CD99, the product of the MIC2 gene, exhibits an erythroid-specific quantitative polymorphism coregulated with the polymorphism of the XG blood group gene. As a preliminary study of this phenomenon, human XG and CD99 recombinant proteins were expressed in murine RAG cells and analyzed by flow cytometry. Both proteins were expressed independently and at a similar level in single and double transf...

10-Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (XG-PON), one of the latest standards of optical access networks, is regarded as one of the key technologies for future Internet access networks. This report presents our XG-PON module for the NS-3 network simulator. This module is designed and implemented with aim to provide a standards-compliant, configurable, and extensible module that can simulate ...

Use of biomaterials and light on bone grafts has been widely reported. This work assessed the influence of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on bone volume (BV) and bone implant contact (BIC) interface around implants inserted in blocks of bovine or autologous bone grafts (autografts), irradiated or not, in rabbit femurs. Twenty-four adult rabbits were divided in 8 groups: AG: autograft; XG: xenog...

Abstract Introduction Bioprinting facilitates highly-specific deposition of skin cells and biomaterials. Skin bioprinting is still limited by prolonged printing processes, poor mechanical properties incomplete complexities. An important barrier identifying an ideal hydrogel for – one with a good balance between viable producing robust scaffolds. Herein, three hydrogels were tested potential use...

The compressibility and compactibility studies of binary mixtures containing chitosan (CS) and xanthan gum (XG) were highlighted in this article. The compressibility of the examined powders was studied according to Heckel and Gurnham equations. Results indicated that CS exhibits more ductile character than XG. Moreover, in this study percolation theory has been applied to the tensile strength o...

Structural characteristics of xyloglucan are constant in the pericarp cell walls of kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa) throughout fruit enlargement and maturation. Most of the xyloglucan (XG) persists in the cell walls of ripe kiwifruit. XG from the pericarp tissues of 36-h ethylene-treated kiwifruit was extracted as hemicellulose II (HC-II) with 4.28 M KOH containing 0.02% NaBH(4), and purified u...

In [12], Stanley associated with a graph G a symmetric function XG which reduces to G’s chromatic polynomial XG(n) under a certain specialization of variables. He then proved various theorems generalizing results about XG(n), as well as new ones that cannot be interpreted on the level of the chromatic polynomial. Unfortunately, XG does not satisfy a Deletion-Contraction Law which makes it diffi...

The aim of this work was to study the effect of xanthan gum (XG) on the gelation process of bovine sodium caseinate (NaCAS) induced by acidification with glucono-δ-lactone (GDL) and on the mixed acid gel microstructure. Before GDL addition, segregative phase separation was observed in all the NaCAS-XG mixtures evaluated. The gelation process was analyzed by using a fractional factorial experime...