chicken chemokine can help heal wounds by inducing fibroblasts to become myofibroblasts, according to results reported by Feugate et al. on page 161. The contractile myofibroblasts help close the wound by pulling together the necessary cells and matrix. Chemokines are better known for their activities in the immune system, but increased production of chicken chemotactic and angiogenic factor (c...

A prior retrospective study suggested that the level of retinoblastoma protein (RB) expression was prognostic for survival in acute myelogenous leukemia (AML). Individuals with no/low RB protein expression were considered to have loss of RB function, and those with maximally phosphorylated (maxphos) RB were also felt to have nonfunctional RB. To confirm this, we prospectively investigated wheth...

Repetition blindness (RB) refers to the impairment in reporting two identical targets within a rapid serial visual presentation stream. While numerous studies have demonstrated RB for words and picture of objects, very few studies have examined RB for faces. This study extended this research by examining RB when the two faces were complete repeats (same emotion and identity), identity repeats (...

The retinoblastoma susceptibility gene (Rb) participates in controlling the G1/S-phase transition, presumably by binding and inactivating E2F transcription activator family members. Mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs) with no, one, or two inactivated Rb genes were used to determine the specific contributions of Rb protein to cell cycle progression and gene expression. MEFs lacking both Rb allele...

The oligosaccharide structures of total glycoproteins in suspension-cultured Arabidopsis thaliana MM2d cells are determined. The N-linked sugar chains released by hydrazinolysis were labeled with 2-aminopyridine, and analyzed by a combination of HPLC, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry, and exoglucosidase digestion. The glycan structures determined were...

Faculty of Engineering Yokohama National University, 79–5 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240–8501, Japan, Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, 79–7 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240–8501, Japan, and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3–1–1 Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka 812–8582, Japan (Received March 15, 2002; Acc...

Corresponding Author: A.H.M. Kamal Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: [email protected] Abstract: Purposely visual degradation of image quality is a newfangled idea in the area of Histogram Association Mapped (HAM) reversible data hiding. Such scheme first divides the color scale, i.e., 0-255, into some...

Background. Retinoblastoma (RB) and transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) are important tumor-related factors. Methods. A series of 30 EBV-associated gastric carcinoma (EBVaGC) and 38 matched EBV-negative gastric carcinoma (EBVnGC) tissues were examined for the promoter methylation of RB by methylation-specific PCR (MSP) method. The expression of RB and TGF-β1 in gastric carcinoma tissues was ...