Paneth cells are zinc-containing cells localized in small intestinal crypts, but their function has not been fully elucidated. Previously, we showed that an intravenous injection of diphenylthiocarbazone (dithizone), a zinc chelator, induced selective killing of Paneth cells, and purified a zinc-binding protein in Paneth cells. In the present study, we further characterized one of these protein...

Aim: to study changes in the activities of purine nucleotide degradation enzymes – adenosine deaminase (ADA) and xanthine oxidase (XO) patients with rectum cancer (RC). Material Methods. The activity was studied blood plasma tissue homogenates: tumor normal rectal mucosa 70 stage I–IV RC. histological type RC adenocarcinoma. levels ADA XO were measured using spectrophotometry. Results. serum si...

The article gives an account of the “Handheld-Mode Interface for the OLPC XO Laptops” research work within OpenUsability project. The introduction of the following document expounds what the OLPC XOs are and which our research task has been. The second chapter explains the three stages of the work, from the concept to the graphic design. The achieved results are briefly summed up in the conclus...

LaBRI UMR 5800 Université Bordeaux I 351 Cours de la Libération 33405 Talence Cedex – France {auber,maylis,domenger,mary}@labri.fr www.labri.fr Département de mathématiques et d’informatique Université du Québec à Chicoutimi 555, boulevard de l’Université Chicoutimi, G7H 2B1 – Canada [email protected] wwwdim.uqac.ca INRIA Futurs & LIRMM UMR 5506 161 rue Ada 34392 Montpellier Cedex 5 – Fran...

The first consignment of crinoids received from the United States Fisheries steamer Albatross, now engaged in work among the Philippine Islands, proves to be a collection of more than usual interest. Not only does it contain a remarkably large number of new and interesting forms, but many species, heretofore known only from single more or less imperfect specimens, are represented. The littoral ...

Here {y\ = y — [y] = the fractional part of y. The number N is an integer >1. The number x0 is a given initial value such that 0 ^ Xo < 1. The number 0 is fixed. Some early references to numerical work with sequences of the type (1) are given by 0. Taussky and J. Todd in [1]. Regarding the sequence x„ as a function of Xo, I proved in [2] that for almost all x0 the sequence x„ is equidistributed...

In this study, we investigated the effect of the xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibitor, allopurinol (ALP), on cardiac dysfunction, oxidative-nitrosative stress, apoptosis, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) activity and fibrosis associated with diabetic cardiomyopathy in mice. Diabetes was induced in C57/BL6 mice by injection of streptozotocin. Control and diabetic animals were treated with ALP or pl...