interaction of sex steroids with cytokines and growth factors

... protein-particle interactions In order to shed light on the detailed mechanisms of interaction between AgNP and cells of algae and fish, we explored different aspects of AgNP-cell interactions, ... Z-average size and zeta potential of AgNP were 19.4  nm and −30 mV, respectively AgNP were stable in this medium with an average size of 38–73 nm and a zeta potential of −23 to −28 mV up to 4 h of incubation ... Thus, understanding the mechanisms of interaction of extracellular proteins and nanoparticles in general is an important future direction In order to study the interaction of AgNP with intra-cellular

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 14:56

... plantation survival and growth [11, 22, 41] Similarly, several studies have demonstrated positive survival and growth responses of Douglas-fir to site preparation and first-year and sometimes second-year ... eight randomly selected seedlings in each plot after the first and second year of growth The samples were collected in fall from lateral branches in the upper third of the crown and consisted of ... diameter growth, height growth, stem volume growth, vegetation cover, and vegetation height by year, independently by site Residuals of all analyses were examined for lack of normality and equal

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... (years since FMP) and chronological age and Trang 5compare the contributions of each of these and (ii)the association of standardised LH, FSH and AMH levels (using mean and standard deviation ... aspects of cognitive function were not In order to give a sense of the size of the estimated as-sociations of reproductive age with cognitive function, we compared our results with those of an ... is one of a limited number of longitudinal studies with in-depth assessments of cognitive function, hormones and menstrual history in women around the time of the menopause [2–4,11–13], and to

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... to measure the interaction of fascin-1 with actin Results: Rho activity modulates the interaction of fascin-1 with actin, as detected by a novel FRET method, in skeletal myoblasts and human colon ... and is a novel interaction partner of fascin-1 These data have important implications for consideration of the role of fascin-1 in carcinoma metastasis Results RhoA supports the interaction of ... activity does not modulate the interaction of fascin-1 with conventional protein kinase C (cPKC) (A) Measurement of the interaction of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-fascin-1 with PKCa- monomeric red

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 08:48

... vitro migration and invasion assays The ability of perifosine and its combination with gemci-tabine and MK-2206 and its combination with gemcita-bine to inhibit the migratory behaviour of PDAC cells ... mRNA and phospho-Akt/Akt levels by quantitative-RT-PCR and immunocytochemistry Growth inhibitory effects of Akt inhibitors and gemcitabine were evaluated by SRB assay, whereas modulation of Akt and ... fixed with paraformaldehyde and stained with Giemsa in 20% methanol The filters were photo-graphed and cells were counted Analysis of cell-cycle and cell death To investigate the effect of drugs

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 16:01

... Solutions of p-Laplacian with Neumann and Robin Boundary Conditions for Both Resonance and Oscillation Problem Jing Zhang and Xiaoping Xue Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, ... p-Laplacian operator of u with 1 < p < ∞, α > 0,b x ∈ L∞∂Ω, bx ≥ 0, and bx / 0 on ∂Ω, fx, 0  0 for a.e x ∈ Ω, and ∂u/∂ν denotes the outer normal derivative of u with respect to ... The critical points of functionals correspond to the weak solutions of problems In Li1 and Zhang et al 2 , the authors study the existence and multiple solutions of p1 and p2 using the critical

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... patients with ReA and UA using broad-range PCR, cloning and sequencing of almost the entire 16S rRNA gene The use of this approach revealed the identity of potential bacterial causes and the pres-ence ... All of the cases of ReA were acquired sexually, with arthritis occurring within 4 weeks of an urogenital infection (Table 1) UA was defined as a monoarthritis or oligoarthritis occurring without ... amplified in ST samples from three of the seven patients with RA (43%) and from three of the six with OA (50%) Accordingly, the proportion of ST samples from ReA and UA patients yielding positive

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... majority of the tumor cells. The extent of the proliferative advantage and the time between occurrence of the aberration and tumor collection influence the proportion of tumor cells with each ... Suite (TAPS). It handles samples with aneuploidy, presence of normal cells and facilitates detection of tumor cell heterogeneity. We describe allele-specific copy number profiling of 7 lung cancer ... data. TAPS handles samples with aneuploidy and significant normal cell content, and facilitates detection of several kinds of tumor cell heterogeneity. Raw array data is first normalized and segmented

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 23:20

... obtained protein bands were scanned and quantified with the aid of Image J software (NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA) Oxidative stress and proinflammatory cytokines analysis The renal production of superoxide ... temperature of 25 ± 1°C and a light-dark period of 12 h) with free access to normal chow and water The experimental animals were randomly assigned to two groups, the non-diabetic rats (control, CON) and ... effects of RSV on Erk, p38, JNK, Akt, and AMPK phosphorylation and total protein expressions in the renal tissues of STZ-DM rats Equal amounts of proteins were resolved on 10% SDS-PAGE and blotted with

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... Abstract The interaction of nanoparticles with biomolecules and microorganisms is an expanding field of research Within this field, an area that has been largely unexplored is the interaction of metal ... 1997, compiled by Division of AIDS of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases and the National Institute of Health, and Collaborators Aliquots of cell-free culture viral supernatants ... analysis of image a) confirming the presence of Ag The C signal comes from both the TEM grid and the virus, O, and P are from the virus, and Na, Cl, and K are present in the culture medium Ni and

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... to that of the well-studied incompatible interaction with Col-0 Induction of the monooxygenase gene MO1, and high expression and induction of PR1, are characteristic of the compatible interaction ... conceived of the study together with the other authors, and carried out the major part of the experi-ments SL brought the compatible interaction phenotype of DiG to the attention of AKM and BAH, and ... clear trend as a function of treatment This indicates that the transcript levels of these genes varied with the amount of RNA and efficiency of the reactions, rather than with the treatment All

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... [27] and chronic lung disease of infancy [25] Ranganathan et al demon-strated tracking between parameters of airway function and growth in infants and young children [25] Children with CF and ... computation and statistical evaluationIn order to present individual values of lung function numerically and independent of gender, age and growth status, all lung function data were expressed as standard ... lung function and different combinations of infection The impact of different types of infection on progression of lung function is shown in Figure 3 Age and the 4 most frequent types of infection

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... inhibition of leukaemia virus membrane fusion by interaction of peptide antagonists with a conserved region of the coiled coil of envelope Address: 1 The Biomedical Research Centre, College of Medicine, ... Dundee, DD1 9SY, Scotland, UK and 2 The Division of Biological Chemistry and Drug Discovery, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dow Street, Dundee, DD1 5EH, Scotland, UK Email: Daniel ... conserved between BLV and HTLV-1 TM tend to map to the hydrophobic groove of the central triple-stranded coiled coil and to the leash and C-terminal α-helical region (LHR) of the trimer-of-hairpins Remarkably,

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:21

... associated with a 2- to 5-fold reduced in vitro susceptibility to tenofovir [1,2] Many tenofovir-containing regimens induce strong and long-lasting suppression of viremia in the majority of persons, with ... virulence and clinical implications of viral mutants during drug treatment [18] Prolonged tenofovir monotherapy of macaques infected with virulent SIVmac251 resulted in the emergence of mutants with ... (iii) what arethe clinical implications of K65R mutants, and (iv) what tenofo-is the role of CD8+ cells and continued tenofovir ment in controlling viremia of K65R RT-SHIV? treat-The current report

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... later Here we discuss the chemical and physical routes for the preparation of CMEs and the electrochemical and other consequences of this Early fabrication of zeolite modified electrodes (ZMEs) ... convenient to give control of the amount of zeolite deposited (from sub-monolayer to multilayer) by tuning the pulse widths, heights and number of pulses With regard to stability of ZMEs, it is our ... be used and reused with washing, storage and exposure to the atmosphere, is not viable without some means of support/anchoring Conducting polymers, in particular electrodes modified with conducting

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... networks with intra-crystalline void spaces consisting of channels and cages which may be Trang 37interconnected [13] Such pores and channels allow the ingress and egress of molecular and ionic ... materials with unique electronic, electrochemical, and optical properties Because of these unusual and useful properties, ECP is the focus of massive international research efforts [1,2,4] One of the ... addition of dopants in relatively large quantities into the polymer matrix [4] The deliberate and controlled Trang 9modification of the electrode surface with ECP can produce electrodes with new and

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12

... RECTIFICATION AND RECOGNITION OF MENT IMAGES WITH PERSPECTIVE AND GEOMETRIC DOCU-DISTORTIONS Lu Shijian Trang 2THE RECTIFICATION AND RECOGNITION OF MENT IMAGES WITH PERSPECTIVE AND GEOMETRIC ... FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY AT ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2005 Trang 3Table of Contents Table of Contents ... pose, and linearity properties of extracted boundary segments With identified vertical stroke boundaries and the top line and base line of text lines, optimal homography is Trang 22estimated and

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:13

... Titration of 100 nM V4-TMR with increasing concentrations of LPS 89 Figure 5.5 Comparison of ACFs of V4-TMR and complexes of V4-TMR with LPS, lipid A and PC 91 Figure 5.6 Comparison of V4-TMR ... Figure 4.6 Titration of C12E9 and LPS solutions with R18 73 Figure 4.7 Titration of 10 and 20 nM of R18 with increasing concentrations of LPS (0.25-5 µM) 74 Figure 4.8 Dissolution of FITC-LPS micelles ... Titration of micelles with fluorophore 4.3.1.2 Disaggregation of FITC-LPS with a detergent 4.3.2 Calculation of titrating a solution of aggregates with a fluorescent probe 4.3.3 Determination of aggregation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 21:54

... monolayer, also caused random distribution of higher and lower vertical domains At peptide concentration of 50 nM, the AFM image was similar to that of magainin and melittin with small and irregular shaped ... (NanoWorld AG, Switzerland) with a cantilever length of 125 µm and force constant of 42 N/m were used for measurements Images was obtained and analyzed by the Nanoscope software provided by the ... Results and discussion 7.3.1 Isotherm studies of V4 interacting with POPG and POPC 7.3.1.1 Isotherms of lipid monolayers The surface pressure (π) and molecular area (A) isotherms for POPG and POPC...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 23:32

... exhibited an F2 of 4.2 % and an increase in the fluorescence yield compared to TMR of Q2/Q1 of 3.21 90 Fig 5.5 Comparison of ACFs of V4-TMR and the complexes of V4-TMR with LPS, lipid A and PC The ... The mixture of V4-TMR and lipid A or PC was incubated for at least hours for FCS experiments Interaction of V4-TMR with SUVs The procedure is similar to that of interaction of V4- TMR with LPS The ... number of particle was N = 0.064 and Q was determined to be 84 59.5 kHz Because of the similar τD and Q of V4-TMR and of free TMR, it is likely that the measured particles correspond to free TMR and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 23:32