Changes in the abundance and organization of lipid lamellae (LL) stratum corneum (SC) are proposed to underly barrier dysfunction conditions such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis ichthyosis. However, there few reports on LL diseased SC. The current investigation tested hypothesis that is altered omega-O-acylceramide metabolism defects associated with congenital Pnpla1 Alox12b knockout mice were ...

BACKGROUND Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is an important growth factor in regulation of cell proliferation, differentiation, survival and apoptosis. Studies showed that food-grade Lactococcus lactis (L. lactis) and NICE expression system have superior performance in exogenous protein expression. This study aimed to construct and express porcine EGF (pEGF), and use L. lactis as vehicle for produ...

The convexity properties of the kernel O. Also, lower bounds for the Tunin differences involving the moments of <ll(t) are established. The paper concludes with several questions and open problems.

OBJECTIVE To document lumbar lordosis (LL) of the spine and its change during surgeries with the different height but the same angle setting of the anterior cage. Additionally, we attempted to determine if sufficient LL is achieved at different cage heights and to quantify the change in LL during multi-level anterior lumbar interbody fusion (ALIF). METHODS The medical records and radiographs ...

BACKGROUND LL-37, the only member of the antimicrobial peptide cathelicidin family in humans, exerts a variety of biological activities, especially immunomodulation through either direct chemotactic activity or up-regulation of several cytokines and chemokines in various cell types. In this study, we aimed to determine the immunoregulatory effect of LL-37 on Th1/Th2 cytokine expression and prod...