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... Emerging Asia Pacific • In 2005/2006, Holcim acquired ACC Ltd and Ambuja Cement Ltd in India • Cement capacity in India increased since 2005/06 by 20 million tons Further capacity increases in India ... Sound financing and High liquidity • Holcim will benefit from the upswing and has the strength for value creating acquisitions © Holcim Ltd 2010 Investor / Analyst Capital Markets Event 2010 What ... Dividend policy maintained Reduced debt by CHF billion Goodwill 40% of equity BBB rating maintained Funds from operations / Net financial debt 1) Capital increase 1'929 Financial investments Cash...

Ngày tải lên: 30/07/2014, 21:32

... expression of the human p32 protein [23] In this study, we investigated the effect of human CyclinT1 and CRM1 expressed in rat T cells and macrophages, including primary cells, in order to identify ... expression of an integrated HIV-1 provirus [15] A single amino acid difference between human and mouse CyclinT1 (mCycT1), which has a tyrosine at residue 261 in place of the cysteine amino acid in hCycT1, ... marker of infectivity Interestingly, R5 viruses produced in rat T cells, including the JR-CSF [27], YU-2 [28], and NL-AD8 [29] strains, were equally infectious compared to those produced by human...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... ⁄ LEDGF-interacting domain linked to DNA-binding domains (AT-hook and MT domain) becomes disconnected from the PHD domains, the FYRN domain, the transactivating domain, the FYRC domain and the ... different signaling pathways, Role of MLL in human malignancies for example, protein kinase C, protein kinase A, RAS ⁄ RAF, WNT-, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and Hedgehog, and thus affects ... HH and mTOR) GSK3 is normally inactivated by specific phosphorylation at the serine residue This renders GSK3 inactive and allows physiological reactions such as b-catenin and insulin signaling,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 14:20

... 5¢ss recognition in the normal splicing process [55] First, U1snRNP binding to an intronic splicing processing element has been found to inhibit pathological pseudoexon inclusion in intron 20 of ... can become as good as the spliceosome in deciding what is an exon and what is an intron [21] Where pseudoexon sequences come into the story? Central to the issue of deciding what is an exon and ... activating exons in what would normally have been the antisense genomic strand In a few genes, a particularly interesting method of pseudoexon activation event has also occurred following the inactivation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... acetylcholinesterase can interact with laminin and collagen IV [17,18], nicotinic receptors [19], amyloid b-peptide and presenilin-1 [20], neuronal enolase, the scaffold protein RACK1 and protein kinase ... acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase in cancers of diverse origin [26,27], the tumourinducing effect of anticholinesterase agents [26,28], the relationship between astrocytoma severity and ... erythrocytes in the extent of binding with the lectins concanavalin A, Lens culinaris agglutinin 4522 (LCA), and Ricinus communis agglutinin (RCA) (Fig 3), ruled out the blood origin and supported the renal...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... interest rates in inflationary shocks to some extent New Zealand and those in Australia and the United States Alternatively, we may think of the deregulation and subsequent increase in debt holdings ... interest rates tend to be increased in cyclical upswings and Our first approach to estimating the NRR involves taking observed nominal interest rates, converting these to real 12 In reality investors ... the investment curve to the right investor ‘home bias’ Home bias suggests that investors will accept lower returns for investing in their home country than they could obtain from investing in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... take in 20 hours of content in three days 20 condensed hours covering thousands of hours of experience When you leave yourself open to all possibilities, you end up choosing none If I were starting ... excusable I not think less of a person who isn't making any money online I think less of a person who doesn't want to admit it though, or who lies about it The fact is, I can' t really help those people ... just stay in the hotel room and act, act, act By the flight home, I'd have already put in 25 hours of work into my new internet business The momentum would them carry over to when I got home With...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... infections Calander and colleagues [29], using wild-type S aureus strain 8325-4 and its mutants lacking aureolysin, serine protease, and cysteine protease, demonstrated in a murine SA model that inactivation ... various agents for 30 minutes before assaying for tyrosine phosphorylation The assays were carried out in triplicate There was significant increase in tyrosine phosphorylation in S aureus culture ... clearing the infection and debris from the joint cavity indicates the possibility of host-derived proteases in causing joint pathology Previous studies have shown the release of active MMP-1 and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... blot and immunofluorescence staining Polyclonal antibodies against nephrin and podocin were kindly provided from Dr Shuyu Ren (Bern, Switzerland) Monoclonal antibodies for β1 and α3 integrin subunits ... specific marker proteins (integrin α3β1 or podocin) we confirmed that cells isolated from the urine are podocytes In addition, by intracellular FACS staining using ADAM10 and WT1 as a specific ... profiling of ADAM12 in human bladder cancer Clin Cancer Res 2006, 12:7359-7368 doi: 10.1186/1423-0127-17-3 Cite this article as: Gutwein et al., ADAM10 is expressed in human podocytes and found in...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... signaling The importance of cFLIP in humans was shown by the finding that dysregulation of cFLIP expression is observed in numerous autoimmune diseases and cancers [11] UV light is known to induce ... (1.78 fold) and cFLIP (1.9 fold), indicating that virus infection had a low effect on these cells From these results, we can see that the level of DDB2 and cFLIP is increased in cisplatin-resistant ... XP-A, and HEK293 cells (obtained from the American Type Tissue Collection), and cisplatin-resistant HeLa cell lines (HR3 and HR18) [21,22] were prepared and maintained as described previously...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... on the Hardy-Weinberg formula Results and Discussion We tested 28 individuals who were positive and 53 who were negative for sCTLA-4 in blood plasma for the purpose of determining whether there ... protein and SNP genotypes Our data confirm and extend the findings of Purohit and co-workers [30], who reported a lack of association between CT60 genotype and sCTLA-4 levels On the other hand, ... vulgaris [24], and autoimmune pancreatitis [25] In a landmark study of SNP analysis within a 330 kb region of chromosome 2q33 containing CD28, CTLA-4 and the ICOS gene regions in type I diabetics,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... TSA-induced apoptosis in human eosinophils (n = 6, data not shown) Involvement of caspases in TSA-induced apoptosis in human eosinophils Even though the involvement of caspases in apoptosis in ... effect of Trichostatin A on apoptosis in human neutrophils in the presence (A) or absence (B) of the survival-prolonging cytokine GM-CSF (10 ng/ml) In (C-E) is shown the effect of trichostatin ... acitivity and induce apoptosis in human eosinophils and neutrophils in the absence and presence of survival-prolonging cytokines and glucocorticoids Furthermore, we report that eosinophils and neutrophils...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... or smoking behaviour might alter MF functions In fact, smoking has been shown previously to increase basal levels of TNF-a, IL1 or IL8 in human AM [25] and to cause changes in morphology and surface ... washed in FACSwash and resuspended in 1% (w/v) cold paraformaldehyde in PBS, pH 7.6 HLA-DR and CD14 staining were performed similarly, except that FACS buffer II (PBS containing 0.05% (w/v) NaN3 and ... 1% (w/v) NaN and 0.5% (w/v) BSA for CD14) were used instead of FACS buffer I Intracellular staining of CD68 was done using the IntraStain Reagents (Dako, Carpinteria, CA, USA) according to the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... staining of normal and osteoarthritis (OA) chondrocytes after isolation and initial adherence Representative images of an OA chondrocyte sample are shown in (a-d); staining results for normal chondrocytes ... Medicine Berlin, and all patients gave their informed consent For immunohistological analysis, osteochondral samples were prepared using a handsaw, directly fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde in phosphate-buffered ... carbon dioxide in serum-free DMEM/F12 Nutmix (DMEM/F12; Invitrogen, Karlsruhe, Germany) containing 0.1% pronase E (Sigma-Aldrich, Taufkirchen, Germany) in a spinner flask for fine mincing and digestion...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23

... as a continuous sinusoidal staining and in the stroma of portal tracts (Fig 7A) In the cirrhotic liver, the sinusoidal staining was enhanced, whereas a very faint staining was observed in fibrous ... of s-LIF-D, initiation at the AUG within exon D would result in a reading-frame shift following the 6th amino-acid (aa) and a termination at aa 88, the resulting protein bearing no homology with ... expression in various cell lines and in human liver RT-PCR analysis of LIF-M expression in various cell lines and in human liver (A): LIF-M expression was analyzed with the hLIF-M2 and hLIF-3N...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... selection from the output of Method 1, Method and Method for tests in the 9,806 known TSSs of 500 bp apart, and such combined methods were called Method 1s, Method 2s, and Method 3s respectively A predicted ... found 2,841 of 4,140 human known promoters in those 3,649 human- rodent orthologous gene pairs, and 152 of 229 mouse known promoters in those 214 mouse-rat orthologous gene pairs In total, around ... although sensitivity dropped 3%, an improvement of 20% in specificity is well worth the effort Just using transcript information, Method can improve on Method by 11% in specificity and 3% in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... Lipofectamine 2000 Lipofectamine PLUS Metafectene Lipofectin GenePORTER LipoGen Roche Invitrogen Invitrogen Biontex Invitrogen Gene Therapy Solutions Invivo and µg and µg 0.8 and 1.6 µg and µg and µg and ... settings on human Ao and CoA SMC and EC Electroporation and PCI may prove difficult to use in a clinical setting Regarding electroporation, tissues would have to be electroporated by using methods that ... voltage, capacitance and resistance settings were used For SMC the initial resistance and capacitance settings were 725Ω and 125 µF and for EC they were 950Ω and 25 µF The voltage settings tested varied...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... the threshold (Optimal threshold: the threshold obtained by minimizing the averaged sum of squared errors; Average adaptive threshold: adaptively chosen thresholds obtained ˆ by minimizing the ... Chapter Human Biomonitoring tional expectations using simulations at each step The resulting algorithm is computing intensive and is not amenable to hierarchical modeling to facilitate pooling of information ... sample mean and sample variance of the pool averages Aij in the ith demographic group ˆ2 The GLE of µi and σi can be obtained by substituting αi,G and βi,G into ˆ (2.1), which can be inverted to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:19

... parsed into three distinct biological settings In a 2007 meeting in Poland and a 2008 meeting in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, the suggestion of EMT subtypes were well discussed and divided into ... 1.3.2.1 Inactivation of tumor suppressor in colorectal cancer In colorectal cancer, the initiating event is activation of Wnt signaling pathway Wnt signaling occurs when the oncoprotein β-catenin bind ... large intestine or a circulating granulocyte) can be measured in days or even hours Despite the ephemeral nature of most of their individual cell components, human tissues maintain their mass and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... PI3K/AKT-PKB Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase/AKT-Protein Kinase B PIP2 Phosphatidylinositols(4,5)P2 PIP3 Phosphatidylinositols(3,4,5)P3 PKC Protein Kinase C 20 PLC-γ/PKC Phospholipase C-γ/Protein Kinase C ... frequencies, and this difference in resonance frequency reveals structural information about the brain metabolites such as choline (Cho), creatine and phosphocreatine (Cr), lactate (Lac), myoinositol ... Cellular Signalling 4.6 Paracrine and Autocrine Loops in Cancer 4.7 Paracrine and Autocrine Loops in Gliomas 4.8 Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) Family 4.9 GDNF and Malignant...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 12:13