Introduction: As a primary refractory condensate, forsterite represents an important constituent of many primitive solar system materials such as nebular dust, dust associated with galaxies, and cometary dust [1-11]. Preliminary studies on micrometeorites and the finegrained matrix of Semarkona, a primitive ordinary chondrite, indicate that forsterite is an important component of these material...

We have investigated the significance of telomerase activity (TA) and telomere length (TL) in multiple myeloma (MM). The analyses were undertaken on CD138+ MM cells isolated from the marrow of 183 patients either at diagnosis or in relapse. There was heterogeneity in telomerase expression; 36% of the patients had TA levels comparable to those detected in normal plasma cells, and 13% of patients...

INTRODUCTION The influence of physical activity (PA) and physical fitness (PF) at older ages on changes in telomere length (TL)--repetitive DNA sequences that may mark biologic aging--is not well-established. Few prior studies (mainly cross-sectional) have been conducted in older adults, and few studies have evaluated PF. METHODS We investigated cross-sectional and prospective associations of...

The TL region of the major histocompatibility complex of the mouse contains dozens of tandemly arranged class I genes, including those encoding the thymus leukemia (TL) antigens. TL antigens have been thought to be expressed only on the surface of some T lineage cells, namely immature thymocytes of some mouse strains (TL+ strains), some leukemia cells, and activated T cells. While the function ...

Microcystic meningiomas are rare but benign brain tumors. Previous reports have shown that Thallium-201 single-photon emission computed tomography ((201)Tl SPECT) demonstrated a higher late-phase accumulation of (201)Tl in malignant or recurrent meningiomas than in nonaggressive meningiomas. No study has reported (201)Tl SPECT findings in microcystic meningiomas. We here describe a case of a mi...

Previous studies suggest the lumbosacral (LS) spinal cord processes acute colorectal stimuli whereas the thoracolumbar (TL) and LS spinal segments process inflammatory stimuli. In this study, the effects of colorectal distention (CRD) on TL and LS dorsal horn neuronal activity were recorded in Nembutal-anesthetized male rats both with and without colonic inflammation. Both single cells (before ...

Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase requires divalent cations (Mg2+, Mn2+, or Zn2+) for catalysis, but a diverse set of monovalent cations (K+, Tl+, Rb+, or NH(4)(+)) will further enhance enzyme activity. Here, the interaction of Tl+ with fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase is explored under conditions that support catalysis. On the basis of initial velocity kinetics, Tl+ enhances catalysis by 20% with a K(a) ...

thermoluminecsence (tl) characteristics of pure caso4 nanoparticles produced by co-precipitation method are presented. the formation of the nanoparticles was confirmed by x-ray diffraction (xrd) and scanning electron microscope (sem). tl glow curve of this phosphor, exposed to gamma radiation exhibits five overlapping glow peaks in the complex glow curve at 463, 470, 483, 498 and521(k) respecti...

A hybrid translinear (TL) circuit constituted by two kinds of transistors, bipolar and CMOS transistors, was proposed to control its quiescent current. And a new method was introduced to analyze the hybrid TL circuit, which converted it into an uniform equivalent bipolar TL circuit. It simplified its analysis and design. This hybrid TL circuit is applied to the output stage of a class AB amplif...

Effect of isotope substitution from the modulation of Thermal-Lens (TL) signals in binary liquid mixtures is explored using femtosecond pump–probe mode-mismatched Z-scan TL spectroscopy. Binary solutions of water and heavy water with pure methanol at various concentrations are used for the study, where pure methanol acts as the TL marker across the different samples. The TL signal is found to b...