Two members of the myocardin protein family, myocardin-related transcription factor (MRTF)-A and MRTF-B are co-activators of serum response factor (SRF). We recently reported that MRTF-A/B activates the transcription of several actin cytoskeletal/focal adhesion genes SRF dependently, thereby enhancing the formation of stress fibers and focal adhesions. Here, we showed that the levels of caldesm...

Carrier lifetime degradation of reactive ion etch-processed silicon samples are investigated. Two types of carrier recombination: reversible and irreversible degradations induced by reactive ion etching (RIE) are identified. Irreversible carrier recombination is due to surface damage created by the RIE process that propagates a few microns deep into the silicon substrate. Reversible carrier rec...

We recently have shown that activated Ras, but not Raf, causes transformation of intestinal (RIE-1, IEC-6) epithelial cells, whereas both activated Ras and Raf transform NIH 3T3 fibroblasts (Oldham, S. M., Clark, G. J., Gangarosa, L. M., Coffey, R. J., and Der, C. J. (1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 93, 6924-6928). The observations that conditioned medium from Ras-, but not Raf-, transfec...

در این مقاله، هدف طراحی و ساخت سامانه تشخیصی پروب لانگمویر جهت اندازه ­گیری پارامترهای پلاسما دستگاه گداخت به ­روش محصورسازی الکترواستاتیکی اینرسی ایران (IR-IECF) به­ منظور مشخصه­ یابی چشمه‌­ی پلاسمایی می‌­باشد. بدین‌­منظور، یک برای اندازه‌­گیری مختلف از جمله دمای الکترون­، چگالی الکترون، یون، پتانسیل ساخته شده است. با نظر گرفتن مشخصات چشمه IR-IECF، الکترود مورد استفاده مفتول جنس تنگستن قطر طول...

Hemispherical reflectance and internal quantum efficiency measurements have been employed to evaluate the response of Si nanostructured surfaces formed by using random and periodic reactive ion etching techniques. Random RIE-textured surfaces have demonstrated solar weighted reflectance of= 3 ‘?XO over 3001200-nm spectral range even without the benefit of anti-reflection films. Random RIE-textu...

INTRODUCTION The European Cubicin(®) Outcomes Registry and Experience (EU-CORE(SM)) was a retrospective, non-interventional, multicenter study which evaluated the safety and effectiveness of daptomycin therapy in patients with Gram-positive infections including infective endocarditis (IE). METHODS Data from the EU-CORE registry were collected for patients with IE who had received at least one...