We present the study of the dynamics of the geometrical tachyon field on an unstable D3-brane in the background of a bulk tachyon field of a D3-brane solution of Type-0 string theory. We find that the geometrical tachyon potential is modified by a function of the bulk tachyon and inflation occurs at weak string coupling, where the bulk tachyon condenses, near the top of the geometrical tachyon ...

We study the defect AdS/CFT correspondence for a system of Nc D3-branes intersecting certain configurations of D7-branes and O7-planes in 1 + 1-dimensions. The intersection is chiral, preserving N = (0, 8) supersymmetry. The geometry produced by the 7-branes does not decouple in the low energy limit on the D3-branes; consequently the field theory must be considered in the curved background of t...

After publication of this article [1], we noted errors to the " body weight " row of Table three. The values for the controls of Δ 1 (wk 0 ~ wk 4) and Δ 2 (wk 0 ~ wk 8) should be negative (please see Table 1 below, a corrected version of Table three). Reference 1. Zhu W, et al: Calcium plus vitamin D3 supplementation facilitated fat loss in overweight and obese college students with very-low ca...

Evidence indicates that vitamin D deficiency contributes to CVD. We investigated the effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on cardiovascular risk factors in women. Healthy premenopausal overweight and obese women (n 77; mean age 38 (sd 8·1) years) were randomly allocated to the vitamin D (25 μg/d as cholecalciferol) or the placebo group in a double-blind manner for 12 weeks. Blood pressure, seru...

1. This study was carried out to investigate the effects of 1, 25-dihydroxycholecalciferol (1, 25 (OH)2 D3) and a hydroalcoholic extract of Withania somnifera (WS) root on performance, mineral retention, bone mineralisation, bone mechanical and bone histological characteristics of broiler chicks. 2. A 2 × 3 × 2 factorial experiment consisted of a positive control diet with adequate Ca and a neg...

BACKGROUND There is a known inverse association between solar radiation and the prevalence of multiple sclerosis (MS). Some studies have investigated the link between vitamin D and MS. The aim of this study was to investigate the possible association between serum 25(OH) vitamin D3 concentration and the severity of disease in Iranian patients with MS. METHODS Patients with relapsing-remitting...

Myeloid-derived suppressor cells are a major mechanism of tumor-induced immune suppression in cancer. Arginase I-producing myeloid-derived suppressor cells deplete l-arginine (L-Arg) from the microenvironment, which arrests T cells in the G(0)-G(1) phase of the cell cycle. This cell cycle arrest correlated with an inability to increase cyclin D3 expression resulting from a decreased mRNA stabil...

The capacity of adult barrel cortex to show experience-dependent plasticity after early restricted neonatal sensory deprivation was analyzed in barrel field cortex neurons. Selective sensory deprivation was induced by trimming two whiskers from postnatal day 0 (P0) to P21, namely, the principal D2 whisker plus one adjacent surround whisker (D3). At maturity (P90), responses of supragranular (la...