background: rna interference (rnai) is a phenomenon uses double-stranded rna (dsrna) to specifically inhibit gene expression. the non-specific silencing caused by interferon response to dsrna in mammalian cells limits the potential of utilizing rnai to study gene function. duplexes of 21-nucleotide short interfering dsrna (sirna) inhibit gene expression by rnai. in some organisms, sirna can als...

In this overview, we provide an update on recent progress made in understanding the mechanisms of action, physiological functions, and roles in disease of retinoic acid related orphan receptors (RORs). We are particularly focusing on their roles in the regulation of adaptive and innate immunity, brain function, retinal development, cancer, glucose and lipid metabolism, circadian rhythm, metabol...

The potential environmental impacts of large-scale storage hydroelectric power (HEP) schemes have been well-documented in the literature. In Europe, awareness of these potential impacts and limited opportunities for politically-acceptable medium- to large-scale schemes, have caused attention to focus on smaller-scale HEP schemes, particularly run-of-river (ROR) schemes, to contribute to meeting...

BACKGROUND Predicting treatment benefit and/or outcome before any therapeutic intervention has taken place would be clinically very useful. Herein, we evaluate the ability of the intrinsic subtypes and the risk of relapse score at diagnosis to predict survival and response following neoadjuvant chemotherapy. In addition, we evaluated the ability of the Claudin-low and 7-TNBCtype classifications...

ÐWe address the problem of rejecting false matches of points between two perspective views. The two views are taken from two arbitrary, unknown positions and orientations. Even the best algorithms for image matching make some mistakes and output some false matches. We present an algorithm for identification of the false matches between the views. The algorithm exploits the possibility of rotati...

Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is considered to be an early marker of severe sepsis that is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Therefore, we pretreated male ICR mice with IL-6 small interfering RNA (siRNA) before cecal ligation and puncture (CLP) and observed the changes in their survival in response to down regulation of IL-6, as well as the role of Th subsets during sepsis. In addition,...