Bronchial inflammation contributes to a sustained elevation of airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR) in asthma. Conversely, omega-3 fatty acid derivatives have been shown to resolve inflammation in various tissues. Thus, the effects of docosapentaenoic acid monoacylglyceride (MAG-DPA) were assessed on inflammatory markers and reactivity of human distal bronchi as well as in a cultured model of guine...

Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) may play a role in the cellular interactions leading to myelination. Using monoclonal antibodies and conventional antisera against MAG, we have isolated a cDNA clone from an expression library prepared from rat brain mRNA. The identity of the clone was confirmed by the exact match between its nucleotide sequence and two peptide sequences of 13 and 9 amino ac...

We use the ACS BV iz data from the HUDF and all other deep HST ACS fields (including the GOODS fields) to find large samples of star-forming galaxies at z ∼ 4 and z ∼ 5 and to extend our previous z ∼ 6 sample. These samples contain 4671, 1416, and 627 B, V , and i dropouts, respectively, and reach to extremely low luminosities (0.01 − 0.04L∗z=3 or MUV ∼ −16 to −17), allowing us to determine the...

We present the properties of a large sample (12,282) of nearly face-on low surface brightness (LSB) disk galaxies selected from the main galaxy sample of SDSS-DR4. These properties include B-band central surface brightness μ0(B), scale lengths h, integrated magnitudes, colors, and distances D. This sample has μ0(B) values from 22 to 24.5 mag arcsec with a median value of 22.42 mag arcsec, and d...

Myelin associated glycoprotein (MAG) is an essential component of the periaxonal architecture of the myelin sheath. Because of its potent neurite growth repressive activity, MAG is also likely to play an important role in axonal guidance during the CNS development, and to be responsible for abortive neuronal regeneration in adult CNS. The MAG gene chromatin from approximately 1.6 to +0.6 kb fea...

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