OBJECTIVE The aim of the present study was to assess the association between the 2037T/C and 2237G/A polymorphisms in the EL gene and the risk of CAD and lipid levels in a Chinese population. METHODS A case-control study including 706 patients with CAD and 315 controls was performed. The polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) method was used to identify ...

Objective Since most reports on bystander effect have been only concerned with radiation-induced damage, the present paper aimed at disclosing whether low dose radiation could induce a stimulatory or beneficial bystander effect. Methods A co-culture system containing irradiated antigen presenting cells (J774A.1) and unirradiated T lymphocytes (EL-4) was established to observe the effect of J774...

The quality of vegetable extracts is influenced by parameters such as: extraction method, extracting liquid, vegetable matter granulometry and plant:solvent ratio. The standardization of these parameters in obtaining extracts is of great importance in order to guarantee their quality. The spectrophotometric trial based on the formation of complexes with aluminum chloride was applied to evaluate...

The haemolytic properties of El Tor vibrios are usually utilized to differentiate them from the non-haemolytic cholera vibrios. In some freshly isolated Vibrio el tor strains, however, the haemolytic property may be ill-developed and this test may then fail to reveal the true identity of the strains. In order to overcome this difficulty a number of tests have been developed. Investigations repo...

We introduce estimation and test procedures through divergence minimization for models satisfying linear constraints with unknown parameter. These procedures extend the empirical likelihood (EL) method and share common features with generalized empirical likelihood approach. We treat the problems of existence and characterization of the divergence projections of probability distributions on set...

We provide several concrete implementations of a generic method given by Vaudenay to construct secure privacy-preserving RFID authentication and identification systems. More precisely, we give the first instantiation of the Vaudenay’s result by using the IND-CCA secure DHAES cryptosystem. Next we argue that weaker cryptosystems can also be used by recalling the WIPR RFID system and giving a new...

Geophysical signals N of interest are often contained in a parent signal G that also contains a seasonal signal X at a known frequency fX. The general issues associated with identifying N and X and their separation from G are considered for the case where G is the Pacific sea surface temperature monthly data, SST3.4; N is the El Niño/La Niña phenomenon and the seasonal signal X is at a frequenc...

Endothelial lipase (EL) is a determinant of high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C) level, which is negatively correlated with atherosclerosis susceptibility. We found no difference in aortic atherosclerotic lesion areas between 26-week-old EL+/+ apolipoprotein E-deficient (apoE-/-) and EL-/- apoE-/- mice. To more firmly establish the role of EL in atherosclerosis, we extended our study to...

inabilities to attain adequate aqueous solubility and stability have made the preparation of a clinically suitable formulation of taxol difficult. addition of nicotinamide (nd), 2-hydroxypropyl- b-cyclodextrin (hpßcd), polyethylene glycol, (peg), bile salts (bs, 50:50 sodium cholate: deoxycholate), and cremophor el can improve the solubility of taxol. studies were undertaken to compare the stab...

Casella et al. [2, (2009)] proved that, under very general conditions, for normal linear models the Bayes factor for a wide class of prior distributions, including the intrinsic priors, is consistent when the number of parameters does not grow with the sample size n. The special attention paid to the intrinsic priors is due to the fact that they are nonsubjective priors, and thus accessible pri...