Corresponding author: Hyun Jung Koh, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Yeouido St. Mary Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 10, 63-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-713, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3779-1268, Fax: 82-2-783-0368, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution ...

Abstract Close-in gas giants present a surprising range of stellar obliquity, the angle between planet’s orbital axis and its host star’s spin axis. It is unclear whether obliquities reflect planets’ dynamical history (e.g., aligned for in situ formation or disk migration versus misaligned high-eccentricity tidal migration) other mechanisms primordial misalignment planet–star interactions) are ...

Materials and methods: Between April 2008 and April 2009, 1268 women were investigated for rubella, 1102 for toxoplasma, and 1000 women for CMV seroprevalences in the first trimester of pregnancy. Toxoplasma and rubella IgM and IgG antibodies were assayed by the automated Vitros ECiQ system based on an immunometric technique. Cytomegalovirus IgM and G antibodies were tested using the Chorus enz...

Abstract We show that there exist uncountably many (tall and nontall) pairwise nonisomorphic density-like ideals on $\omega $ which are not generalized density ideals. In addition, they nonpathological. This answers a question posed by Borodulin-Nadzieja et al. in [this Journal , vol. 80 (2015), pp. 1268–1289]. Lastly, we provide sufficient conditions for ideal to be necessarily ideal.

Clapper rails (Rallus longirostris) were used as an indicator species of estuarine marsh habitat quality because of their strong site fidelity and predictable diet consisting of mostly benthic organisms. Mercury (Hg) and the polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) Aroclor 1268 concentrations were determined for sediments, crabs, as well as clapper rail adults and chicks collected from salt marshes assoc...

Recruitment of RAD18 to stalled replication forks facilitates monoubiquitination of PCNA during S-phase, promoting translesion synthesis at sites of UV irradiation-induced DNA damage. In this study, we show that RAD18 is also recruited to ionizing radiation (IR)-induced sites of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) forming foci which are co-localized with 53BP1, NBS1, phosphorylated ATM, BRCA1 and g...

Calcium signaling and Aequorin Aequorin is a photoprotein originating from the jellyfish Aequorea Victoria (Inouye et al., Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 82, 3154-3158, 1985; Prasher et al., Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 126 :1259-1268, 1985). The apo-enzyme (apoaequorin) is a 21 kD protein, which requires a hydrophobic prosthetic group, coelenterazine, to be converted to aequorin, the active form ...