Insulin resistance is a major underlying mechanism responsible for the ‘metabolic syndrome’, which is also known as insulin resistance syndrome. The incidence of metabolic syndrome is increasing at an alarming rate, becoming a major public and clinical problem worldwide. Metabolic syndrome is represented by a group of interrelated disorders, including obesity, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia, and...

Tracers without feedback on the atmosphere are used to probe tropospheric transport. Such passive tracers are considered for two important anthropogenic sources, Europe and eastern North America. The linearity of passive tracer continuity allows transport to be formulated in terms of a Green function, G. A coarse-grained Green function is defined that is suitable for numerical investigation wit...

Water-wall tubes are important components in power plants and used to absorb the heat from boilers, they often fail prematurely due corrosion, erosion, fatigue during service. To repair defects, weld overlay is adopted by forming a compressive stress area around susceptible prevent cracks propagating. In order obtain reasonable process parameters of repair, study combining experiments numerical...

Recent biochemical characterization of the T23-encoded Qa-1 molecule revealed an additional higher molecular mass species of 50 kD coprecipitated with the 48-kD Qa-1 molecule in H-2b and H-2d mouse strains. We now demonstrate that the 50-kD protein coprecipitated with Qa-1 is the class I-a antigen Ld in all H-2Ld-positive mouse strains examined. Furthers analyses of a panel of recombinants reve...

In order to explore the mechanism of action of vanadyl sulfate (VOSO4), previously described as an antidiabetic and antihypertensive agent, we have investigated the role of calcium and tyrosine phosphorylation in the contractile responses of rat aorta or skinned rabbit mesenteric artery rings. VOSO4 induced a concentration-dependent contraction of aorta (pD2 = 3.2), which was potentiated by end...

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nimT encodes a protein in Aspergillus nidulans that is required for tyrosine dephosphorylation of p34cdc2 and has a strong homology to cdc25-type proteins. Conditional mutation of nimT (nimT23 mutation) arrests cells in G2 at the restrictive temperature. After release of the temperature-sensitive nimT23 block, p34cdc2 undergoes tyrosine dephosphorylation and we showed that as cells entered mito...

Depositional environment and source potential of the different organic-rich levels of Devonian age (up to 990m thick) from the onshore EC-1 well (Southern Tunisia) were investigated based on the analysis of more than 130 cutting samples by different geochemical techniques (Rock-Eval pyrolysis, GC-MS). The obtained results including Rock Eval Pyrolysis data and biomarker distribution (terpanes, ...

This paper considers the problem of transforming a triangular integer input matrix to canonical Hermite and Smith normal form. We provide algorithms and prove deterministic running times for both transformation problems that are optimal in the matrix dimension. The algorithms are easily implemented, assume standard integer arithmetic, and admit excellent performance in practice. The results pre...

The c-Fes protein-tyrosine kinase is associated with growth and differentiation of hematopoietic, neuronal, vascular endothelial and epithelial cell types. In this study, we investigated whether small interfering RNA (siRNA)-mediated knockdown of c-Fes expression affected proliferation of the human renal carcinoma cell lines, ACHN and VMRC-RCW. Immunofluorescence microscopy showed that c-Fes wa...