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Boarder Gateway Protocol is an Exterior Gateway Protocol used between Autonomous Systems (ASes) to send update information upon changes in the network topology. Network reachability information is contained within BGP update messages. Recent trends in BGP anomaly detection systems employ machine learning techniques to mine network data. In the proposed approach, we consider diversity of anomalo...

Liver cancer is a progressive, irreversible and aggressive malignant disease, which has no effective chemotherapeutic drugs. RA-XII, a natural cyclopeptide isolated from the traditional Chinese medicine Rubia yunnanensis, exerts anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory activities. This work aimed to investigate the effects of RA-XII on a hepatic tumor and its underlying mechanisms in human hepatoma He...

Ratnoff and his coworkers recognised that factor XII (XII) stimulates cell growth and activates mitogen-activated protein kinase. We determined the receptor(s) for this function and the consequence of this signalling pathway. Investigations show that the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor serves as the XII binding site on cultured umbilical vein endothelial cells. When XII binds, it stimu...

When purified human blood coagulation Factor XII (Hageman factor) is incubated with sulfatides at 37 degrees C, activation of Factor XII occurs as judged by the appearance of amidolytic activity towards the chromogenic substrate H-D-Pro-Phe-Arg-p-nitroanilide. Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis studies using 125I-Factor XII as a marker show that the appearance of amidolytic activity correlates ...

BACKGROUND Hypoglossal (XII) motoneurons innervate tongue muscles and are vital for maintaining upper-airway patency during inspiration. Depression of XII nerve activity by opioid analgesics is a significant clinical problem, but underlying mechanisms are poorly understood. Currently there are no suitable pharmacological approaches to counter opiate-induced suppression of XII nerve activity whi...

Carbonic anhydrase XII (CA XII) is a transmembrane enzyme that is associated with neoplastic growth. CA XII has been proposed to be involved in acidification of the extracellular milieu, creating an appropriate microenvironment for rapid tumor growth. Because RNA sequence databases have indicated that two isoforms of CA XII might exist in human tissues, and because alternatively spliced protein...

Factor XII Tenri (Y34C), a rare cross-reacting material (CRM)-negative factor XII deficiency, was identified in a 71-yr-old Japanese woman with angina pectoris. In the patient's plasma, factor XII activity and antigen levels were only 1.6% and 5.0%, respectively, of those seen in a normal subject. Immunoblot analysis showed that the secreted factor XII Tenri existed not only as a monomer (76 kD...

Bois noir (BN) is an insect-transmitted grapevine yellows disease caused by phytoplasmas belonging to the stolbur subgroup 16SrXII-A. In Italy, increasing prevalence of stolbur phytoplasma strains in vineyards suggests progressive spread of the disease and potential for heavy impacts on the wine industry. In this study, we investigated the genetic diversity of stolbur phytoplasma strains in BN ...