We previously reported that overexpression of full-length periostin, Pn-1, resulted in ventricular dilation with enhanced interstitial collagen deposition in a rat model. However, other reports have documented that the short-form splice variants Pn-2 (lacking exon 17) and Pn-4 (lacking exons 17 and 21) promoted cardiac repair by angiogenesis and prevented cardiac rupture after acute myocardial ...

lim n→∞ T  C s1,s2,...,sk,⌊ n d1 ⌋+e1,⌊ n d2 ⌋+e2,...,⌊ n dl ⌋+el n  1 n , as a function of si, dj and ek, where T (G) is the number of spanning trees in graph G. In this paper we derive simple and explicit formulas for the number of spanning trees in circulant graphs C12l pn . Following from the formulas we show that lim n→∞ T  C1,a1n,a2n,...,aln pn  1 n

We give lower and upper bounds on the total domination number of the cross product of two graphs, t (G×H). These bounds are in terms of the total domination number and the maximum degree of the factors and are best possible. We further investigate cross products involving paths and cycles.We determine the exact values of t (G×Pn) and t (Cn×Cm)where Pn and Cn denote, respectively, a path and a c...

We study the operator monotonicity of the inverse of every polynomial with a positive leading coefficient. Let {pn}n=0 be a sequence of orthonormal polynomials and pn+ the restriction of pn to [an,∞), where an is the maximum zero of pn. Then p −1 n+ and the composite pn−1 ◦ p −1 n+ are operator monotone on [0,∞). Furthermore, for every polynomial p with a positive leading coefficient there is a...

The crossing numbers of Cartesian products of paths, cycles or stars with all graphs of order at most four are known. For the path Pn of length n, the crossing numbers of Cartesian products G Pn for all connected graphs G on five vertices are also known. In this paper, the crossing numbers of Cartesian products G Pn for graphs G of order six are studied. Let H denote the unique tree of order si...

In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of baseline computed tomography (CT) signs and postoperative TN stages on survival of patients with advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma with preoperative chemotherapy. Consecutive patients (n = 130) with preoperative chemotherapy and radical esophagectomy from January 2006 to December 2011 were enrolled in this study retrospectively. Pathological...

The controlled release of well-defined radical species under mild conditions for subsequent use in selective reactions is an important and challenging task synthetic chemistry. We show here that simple bismuth amide [Bi(NAr2)3] readily aminyl radicals [NAr2]. at ambient temperature solution. These yield the corresponding hydrazines, Ar2N?NAr2, as a result highly N?N coupling. exploitation facil...

In this paper a problem posed in [1J and concerning the number of primes in the Smarandache Unary sequence is analysed. Introduction In [1] the Smarandache Unary sequence is defined as the sequence obtained concatenating Pn digits of 1, where Pn is the n-th prime number: 11,111,11111,1111111,11111111111,1111111111111,11111111111111111, ......... . In the same paper the following open question i...

studying crustal and upper mantel structures has been limited in the iranian plateau and there has been little work done in this field. in this paper we have a primary motive to map pn and sn velocities beneath most of the iranian plateau in order to test 3-d mantle models and to develop and test a method to produce pn and sn travel time correction surfaces that are the 3-d analogue of travel t...

Four new complexes of the type [LCo ((DO)(DOH) pn) Cl] PF , where (DO) (DOH) pn = N , N '- propanediylbis (2, 3-butanedione2-imine3-oxirne)a nd L =morpholine (mrpln) (I), benzylamine (bzlan) (II), piperidine (pprdn)(III) and pyrrolidine (prldn) (IV) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analyses and spectroscopic methods. Approximate values of the angular-overlap parameter, ?, ...