Using Northern blotting with a human genomic DNA probe for the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, we have shown specific mRNA in normal human peripheral mononuclear cells (PBMC); the presence of specific mRNA was also observed in a T lymphocyte cell line derived from a patient with lymphoma. We then demonstrated that PBMC translate the message into protein. Thus, using a radioimmunoassay with an...

New moderate-resolution mid-infrared spectroscopy at 10 μm of 27 infrared galaxies is presented. The galaxies have been chosen from three 60 μm selected and one 12 μm selected complete flux-limited catalogs of galaxies; 17 of these sources have LIR(8– 1000μm) ≥ 5 × 10 L⊙. A high-resolution spectrum of the source Arp 299B1 is also presented. Combining these new results with previously published ...

Using Northern blotting with a human genomic DNA probe for the pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) gene, we have shown specific mRNA in normal human peripheral mononuclear cells (PBMC); the presence of specific mRNA was also observed in a T lymphocyte cell line derived from a patient with lymphoma. We then demonstrated that PBMC translate the message into protein. Thus, using a radioimmunoassay with an...

Macroautophagy/autophagy has been shown to mediate the selective lysosomal degradation of pathogenic bacteria and viruses (xenophagy), and to contribute to the activation of innate and adaptative immune responses. Autophagy can serve as an antiviral defense mechanism but also as a proviral process during infection. Atg8-family proteins play a central role in the autophagy process due to their a...

We report the first systematic study of the submillimeter water vapor rotational emission lines in infrared (IR) galaxies based on the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) data of Herschel SPIRE. Among the 176 galaxies with publicly available FTS data, 45 have at least one H2O emission line detected. The H2O line luminosities range from ∼ 1× 105 L⊙ to ∼ 5× 10L⊙ while the total IR luminosities (...

Selective autophagy contributes to cellular homeostasis by delivering harmful material into the lysosomal system for degradation via vesicular intermediates referred to as autophagosomes. The cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting pathway is a variant of selective autophagy in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during which hydrolases such as prApe1 are transported into the vacuole. In general, selectivity is ac...

We have investigated optical properties of 4248 infrared galaxies (IRGs) by positionally matching data from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 3 (SDSS DR3). Due to the large sky area coverage of both surveys, we have obtained an opportunity to study an unprecedentedly large number of 4248 infrared galaxies spanning four orders of infrared lu...

Millimeter-wave (CO) observations of optically-selected QSOs are potentially a powerful tool for studying the properties of both the QSOs and their host galaxies. We summarize here a recent molecular gas survey of z < 0.17 optical QSOs with infrared (IR) excess, LIR(8 − 1000μm)/Lbbb(0.1 − 1.0μm) > 0.36. Eight of these QSOs have been detected to date in CO(1 → 0), and the derived molecular gas m...

Abstract Objective To investigate the response of infrapatellar fat pad (IFP) to running at different intensities and further explore underlying mechanisms these responses under running-induced loadings. Methods Animals were randomly assigned into sedentary (SED), low-intensity (LIR), medium-intensity (MIR), high-intensity (HIR) groups. The rats in LIR, MIR, HIR groups subjected an 8-week tread...