Correspondence to: Sérgio Roberto Peres Line Faculdade de Odontologia de Piracicaba UNICAMP Avenida Limeira, 901, Areião CEP: 13.414-903 Caixa Postal: 52 Piracicaba-SP, Brasil Phone:+55-19-3412-5333 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Dental enamel is the most mineralized tissue in the vertebrate body and contains the largest known biologically formed hydroxyapatite crystals. Its formation ...

Heart valves are thin, complex, layered connective tissues that direct blood flow in one di‐ rection through the heart. There are four valves in the heart, located at the entrance to and exit from the ventricular chambers. The normal function of the heart valves is essential to cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary physiology. The opening and closing of valve leaflets at precise times during the c...

The matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) constitute a family of multidomain zinc endopeptidases which contain a catalytic domain with a common metzincin-like topology. The MMPs are involved not only in extracellular matrix degradation, but also in a number of other biological processes. Normally, their proteolytic activity is regulated precisely by their main endogenous protein inhibitors, in parti...

We analyse supermembrane instantons (fully wrapped supermembranes) by computing the partition function of the three-dimensional supersymmetrical U(N) matrix model under periodic boundary conditions. By mapping the model to a cohomological field theory and considering a mass-deformation of the model, we show that the partition function exactly leads to the U-duality invariant measure factor ente...