TNF-like weak inducer of apoptosis (TWEAK) is a type II membrane protein belonging to the TNF family that regulates apoptotic cell death, cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, and inflammation. However, the role of TWEAK in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) remains unclear. In this study, we have investigated the effect of neutralizing anti-TWEAK mAb on the development of collagen-i...

MCP (Modified Critical-Path) algorithm [1] schedules Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) with communication costs onto a bounded number of processors. It is one of the six most popular algorithms in this category and performs the best among them [2]. MCP has many implementations during the last decade, while most of them did not implement it efficiently. In this paper, we present the methods to redu...

Background: Conventional radiography (CR) of the hands, wrists and feet is currently gold standard for assessing erosive damage in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). However, CR prone to relatively low resolution projection superimposition due 2-dimensional imaging. Therefore, might not detect disease RA patients. High-resolution peripheral quantitative computed tomography (HR-pQCT) an im...

an investigation was carried out to study the effect of sole heat treatment and sole 1- methyl cyclo propine (1- mcp) as well as in combination on storage quality of strawberries. the factorial experiment was conducted using a completely randomized design of three replications. treatments included heat treatment at two levels (room teperature, 45°c for 3h) and 1- mcp at two levels (0, 1µl l-1)....

Micro-channel plate photomultiplier tube (MCP-PMT) is a kind of photosensitive device with single photon detection capability and great time resolution, which also called Fast-PMT (FPMT). The characteristic MCP makes the MCP-PMT capable reaching spatial resolution multi-anodes. With experience successfully R&D 20-inch MCP-PMT, researchers in IHEP are now developing multi-anodes FPMT resolut...

Palisaded granulomatous dermatitis is an uncommon pathologic condition potentially associated with several disorders. These include drugs, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple myelomas, rheumatoid arthritis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. An illustrative case of a man with palisaded granulomatous dermatitis who subsequently developed ulcerative colitis is described, and the characteristics o...