... in Malawi Consequently, as land is a binding constraint in most areas of Malawi, increases in agricultural productivity, in particular in the growing of maize, and increased diversification into ... alleviating their food insecurity To gain a better understanding of the possible role of credit in improving household food security and alleviating poverty in Malawi, in November 1994 the International ... offered by these informal financial institutions Therefore understanding how the informal institutions serve households’ demand for financial services and interact with the formal credit institutions...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
... isoquinoline-1,3,4-trione and its derivatives Moreover, caspases play an important role in mediating the effects of in ammatory cytokines (interleukin-1, Fas-l) and pathological processes in inflammatory ... isoquinoline-1,3,4-trione and its derivatives protect human Jurkat T cells against the induction of apoptosis by camptothecin [30] In this study, we found that isoquinoline-1,3,4-trione and its derivatives ... irreversible caspase-3 inhibitor Isoquinoline-1,3,4-trione and its derivatives are slow-binding inhibitors The hallmark of slow-binding inhibition is that the degree of inhibition at a fixed concentration...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Identification and expression analysis of an IL-18 homologue and its alternatively spliced form in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) doc
... Cloning and expression of interleukin-18 binding protein FEBS Lett 445, 338–342 32 Novick, D., Kim, S.H., Fantuzzi, G., Reznikov, L.L., Dinarello, C.A & Rubinstein, M (1999) Interleukin-18 binding ... molecules and interferon-induced proteins have been sequenced in fish in recent years [15,52] It is known that IFN-c can be induced by two main cytokines, IL-12 and IL-18 In chicken, the recombinant ... Genomic DNA and the deduced protein sequence of rainbow trout IL-18 Exons and introns are indicated in uppercase and lowercase, respectively Intron splicing signal motifs are boxed and the polyadenylation...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Huntington’s disease: roles of huntingtin-interacting protein 1 (HIP-1) and its molecular partner HIPPI in the regulation of apoptosis and transcription pptx
... ENTH domain of HIP-1 interacts with 3-phosphate containing inositol lipids and stabilizes the growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases by increasing their half-life following ligand induced endocytosis ... In addition to Htt, HIP-1 interacts with its paralog HIP1-R, subunits of clathrin-associated adaptor protein (AP) complex AP2A1 and AP2A2, clathrin heavy chain (CLH1), and clathrin heavy chain ... caspase-8-mediated pathway Rybp also interacts with ubiquitin-binding protein, procaspase-8, procaspase-10, and the HIPPI interactor apotin Interaction of HIPPI with Rybp is involved in murine neural development,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Membrane trafficking of CD98 and its ligand galectin 3 in BeWo cells ) implication for placental cell fusion pot
... Oligomerization enables galectin to mediate crosslinking of its ligands In order to crosslink surface ligands to exert its activities, galectin 3, which is mainly intracellular, has to be released ... of galectin that contain transmembrane domains have been detected in chicken osteoblast-like cells and in intestine [26]) Finally, there is evidence for galectin as a factor in RNA splicing, based ... galectin 3, an S-type lectin containing a carbohydrate-binding domain, as a physiological ligand of CD98 in vivo [18] Figure 5A shows the primary intracellular distribution of galectin in the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20
methane and its derivatives (chemical industries) by sunggyu lee
... chemistry and engineering This single–authored book is designed to fill this need This book aims at presenting all the scientific and technological information regarding methane and its derivatives, and ... transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing ... Cracking: Catalysts, Chemistry, and Kinetics, Bohdan W Wojciechowski and Avelino Corma 26 Chemical Reaction and Reactor Engineering, edited by J J Carberry and A Varma 27 Filtration: Principles and...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 15:59
Báo cáo hóa học: "Urinary N-acetyl-beta -D-glucosaminidase and its isoenzymes A & B in workers exposed to cadmium at cadmium plating" pot
... -D-glucosaminidase and isoenzymes A and B (N = 100) Variables Urine cadmium (μg/g of creatinine) Urinary Total NAG (U/g of creatinnine) Urinary NAG-A (U/g of creatinnine) Urinary NAG-B (U/g of creatinnine) ... Consumption (Drinks/week) Never Urine cadmium (μg/g creatinine) >5 Urinary Total NAG (U/g of creatinine) β (P-value) Urinary NAG-A (U/g of creatinine) β (P-value) Urinary NAG-B (U/g of creatinine) β ... μg/L The internal standard of Cd was added to urine and analyzed, and a recovery rate of 98.2% was found Total N-acetyl-â-D-glucosaminidase and its Isoenzmes A and B The levels of urinary N-acetyl-beta...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo toán học: "The cube polynomial and its derivatives: the case of median graphs" pps
... θ0 (G) = and θ1 (G) = k Thus plugging s = and s = into (3) we obtain (1) and (2), respectively Preliminaries Let G be the set of all finite graphs Denote by Pn the path on n vertices, and by Kn ... 1, 2, and, for any vertex u of G0 = G1 ∩ G2 , let ui be the corresponding vertex in G∗ Then G∗ is obtained from the disjoint union of G∗ and G∗ , where for each u of G0 the i vertices u1 and u2 ... number of induced i-cubes in G, and θi = θi (G) the number of components in ∂ i G Then for every s ∈ IN0 , (a) αs = s! i≥s θi (i − s)! and (−1)i−s θs = s! i≥0 the electronic journal of combinatorics...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 07:21
Báo cáo vật lý: "Synthesis of Hydroxyl Radical Scavengers from Benzalacetone and its Derivatives" pot
... area integration that showed the number of protons There is a peak at δ 1–2 ppm in the 1H-NMR spectra of benzalacetone and its derivatives but none in the 1H-NMR of dibenzalacetone and its derivatives ... using 1:1 acetone:benzaldehyde and its derivatives yielded benzalacetone, anisalacetone, veratralacetone dan cinnamalacetone Meanwhile, the synthesis using 1:2 acetone:benzaldehyde and its derivatives ... dibenzalacetone and its derivatives From the graphs the IC50 values of the samples by using regression linear equation are shown in Table The result of the research shows that the compounds in decreasing...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Age trends in genotypic variation of wood density and its intra-ring components in young poplar hybrid crosses" doc
... be found in Zhang and Morgenstern [48] and Koga and Zhang [25] Age trends in changes and variation of mean wood density and its components, minimum and maximum densities, ring width, and composite ... measurements of individual growth rings, minimum and maximum wood density, and ring width were obtained from microdensitometer profiles obtained using a direct reading X-ray densitometer at Forintek Canada ... containing four trees One systematic thinning was carried out (by removing every second tree in a row) in 1995 at the Platon site and in 1996 at the Windsor and Saint-Ours sites A subset of three hybrid...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " Pharmacoknetic study of diclofenac and its interaction with enrofloxacin in buffalo calves" docx
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "General pharmacological profiles of bee venom and its water soluble fractions in rodent models" doc
... proliferation and soft tissue swelling) in rat model with joint arthritis Despite the accumulating evidence showing a profound antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory effect of subcutaneous BV and BVA ... rota-rod test is usually used to examine possible deficits in motor function including motor incoordination and ataxia in rodents [2] Mice were placed on a rotating rod (12 cm wide; cm diameter) ... nor its subfractions altered intestinal peristaltic function or gastric function and thus BV and its BVAF3 subfraction have potent antinociceptive effects without adverse effects in intestines...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: "Preventive effects of Flos Perariae (Gehua) water extract and its active ingredient puerarin in rodent alcoholism models" pps
... al Chinese Medicine 2010, 5:36 http://www.cmjournal.org/content/5/1/36 to both alcohol metabolism and the reward circuits in the brain [11] Isoflavones including daidzein, daidzin and puerarin ... 4’,7-O-glucopyranoside, puerarin, 6’-O- xylosylpuerarin, mirificin, daidzin, 3’-methoxypuerarin, genistin, sophoraside A, ononin, daidzein, genistein and formononetin, were purchased from the National Institute ... 4’,7-O-glucopyranoside, puerarin, 6’-O- xylosylpuerarin, mirificin, daidzin, 3’-methoxypuerarin, genistin, sophoraside A, ononin, daidzein, genistein and formononetin Among them, the abundance of puerarin was highest...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20
Functional characterization of HGF and its receptor c met in zebrafish development
... β1-integrin and erbB2 p125FAK (focal adhesion kinase) is a 125 kDa protein, consisting of a N-terminus integrin-binding site, a central kinase domain, and a C-terminus focal adhesion targeting and ... paxillinbinding domains (Schaller and Sasaki, 1997) p125FAK family members include proteins such as PYK2 and FAK-B p125FAK can interact with integrins, paxillin, PI3-K, SH3 domain-containing adapter ... domain-containing proteins such as Crk/CRKL and Src, five leucineand aspartate-rich (LD) domains, and four tandem-repeat double-zinc finger LIM domains that are employed to recruit signaling...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:18
Vinogradovs theorem and its generalization on primes in arithmetic progression
... first invented by Hardy and Ramanujan and then further developed and applied by Hardy and Littlewood in solving the Waring’s problem In fact, the circle method has far reaching applications in other ... serve us in proving Vinogradov’s theorem in Chapter and the generalized Vinogradov’s theorem in Chapter The most important of these tools is an inequality for exponential sums We shall also introduce ... enough in order for certain inequalities to hold in the proof We first divide the domain of integration into two parts: the major arcs and the minor arcs The major arcs are defined by M= M(q, a),...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 15:36
Livelihood strategies and its impact on women in northern thailand
... factor in its continuation and acceleration was that from 1987, Thailand became a major destination for Japanese and Asian NIE investment in labour-intensive manufacturing operations (Pasuk and ... main drivers for consumer services within Asia is also the increasing levels in income and education As the population becomes more educated and prosperous, there has been an increasing demand ... this sort includes employment in the manufacturing and service sectors, such as in tourism and nursing for respondents in Chiang Mai 10 Livelihood Strategies As explained and elaborated in the...
Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 11:00
Báo cáo khoa học: A new pathway encompassing calpain 3 and its newly identified substrate cardiac ankyrin repeat protein is involved in the regulation of the nuclear factor-jB pathway in skeletal muscle pdf
... control, an interaction test of calpain and N2A-titin is performed (upper left panel) The yeasts carrying calpain and CARP grow on the selective medium, indicating that CARP and calpain interact ... active calpain was investigated A direct, in vitro digestion of CARP by calpain using recombinant proteins could not be attempted because calpain is inactivated during purification [45] In skeletal ... signals and gene expression [18] The MARP family is composed of three proteins, ankyrin repeat domain-containing protein (Ankrd2), cardiac ankyrin repeat protein (CARP) and diabetes-related ankyrin...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Cholesterol and its anionic derivatives inhibit 5-lipoxygenase activation in polymorphonuclear leukocytes and MonoMac6 cells pot
... cytochalasin D (Cyto D), completely prevented CS-induced inhibition of LT synthesis in PMNL (Fig 5) Inhibitory effect of CS in a 5-LO cell-free assay Fig CS inhibits 5-LO product synthesis in MM6 and ... synthesis is inhibited by cytochalasin D and chlorpromazine The inhibitory in uence of 25 lgÆmL)1 CS on LT formation in PMNL was abolished in the presence of 10 lM cytochalasin D (Cyto D) and 30 lM ... The C2 domain of cPLA2 [40] and 5-LO [15] strongly favor the zwitterionic phosphatidylcholine and these protein–lipid interactions may thus be inhibited by cholesterol and its anionic derivatives, ...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20
New Concepts in Diabetes and Its Treatment - part 1 ppt
... sulfonylureas and of insulin resistance (in its genetic and acquired components) as modified by diet and the new lipase-inhibitory drug or by metformin (and perhaps troglitazone agents) Insulin therapy ... cleaved into the so-called connecting peptide (C-peptide) and the insulin molecule, composed of two peptide chains containing 51 amino acid residues Both insulin and C-peptide are packaged in the ... uncleaved proinsulin In contrast to insulin, C-peptide is not taken up by the liver (and the other insulin-sensitive tissues), and therefore its plasma level is a good index of insulin secretion...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 15:20