Prostaglandin F(2 alpha) (PGF(2 alpha)) receptors are G-protein-coupled receptors consisting of two alternative mRNA splice variants, named FP(A) and FP(B). As compared with the FP(A) isoform, the FP(B) isoform lacks the last 46 amino acids of the carboxyl terminus and, therefore, represents a truncated version of the FP(A). We recently found (Pierce, K. L., Fujino, H., Srinivasan, D., and Rega...

The objectives of this survey were to identify women's level of KAP toward FP; identify possible barriers to using FP; determine pregnancy spacing pattern; and ascertain the level of FP promotion by health workers. This was a 2-weeks cross-sectional survey at all maternity units in Butembo of post-partum women. 572 women were interviewed. FP knowledge was high (76%), perception good (80%). Majo...

The NEDD8/Rub1 class of ubiquitin-like proteins has been implicated in progression of the cell cycle from G1 into S phase. These molecules undergo a metabolism that parallels that of ubiquitin and involves specific interactions with many different proteins. We report here the crystal structure of recombinant human NEDD8 refined at 1.6-A resolution to an R factor of 21.9%. As expected from the h...

Copepod faecal pellets (FP) are considered important contributors to vertical carbon flux, but investigations comparing FP production with FP export using sediment traps conclude that vertical export is not their only fate. FP are degraded to a large extent in the upper 60 m, and even among large, fast-sinking FP, only a fraction reaches sediment traps deeper than 200 m. Retention mechanisms fo...

Normal adult male hamsters have low levels (10-20 micrograms) of female protein (FP) in serum which increase approximately fivefold during an acute phase response. In contrast, normal females have 50- to 100-fold higher serum levels and the acute phase reaction consists of a transient decrease in FP (approximately 50%), followed by a return to normal levels even under adverse conditions such as...

OBJECTIVE Although there has been little research on the adaptive behavior of people with congenital compared to acquired disability, there is reason to predict that people with congenital conditions may be better adapted because they have lived with their conditions for their entire lives (Smart, 2008). We examined whether people with congenital facial paralysis (FP), compared to people with a...

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) coprocessor, having significant impact on the performance of communication systems, hasbeen a hot topic of research for many years. The FFT function consists of consecutive multiply add operations over complex numbers, dubbed as butterfly units. Applying floating-point (FP) arithmetic to FFT architectures, specifically butterfly units, has become more popular recent...

Fluorescent proteins (FP) are used to study various biological processes. Recently, a series of near-infrared (NIR) FPs based on bacterial phytochromes was developed. Finding ways to improve NIR FPs is becoming progressively important. By applying rational design and molecular evolution we have engineered R. palustris bacterial phytochrome into a single-domain NIR FP of 19.6 kDa, termed GAF-FP,...