BACKGROUND Angiogenesis has a key role in several conditions and is regulated by several factors such as the platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) or the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF). The goal of this study was to investigate the possible role of PDGF and VEGF in a group of patients with severe food allergy. METHODS We design a prospective longitudinal study (n = 30) with patient...

Sparse coding in a redundant basis is of considerable interest in many areas of signal processing. The problem generally involves solving an under-determined system of equations under a sparsity constraint. Except for the exhaustive combinatorial approach, there is no known method to find the exact solution for general dictionaries. Among the various algorithms that find approximate solutions, ...

N-Glycolylneuraminic acid (NeuGc) is abundantly expressed in most mammals, but it is not detectable in humans. The expression of NeuGc is controlled by cytidine monophospho-N-acetylneuraminic acid (CMP-NeuAc) hydroxylase activity. We previously cloned a cDNA for mouse CMP-NeuAc hydroxylase and found that the human genome contains a homologue. We report here the molecular basis for the absence o...

A rapid and simple HPLC method has been developed for the determination of 4-chloro-3-methylphenol (CMP) in the metal working fluid (MWF), Trim VX and in experiments designed to measure the dermal penetration of CMP from MWF. The method used 2-methyl-4,6-dinitrophenol as an internal standard (IS). Water was used as the extraction solvent. The retention times of CMP and internal standard (IS) we...

Chip Multiprocessors (CMP) are flexible, high-frequency platforms on which to support Thread-Level Speculation (TLS). However, for TLS to deliver on its promise, CMPs must exploit multiple sources of speculative task-level parallelism, including any nesting levels of both subroutines and loop iterations. Unfortunately, these environments are hard to support in decentralized CMP hardware: since ...

The effect of cow's milk protein (CMP) challenge on the levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) in the upper jejunal mucosa and the serum were studied in 25 infants clinically suspected to have cow's milk allergy. Following CMP provocation 3 groups were identified. Group 1 consisted of 10 infants who had clinical and histological reaction to CMP challenge. All 10 infants had significant depletion ...

The finding that N-glycoloylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc) in pig submandibular gland is synthesized by hydroxylation of the sugar nucleotide CMP-Neu5Ac [Shaw & Schauer (1988) Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler 369, 477-486] prompted us to investigate further the biosynthesis of this sialic acid in mouse liver. Free [14C]Neu5Ac, CMP-[14C]Neu5Ac and [14C]Neu5Ac glycosidically bound by Gal alpha 2-3- and Gal alp...

Mistletoes are used medicinally in order to treat various human illnesses. Few studies have reported on the phenolic content and antioxidant properties of Chinese mistletoes (CMs). In this work, the total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and antioxidant activities of soluble and insoluble-bound phenolic extracts from CMs hosted by Camellia assamica (Mast.) Chang (CMC) and ...

In this paper, we introduce a new combinatorial optimization problem entitled the color mix (CMP), which is more general case of grey pattern quadratic assignment (GP-QAP). Also, propose an original hybrid genetic-iterated tabu search algorithm for heuristically solving CMP. addition, present both analytical solutions and graphical visualizations obtained solutions, clearly demonstrate excellen...