BACKGROUND Low serum vitamin D levels are associated with high blood pressure (BP). Prehypertension is a preclinical stage where primary prevention efforts have been recommended for delaying or preventing the onset of hypertension. However, the majority of studies examining the association between vitamin D and BP have not accounted for kidney function or systemic inflammation. METHODS Partic...

Sphinx is a lineage-specific non-coding RNA gene involved in regulating courtship behavior in Drosophila melanogaster. The 5' flanking region of the gene is conserved across Drosophila species, with the proximal 300 bp being conserved out to D. virilis and a further 600 bp region being conserved amongst the melanogaster subgroup (D. melanogaster, D. simulans, D. sechellia, D. yakuba, and D. ere...

Bovine myelin basic protein (BP) microheterogeneous components were isolated and exposed to homogeneous bovine brain cathepsin D purified by affinity chromatography on immobilized pepstatin. The extent of the reaction was followed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis at pH 8.8, and the reaction products were separated by column chromatography on carboxymethyl-cellulose and Sephadex following w...

We used Drosophila melanogaster macrophage-like Schneider 2 (S2) cells as a model to study cell-mediated innate immunity against infection by the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida albicans. Transcriptional profiling of S2 cells coincubated with C. albicans cells revealed up-regulation of several genes. One of the most highly up-regulated genes during this interaction is the D. melanogaster ...

a INERA, 04 BP 8645 Ouagadougou 04, Burkina Faso b ERIDA-Somió, C/ Camino de los Claveles 604, E-33203 Gijón (Asturias), Spain c Departamento de Producción Animal. Facultad de Veterinaria. E-28040-Madrid, Spain d CIRDES, 01 BP 454 Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso e Laboratoire National d'Elevage, 01 BP 7021 Ouagadougou 01, Burkina Faso f Université Polytechnique de Bobo Dioulasso (UPB), Burkina Fas...

We characterize the interpolating sequences for the weighted analytic Besov spaces Bp(s), defined by the norm ‖f‖ Bp(s) = |f(0)|p + Z D |(1− |z|2)f ′(z)|p(1− |z|2)s dA(z) (1− |z|2)2 , 1 < p < ∞ and 0 < s < 1, and for the corresponding multiplier spaces M(Bp(s)).

We have previously reported that a high sodium intake increases sleep-time blood pressure (BP) in young men. However, there are cases in which this relation does not apply. To account for them, we investigated the relation between sodium intake and cardiac sympatho-vagal balance (SVB) in young men with high BP. Sodium intake was estimated from the amount of urinary sodium excretion over 1 week....

The lignans of Eucommia ulmoides have been extensively studied and shown to a dual mechanism regulating blood pressure. Studies that DIR1 is key gene in the biosynthetic pathway Oliv. In this study, 2000 bp upstream promoter sequence was cloned, part (1495 bp) its 5′-end truncated segment were constructed into pCAMBIA1391Z expression plasmid ß-glucuronidase (GUS). Agrobacterium-mediated genetic...

this paper presents an accurate differential global positioning system (dgps) using multi-layered neural networks (nns) based on the back propagation (bp) and imperialistic competition algorithm (ica) in order to predict the dgps corrections for accurate positioning. simulation results allowed us to optimize the nn performance in term of residual mean square error. we compare results obtained b...