Osteocalcin (OC) is a non-collagenous, vitamin K-dependent protein secreted in the late stage of osteoblasts differentiation. The presence of the three residues of γ-carbossiglutamatic acid, specific of the active form of OC protein, allows the protein to bind calcium and consequently hydroxyapatite. The osteoblastic OC protein is encoded by the bone γ-carbossiglutamate gene whose transcription...

conclusions pharyngeal airway dimensions, soft palate length, thickness, and position, and hyoid position are not significantly different between skeletal class i and class ii prepubertal children. results no significant difference in the upper airway, soft palate, and hyoid variables was found between the two groups (p > 0.05) and no correlation was found between anb difference and the other v...

Skeletal muscle dysfunction is highly prevalent and one of the earliest pathological tissue changes among people with at-risk alcohol use. Clinical studies to elucidate pathophysiological mechanisms alcohol-mediated disease are hampered due ethical considerations, confounded by nutritional, lifestyle, comorbid conditions. Rodent models have been developed study impact consumption end organ inju...

Abstract This study provides an overview and discussion of controls on the distribution organic reefs during Early Ordovican Period, in Yangtze Platform, a region epicontinental sedimentary rocks South China. The Platform was located low latitudes Ordovician recorded rich diverse through that time. During late Tremadocian Epoch, dolomitic stratiform stromatolites were common supratidal to inter...

Paralysis of skeletal muscles, which can lead to paralysis of respiratory muscles and death, is one of the most toxic effects of organophosphates (OPs), and oximes are the only available antidotes that can reverse or prevent such toxic effects. In the present study, the possible reversal or preventive effect of different concentrations of obidoxime (toxogonin) on changes induced by paraoxon (as...

Paralysis of skeletal muscles, which can lead to paralysis of respiratory muscles and death, is one of the most toxic effects of organophosphates (OPs), and oximes are the only available antidotes that can reverse or prevent such toxic effects. In the present study, the possible reversal or preventive effect of different concentrations of obidoxime (toxogonin) on changes induced by paraoxon (as...