Background A beneficial effect on cardiovascular risk may be obtained by improving lipid-related serum lipoprotein functions such as high-density lipoproteins (HDLs) cholesterol efflux capacity (CEC) and serum cholesterol loading capacity (CLC) and by reducing proprotein convertase subtilisin kexin type 9 (PCSK9), independently of lipoprotein concentrations. Aim We aimed to evaluate the effec...

Fifty percent of adult canine Purkinje fibers manifest a decrease in automaticity in response to alpha 1-adrenergic stimulation with 10(-10)-10(-8) M norepinephrine (NE), and 50% manifest an increase. In contrast, most neonatal Purkinje fibers show an increase in automaticity in response to these concentrations of NE. We studied the modulation of NE effects, using the subtype selective alpha 1-...

The Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) being specified by the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and based upon Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) consists of a frequency division duplex (FDD) mode and a time division duplex (TDD) mode. In the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) TDD mode, system capacity is maximized with base stations (Node B's) in a UTRA T...

Open-tubular capillary electrochromatography (OT-CEC) is an alternative approach to conventional CEC. The primary advantage of OT-CEC is the elimination of problems associated with frits and silica particles in conventional CEC. This report is an investigation of the utility of using a polymeric surfactant (molecular micelle) for OT-CEC. In this approach, fused-silica capillaries coated with th...

This demo showcase the Community Extraction Cloud (CEC) system. The key idea is to drop weak-tie nodes by efficiently extracting core nodes based on the novel concept of asymptotically equivalent structures (AES) and parallel AES mining algorithm. Meanwhile, to facilitate storing and processing of massive networks, several cloud computing technologies including HDFS, Katta, and Hama are seamles...

cation exchange capacity (cec) is one of the main factors in monitoring and management of soil quality in order to achieve sustainable production. although cec can be measured directly, these measurements are difficult, time-consuming and costly, especially for aridisols. one alternative method is the use of pedotransfer functions (ptf), in which cec of soils is estimated through available soil...

AIM The aim of the present study was to detect the relative expressions of p53, p21(Waf1/Cip1), p27(Kip1) Bcl-2 and cleaved caspase-3 in cervical lesion samples from Brazilian women by immunohistochemistry. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 230 cervical biopsies in paraffin-embedded blocks were studied: 43 were invasive squamous cell carcinomas (SCC), 52 carcinomas in situ/cervical intraepithe...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of a soluble monomeric form of the EphB4 extracellular domain (sEphB4) on choroidal endothelial cell (CEC) migration and tube formation and on experimental laser-induced choroidal neovascularization (CNV). METHODS EphrinB2 and EphB4 expression in CECs was investigated by Western blot analysis and immunohistochemistry. Effects of sEp...

OBJECTIVE We compared profiles of the numbers of circulating endothelial cells (CEC) and the apoptosis-inducing capacity of serum samples on human endothelial cells (hEC) in on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients. METHODS Blood samples from 30 patients undergoing CABG (randomly assigned to two groups: 15 patients off-pump and 15 on-pump (cardiopulmonary bypass, C...