In this study, we tested the hypothesis that a CB(1) TMH3-4-5-6 aromatic microdomain, which includes F3.25(190), F3.36(201), W5.43(280), and W6.48(357), is centrally involved in CB(1) receptor activation, with the F3.36(201)/W6.48(357) interaction key to the maintenance of the CB(1)-inactive state. We have shown previously that when F3.36(201), W5.43(280), and W6.48(357) are individually mutate...

God displays His invisible attributes in creation (Romans 1:20). Therefore, creationists can use the nature of God as a guiding principle in science. One attribute of God is His desire for fellowship and community with His people (Psalm 46:10; John 3:16; Revelation 21:3–4). God's people are encouraged to show this desire. Both the Old and the New Testaments contain passages that promote friends...

1 Department of TCM, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Guangzhou, 510260, China 2 Pharmaceutical Research Center, Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou, 510182, China 3 Department of Cardiology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Guangzhou, 510260, ...

We use the radio ring in JVAS B0218+357 to constrain the mass models with LensCLEAN. H0 is determined from the resulting model and the time delay. B0218+357 is one of the best systems to reduce systematic errors in H0 and may thus be called a “golden lens”.

The effects of herbivorous zooplankton on the sedimentation of particles out of the euphotic zone are examined with mathematical models, a large-scale field experiment, and descriptive data from a eutrophic lake. The theory is rooted in the population dynamics of phytoplankton and zooplankton and so explicitly accounts for the potential effect of zooplankton grazing on primary production and th...

GPR15 is an orphan G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) that serves for an HIV coreceptor and was also recently found as a novel homing receptor for T-cells implicated in colitis. We show that GPR15 undergoes a constitutive endocytosis in the absence of ligand. The endocytosis was clathrin dependent and partially dependent on β-arrestin in HEK293 cells, and nearly half of the internalized GPR15 re...

PSN-357, an effective glycogen phosphorylase (GP) inhibitor for the treatment for type 2 diabetics, is hampered in its clinical use by the poor selectivity between the GP isoforms in liver and in skeletal muscle. In this study, by the introduction of cholic acid, 9 novel potent and liver-targeted conjugates of PSN-357 were obtained. Among these conjugates, conjugate 6 exhibited slight GP inhibi...

TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351 Linear order of first-chromosome genes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 Fruit-size relations with the first-chromosome genes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Manifold effects of the Ss genes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...