objective: it has been suggested that the vascular endothelial growth factor (vegf) gene expression plays an important role in radiation-induced injury to the spinal cord. this study assesses the radioprotective effects of n-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine (melatonin) through its modulation of vegf expression after localized irradiation of the cervical spinal cord. materials and methods: in this exp...

This paper presents an improved Cache trace attack on AES and CLEFIA by considering Cache miss trace information and S-box misalignment. In 2006, O. Acıiçmez et al. present a trace driven Cache attack on AES first two rounds, and point out that if the Cache element number of the Cache block is 16, at most 48-bit of AES key can be obtained in the first round attack. Their attack is based on the ...

Rat lymph chylomicrons were treated with Pronase resulting in particles completely devoid of surface apoproteins. On re-incubation with serum, the Pronase-treated chylomicrons re-acquired, by transfer from other lipoproteins, all apoproteins except apoprotein B, which is water-insoluble and non-transferable. When two groups of rats were injected with [3H]cholesterol-labelled control or Pronase-...

Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture 46 (2007), No. 3; DLG-Verlag Frankfurt/M. TORERO, MAXIMO and JOACHIM VON BRAUN (eds.) (2006): Information and Communication Technologies for Development and Poverty Reduction. The Potential of Telecommunications. Baltimore, MA, USA: The Johns Hopkins University Press for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Washington, DC, USA,...

A new approach to approximate the kinetic-energy-functional dependent component (vt[ρA, ρB ](~r)) of the effective potential in oneelectron equations for orbitals embedded in a frozen density environment (Eqs. 20-21 in [Wesolowski and Warshel, J. Phys. Chem. 97, (1993) 8050]) is proposed. The exact limit for vt at ρA −→ 0 and

1 School of Social Sciences, Waseda University, 1-6-1, Nishi-Waseda, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8050, Japan 2 NEC Soft, Ltd., 1-18-7, Shinkiba, Koto-ku, Tokyo 136-8627, Japan 3 Sciencehouse, Inc., 1-4-17, Higashi-Tabata, Kita-ku, Tokyo 114-0013, Japan 4 Department of Science of Biological Supramolecular Systems, Graduate School of Integrated Science, Yokohama City University, 1-7-29, Suehiro-cho, T...

Patients who failed a catheter-free trial after acute urinary retention and one week of full dose alpha-blocker and 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor were offered Diethylstilbestrol 1 mg plus Aspirin 100 mg over 4 weeks. Prostate volume, age, serum creatinine, and initial retention drained urine volume were recorded. After excluding cardiovascular morbidity (n = 7), upper urinary tract dilation (n = ...