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... between pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic factors determines the overall amount of apoptosis Therefore, we investigated whether expression of genes for pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic factors was affected ... driven by progress in diagnostic tools [3] Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is the treatment of choice for patients with CTEPH, as it restores perfusion to previously occluded zones and ... studied two pro-apoptotic factors, thrombospondin-1 (Thsp-1) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and two antiapoptotic factors, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... (NO)-dependent vasodilator, to the organ bath One of the rings of the aorta and the left branch of the pulmonary artery were tested to cumulative concentrations of ADP (10-9 to 10-5M) Response to cumulative ... interaction as independent factors The estimates of the factors were adjusted by the effect of contraction to NE by including it in the model The significance of the independent factors was assessed by ... apparent after months of exposure In this period of time, animals exposed to CS Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Respiratory Research 2009, 10:76 http://respiratory-research.com/content/10/1/76...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... extrasystole; points for coupled ventricular extrasystoles, or ventricular extrasystoles in the form of bigeminal/trigeminal rhythm or more complex rhythm; points for frequent ventricular extrasystoles ... reperfused for 90 In group C, the LAD was ligated for three cycles of followed by 5-min reperfusion at first for IP, and the rest of the procedure was identical to that in group B Measurement of electrophysiological ... the peritoneum was slit to expose the abdominal aorta Finally the abdominal aorta was banded with the support of a hard catheter of 1.6 mm in diameter placed adjacent to it, to obtain a 40 to 60%...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... effects of this agent in the treatment of various autoimmune and inflammatory diseases such as, rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel diseases [17] Tacrolimus has also been reported to possess ... out as per the guidelines of Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals (CPCSEA), Ministry of Environment and Forest, Government of India (Reg No:- 874/ac/05/CPCSEA) ... according to the method of Ellman [28] Equal quantity of tissue homogenate was mixed with 10% trichloroacetic acid and centrifuged to separate out protein To 0.01 ml of this supernatant, ml of phosphate...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... especially to DNA, may trigger activation of the cysteine protease caspase-3 and consequently death by apoptosis The onset of apoptosis in oligodendroglia, distant to the site of injury, appears to be ... spectrophotometer was used Statistical Analysis Data represent mean one standard deviation Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS for Windows software program version 13.0 A single factor analysis ... product of superoxide radical reaction with nitric oxide [26] ROS are capable of independent existence The O2 toxicity is due to excess formation of the superoxide radical (O2 -), a product of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... subjected to 15 minutes of reperfusion (Subgroup 2.1), 30 minutes of reperfusion (Subgroup 2.2) or 45 minutes of reperfusion (Subgroup 2.3) All animals in the treatment group (Group 3) were pretreated ... dose of 100 mg per kg body weight for 30 days and then divided into three subgroups In Subgroup 3.1, rat hearts (n = 6) were perfused for 90 minutes with KH buffer and used for the biochemical analysis ... acetate-treated rat heart explained the recovered ionic balance for the normal physiological functions of hearts The cardiac damage due to ischemia reperfusion was monitored by the presence of cardiac...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... an alcohol blowtorch The ampoule was then vigorously shaken on a vibrator for 15 to solubilize isoflurane into a lipid emulsion The emulsified isoflurane ampoule was opened just before use and ... intensity of each ICAM-1 mRNA band was quantified by densitometry using a gel documentation and analysis system and normalized to values for GAPDH Western blot analysis for nuclear factor-B (NF-B) ... rats32 In this study animals were pretreated with 1.4% isoflurane for 30 before LPS injection Notably, isoflurane inhalation was associated with a significant reduction of endotoxemia-induced...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... diagnosis and the monitoring of the long-term impact of lymphedema on physical and emotional or social domains The SF-36 seems to be a suitable tool for the assessment of quality of life in patients ... Conclusions Assessing the impact of the duration and severity of the condition in relation to age, sex and occupational status as influential determinants to personal perceptions of well-being deserves ... Acknowledgements We would like to thank the researchers who translated and validated the SF-36 questionnaire into Greek for offering information on technical details Written informed consent was obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... advantages of workforce-diversity, for example as a good range of abilities, fields of expertise, personality types, age range, sexual and religion, etc.So for every situation, it is easier to get ... Contrast with formal group, with individual needs and demand, people gather creating informal group Within formal organization, it can appear a lot of informal groups Informal group relates ... so it is likely to be considered as members test each other Overall, the group comes together and gets to initially know one other and form as a group After forming stages, storming is more development,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/12/2013, 00:26

... initiator Met at the N-terminus was removed by the bacterial cell for all these proteins except for RTnI96)181 Inhibition of Mg-ATPase of actomyosin by TnI-fragments The inhibition of actomyosin-tropomyosin ... Red (Cambrex, East Rutherford, NJ, USA) was also performed for densitometric analysis on a fluorescent imager, FLA3000G (Fuji Photo Film, Tokyo, Japan) Affinity chromatography Rabbit or Akazara ... residues of 52K-TnI The 52K-TnI-cDNA was subcloned into pCR2.1-TOPO (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA), and used as a template for PCR to amplify the DNAs encoding various regions of 52K-TnI For the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... relationship between force of contraction (Pdi/Pdimax) and duration of contraction (ratio of inspiratory time to total respiratory cycle duration [TI/TTOT]) and is related inversely to respiratory muscle ... in a study of 26 adults ages 42 to 87 (mean 65 ± 10 years) and, therefore, cannot be considered a substitute for spirometric screening for COPD [59] For assessment of respiratory muscle performance, ... sample of 4581 persons ages 65 and older, reports an upper limit of normal of 29% for PEF lability A cutoff value of 30% for PEF lability, therefore, is recommended in older subjects for the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... place of USP in all EcR gene switches developed to date One of the major limitations of current versions of EcR gene switches is the requirement of micromolar concentrations of ligand for induction ... either side of helix of RXR are responsible for increased activity of LmRXR As shown in Fig 2A, LmRXR performed better than HsRXR as a partner for EcR in ligand-dependent induction of reporter ... attractive targets for the development of gene switches for applications in humans The EcR gene switch is being developed for use in various applications including gene therapy, expression of toxic proteins...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... vector and cultured for 48 h in the presence of 10 lgÆmL)1 tunicamycin as N-glycosylation inhibitor or mM a-benzyl-GalNAc as O-glycosylation inhibitor Glycosylation inhibitors were added to the ... With the use of a thermal cycler, all PCRs were performed as follows: 95 °C for min, 40 cycles at 94 °C for 30 s, 40 °C for and 72 °C for 30 s and then a final extension period at 72 °C for The primers ... cannot conclude the absence of O-glycosylated motifs, as a-benzyl-GalNAc is not a total inhibitor of O-glycosylation Furthermore, a-benzyl-GalNAc was highly toxic to the endothelial cell culture,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... consistent with the occurrence of the enol form of indolepyruvate (Fig 1) In the course of the establishment of the equilibrium % 85% of the enol form is converted into the ketone (half-time % at 20 ... resulting Kd value of % 33 lM for the primary binding of ThDP to the enzyme saturated with magnesium ions illustrates a significantly higher affinity of the cofactor ThDP to EcIPDC than to ScPDC and ... according to the rate equation for substrate activation [18] Cofactor binding experiments Cofactor binding was studied by restoration of the catalytic activity of the enzyme during reconstitution...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... carboxylation of intact PC and on the ATP cleavage reactions of intact PC and PC-(BC) One unit of enzyme activity was dened as the amount of enzyme required to catalyze the formation of lmol of each ... association of each (CT + BCCP) domain of two protomers of PC, and subsequently, individual BC domains of the resulting two dimers associate to form a tetramer In other words, the tetrameric structure of ... reaction except for the omission of pyruvate (Table 1) The rate of the ATP cleavage reaction is about 0.2% of that of the complete reaction of PC, which almost coincides with that reported for chicken...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... for Val106 (bold): GCG/CGC for Ala106, CAG/CTG for Gln106, GGT/ACC for Gly106, CAC/GTG for His106, ATC/GAT for Ile106, CTG/CAG for Leu106, AAA/TTT for Lys106, ATG/CAT for Met106 and ACC/GGT for ... into the oligomerization interface To obtain more information about this putative interface region of TK1, we sought to clarify the importance of amino acid 106 for the structure and function of ... –ATP form of V106K does not gain the Vmax value of its +ATP form, both the +ATP There is no known 3D structure for the group of enzymes to which TK1 belongs The only available 3D structures of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... in the retail of goods • The consumer survey conducted for this study allowed a combination of questions related to types of action consumers took in case of a problem, and levels of satisfaction ... Recommendations ⇒ This study has identified a total of nine recommendations to tap the “missing potential of e-commerce” These are: • Continue actions at EU level to address fragmentation of consumer protection ... found to be generally cheaper than offline prices, PCWs seem to be able to inform consumers better on cheaper deals than casual online, as well as offline, shopping Although PCWs therefore can...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21

... sense of awareness of belonging to a community and of social responsibility It followed that it was important for the State to provide the opportunity for individuals to express their commitment to ... than a specific group of individuals So, for example, in Re Compton54a trust stated to be for the purpose of providing for the education of three named individuals was held not to be charitable As ... being too vague in terms of their benefit to the public.64 Benefit has been found to exist in relation to gifts for the purpose of providing homes for lost dogs or cats, which are held to be...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 05:20

... injuries of solid organs involve the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), mitochondrial damage [18,19], apoptosis [7], and a cascade of inflammatory processes [6], the impact of MSCs treatment ... added to the culture medium 30 minutes before IR procedure for ADMSC labeling The procedures of CM-Dil staining for ADMSC were performed based on our previous study [20] After completion of ADMSC ... Characterization of ADMSCs Ethics Flow cytometric analysis was performed for identification of cellular characteristics after cell-labeling with appropriate antibodies 30 minutes before transplantation...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20