Vernalization, the acceleration of flowering by winter, involves cold-induced epigenetic silencing of Arabidopsis FLC. This process has been shown to require conserved Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) components including the Su(z)12 homologue, VRN2, and two plant homeodomain (PHD) finger proteins, VRN5 and VIN3. However, the sequence of events leading to FLC repression was unclear. Here we...

To test the ability of cloned committed erythroleukemic cells to participate in development we have injected. Friend leukemia cells (FLC) into C57Bl/6 mouse blastocysts together with Friend leukemia virus (FLV) and we have examined the newborn individuals derived from them. Five animals out of 32 born have FLC-derived neoplasia. The incidence of neoplasia is increased as compared with other sim...

The main feature in multiple myeloma is osteolysis and, hence, bone turnover markers have got the at mostcare different studies on this disease. present paper would stress calculation of free progressionsurvival indices using some these .Sixty-five MM (males=41, females=24) patients distributed to hematologycenters Iraq wereenrolled study. Their age range was 39-81 years, they were all three st...

In this paper, a method for the tuning the membership functions of a Mamdani type Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) using the Clonal Selection Algorithm(CSA) a model of the Artificial Immune System(AIS) paradigm is examined. FLC’s are designed for two problems, firstly the linear cart centering problem and secondly the highly nonlinear inverted pendulum problem. The FLC tuned by AIS is compared with...

Flowering locus C (FLC) is a major regulator of flowering responses to seasonal environmental factors. Here, we document that FLC also regulates another major life-history transition-seed germination, and that natural variation at the FLC locus and in FLC expression is associated with natural variation in temperature-dependent germination. FLC-mediated germination acts through additional genes ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Monoclonal free light chains (FLC) frequently cause kidney disease in patients with plasma cell dyscrasias. Polyclonal FLC, however, have not been assessed in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) yet could potentially play an important pathologic role. This study describes for the first time polyclonal FLC in patients with CKD. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & ...

Fluconazole (FLC), a triazole with limited activity against Aspergillus species, is frequently used as prophylaxis in leukemia patients and bone marrow transplant recipients. Prior FLC use has been associated with an increasing incidence of invasive aspergillosis in these patients. We hypothesized that prior exposure of Aspergillus fumigatus to FLC could result in altered in vitro susceptibilit...

A novel FLC (Fuzzy Logic Controller) for eliminating buffer overflow at the user level is proposed. It tunes the buffer size in a dynamic manner to ensure that the buffer length always covers the queue length by the given safety margin ∆ . The FLC operation is based on the objective function: 2 } , 0 { ∆ . Our timing analysis shows that the FLC requires very short execution time for its control...

FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC) is a key repressor of flowering in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and is regulated, both positively and negatively, by posttranslational histone modifications. For example, vernalization (the promotion of flowering by cold temperatures) epigenetically silences FLC expression through repressive histone modifications such as histone H3 lysine-9 dimethylation (H3K9me2) ...

Candida albicans is one of the most common fungal pathogens. Our previous study demonstrated that concomitant use of berberine (BBR) and fluconazole (FLC) showed a synergistic action against FLC-resistant C. albicans in vitro and BBR had a major antifungal effect in the synergism, while FLC played a role of increasing the intracellular BBR concentration. Since the antifungal activity of BBR alo...