Myostatin is involved in an inhibitor of muscular growth and differentiation. Myoblasts derived from double-muscled Japanese shorthorn cattle (DM myoblasts) with absence of functional myostatin had higher abilities to proliferate and differentiate than myoblasts derived from normal-muscled cattle (NM myoblasts). In DM myoblasts, mRNA expressions of fetal myosin heavy chain (MyHC) in growth medi...

the monitoring and controlling of environmental pollutions are very important in biological and industrial processes, and a great interest is growing with the development of suitable gas–sensitive materials and hazardous chemical removal devices. in this work, the highly parameterized, empirical exchange–correlation functional m06–2x were employed to investigate the electronic sensitivity of pe...

coronal T2 coronal FLAIR SOS 12.8/13.6 12.5/11.4 2x 14.8/17.3 14.5/13.2 3x 19.8/24.8 14.8/12.5 4x 22.9/25.8 16.1/14.3 Table 1: SNR (reader1/reader2) coronal T2 coronal FLAIR SOS 2.9/3.0 2.7/2.9 2x 2.8/2.6 2.1/2.2 3x 2.3/2.4 1.4/1.9 4x 2.0/2.0 1.1/1.3 Table 3: average qualitative scoring (reader1/reader2); (scoring: 1-poorly defined, 2-seen, 3-well defined); (green-diagnostic quality; yellowsome...

The first is an examination by Csonka and French of the ability of DFT to predict the relative energy of carbohydrate conformation energies. 1 They examined 15 conformers of αand β-D-allopyranose, fifteen conformations of 3,6-anydro-4-Omethyl-D-galactitol and four conformers of β-D-glucopyranose. The energies were referenced against those obtained at MP2/a-cc-pVTZ(-f)//B3LYP/6-31+G*. (This unus...

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite capable of infecting humans and animals. Surface antigen glycoproteins, SAG2C, -2D, -2X, and -2Y, are expressed on the surface of bradyzoites. These antigens have been shown to protect bradyzoites against immune responses during chronic infections. We studied structures of SAG2C, -2D, -2X, and -2Y proteins using bioinformatics methods. The protein seque...

It is known that the ground states of organic conductors have a diversity reflecting the spatial arrangement of the constituent molecules within the unit cell. A systematic theoretical search for the unifying view behind such possible ground states has been made based on the Hartree-Fock mean field approximation not only to the onsite but also to intersite Coulomb interactions with special emph...

This study explored a range of training dosages and durations for a word-based auditory-training procedure for older adults with hearing impairment. Three groups received a different "dose": 2x/week; 3x/week; no training. Fifteen training sessions comprised a "cycle" which was repeated three times for each dosage. Groups that completed training performed significantly better than controls for s...

While it is well known that the mth order 5-spline Nm(x) with integer knots generates a multiresolution analysis, • • • C V_x c V0 C • ■ • , with the with order of approximation, we prove that i//(x) := Ú1mJ¡{2x 1), where L2m(x) denotes the (2m)th order fundamental cardinal interpolatory spline, generates the orthogonal complementary wavelet spaces Wk . Note that for m = 1 , when the ß-spline N...

We consider the 2 + 1 Toda system 1 4 ∆qn = e qn−1−qn − eqn−qn+1 in R, n ∈ Z. It has a traveling wave type solution {Qn} satisfying Qn+1(x, y) = Qn(x + 1 2 √ 2 , y), and is explicitly given by Qn (x, y) = ln 1 4 + ( n− 1 + 2 √ 2x )2 + 4y2 1 4 + ( n+ 2 √ 2x )2 + 4y2 . In this paper we prove that {Qn} is nondegenerate.

An investigation of the P-T phase diagram of the quarter-filled organic conductors, [EDT-TTF-CONMe2]2X is reported on the basis of transport and NMR studies of two members, X=AsF6 and Br of the family. The strongly insulating character of these materials in the low-pressure regime has been attributed to a remarkably stable charge-ordered state confirmed by 13C NMR and the only existence of 1/4 ...