and 16 of the lpr/+ miceare from Ma and co-workers [45] bNumber of diseased mice divided by all mice cScore of diseased mice divided by all mice ± SEM dTotal of days of ... Fas-mediated apoptosis Several studies demonstrated that autoreactive lymphocytes infiltrating the rheumatoid synovium are resistant to apoptosis either because of expression of the anti-apoptotic proteins...