We prove a main gap theorem for locally saturated submodels of a homogeneous structure. We also study the number of locally saturated models, which are not elementarily embeddable to each other. Through out this paper we assume that M is a homogeneous model of similarity type (=language) L . We study elementary submodels of M . We use M as the monster model is used in stability theory and so we...

Cointegrate plasmids were formed in vivo between the broad-host-range R-plasmid RP4 and two catabolic plasmids derived from Pseudomonas putida HS1. One of these was the wild-type plasmid pDK1 encoding the complete inducible toluene/xylene (TOL) catabolic pathway and one was pDKT1, a deletion derivative of pDK1 selected after growth of HS1 on benzoate and supporting growth on only toluene. The t...

During the cell transformation processes leading to erythroleukemia, erythroid progenitors often become erythropoietin (Epo)-independent for their proliferation. The biochemical events that could lead an erythroleukemic cell to growth factor-independence were investigated using spi-1 transgenic poerythroblasts. Spi-1/PU.1 is a myeloid and B-cell transcription factor of the ETS family and is act...

Recombination-activating genes (RAGs) play a critical role in V(D)J recombination machinery and their expression is specifically regulated during lymphocyte ontogeny. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms regulating murine RAG-2 expression, we examined a chromatin structure of 25-kb DNA segment adjacent to murine RAG-2 by analyzing DNase I hypersensitive (HS) sites. In a RAG-2-expressing murine...

In this paper we will give a rigorous proof of the lower bound for the scalar curvature of the standard solution of the Ricci flow conjectured by G. Perelman. We will prove that the scalar curvature R of the standard solution satisfies R(x, t) ≥ C0/(1−t) ∀x ∈ R , 0 ≤ t < 1, for some constant C0 > 0. Recently there is a lot of study of Ricci flow on manifolds by R. Hamilton [H1-6], S.Y. Hsu [Hs1...