We recently reported on the physical characteristics of photo-triggerable liposomes containing dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), and 1,2-bis (tricosa-10,12-diynoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DC(8,9)PC) carrying a photo agent as their payload. When exposed to a low-intensity 514 nm wavelength (continuous-wave) laser light, these liposomes were observed to release entrapped calcein green ...

BACKGROUND: The aim of the present case control study was to evaluate the association between maternal periodontitis and preeclampsia. Objectives: To evaluate following periodontal parameters in women with preeclampsia & to compare them with non-preeclamptic women. 1. Bleeding on probing, 2 .Probing depth, 3. Clinical attachment level MATERIAL AND METHODS: Initially 310 women were included in t...

In mammalian cardiac ventricular myocytes, Ca efflux via Na/Ca exchange (NCX) occurs predominantly at T tubules. Heart failure is associated with disrupted t-tubular structure, but its effect on t-tubular function is less clear. We therefore investigated t-tubular NCX activity in ventricular myocytes isolated from rat hearts ∼18 wk after coronary artery ligation (CAL) or corresponding sham oper...

Algorithms are different from programs and should not be described with programming languages. Until now, the only simple alternative to programming languages has been pseudo-code. Based on the TLA+ specification language, +cal is an algorithm language that is designed to replace pseudocode. A +cal algorithm is automatically translated to a TLA+ specification that can be checked with the TLC mo...

One of the most important decisions about the architecture of a server program is its concurrency mechanisms. However, a good concurrency model for general-purpose server programs is increasingly difficult to conceive as the runtime conditions are hard to predict. In this work, we advocate that the concurrency code is to be decoupled from server programs. To enable such separation, we propose a...

G protein-coupled receptors such as the beta1-adrenergic receptor (beta1AR) must be trafficked to the plasma membrane in order to bind with their extracellular ligands and regulate cellular physiology. By using glutathione S-transferase pull-down techniques, we found that the beta1AR carboxyl terminus directly interacts with the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator-associated lig...