Expression of the class A macrophage scavenger receptor (MSR) contributes to the uptake of modified low density lipoproteins (LDL) by macrophages and transformation of these cells into lipid-laden foam cells, which characterize atherosclerosis. Many environmental factors, in particular, proinflammatory cytokines and growth factors, can exert regulatory effects on MSR expression, whereas intrace...

Dislocations have been recently introduced as a novel tool to tailor the conductivity of functional ceramics. However, tuning strategies suffer from poor insight into structural complexity dislocations and their networks. Here, we demonstrate that can be used both enhance reduce overall in same ceramic material. Accurate control arrangement within dislocation network enables tailoring TiO2 bulk...

Staphylococcus aureus possesses three MsrA enzymes (MsrA1, MsrA2, MsrA3) that reduce the S-epimer of methionine sulfoxide (MetO) and an MsrB enzyme that reduces R-MetO. The four msr genes are expressed from three different promoters. The msrA1/msrB genes are coexpressed. To determine the expression pattern of msr genes, three independent reporter strains were constructed where msr promoter was ...

We provide a quantitative assessment of policy options to inform the 2021 review EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and raise climate ambition. use permit trading model in which firms utilize rolling finite planning horizons, replicates historical price banking developments well compared an infinite horizon. When have bounded foresight, indirectly raising ambition through Market Stability Reserv...

In this paper we consider ν-MSR, a formalism that combines the two main existing approaches for multiset rewriting, namely MSR and CMRS. In ν-MSR we rewrite multisets of atomic formulae, in which some names may be restricted. ν-MSR are Turing complete. In particular, a very straightforward encoding of π-calculus process can be done. Moreover, pν-PN, an extension of Petri nets in which tokens ar...

Mechanically resilient mats consisting of overlaid electrospun nanofibers with self-generated TiC crystallites embedded in a carbon matrix are surface-decorated with Pt nanoparticles as a novel electrocatalytic system for oxygen reduction reaction. Electrocatalytic activities (e.g., on-set potential and current density) of Pt are substantially enhanced due to high specific surface area of the s...

Hypertension was induced in female rats by chronic feeding of sodium-containing salts in excess. The hypertension so induced appeared to be self-sustaining since about two-thirds of the animals failed to show a significant fall in blood pressure after withdrawal of these salts from the diet. Under the conditions of these experiments a lack of response to restriction of dietary sodium does not e...

Magnetosomes are membrane-enclosed magnetite nanocrystals synthesized by magnetotactic bacteria (MTB). They display chemical purity, narrow size ranges, and species-specific crystal morphologies. Specific transmembrane proteins are sorted to the magnetosome membrane (MM). MamC is the most abundant MM protein of Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense strain MSR-1. MamF is the second most abundant MM p...