After the contagion measles virus (MV) crosses the respiratory epithelium within myeloid cells that express the primary receptor signaling lymphocytic activation molecule (SLAM), it replicates briskly in SLAM-expressing cells in lymphatic organs. Later, the infection spreads to epithelia expressing nectin-4, an adherens junction protein expressed preferentially in the trachea, but how it gets t...

Potassium currents were measured using the three-microelectrode voltage-clamp technique in rat omohyoid muscle at temperatures from 1 to 37 degrees C. The currents were fitted according to the Hodgkin-Huxley equations as modified for K currents in frog skeletal muscle (Adrian et al., 1970a). The equations provided an approximate description of the time course of activation, the voltage dependen...

با توجه به اهمیت حذف یون استرانسیم موجود در پساب‌­های هسته­ای، کار حاضر ضمن سنتز لیگاندهای هیدروکسی بنزآلدهید پروپیل تری اتوکسی سیلان (Si-HL3(EtO)) و پیریدیل متیلیدین (Si-L3(EtO)) بررسی خصوصیات نانو ذرات سیلیکای اصلاح ­شده این لیگاندها ­عنوان جاذب جامد از محلول آبی پرداخته شد پارامترهایی مانند pH، زمان، جرم جاذب، دما یون‌­های مزاحم مورد آزمایش قرار گرفت. رفتار جذبی جاذ­ب‌­ها نشان داد سطح توانای...

Let S be a set of convex polygons in the plane with a total of n vertices, where a polygon consists of the boundary as well as the interior. E cient algorithms are presented for the problem of reporting output-sensitively (resp. counting) the I pairs of polygons that intersect. The algorithm for the reporting (resp. counting) problem runs in time O(n4=3+ +I) (resp. O(n4=3+ )), where > 0 is an a...

Metabolic activation of some N-nitroso compounds (NOCs), an important class of DNA damaging agents, can induce the carboxymethylation of nucleobases in DNA. Very little was previously known about how the carboxymethylated DNA lesions perturb DNA replication in human cells. Here, we investigated the effects of five carboxymethylated DNA lesions, i.e. O6-CMdG, N6-CMdA, N4-CMdC, N3-CMdT and O4-CMd...

An experiment was conducted to study the effects of different soil water potential (SWP) on soil water content, hot pepper’s yield, water consumption and water use efficiency (WUE) under plastic-mulched drip irrigation in the North-West China in order to find a suitable SWP to guide the pepper irrigation. Five treatments were set based on SWP, they were -10kPa (N1), -20kPa (N2), -30kPa (N3), -4...

Insulin-like growth factor (IGF)-I and insulin are essential for fetal growth. We investigated perinatal changes of both factors in 40 mothers and their 20 appropriate-for-gestational-age (AGA) and 20 intrauterine-growth-restricted (IUGR) fetuses and neonates on day 1 (N1) and day 4 (N4) postpartum. Fetal and N1, but not N4, IGF-I levels were increased in AGA (P < .001 and P = .037, resp.). N1 ...