Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen involved in nosocomial infections. Flagellin is a P. aeruginosa virulence factor involved in host response to this pathogen. We examined the role of flagellin in P. aeruginosa-induced mucus secretion. Using a mouse model of pulmonary infection we showed that PAK, a wild type strain of P. aeruginosa, induced airway mucus secretion and mucin muc...

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To map and manage forest vegetation including wetland communities, remote sensing technology has been shown to be a valid widely employed technology. In this paper, two ecologically different study areas were evaluated using free available high-resolution multispectral National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) ultra-high-resolution unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery located in the Upper Gr...

Femtosecond fluorescence up-conversion, UV-Vis and IR transient absorption spectroscopy are used to study the photo-isomerization dynamics of a new type of zwitterionic photoswitch based on a N-alkylated indanylidene pyrroline Schiff base framework (ZW-NAIP). The system is biomimetic, as it mimics the photophysics of retinal, in coupling excited state charge translocation and isomerization. Whi...

Despite recent advances in diagnosis and therapy, prostate cancer remains the most frequently diagnosed nonskin cancer in the United States and the third leading cause of cancer deaths. Failure of chemotherapies and hormone-deprivation therapies is the major cause of death in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Currently, the androgen inhibitors Enzalutamide and Abiratero...

Different satellite images may consist of variable numbers channels which have different resolutions, and each has a unique revisit period. For example, the Landsat-8 30 m resolution in their multispectral channels, Sentinel-2 10 pan-sharp channel, National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) aerial 1 resolution. In this study, we propose simple yet effective arithmetic deep model for multimodal...

Large cardamom (Amomum subulatum Roxb.) belongs to family Zingibereaceae and order Scitaminae is the most suitable cash crop for the hilly terrain of the state of Sikkim. Likewise a large section of farmers in North Sikkim and most parts of Sikkim are engaged in large cardamom cultivation. For years cardamom has been the single most crucial cash crop to these stakeholders. However recent times ...

Remotely sensed imagery provides a useful tool for land managers to assess the extent and severity of post-wildfire salvage logging disturbance. This investigation uses high resolution QuickBird and National Agricultural Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery to map soil exposure after ground-based salvage operations. Three wildfires with varying post-fire salvage activities and variable ground truth d...

NLRs (nucleotide-binding domain [NBD] leucine-rich repeat [LRR]-containing proteins) exhibit diverse functions in innate and adaptive immunity. NAIPs (NLR family, apoptosis inhibitory proteins) are NLRs that appear to function as cytosolic immunoreceptors for specific bacterial proteins, including flagellin and the inner rod and needle proteins of bacterial type III secretion systems (T3SSs). D...