The present study was designed to investigate the growth regulatory effects of cytokines in UT-OC-3 ovarian cystadenocarcinoma cells in vitro. The effects of interleukin-6 (IL-6), interferons a (IFN-a) and g (IFN-g), granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), tumour necrosis factor a (TNF-a), and transforming growth factor b1 (TGF-b1) were investigated by I-deoxyuridine (IUdR) i...

Glaucoma is an extreme eye illness that prompts visual deficiency by expansion in weight at the dividers of the front eye. The glaucoma screening has become a research point in the field of biomedical image processing. The glaucoma detection is very essential factor in preventing the loss of eye sight. At the present day glaucoma screening done for 2D retinal fundus images. This paper addresses...

Problem statement: This experiment was carried out for study the effects of chemical and biological fertilizers and interaction between them on some physiological characteristic and yield and its components of seed corn in two different irrigation. Approach: The experiment was conducted in a split plot factorial with completely randomized block design using four replications. Sub plots consiste...

Adult African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) were collected from a corn-growing region (CGR) and a non-corn-growing region (NCGR) with different exposure profiles for atrazine and related triazines. Physical, chemical, and biological parameters from the catchment areas were also measured. Frogs were surveyed for possible effects of exposure to triazine herbicides on plasma testosterone (T) and e...

EBRI, ICI Maintain Largest 401(k) Participant Database Over the past two decades, 401(k) plans have grown to be the most common type of employer-sponsored retirement plan in the United States, and now serve as the most popular defi ned contribution (DC) plan, as measured by number of participants and assets. In 2005, 47 million American workers were active 401(k) plan participants.1 By year-end...

Glucocorticoids exert rapid nongenomic effects by several mechanisms including the activation of a membrane-bound glucocorticoid receptor (mGR). Here, we report the first proteomic study on the effects of mGR activation by BSA-conjugated cortisol (Cort-BSA). A subset of target proteins in the proteomic data set was validated by Western blot and we found them responding to mGR activation by BSA-...

Adviser: Byrav Ramamurthy Interplanetary Internet or Interplanetary Networking (IPN) is envisaged as a space network which interconnects spacecrafts, satellites, rovers and orbiters of different planets and comets for efficient exchange of scientific data such as telemetry and images. IPNs are classified among challenged networks because of the unpredictable changes in the network and the large...

I. OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY The 401(k) plan is only about 20 years old, which means that individuals retiring today could have participated in 401(k) plans for at most half of a typical full working career. As more American workers participate in 401(k) plans and become increasingly responsible for their own retirement security, the question of whether their 401(k) accumulations will produce suffic...

1Assistant Director of ICU at Naval and Veterans Hospital of Athens, Former Director of Intensive Care Unit (CS-ICU) of Joint Corps Armed Forces Cardiac Surgery Department, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Greece 2Consultant Cardiac Surgeon of Cardiac Surgery Department, Joint Corps Armed Forces Cardiac Surgery Department, 401 General Military Hospital of Athens, Greece 3Consultant Inte...