Licorice (the root of Glycyrrhizae plant) has been used as an oriental herbal medicine for thousands of years. The licorice flavonoid components are reported to possess immunomodulatory activities. In this present study, we investigated the immunomodulatory effects of liquiritigenin (LG) and liquiritin (LQ), licorice flavonoid components, against disseminated candidiasis due to Candida albicans...

Absftact-This paper presents a new parallel algorithm for routing unicast (one-to-one) assignments in Ben& networks. Parallel routing algorithms for such networks were reported earlier, but these algorithms were designed primarily to route permutation assignments. The routing algorithm presented in this paper removes this restriction without an increase in the order of routing cost or routing t...

Purpose To investigate whether the SNARE protein vesicle-associated membrane protein 8 (VAMP8) was implicated in the development of chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Methods Firstly, the chronic GVHD (cGVHD) and Sjögren's syndrome (SS)-impaired lacrimal gland (LG) tissue sections from humans for diagnostic purpose were evaluated for VAMP8 expression by histopathology and immuno...

The regional phase Lg is often used to estimate location and magnitude for sources closer than 1500 km. The complexity of Lg waveforms makes it difficult to consistently determine a unique Lg arrival time, thus affecting source location with a single station or array. This study tests an automatic method for timing Lg arrivals using wavelet transforms to decompose the Lg signal into its compone...

BACKGROUND Recent works using echocardiography suggested that low gradient (LG), low flow (LF) aortic stenosis (AS) has more pronounced left ventricular (LV) concentric remodeling, smaller LV cavity size, and more interstitial fibrosis compared with high gradient (HG) normal flow (NF) AS. Therefore, we evaluated the accuracy of echocardiographic measurements and compared remodeling and fibrosis...

We performed preliminary tests of the feasibility of multi-detector computed tomographic lymphography (MDCT-LG) with interstitial injection of iopamidol for mapping cutaneous lymphatic drainage pathways. MDCT-LG images were obtained following cutaneous injection of a total of 1ml iopamidol bilaterally into hind legs of 10 dogs. The locations of the first draining lymph nodes were marked on the ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Several studies have analysed the role of nicotine as a prominent agent affecting wound repair in smokers. However, tobacco smoke contains several components that may alter gingival wound healing. The present study aimed to analyse the roles of cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) and nicotine on cell viability, cell migration/invasion and myofibroblastic differentiation us...

In [5], Aspnes, Herlihy, and Shavit generalized the notion of a sorting network by introducing a class of so called \counting" networks and establishing an O(lg n) upper bound on the depth complexity of such networks. Their work was motivated by a number of practical applications arising in the domain of asynchronous shared memory machines. In this thesis, we continue the analysis of counting n...

Background: “Teucrium polium L.” (TP) has been long recommended in Iranian folk medicine for its anti-diabetic activities. We attempt here to evaluate the effect of TP extract on insulin secretion in rat pancreas. Methods: Rat pancreas was isolated in situ and perfused with Krebs solution containing low glucose (LG, 2.8 mM) or high glucose (HG, 16.7 mM) as perfusate. The aqueous extract (Aq. E)...

This paper is a sequel to the paper by A. Losev and Yu. Manin [LoMa1], in which new moduli stacks of pointed curves were introduced. In particular, the structure sections are divided into two groups, and the sections of the second group are allowed to intersect. The homology of these stacks form components of extended modular operad which will be further studied in [LoMa2]. In this paper the ba...