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ABSTRACT The crown gall pathosystem was used to evaluate a model that describes the dose-response relationship between biological control agents and plant pathogens. The model predicts that this relationship can become asymptotic, such that increased antagonist doses cannot compensate for deficiencies in disease suppression. Wounded roots of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) and cherry (Prunus m...

BACKGROUND Extracellular matrix deposition is the main factor inducing stenotic lesions in arterial grafts. Lysyl oxidases (LOX) play a key role in stabilizing collagen and elastin. OBJECTIVE To examine the repair response to arterial allografts in terms of LOX expression and collagen/elastin deposition using LOX inhibitors. METHODS Lewis/Fisher-344 rats were used as donors/recipients. Dono...

Our interest in this article is prompted by the vibronic problem of charge polarized states in the four-dot molecular quantum cellular automata (mQCA), a paradigm for nanoelectronics, in which binary information is encoded in charge configuration of the mQCA cell. The polarization of the cell is evaluated and we show how the partial delocalization caused by the joint action of the vibronic coup...