BACKGROUND Previous reports implicate CYP2E1 RsaI/PstI polymorphism as a possible risk factor for several cancers. Published studies on the relationship of CYP2E1 RsaI/PstI polymorphisms with the susceptibility to gastric cancer are controversial. This study aimed to determine this relationship accurately. METHODS Meta-analyses that assessed the association of CYP2E1 RsaI/PstI variations with...

In contrast to skeletal muscle isoforms of myosin binding protein C (MyBP-C), the cardiac isoform has 11 rather than 10 fibronectin or Ig modules (modules are identified as C0 to C10, NH2 to COOH terminus), 3 phosphorylation sites between modules C1 and C2, and 28 additional amino acids rich in proline in C5. Phosphorylation between C1 and C2 increases maximum Ca-activated force (Fmax), alters ...

Indigenous Australian languages are said to show remarkable stability in C1C2 sequences with no evidence of assimilation of place of articulation. An EPG corpus of Warlpiri was examined to test the extent of spatio-temporal modification in a series of nasal and lateral/oral stop clusters that differed in place of articulation. There was evidence of limited anticipatory coarticulation in nasal c...

We consider a key case in the fundamental and substantial problem of the possible Jordan canonical forms of A, B,C ∈Mn(F ) when C = AB. If A ∈ M2k(F ) (respectively B, C ∈ M2k(F ) ) is diagonalizable with two distinct eigenvalues a1, a2 (respectively b1, b2, and c1, c2), each with multiplicity k, and when C = AB, all possibilities for a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2 are characterized. The possibilities ...

The aim of this paper is to solve the second order neutral delay differential equations (NDDEs) based on seventh C3-spline collocation methods with three parameters c1, c2, c3 ∈ (0, 1). It is shown that the proposed methods for second order NDDEs possess a convergence rate of order seven if : 1− c1 − c2 − c3 + c1c2 + c1c3 + c2c3 − 2c1c2c3 ≤ 0. Numerical results illustrating the behavior of the ...

Primary melanocytic tumors of the central nervous system are rare. In this article the authors describe a case of C1C2 intradural extramedullary melanocytoma in a 43-year-old patient who presented with neck pain. C1-3 laminectomy was performed followed by excision of the lesion and an adjoining satellite nodule, along with the dural attachment. The histopathological features were consistent wit...