Characterizing subpopulations of stem cells is important to understand stem cell properties. Tissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase (ALP) is associated with mineral tissue forming cells as well as stem cells. Information regarding ALP subpopulation of human periodontal ligament stem cells (hPDLSCs) is limited. In the present study, we examined ALP+ and ALP- hPDLSC subpopulations, their surface...

Members of the ALP/Enigma family of PDZ-LIM proteins play a role in cytoskeletal anchorage and mutations in at least one member of this family are associated with human cardiomyopathy. Here, we describe the analysis of the Caenorhabditis elegans alp-1 gene. alp-1 is predicted to encode the entire nematode ALP/Enigma protein family, consisting of one ALP-related protein with a single LIM domain ...

Axion like particles (ALPs) and right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) are two well-motivated dark matter (DM) candidates. However, these have a completely different origin. was proposed to solve the strong CP problem, whereas RHNs were introduced explain light neutrino masses through seesaw mechanisms. We study case of ALP portal RHN DM (Majorana DM) taking into account existing constraints on ALPs. co...

We derive partial-wave unitarity constraints on gauge-invariant interactions of an axionlike particle up to dimension-6 from all allowed $2\ensuremath{\rightarrow}2$ scattering processes in the limit large center-of-mass energy. find that strongest bounds stem amplitudes with one external and only apply coupling a pair $SU(2{)}_{L}$ gauge bosons. Couplings $U(1{)}_{Y}$ $SU(3{)}_{C}$ bosons ferm...

Putative standards of skeletal alkaline phosphatase (ALP) (from bone, bone cells, osteosarcoma cells, and Pagetic serum) and hepatic ALP (from cholestatic serum and bile) were used to compare three methods for quantifying skeletal ALP activity in serum: heat inactivation, precipitation with wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), and precipitation with concanavalin A (Con A). All the skeletal ALP standard...

BACKGROUND Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) level has been shown to be a prognostic factor for myocardial infarction and stroke via its promotion of vascular calcification. AIM To investigate for the first time the correlation between serum ALP level and coronary collateral circulation (CCC) development. METHODS A total of 356 patients with stable angina pectoris were evaluated retrospectiv...

This paper presents the TPCALP framework, a theorem-proving approach which aims to unify Abductive Logic Programming (ALP), Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) and Semantic Query Optimization (SQO). The framework combines the use of deenitions, as in ordinary logic programming, with the use of integrity constraints, as in ALP and SQO. The programmer can choose to represent knowledge in either fo...