Endoglin (ENG, also known as CD105) is a transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) associated receptor and is required for both vasculogenesis and angiogenesis. Angiogenesis is important in the development of cerebral vasculature and in the pathogenesis of cerebral vascular diseases. ENG is an essential component of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation complex. Animal studies showed that ...

The human vestibular system comprises five motion detectors, being the three semicircular canals for rotation detection and two otolith organs for linear acceleration detection. Whereas Unilateral Centrifugation (UC) [1] is used for over a decade to evaluate the utricle, the ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potential (oVEMP) test is a very recent test, claiming to be also a utricular test. The...

Dizzy patients undergoing electronystagmography (ENG) often express stressful life situations, anxiety, and other adverse psychological states . Many past studies have dealt with the interrelations among actual vertigo (or less specific dizziness) and various psychological factors. The present study compares results of a psychological screening questionnaire, the State-Trait Anxiety Index, betw...

OVERVIEW: Among the international efforts to curb global warming, practical application of CO2 removal technology and improvement of powergeneration efficiency — for reducing CO2 emission from thermal power plants (which will probably remain the prime source of power in future) — will, at the very least, become urgent issues over the next several decades. Accordingly, the Hitachi Group is aimin...

Visual evoked response (VER), auditory brainstem evoked response (ABER), somatosensory evoked response (SSER), blink reflex and electronystagmographic (ENG) investigative methods were applied to a group of 89 patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Optic Neuritis (ON). The MS patients were classified as definite (n = 31), probable (n = 31) and possible (n = 27). The aim of this study was to d...

O'NEIL, J. 1956 Master's Thesis, Department of Food Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. PALADINO, S., UGOLINI, F., AND CHAIN, E. B. 1954 Fermentors of 90 and 300 L capacity for vortex and sparger aeration. Rend. Ist. Super. Sanith. 17, 87-120. (Eng. Ed.). PFEIFER, V. F., VOJNOVICH, C., AND HEGER, E. N. 1952 Itaconic acid by fermentation with Aspergillus terreus. ...

OBJECTIVE Loss-of-function mutations in genes coding for transforming growth factor-beta/bone morphogenetic protein receptors and changes in nitric oxide(*) (NO(*)) bioavailability are associated with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and some forms of pulmonary arterial hypertension. How these abnormalities lead to seemingly disparate pulmonary pathologies remains unknown. Endoglin (Eng), ...

It has been proposed that epithelial cells can acquire invasive properties through exposure to paracrine signals originated from mesenchymal cells within the tumor microenvironment. Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) has been revealed as an active factor that mediates the epithelial-stroma cross-talk that facilitates cell invasion and metastasis. TGF-β signaling is modulated by the coreceptor...

HHT shows clinical variability within and between families. Organ site and prevalence of arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) depend on the HHT causative gene and on environmental and genetic modifiers. We tested whether variation in the functional ENG allele, inherited from the unaffected parent, alters risk for pulmonary AVM in HHT1 mutation carriers who are ENG haploinsufficient. Genetic assoc...

–In recent years, voltage instability has been responsible for many major network collapses throughout the world; hence the growing interest of power engineers and researchers to address this problem. This thesis provides an introduction to the concepts and definitions related to voltage stability problems in power systems. It also gives a concise description of the stability problems of the di...