teratogenesis mutagenesis carcinogenesis and effects on the immune and reproductive systems

... professionals and technicians lived abroad in 1980 1.4 The effects of Globalization on Education 1.4.1 The effects of Trade on Education While education helps the economy adjust to new conditions ... for the effects of emigration on ‘sending’ countries: effects of emigration on the education sector, both directly and through macro effects, and on the economy as a whole, both directly and ... through other effects Chart **: The effects of migration on education systems 1.4.3.1 Migration and the supply/loss in teacher capacity in the education sector The literature on migration from...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 11:16

... in a one-generation and in two-generation toxicity studies (35, 36) The effects on pups from these studies are discussed below and summarized in Table 5; the reproductive effects from the one-generation ... there were no effects on estrous cycle length or sperm morphology There were no effects on F0 and II-14 F1 mating, fertility, fecundity, and gestational indices There were no lesions in the reproductive ... oocyte or sperm counts The lack of effects on reproductive function was consistent with effects observed in the one-generation range-finding study In the two-generation reproductive toxicity study...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... for further details on these calculations 37 NTP Conclusions The NTP concurs with the conclusion of the CERHR Expert Panel on Bisphenol A that the scientific evidence supports a conclusion of ... evaluated the prostate using only an H&E stain The NTP concurs with the CERHR Expert Panel on Bisphenol A (2) and another recent evaluation (191) that additional studies are needed to understand the effects ... A exposure than the developmental effects observed at “high” doses on survival and growth and the “low” dose effects on brain and behavior, mammary gland, prostate gland, and onset of puberty...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... functions in the three orthogonal directions) The normalization parameters (deformation fields) obtained from the GM warping step were then reapplied to the WM and CSF partition images, the resulting ... GM, WM, and CSF tissue images and gives the probability for a voxel to belong to the considered tissue The location of the five axial slices is shown on a three-dimensional rendering of the average ... range In the subsequent results, we will thus only consider the CSF volume obtained with the multi-spectral segmentation only Table Sex and age effects and bSex by AgeQ interaction on absolute...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... under consideration, while the Fe-His frequency is primarily dependent on the strength of the Fe-His bond and hence on the status of the proximal His H-bond It appears that one can readily rationalize ... saturation (A1) to oat Resonance Raman and electronic absorption spectroscopy For resonance Raman and electronic absorption spectroscopy the experimental conditions were as reported in the captions ... obtained from comparison of the electronic absorption and RR spectra of the wild type and Thr171Ser either in the presence of the aromatic donor BHA or at alkaline pH Addition of saturating amounts...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... dehytion of the serous-producing salivary cells occurs dration), medications (both prescription and nonvia a process termed “apoptosis.” Within one week prescription), head and neck irradiation and ... receptors located on the taste buds and delivers tastants directly to the taste buds Patients with chronic xerostomia secondary to SS, head and neck radiotherapy and other conditions experience ... people are dysfunction SS occurs in primary and secondary more likely than the rest of the population to take medications and are more vulnerable to their side effects, medication-induced xerostomia...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... essential for the inhibition of H2O2-induced activation of caspases-9 and -3 and apoptosis (A) The effects of HSP70 and its deletion mutant proteins on the activation of caspases-9 and -3 were ... the same conditions, the absence of another mitochondrial marker cytochrome oxidase subunit II in the cytosolic fractions indicated that mitochondrial integrity was preserved and translocation ... caspase-3 and stress-activated protein kinase ⁄ Jun kinase (JNK) activation [18] and mitochondrial depolarization [19], blocks apoptosome formation and activation of caspase-9 [20], and inhibits the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... intensity is very similar On the other hand, the intensity distribution of the diffraction peaks in the range of 32–35◦ can provide a clue to distinguish between triclinic and monoclinic structures ... temperatures under the ambient conditions of (A) nitrogen and (B) oxygen They were observed with an Ar-ion laser excitation at 514 nm close to the wavenumbers of the strongest modes of monoclinic tungsten ... carbon impurities were confirmed to exist within the film probably due to the incorporation of carbon atoms originated from carbon-containing chemicals used in the synthesis processes, together...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:11

... Maryland 20857 Marijuana Effects on the Endocrine and Reproductive Systems ACKNOWLEDGMENT This monograph is based upon papers and discussion from the RAUS Review Conference on the Endocrine and Reproductive ... the effects of cannabinoids, primarily THC, on the female reproductive function in subprimates and discussed cannabinoid action on the target organs (uterus and ovary) as well as on the CNS and ... freauently used in conjunction with tobacco and alcohol, which have their own deleterious effects on the fetus These data will be further discussed in the Discussion and Recommendations Section AUTHORS...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... Dependence of the hydrolysis reaction rates by neurolysisn and TOP on concentration and chemical nature of salts The dependence of the rate constants according to the concentration and the chemical ... verify the inuence of the nature of the amino acid at this position on determination of the cleavage sites and on the amount of their hydrolysis This series of peptides was chosen because the P2Â and ... TOP and neurolysin of the substrates on the series AbzGGFLRRXQ-EDDnp and their peptide bonds cleaved in the kinetic measurement conditions TOP hydrolyzed the peptides I to VI only at RR bonds,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:21

... coimmunoprecipitated with CNX and CRT than with BiP Effects of interactions between TSHR and CNX and CRT We then attempted to determine the effects of these interactions on the maturation of the receptor CNX ... vasopressin receptor and gonadotropin receptor), interactions have been found to occur with various molecular chaperones, but the effects of these interactions on the maturation of these receptors ... Coimmunoprecipitation of molecular chaperones and TSHR RESULTS Synthesis, maturation and degradation of TSHR at the endoplasmic reticulum level To study the maturation of TSHR after its synthesis, K562...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20

... which is consistent with the physical role of the confinement Equation describes the size and the temperature effects on the water viscosity and should be significant for the research on the flow ... water (a) The relative amount of the hydrogen bonds of the confined water versus the diameter; (b) the comparison of the amount of the hydrogen bonds and the viscosity of the bulk water at the three ... the TIP4P-EW model [20], in which the SHAKE algorithm is used to constrain the bond length and angle of the water molecules The interactions between the carbon atoms and the oxygen atoms of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... important considerations exist in assessing the effects of estrogens and progestins broadly on the serum proteome The preparations considered here are conjugated equine estrogen and medroxyprogesterone ... relevance to the less-favorable E+P effects, compared with those for E-alone, on breast cancer, and CHD Similarly the addition of medroxyprogesterone acetate may also augment the effects of conjugated ... Strong evidence of the E+P effect exists on each of blood coagulation and inflammation, metabolism, osteogenesis, complement and immune response, and cell adhesion Moreover, the changes (base...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... strength in either hand; two had no strength in the right hand, and one had none in the left hand Only out of 62 male and 10 out of 63 female victims had handgrip strength for the dominant hand equal ... agency The definition of torture strictly followed the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Wang et al Conflict and Health 2010, 4:16 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/16 ... to stand on either foot for 30 seconds while 15 (12%) could maintain their balance standing on one foot or the other for 30 seconds (Table 6) Since the number of victims able to Wang et al Conflict...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... can shield the electrostatic repulsion between the sulphate groups and prevented the tight binding and aggregation of the helices (Michel et al., 1997) This aggregation of the helices contributed ... dependent on the proportion of alginate to copolymer and the moisture sorption ability of the individual polymer components Drug release across the alginate matrix was affected by varying the type and ... ions which led to the disruption of cross-linkages and consequently the disintegration of films (Østberg et al., 1994) Thus, addition of the copolymers to alginate enhanced the stability of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:43

... thickness On the other hand, evolution of CO2 from the reaction between H+ and CaCO3 resulted in the formation of abundant minute cavities, hence, contributing to volumetric increase of the internally ... different extents Unravelling the cross-linking mechanisms and their effects on matrix integrity would assist in the control of the interaction between Ca2+ and alginate with the use of more appropriate ... attributed to the deformation of the alginate matrices when subjected to strong compression pressure during in vacuo filtration and adhesion of microspheres in close contact with one another during...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:44

... between the viscosity of sodium alginate and the Ca2+ content, indicating a strong influence of the polymer viscosity on the extent of cross-linking in the microspheres In film formation, the sodium ... different size fractions and the effect of microsphere size on the encapsulation properties and drug release characteristics was studied This would provide more conclusive evidence on the effects of alginate ... Among these alginates, MA and NI had low G while FL had high G contents Thus, this further supported the earlier suggestion that the viscosity of the alginate would influence the interaction...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:45

... paper, we will concentrate on the effects of nanowire cross-sectional shapes, orientations and sizes on the performance of NW based on their electronic bandstructures; therefore, the semi-classical ... knowledge of neither the basis functions nor the real space Hamiltonian On the contrary, TB approaches are based on explicit construction of both the localized atomic orbitals and the Hamiltonian matrix ... dominates the gate capacitance, the performance of the NW FETs only depends on the degeneracy of E-k instead of effective mass [34] Based on the bandstructure calculations, the variations of the bandgap...

Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2015, 21:56

... by thinning channel The nonparabolic conduction bands and the electron quantization significantly increase the effective mass The high vinj and reasonable electron concentration render III-V transistor ... exceptional frequency response In the logic operations, two most important parameters worthy of note are ION and IOFF ION is determined by the electron concentration and the electron injection velocity ... plot the band structures of the Si, GaSb and InAs along [100]/(001) direction, with their lowest conduction band at E = 0.2 eV In the [100]/(001) direction, the effective mass of the lowest conduction...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2015, 17:08