Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has been shown to trigger structural atrophic changes within the spinal cord and brain. However, the relationship between structural changes and magnitude of neuropathic pain (NP) remains incompletely understood. Voxel-wise analysis of anatomical magnetic resonance imaging data provided information on cross-sectional cervical cord area and volumetric brain cha...

Recent studies have shown that NP (nucleoprotein), which possesses multiple functions in the viral life cycle, is a new potential anti-influenza drug target. NP inhibitors reliably induce conformational changes in NPs, and these changes may confer inhibition of the influenza virus. The six conserved tryptophan residues in NP can be used as an intrinsic probe to monitor the change in fluorescenc...

BACKGROUND Innate and adaptive immune responses change with increasing age and affect the course of diseases. Previous study investigated immunologic alteration in Western nasal polyps (NP) which is mostly eosinophilic. However, there are no reports regarding age-related immune changes of non-eosinophilic NP (NE-NP) which is a predominant subtype in Asian population. METHODS A total of 153 su...

objective: survey of molecular characterization of nucleoprotein gene of h9n2 avian influenza viruses and determination of the genetic relationship of iranian h9n2 viruses and other asian viruses. materials and methods: the nucleoprotein (np) genes from 4 isolates of h9n2 viruses isolated from commercial chickens in iran during 2008-2009 were amplified by rt-pcr method and sequenced. nucleotid...

Let G(V,E) be a graph with vertex set V and edge set E, and let X be either V or E (not both). Let Π be a search problem with input X and solution Y , where Y ⊆ X. Let Y ′ denote a sub-solution of Π. That is, Y ′ is a solution of Π when the input is X ′, the vertex set or edge set of some minor of G. Consider the set system (X, I), where I denotes the family of all sub-solutions of Π. We prove ...

Objective(s): To investigate the effects of Nonylphenol (NP) in pups from dams exposed during gestational and lactational periods on immediate early genes (c-jun, c-fos) in hippocampus and the learning and memory of F1 rats. Materials and Methods: Twenty eight pregnant dams, stratified by pregnancy date, were randomly assigned into 4 groups, which were gavaged with NP at the doses of 50 mg/kg/d...

We prove that we may compute the normal form of each term of the simply typed-calculus in a polynomial number of sharable reductions (where the notion of sharing is L evy's \optimal" one). As a simple corollary, we get that P = NP \up to sharing", i.e. up to the computational overhead due to sharing.