In this study, we report on physical and in vitro biological characterization of succinylated collagen (SC). SC was prepared by succinylation of type I bovine tendon collagen. SC swells and dissolves in physiological pH buffers (pH 7.4) Biocompatibility of SC to collagen for fibroblasts was comparable but L6 myoblasts showed pronounced proliferation and differentiation with SC. Using the MALDI-...

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This project proposes a method of understanding and implementing a light weighted media player using SDL based FFMPEG media player library on a SOC based board running on ARM9 hardware with LINUX as the target OS i.e., S3C2440 (also called as mini 2440) as core processor and select 1GB NandFlash as external memory. At the same time SD and USB interface are used for extending the storage. The mo...

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs of approximately 22 nucleotides in length, which play important roles in regulating gene expression post-transcriptionally. Several computational methods and algorithms have been developed to predict miRNA targets. In this study, we described a method that can be used to integrate miRNA target prediction data from multiple sources and gene expression...

Correspondence Financial nonfi nancial disclosures: The authors have reported to CHEST the following confl icts of interest: Dr Somers has served as a consultant for ResMed, Respironics, Medtronic, GlaxoSmithKline, Sepracor, Boston Scientifi c, and Cardiac Concepts. He has received research grants from the ResMed Foundation, the Respironics Sleep and Breathing Foundation, ELA Medical, and Selec...

activation probe G.Bonheure, M.Hult, A.Fenyvesi, S.Äkäslompolo, D.Carralero, D.Degering, A.de-Vismes Ott, M.Garcia-Munoz, B.Gmeiner, A.Herrmann, M.Laubenstein, G.Lutter, J. Mlynar, H.W.Mueller, V.Rohde, W.Suttrop, G.Tardini and the ASDEX Upgrade Team ERM-KMS, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium, Partner in the Trilateral Euregio Cluster EC-JRC-IRMM, Retieseweg 111, B-2440 Geel, Belgium Nuclear Research In...

Inducing robust magnetic moments on the basal plane of the graphene sheet is very difficult, and is one of the greatest challenges in the study of physical chemistry of graphene materials. Theoretical studies predicted that introduction of a kind of sp(3)-type defects formed by OH groups is an effective pathway to achieve this goal [Boukhvalov, D. W. &Katsnelson, M. I. ACS Nano 5, 2440-2446 (20...

Yamamoto J, Wilson MA. Large-scale chronically implantable precision motorized microdrive array for freely behaving animals. J Neurophysiol 100: 2430–2440, 2008. First published July 30, 2008; doi:10.1152/jn.90687.2008. Multiple single-unit recording has become one of the most powerful in vivo electro-physiological techniques for studying neural circuits. The demand has been increasing for smal...

As a first step toward understanding how rare variants contribute to risk for complex diseases, we sequenced 15,585 human protein-coding genes to an average median depth of 111× in 2440 individuals of European (n = 1351) and African (n = 1088) ancestry. We identified over 500,000 single-nucleotide variants (SNVs), the majority of which were rare (86% with a minor allele frequency less than 0.5%...

Abstract The hydrological niche is one of the few below ground spatial environmental niches, which has been shown to structure English floodplain meadows and other European African herbaceous ecosystems. However, both relative contribution heterogeneity across scales forms individual species’ responses remain largely unknown. Here, we use a survey database 2440 evaluation units sampled in 15 di...