Diabetic maculopathy (DMa) is a leading cause of visual loss in the western world. We examined whether plasma from type 2 diabetic patients with DMa contains factor(s) capable of inducing expression of the adhesion molecules E-selectin and VCAM-1 or cellular proliferation in cultured endothelial cells. Four gender-, age-, and duration (diabetes groups)-matched groups of 20 subjects each partici...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) in the tumor microenvironment play important roles in tumor invasion and metastasis. Recently, ROS have been reported to cause a significant increase in the production and expression of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-7, which is closely correlated with metastatic colorectal cancer. The present study was undertaken to evaluate the sc...

Activity of the flavin-containing monooxygenase (FMO) was reduced significantly in ascorbic acid deficient guinea pigs. Reduction in oxidation of dimethylaniline (DMA) and of thiobenzamide was associated with a decrease in the activity of the FMO. In both ascorbate supplemented and deficient guinea pig hepatic 12,000 g supernatant fractions, SKF-525A and n-octylamine did not inhibit DMA N-oxida...

BACKGROUND Amiloride derivatives, commonly used for their diuretic and antihypertensive properties, can also cause a sustained but reversible decrease of intracellular pH (pHi). Using dimethyl amiloride (DMA) on normal rodent pancreatic islets, we previously demonstrated the critical influence of islet pHi on insulin secretion. Nutrient-stimulated insulin secretion (NSIS) requires a specific pH...

The traditional autopsy has been in dramatic decline for many years. This trend can be reversed by also offering the “Diagnostic and Management Autopsy” or “DMA” that involves a review of the many diagnostic decisions made before death, without any anatomic dissection postmortem. The DMA is an expert review by specialists in the diagnostic decisions related to the apparent cause of death.1 The ...

this paper describes the implementation of an AMBA Based Advanced DMA Controller for SoC. It uses AMBA Specifications, where two buses AHB and APB are defined and works for processor as system bus and peripheral bus respectively. The DMA controller functions between these two buses as a bridge and allow them to work concurrently. Depending on the speed of peripherals it uses buffering mechanism...

Electrospray-differential mobility analysis (ES-DMA) is a versatile technique used to aerosolize bionanoparticles and measure their electrical mobility at ambient conditions. ES-DMA is similar to electrospray-mass spectrometry (ES-MS), but measures the effective particle size, rather than mass. It has a wide range of applications and nominally can be used to characterize biomolecules and nanopa...

Supramolecular catalysts have received a great deal of attention because they improve the selectivity and efficiency of reactions. Catalysts with host molecules exhibit specific reaction properties and recognize substrates via host-guest interactions. Here, we examined radical polymerization reactions with a chain transfer agent (CTA) that has α-cyclodextrin (α-CD) as a host molecule (α-CD-CTA)...

With the rapid development of integrated circuit design technology and the processed tasks and data volumes growing, MPSoC is becoming increasingly popular in a variety of applications. In MPSoC design, parallelism is a very important issue, for example, how to realize task parallelism and data parallelism. Focusing on this issue, this paper analyzes the role of DMA and presents an ILP-Based DM...

ZnO nanorods were prepared using dimethylamine (DMA) controlled Sol-Gel process. Dimethylamine was added as an additive to control the sol-gel process for growing ZnO nanorods. DMA would exhibit stabilizing effect, promote dissolution of precursor and control the rate of sol-gel reactions because of its basic nature and significant miscibility. The Structural and microstructural properties of t...