Dystroglycan (Dg) is a widely expressed extracellular matrix (ECM) receptor required for muscle viability, synaptogenesis, basementmembrane formation and epithelial development. As an integral component of the Dystrophin-associated glycoprotein complex, Dg plays a central role in linking the ECM and the cytoskeleton. Disruption of this linkage in skeletal muscle leads to various types of muscul...

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) and central DG methods are two related families of finite element methods. They can provide high order spatial discretizations that are often combined with explicit high order time discretizations to solve initial boundary value problems. In this context, it has been observed that the central DG method allows larger time steps, especially for schemes with high accura...

This study was to investigate the anti-obesity effects of diglyceride (DG)-conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) containing 22% CLA as fatty acids in C57BL/6J ob/ob male mice. There were four experimental groups including vehicle control, DG, CLA, and DG-CLA. The test solutions of 750 mg/kg dose were orally administered to the mice everyday for 5 weeks. CLA treatments significantly decreased mean body...

A bipartite graph G is bipanconnected if, for any two distinct vertices x and y of G, it contains an [x, y]-path of length l for each integer l satisfying dG(x, y) ≤ l ≤ |V (G)| − 1 and 2|(l − dG(x, y)), where dG(x, y) denotes the distance between vertices x and y in G and V (G) denotes the vertex set of G. We say a bipartite graph G is bipanpositionably bipanconnected if, for any two distinct ...

alpha-Dystroglycan (alpha-DG) was recently identified as a receptor for lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV) and several other arenaviruses, including Lassa fever virus (W. Cao, M. D. Henry, P. Borrow, H. Yamada, J. H. Elder, E. V. Ravkov, S. T. Nichol, R. W. Compans, K. P. Campbell, and M. B. A. Oldstone, Science 282:2079-2081, 1998). Data presented in this paper indicate that the affinit...

toxin, have been commonly used for the treatment of congestive heart failure and other cardiac diseases. In addition to the narrow therapeutic range of the serum digitalis glycosides, their bioavailability is easily affected by kidney or liver failure and the dosing of other medicines. Therefore, it is important to accurately measure the digitalis glycosides in sera from digitalized patients. D...

Modest antidepressant response rates of mood disorders (MD) encourage benzodiazepine (BZD) co-medication with debatable benefit. Adult hippocampal neurogenesis may underlie antidepressant responses, but diazepam co-administration impairs murine neuron maturation and survival in response to fluoxetine. We counted neural progenitor cells (NPCs), mitotic cells, and mature granule neurons post-mort...

We investigate the (unbounded) derived category of a diierential Z-graded category (=DG category). As a rst application, we deduce a 'triangulatedanaloguè (4.3) of a theorem of Freyd's 5, Ex. 5.3 H] and Gabriel's 6, Ch. V] characterizing module categories among abelian categories. After adapting some homological algebra we go on to prove a 'Morita theorem`(8.2) generalizing results of 19] and 2...

abstract: in this paper a control scheme for grid-connected operation mode and the island state of distributed generation is presented. in normal conditions, every inverter dg system in micro-grids to supply a preset power, normally operate in a constant current control mode. when micro-grids removed from the network, dg inverter of each system must recognize the island and change position to v...

The insertion of distributed generator (DG) into distribution systems for performance improvement has been an obvious application. But the choice of DG has been extended to the networked systems as well in the recent years. The penetration level of DG is accelerating due to the liberalization of electricity markets and Technological advances in small generators and energy storage devices. In th...