the innate immune system recognizes the presence of bacterial products through the expression of a family of membrane receptors known as toll-like receptors (tlrs). polymorphisms in tlrs have been shown to be associated with increased susceptibility to diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease. the aim of this study was to determine whether there was a correlation between polymorphisms of tlr...

results the tlr3 protein in the ach group tended toward reduction although the p value of the comparison between the ach group and hd group was not statistically significant. the tlr3 levels in the hcc, ac, and cir groups were higher than those in the hd and ach groups. tlr3 was not interrelated with all costimulation proteins in the dcs and t cells in all five groups. no group presented any in...

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Objective(s): High Mobility Group Box1 (HMGB1) is a nonhistone, DNA-binding protein that serves a crucial role in regulating gene transcription and is involved in a variety of proinflammatory, extracellular activities. The aim of this study was to explore whether HMGB1 stimulation can up-regulate the expression of Toll-like Receptor 2 (TLR2) and Toll-like Receptor 4 (TLR4) on macrophages from p...

In this work, we calculate the limit distribution of the total cost incurred by splitting a tree selected at random from the set of all finite free trees. This total cost is considered to be an additive functional induced by a toll equal to the square of the size of tree. The main tools used are the recent results connecting the asymptotics of generating functions with the asymptotics of...

the importance of the role played by bacteria in the pathogenesis of pulpal and apical disease has been established. one of the characteristics of apical periodontitis is apical bone resorption, which is due to apical immune response to bacterial infection. recently, novel bacterial complex lipid called phosphorylated dihydroceramides has been discovered to be of inflammatory activators. the ba...

it has been suggested that single nucleotide polymorphisms (snps) in genes involved in toll-like receptors (tlrs) pathway may exhibit broad effects on function of this network and might contribute to a range of human diseases. however, the extent to which these variations affect tlr signaling is not well understood. in this study, we adopted a bioinformatics approach to predict the consequences...