shiga toxins (stxs) are bacterial virulence factors produced by shigella dysenteriae serotype 1 and escherichia coli strains. stxs are critical factors for the development of diseases such as severe bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome. additionally, stxs trigger the secretion of pro- inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, particularly in monocytes or macrophages. the inflammatory cyto...

A 5-SPU robot with collinear universal joints is well suited to handling an axisymmetric tool, since it has 5 controllable DoFs and the remaining one is a free rotation around the tool. The kinematics of such a robot having also coplanar spherical joints has previously been studied as a rigid subassembly of a StewartGough platform, it being denoted a line-plane component. Here we investigate ho...

A 5-SPU robot with collinear universal joints is well suited to handling an axisymmetric tool, since it has 5 controllable DoFs and the remaining one is a free rotation around the tool. The kinematics of such a robot having also coplanar spherical joints has previously been studied as a rigid subassembly of a StewartGough platform, it being denoted a line-plane component. Here we investigate ho...

background: prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths among men. new gene expressed in prostate (ngep), is a prostate-specific gene expressed only in normal prostate and prostate cancer tissue. because of its selective expression in prostate cancer cell surface, ngep is a potential immunotherapeutic target. to target the ngep in prostate cancer, it is essential to investigat...

the selection of high yielding varieties with good stability‏ ‏is an important objective in rice breeding ‎programs. the grain yield of eight rice lines with a check (nemat) were compared‎‏ ‏on six locations of gilan ‎and mazandaran provinces during two years, using rcbd with four replications. combined analysis of ‎variance showed that the effect of variety and year ‎‏×‏‎ location ‎‏×‏‎ variet...