c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) regulates cellular responses to various extracellular stimuli, environmental stresses, pathogen infections, and apoptotic agents. Here, a JNK1, Ec-JNK1, was identified from orange-spotted grouper, Epinephelus coioides. Ec-JNK1 has been found involving in the immune response to pathogen challenges in vivo, and the infection of Singapore grouper iridovirus (SGIV) and...

We revisit the product convolution semigroup of probability densities ec(t), c > 0 on the positive half-line with moments (n!) c and determine the asymptotic behaviour of ec for large and small t > 0. This shows that (n!) is indeterminate as Stieltjes moment sequence if and only if c > 2. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary 30E15; Secondary 44A60,60B15

BACKGROUND Rearing rats in environmental enrichment alters psychostimulant-induced locomotor activity as well as neurotransmitter expression. Exposure to novelty and psychostimulants induces c-fos expression in neurons in the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) pathway. Here we investigated changes in the expression of the immediate early gene c-fos in the mesolimbic DA pathway of enriched, isolated, or s...

An alginate gel bead composite adsorbent with polyethyleneimine (PEI) as a surface modifier and Eichhornia crassipes (EC) biochar, known EC-alg/PEI-3, was added internally to the adsorb Cr(VI) from an aqueous environment. The functionalized beads were characterized using SEM, XPS, FTIR, other techniques. maximum adsorption capacities of EC-alg/PEI-3 714.3 mg g?1 at 10 °C 769.2 25 °C. In treatme...

We explored the correlation between smoking, polymorphisms of extracellular superoxide dismutase (ECSOD) and cytochrome P450 (CYP) 1A1-Msp I and the prevalence of oral cancer. The genetic polymorphisms of EC SOD and CYP1A1-Msp I were detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique in peripheral blood leukocytes of 874 oral cancer patients and 874 non-cancer controls, and the correlations ...

We measured three renal tubular brush-border enzymes (lactate dehydrogenase, LDH, EC 1.1.1.27; gamma-glutamyltransferase, GGT, EC 2.3.2.2; and alkaline phosphatase, AP, EC 3.1.3.1) in morning urine samples from 48 healthy subjects to check whether different storage times and temperatures could modify enzyme concentrations. Short-term (24 h) storage time at room temperature or 4 degree C does no...

Designated for cyclic shedding, the endometrial stroma is rich in endometrial mesenchymal stem cells (EMSCs) and may play an important role in the development of endometrial carcinoma (EC). This study characterized the crosstalk of EC cells with EMSCs and the resultant effects on malignant phenotypes. The cultured EMSCs expressed CD73, CD90, and CD105, but not CD14, CD19, CD34, CD45, or human l...