• Carbon black decreases the calcination temperature to obtain perovskite structure. The distribution of copper depends on temperature. insertion into structure is promoted with BMC3-C600 shows most stable performance during cyclic experiments. presence surface and oxygen vacancies are for BMC3-C600. A series BaMn 0.7 Cu 0.3 O 3 solids were prepared by a modified sol-gel method in which carbon ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is characterized by arterial vascular remodelling and alteration in vascular reactivity. Since gap junctions are formed with proteins named connexins (Cx) and contribute to vasoreactivity, we investigated both expression and role of Cx in the pulmonary arterial vasoreactivity in two rat models of PH. METHODS Intrapulmonary arteries (IPA) were isolated fr...

The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that androgen administration prior to chemotherapy (androgen priming) may potentiate tumor cytotoxicity in hormone-responsive prostate cancer. Accordingly, six groups of Copenhagen rats bearing small (i.e., 40-mm3 median volume) Dunning R3327 G tumors were left untreated or received castration, chemotherapy, or a combination of the two, wit...

Nowadays a number of endemic mosquito species are known to possess vector abilities for various diseases, as e.g. the sibling species Culex pipiens and Culex torrentium. Due to their morphological similarity, ecology, distribution and vector abilities, knowledge about these species' population structure is essential. Culicidae from 25 different sampling sites were collected from March till Octo...

We tested for competitive advantage among larvae of Aedes albopictus (Skuse) and Culex pipiens L. in a laboratory experiment and determined the frequency and spatial and temporal patterns of co-occurrence in the field in East St. Louis, IL. In a laboratory competition experiment at multiple combined densities of Ae. albopictus and Cx. pipiens larvae, Ae. albopictus survivorship and developmenta...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Filariasis is one of the major vector-borne diseases causing serious health problem in the tropics and subtropics. The coastal areas of Digha are known to be a filariasis prone region of West Bengal, India. The filarial parasite Wuchereria bancrofti is transmitted by Culex quinquefasciatus, the established filarial vector in West Bengal, India. The present work was aimed...

BACKGROUND The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) is a major phenotype of cancer metastasis and invasion. As a druggable cancer target, the inhibition of protein kinase CK2 (formally named to casein kinase 2) has been suggested as a promising therapeutic strategy to treat EMT-controlled cancer metastasis. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of the CK2 inhibitor CX-4945 on the proces...

If X is a metric space then CX and LX denote the semigroups of continuous and Lipschitz mappings, respectively, from X to itself. The relative rank of CX modulo LX is the least cardinality of any set U \LX where U generates CX . For a large class of separable metric spaces X we prove that the relative rank of CX modulo LX is uncountable. When X is the Baire space NN, this rank is א1. A large pa...

A seven French extra back-up catheter was placed in the ostium of the left coronary artery. Three guidewires were advanced: one in the LAD artery and the other two in the CX artery and branches. While crossing the CX occlusion with the wire, the vessel opened spontaneously (Figure 4) and an image suggestive of thrombotic material was seen in the CX and the second obtuse marginal branch (Figure ...

The gap junctional protein (Durlej et al., 2011; Xu, et al., 2012; Shaker et al., 2012) ( connexin, Cx ) are present in the cells that is responsible to exchange information and substance, which was channel protein and was essential for cell proliferation, differentiation and body growth and development of Cx. The Cx function is complex, in many physiological and pathological processes are invo...