Introduction. Relation between atherosclerosis and innate immunity has attracted attention. As the antimicrobial peptide, LL-37, could have an important role in atherosclerosis, we supposed that there could be a meaningful association of plasma LL-37 level with risk factors for cardiovascular disease in subjects with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Materials and Methods. We evaluated plasma LL-37 lev...

The present research aims to identify Japanese listeners’ perception patterns of non-native liquid contrasts. The study examines Japanese listeners’ perception of Arabic liquids (/l/, /r/, /ll/ and /rr/). Japanese listeners showed poor performance on the Arabic /l/-/r/ discrimination and very good performance on the discrimination of the other liquid contrasts (/l/-ll/, /ll/-/rr/, /l/-/rr/, /r/...

From the point of view of parsing the LL(K] grammars constitute a very attractive class of context-free grammars. For each LL{K] grammar a top-down parsing algorithm can be devised which is essentially a one-state deterministic push-down automaton. From a more theoretiG point of view LL[K) grammars are attractive as well. It is well-known, for example, that it is decidable whether two LLfk) gra...

The human cathelicidin peptide, LL-37, is a host defense peptide with a wide range of immunomodulatory activities and modest direct antimicrobial properties. LL-37 can exert both pro- and anti-inflammatory effects and can modulate the proinflammatory responses of human peripheral blood monocytes and epithelial cells. In this study, we evaluated the effect of LL-37 on mouse bone marrow-derived m...

introduction: the aim of this study is to compare holmium laser (ll) with pneumatic lithoclast (pl) in patients with upper ureteral stones and their ability to destruct the stones and making the patient stone free. we also compare the duration of these procedures and their complications, such as urosepsis, perforation, and pushing the stone backward. methods: this has been a clinical randomized...

As shown in the previous two papers (Prichard, R.G., and M.E. Lickey (1981 a, b) J. Neurosci. 1: 835-839; 840-845), the circadian rhythm of compound action potentials (CAPs) from the Aplysia eye can be reset in vitro by single transitions from continuous light to continuous darkness (LL/DD). The magnitude of the reset depends on the duration of LL that precedes the LL/DD. When LL duration is 18...