Dendritic spines, small actin-rich protrusions from dendritic shafts, are the primary locus of excitatory synapses on neurons. Changes in dendritic spine morphology play a key role in memory formation and learning (Kasai et al., 2003). The loss or malformation of spines is also linked to many neurological diseases, which indicates the importance of proper regulation of spine morphology (Calabre...

We previously found that scavenger receptor cysteine-rich gp-340 (glycoprotein-340), isolated from lung or saliva, directly inhibits human IAVs (influenza A viruses). We now show that salivary gp-340 has broad antiviral activity against human, equine and porcine IAV strains. Although lung and salivary gp-340 are identical in protein sequence, salivary gp-340 from one donor had significantly gre...

In most countries, health authorities recommend a 20 % reduction of the salt content in manufactured food products. Understanding the release of taste compounds from food is essential to better known the mechanism of flavour perception, in order to develop low salt products that are acceptable to the consumers. In this aim, two sensors have been designed to allow the in-mouth monitoring of cond...

the aim of this research was to investigate the satisfaction and loyalty of female bodybuilders towards domestic and foreign sport garments considering garments characteristics. in other words, this research attempted to answer this question that which characteristics rise female athletes' satisfaction from sport garments with special brands and consequently their loyalty so that the obtai...

The influence of rubbers, trans-polynorbornene, polyisobutylene P-200 and sevilene on vulcanization characteristics, physical-mechanical dynamic properties rubber used for the manufacture products in contact with sea water has been investigated. It established that developed a sulfur vulcanizing system based rubbers SKMS-30ARK, SKN-4065 BK-1675 additives trans-polynorbornene 11808-340 improved ...

In this paper we argue that export data are an inadequate tool to measure a country’s international competitiveness when external trade is dominated by export-processing trade. Export data do not necessarily reflect the value produced in an exporting country, but rather capture the gross value of the products that leave a country’s ports. We demonstrate that, in the case of China, this leads to...