BACKGROUND Increased airway epithelial proliferation is frequently observed in smokers. To elucidate the molecular mechanisms leading to these epithelial changes, we studied the effect of cigarette smoke condensate (CSC) on cell proliferation, wound closure and mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) activation. We also studied whether modulation of intracellular glutathione/thiol levels could ...

Collective self-consumption (CSC) systems offer a great opportunity to increase the viability of photovoltaic installations by reducing costs and increasing profitability for consumers. In addition, CSC self-sufficiency (SS) (SC). These require proper energy allocation strategy (EAS) define distribution within CSC. However, most EASs do not analyze individual impact rules mechanisms adopted. Th...

central serous chorioretinopathy (cSc) was first described more than 140 years ago. due to the rapid development in modern imaging methods, better understanding of changes occurring in the retina in cSc is possible. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SdocT) has increased our ability to study this disease, especially microstructural changes during active phase and after resolution of ...

Coal spontaneous combustion (CSC) is a serious threat to the safe mining of coal resources, and selection suitable gas indicators predict CSC state crucial for prevention control mine fires. In this paper, temperature-programmed experiment was first carried out analyze components compositions in oxidative pyrolysis process three samples (lignite, long-flame coal, lean coal) with different coali...

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) is an idiopathic disorder characterized by serous detachment of the neurosensory retina. This report describes a case of CSC associated with rowatinex usage.

This paper presents our system in the Chinese spelling check (CSC) task of SIGHAN-8 Bake-Off. Given a sentence, our systems are designed to detect and correct the spelling error. As we know, CSC is still a hot topic today and it is an open problem yet. N-gram language modeling (LM) is widely used in CSC, since its simplicity and power. We present a model based on joint bi-gram and trigram LM an...

This paper describes our system in the Chinese spelling check (CSC) task of CLP-SIGHAN Bake-Off 2014. CSC is still an open problem today. To the best of our knowledge, n-gram language modeling (LM) is widely used in CSC because of its simplicity and fair predictive power. Our work in this paper continues this general line of research by using a tri-gram LM to detect and correct possible spellin...

Cancer stem cells (CSC) may provide the self-renewal capacity required to sustain a tumor. One possibility is that CSC arise from the stem cell counterparts in normal tissues. Alternatively, CSC may arise from more differentiated progenitor cells found in certain tissues. In support of this idea, we showed recently that mixed lineage leukemia fusion oncoproteins can convert committed hematopoie...

In recent years, the cancer stem cell (CSC) theory has provided a new angle in the research of cancer, and has gradually gained significance. According to this theory, the multiple drug resistance (MDR) of cancer is most likely due to the resistance of CSCs, and a significant quantity of research has been carried out into the MDR mechanisms of CSC. Over time, some of these mechanisms have been ...