We have previously shown that the synthetic tetraacyl precursor Ia (compound 406, LA-14-PP, or lipid IVa) was not able to induce the production of tumor necrosis factor, interleukin-1, and interleukin-6 in human monocytes but strongly antagonized lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced formation of these monokines. This inhibition was detectable at the level of mRNA production. To achieve a better und...

In this article, we briefly describe nearly $$T^{-1}$$ invariant subspaces with finite defect for a shift operator T having multiplicity acting on separable Hilbert space $${\mathcal {H}}$$ as generalization of introduced by Liang and Partington in Complex Anal. Oper. Theory 15(1) (2021) 17 pp. other words, characterize terms backward vector-valued Hardy spaces using Theorem 3.5 Int. Equations ...

Piperine (PP) is a pungent component in black pepper that possesses useful biological activities; however it is practically insoluble in water. The aim of the current study was to prepare a coground mixture (GM) of PP and β-cyclodextrin (βCD) (molar ratio of PP/βCD = 1/1) and subsequently evaluate the solubility of PP and physicochemical properties of the GM. DSC thermal behavior of the GM show...

This study examined the effect of acute hyperglycaemia, induced by intravenous glucose, on gall bladder motility. Six healthy volunteers were studied in random order on three occasions during normoglycaemia and hyperglycaemia with blood glucose concentrations stabilised at 8 and 15 mmol/l. Gall bladder volumes, measured with ultrasonography, were studied before and during infusion of stepwise i...

Aims To compare endothelium-dependent vasomotor function and vascular healing 15 months after implantation of two new-generation drug-eluting stents and biovascular scaffolds (BVS). Methods and results A total of 28 patients previously treated with a SYNERGY stent (bioabsorbable polymer everolimus-eluting stents (BP-EES)), a PROMUS stent (persistent polymer everolimus-eluting stents (PP-EES))...

ZIRNGIBL. M., DRAGONE, c., and JOYNER. c.H.: ‘Demonstration of a 15 X 15 arrayed waveguide multiplexer on InP’, IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett., 1992, 4, (1 I ) , pp. 1250-1253 VERBEEK, B.H., STARING, A.A.M., JANSEN, E.J., VAN-ROUEN, R., BINSMA, J..I.M., VAN-DONGEN, T., AMERSFOORT, M.R., VAN-DAM, C., and SMIT, M.K.: ‘Large bandwidth polarisation independent and compact eight channel PHASAR demult...

In light of the recent data from BES collaboration for χc0 → V V , PP and SS, and from CLEO-c for ηη, η′η′ and ηη′, we present a detailed analysis of the decays of heavy quarkonia into light meson pairs such as χc0,2 → V V , PP and SS in a recently proposed parametrization scheme. An overall agreement with the data is achieved in χc0,2 → V V and PP , while in χc0 → SS we find that a possible ex...

Energy storage and mobility industries use polypropylene (PP) nanocomposites. The energy applications of newly made microporous SiO2 filled, porous PP nanocomposites combining PP, natural rubber, nanoparticles then subsequently removing rubber from the nanocomposite were explored in this paper. SEM pictures showed how pore morphology was altered by nanofillers. Mechanical tensile tests reveal t...