We have measured crystalline electric field (CEF) excitations of ${\mathrm{Nd}}^{3+}$ ions in the two-channel Kondo lattice candidates $\mathrm{Nd}{\mathit{T}}_{2}{\mathrm{Zn}}_{20}$ $(T = \mathrm{Co}, \mathrm{Rh}, \text{and} \mathrm{Ir})$ by means inelastic neutron scattering (INS). In INS measurements at 5 K, dispersionless were observed 3.8 and 7.2 meV for $T=\mathrm{Co}$, 3.1 5.8 $T=\mathrm...

Quasicrystal (QC) possesses a unique lattice structure with rotational symmetry forbidden in conventional crystals. The electric property is far from complete understanding and it has been long-standing issue whether the magnetic long-range order realized QC. main difficulty was lack of microscopic theory to analyze effect crystalline field (CEF) at rare-earth atom QCs. Here we show full analys...

The current drugs against sleeping sickness are derived from cancer chemotherapeutic approaches. Herein, we aimed at evaluating the in vitro effect of alcoholic extracts of Artemisia annua (AMR), Rumex abyssinicus (RMA), and Catha edulis Forsk (CEF) on proliferation/viability of 1321N1 astrocytoma, MCF-7 breast cancer, THP-1 leukemia, and LNCaP, Du-145, and PC-3 prostate cancer cells and on Try...

GX0101, Marek's disease virus (MDV) strain with a long terminal repeat (LTR) insert of reticuloendotheliosis virus (REV), was isolated from CVI988/Rispens vaccinated birds showing tumors. We have constructed a LTR deleted strain GX0101ΔLTR in our previous study. To compare the host responses to GX0101 and GX0101ΔLTR, chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) cells were infected with two MDV strains and ...

The model green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is frequently subject to periods of dark and anoxia in its natural environment. Here, by resorting to mutants defective in the maturation of the chloroplastic oxygen-sensitive hydrogenases or in Proton-Gradient Regulation-Like1 (PGRL1)-dependent cyclic electron flow around photosystem I (PSI-CEF), we demonstrate the sequential contribution of ...

We study the resistivity T of PrOs4Sb12 and Pr0.7La0.3Os4Sb12 in magnetic fields between 2.7 and 16 T and at temperatures 20 mK T 1 K. PrOs4Sb12 is known to exhibit field-induced antiferroquadrupolar AFQ order while there is no evidence for such order in the specific heat of Pr0.7La0.3Os4Sb12. We find the resistivity of Pr0.7La0.3Os4Sb12 to be consistent with the accepted crystalline electric f...

The synthesis of a major collagen-binding glycoprotein of molecular weight 47,000 was previously shown to be altered by malignant transformation as well as by heat shock in chick embryo fibroblasts (Nagata, K., and Yamada, K.M. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 7531-7536 and Nagata, K., Saga, S., and Yamada, K.M. (1986) J. Cell Biol. 103, 223-229). In this paper, we examined the synthesis of this heat...

OBJECTIVES The Italian National Institute of Health Quality of Life - Core Evaluation Form (ISSQoL-CEF) is a specific questionnaire measuring health-related quality of life for human immunodeficiency virus-infected people in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy. The main goal of this study was to examine the construct validity of this questionnaire by confirmation of its hypothesized...

An increase in the level of active, GTP-bound Ras is not necessary for transformation of chicken embryo fibroblasts (CEF) by v-Src. This suggests that other Ras-independent pathways contribute to transformation by v-Src. To address the possibility that activation of phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3K) and the mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR/FRAP), represents one of these pathways, we have ...

In this study, we investigated the role of autophagy and apoptosis in Newcastle disease virus (NDV)-infected chicken cells and tissues. NDV-infected and starvation-induced chick embryo fibroblasts (CEF) cells showed higher autophagosome formation than mock-infected CEF cells on transmission electron microscopy. The NDV-infected CEF cells showed enhanced conversion of microtubule-associated prot...