... core in this family [3–6] To identify the catalytic residues involved in the PGDS and PGFS activity catalyzed by AKR1B1, we introduced site-directed mutagenesis into the tetrad, generating the ... was incubated with various concentrations of PGH2 in the presence of 0.5 mM NADPH for PGFS activity or in the absence of NADPH or NADP+ for PGDS activity For PGDS activity, the enzymes were incubated ... (PNBR) activity at pH 7.0 by the wild-type and mutants (D) Typical fluorescence quenching curves of wild-type AKR1B1 and its mutants The binding of NADP+ to these proteins was determined by measuring...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20
... of the reactivity of the K5 peptide with casein in the presence of TGases The time-dependent incorporation of biotinylated peptides (pepK5, pepK5QN and pepT26) into casein was examined in the ... 2, and 5) are expressed in keratinocytes [13–18], and are involved in cross-linking of the structural proteins to form the CE at distinct intracellular sites [8,18] In the current model of TGase ... pepK5QN was not incorporated into casein, also acting as glutamine-donor substrate, in the presence of either TGase or TGase This result indicates that the lysine residue in the sequence of K5...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
2009 Investment Company Fact Book 49th edition - A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry pptx
... toward institutional investors attracted $525 billion in new cash during 2008 Increased economic uncertainty during the year and ongoing turmoil in the money markets encouraged these investors to increase ... effect on funds invested in foreign stocks U.S stock and bond funds holding international assets decreased further from the strengthening of the U.S dollar and the resulting decrease in the dollar ... effects of the crisis in 2008 include the failures of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Washington Mutual, Inc., and a range of other financial institutions; the government-orchestrated rescues of The Bear...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21
2011 Investment Company Fact Book - A Review of Trends and Activity in the Investment Company Industry doc
... funds dominated fund investing following the passage of the Investment Company Act of 1940 But successive bear markets in stocks in the 1970s along with rising interest rates drew investors into ... assets increased $700 billion from the level at year-end 2009, largely reflecting the continued rise in stock prices in 2010 At the same time, investor demand for mutual funds declined further in ... stocks However, gains in U.S stock and bond funds that held international assets were moderated by the strengthening of the U.S dollar and the resulting decrease in the dollar value of their foreign...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo y học: "Proteinases in the joint: clinical relevance of proteinases in joint destruction Yvonne Rengel, Caroline Ospelt and Steffen Gay" doc
... family of agents includes tetracycline, doxycycline, minocycline and the tetracycline analogues that have been chemically modified to eliminate their antimicrobial activity Inhibition of signal ... matrix by binding to proteoglycans [24] Adamalysins ADAM The adamalysin family includes the adamalysins (ADAM [a disintegrin and metalloproteinase]) and ADAMTS (a disintegrin and metalloproteinase ... MMP-1 is involved in tissue destruction initiated in the superficial zone of the cartilage during inflammation, whereas MMP-13 plays a role in the remodelling phase of the disease [19] Furthermore,...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo y học: "Markers of B-lymphocyte activation are elevated in patients with early rheumatoid arthritis and correlated with disease activity in the ESPOIR cohort" pdf
... of IgM, as in our patients with early RA [8] Our second important finding was the absence of an association between the BAFF gene polymorphism and either RA or any of the baseline clinical, immunological, ... on the early pathogenic role of B lymphocytes in RA and suggests that targeting these cells might be a useful therapeutic strategy in early RA Competing interests The authors declare that they ... diagnosis [18], they remain widely used in patients with early arthritis in the absence of any other international criteria for early RA The percentage of patients who fulfilled these 1987 ACR...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "Enhanced glutamate, IP3 and cAMP activity in the cerebral cortex of Unilateral 6-hydroxydopamine induced Parkinson’s rats: Effect of 5-HT, GABA and bone marrow cell supplementation" ppsx
... of the Receptor-Binding Data Linear Regression Analysis for Scatchard Plots The data were analysed [25] The specific binding was determined by subtracting non-specific binding from the total The ... 23°C in an assay medium containing 10 mM HEPES, pH 7.0, 200 - 250 μg of protein, 100 μM glycine and 100 μM glutamate Specific [ H] MK-801 binding was obtained by subtracting nonspecific binding in ... was infused into the right Substantia nigra Pars compacta (SNpc) at a flow rate of 0.2 μl/min After stopping the infusion of the toxin, the probe was kept in the same position for a further for...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
Báo cáo y học: "Development of daily rhythmicity in heart rate and locomotor activity in the human fetus" ppt
... were determined for the fetus Fetal locomotor activity did not influence the course and cyclicity of the mother's nocturnal sleep It can be assumed that the fetus, during the intrauterine development ... Hoppenbrowers [14] directed their investigations mainly toward the study of fetal heart rate changes during the mother's sleep Our findings agree with Hellbrugge's [13] results indicating the occurrence of ... both the mother and the fetus It is possible to suggest that the process involved in the intrauterine development of the fetus requires the availability of a relatively persistent homeostasis; the...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo y học: "Infections requiring hospitalization in the abatacept clinical development program: an epidemiological assessment" potx
... (hospitalized infections), and the computation of person-time in the evaluation of infections in the abatacept CDP and the RA cohorts In randomized trials, serious infections are defined as infection ... enrolled in the registry (for example, NOAR) TB screening prior to entry in the trials may have resulted in a lower incidence of TB in the abatacept CDP The exclusion of patients with a recent infection, ... [14] In this paper, we report on infections requiring hospitalizations in the cumulative experience with abatacept from RCTs, including both the double-blind and the open-label phases Since no...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo y học: "Effects of redox cycling compounds on DT diaphorase activity in the liver of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)" doc
... http://www.comparative-hepatology.com/content/4/1/4 doubled the DTD activity in rainbow trout liver cytosol, whereas no increase in DTD activity was observed in the other fish species receiving the same treatment, including the brown trout ... mechanism involving the AHR) and have electrophilic metabolites that induce DTD activity (via the ARE) [18] Therefore, the results obtained in this study imply that rainbow trout DTD activity can be induced ... DTD activity, either due to knockout of the DTD gene or by dicoumarol enzyme inhibition, causes an increase in quinone dependent toxicity [12,35] The cells inability to break the redox cycling...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo y học: "Evaluation of the effects of a VEGFR-2 inhibitor compound on alanine aminotransferase gene expression and enzymatic activity in the rat liver" pdf
... AG28262, a VEGFR-2 inhibitor, in treated rats in the absence of morphological changes in the liver The results of this investigation suggests that the source of increased serum ALT in AG28262 treated ... nature The distributional effect of copper, for example is thought to reflect the site of gastrointestinal absorption and portal streamlining into the liver [14] Other studies have indicated that the ... understanding the potential localization of hepatic diseases and carcinomas within the liver Understanding these regional effects is critical in the interpretation of data that captures endpoints...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Sources of variation and genetic profile of spontaneous, out-of-season ovulatory activity in the Chios sheep" potx
... reported a significant effect of time since the last lambing on sexual activity, when comparing autumn and winter lambings Furthermore, the winter lambings in the Dzabirski and Notter [5] study took ... assessing the blood progesterone level, to determine whether the ewes were cycling Hence, the ewes that had lambed in the winter did not have enough time to recover and commence sexual activity The ... sheep raised in the same region [1,24] The principal mechanism that triggers the onset of the breeding season relates to light Thus, naturally, sheep mainly breed in the autumn, when the duration...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21
Direct and indirect cholinergic septo hippocampal pathways cooperate to structure spiking activity in the hippocampus
... were then quantified as the difference between the theta peak power during stimulation and the theta peak power during the baseline period, yielding the corrected theta peak power For analyzing the ... fibers originating in the ipsilateral and contralateral hilar region The molecular layer mainly consists of the apical dendrites of the granule cells These are the principal cells inside the relatively ... from the lateral entorhinal cortex terminate in the distal zone along the transverse axis of the hippocampus, whereas fibers from the medial entorhinal cortex terminate in the proximal zone In...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:11
Heterotrophic Activity in the Sea
... needed at the bottom is diminished both by animal feeders along the way and by bacteria doing their work both in the upper mixed layer and in the oxygen minimum layer in the thermocline Bubnov ... persuade that the clean, defined systems they study may not behave in the same way in nature that they in the culture tube In the case of the ocean, recent events have demonstrated that the systems ... technique, the frequency of dividing cells, involves no incubation but instead relies upon determination of the percentage of the population in the dividing state The technique x PREFACE is promising...
Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 22:30
The impact of climate change human activity on water sediment artificial neutral network modelling in the longchuanjiang catchment, upper yangtze river
... County The length of the main channel is 231.2 km There are two large tributaries, the Qinglinhe and the Mengganghe The Qinglinhe originates in Yaoan County and flows into the main channel at Xinjiang, ... considering the overlapping of the influence and the lag effect of the driving forces 1.1.2 Mathematical modelling of the impact and limitation of current research There is a growing concern about the ... flux in the pre-1990 period; grey dots are observed sediment flux in the post-1990 period; the straight line is the trend line of the sediment flux in the pre-1990 period; the equation is for the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:05
Báo cáo y học: "Two-year Outcome of Turkish Patients Treated with Zotarolimus Versus Paclitaxel Eluting Stents in an Unselected Population with Coronary Artery Disease in the Real World: A Prospective Non-randomized Registry in Southern Turk
... treating single de novo lesions in patients with symptomatic coronary artery disease has been examined in the first four trials of the ongoing ENDEAVOR clinical trials program The results of these ... angiograms The glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained anti-platelet therapy following the procedure (aspirin 300 mg/d ... were free to use the stent approach and either the ZES or PES stent that they considered to be best Study End Points and Definitions The primary clinical efficacy end points included major adverse...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18
Báo cáo y học: " Safety and efficacy of undenatured type II collagen in the treatment of osteoarthritis of the knee: a clinical trial"
... Visit Visit Randomization Clinical assessments as indicated; first dose in clinic Clinical assessments as indicated Clinical assessments as indicated Clinical assessments as indicated 30 60 Treatment ... Subject using other therapies for OA, such as exercise, heat/cold therapy, joint protection and physiotherapy/occupational therapy agrees to continue these therapies as normal avoiding changes in frequency ... time Clinical judgment of physician Subjects were withdrawn from the study (without penalty) if, in the opinion of the treating physician, it was not in the patient’s best interest to continue...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48
Natural botanical products have a long history in the world and are featured in using a complex
... is therefore possible that CKBM could induce cytokine release including TNF-α in these animals and inhibit tumor growth However, further study is needed to determine how they are induced and the ... compounds including lunasin and lectins that were shown to induce apoptosis in malignant cells [13] As CKBM contains these compounds, this would partially explain why it inhibits tumor growth in the ... through the induction of apoptosis and inhibition of proliferation of gastric cancer cells However, further clinical trials in humans are needed to examine the pharmacokinetics and the therapeutic...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54
The Art of Building in the Classical World
... ideal, intimate experience of the ideai lies beyond the reach of incarnate philosophers in the world, including even Sokrates At best, the actual philosopher in the world (as opposed to the ideal ... illuminate the ᪉ 15 The Art of Building in the Classical World intelligible realm It also gives birth to the sun in the phenomenal realm Similarly, the philosopher must receive a flow from the ... This page intentionally left blank The Art of Building in the Classical World This book examines the application of drawing in the creation of classical architecture, exploring how the tools...
Ngày tải lên: 15/11/2012, 10:32
Vietnam in the World Ranking
... China = 126 • Russia= 134 • Vietnam = 145 • North Korea = 157 Institutional Investor Risk Rating • Rủi ro thông tin cung cấp ngân hàng quốc tế • Ngân hàng yêu cầu đánh giá tín nhiệm quốc gia theo ... quốc gia họ Institutional Investor 2007 Risk Rating of ASIA • • • • • • • • • Singapore= 16 Australia= 18 Hongkong= 24 Taiwan= 26 South Korea= 28 China= 34 Malaysia= 38 Thailand= 54 India= 58 • ... hạ tầng Hệ thống giáo dục quản lý trường học World Bank: Doing Business in 2008 • Báo cáo Môi trường Kinh doanh nghiên cứu 10 yếu tố hoạt động kinh doanh là: Thành lập doanh nghiệp, Cấp giấy...
Ngày tải lên: 04/03/2013, 11:42