UNLABELLED Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a rare, autoimmune disease characterized by cutaneous and visceral fibrosis. Interleukin- 6 (IL-6) is involved in the pathogenesis of many immune-mediated diseases. IL-6 plays an important role in the initiation and promotion of fibrosis. The polymorphism in the position -174 (G/C) of the promoter region of the IL-6 gene (IL-6pr) may alter the expression o...

This study aimed to determine the effect of Dayak Union tuber (Eleutherine bulbosa (Mill) Urb) ethanol extract on regeneration pancreatic β cells Wistar rats induced streptozotocin. research is laboratory experimental by using 30 rats, they are divided into 5 groups, each group consisting 6 1 (normal control), 2 (sick control) was given Na CMC % b/v, Group 3 (positive glibenclamide at a dose 0....

PM2.5 is the key reason for frequent occurrence of smog; therefore, identifying its driving factors has far-reaching significance prevention and control air pollution. Based on long-term remote sensing inversion data, 21 in fields nature humanities were selected, random forest model was applied to study influencing concentration Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration (BTH) from 2000 2016. Th...

Na tradicao ocidental, a cultura e um dos principais atributos da cidade (Benevolo L., 1983). Ela molda por meio de construcoes valor estetico historico, inserindo-a em uma rede ruas avenidas que sua vez dao lugar ao trafego mobilidade, proporcionando, vezes, belas paisagens, bem como locais para caminhadas encontros. A tambem moldada pela na medida monumentalidade configuracao contribuem const...

The Zoltan dynamic load balancing library provides applications with a reusable object oriented interface to several load balancing techniques, including coordinate bisection, octree/space filling curve methods, and multilevel graph partitioners. We describe enhancements to Zoltan’s octree load balancing procedure and its distributed structures that improve performance of the space filling curv...

1. Biomedical Imaging Group, EPFL, CH-1015 Lausanne VD, Switzerland. 2. Escuela Politecnica Superior, Univ. San Pablo-CEU, Campus Urb. Monteprincipe s/n, 28668 Boadilla del Monte, Madrid, Spain. 3. Lab. d'analyse ultrastructurale, Univ. de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne VD, Switzerland. 4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Molecular & cell biology Dept. Univ. of California, Berkeley, Ca 94720, USA. ...

Francisco López-Muñoz1,2,3*, Pilar García-García2 and Cecilio Álamo2 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, Spain 2Department of Biomedical Sciences (Pharmacology Area), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain 3Neuropsychopharmacology Unit, “Hospital 12 de Octubre” Research Institute (i+12), Madrid, Spain *Corresponding author: Dr....