Diptheria toxin (DT) reversibly increases the saturation of the long-chain C18 fatty acids (C18FA) in concentrations which are at least 100-fold smaller than the concentrations which completely inhibit host cell protein synthesis. The concentrations required for induction of the increase in the saturation of the C18FA in fibroblasts are 100-fold smaller than the concentrations for the epithelia...

Background: Several studies have identified the radial nerve in arm using different anatomic landmarks, however, acontroversy remains. Deltoid tuberosity (DT) and brachioradialis (BR) are reproducible landmarks that can be used toidentify the radial nerve (RN) during fracture surgery.Methods: Dissection of RN was carried out in 17 fresh frozen adult cadavers. Using a calibrate...

BACKGROUND Diffused-type giant cell tumor(Dt-GCT) is a rare, aggressive disorder of the joint synovium, bursa and tendon sheaths. Osseous erosions and subchondral cysts may develop as the result of synovium infiltration in Dt-GCT. We present a retrospective study of a series of patients who are diagnosed with Dt-GCT about the ankle joint, there clinical outcome is evaluated in this study. MAT...

Introduction Diffusion tensor MR imaging (DT-MRI) is sensitive to the preferential diffusion of water molecules along axonal fibers, a property called anisotropic diffusion (1,2) and is helpful to identify different tumor components and to differentiate tumor invasions from normal brain tissues or peritumoral edema (2). In routine clinical neuroimaging, MRI for brain tumors should be performed ...

We have used a probe derived from TRP-2/DT to detect migratory melanoblasts shortly after they emerge from the neural crest, as early as 10 days post coitum (dpc). TRP-2/DT expression is otherwise restricted to the presumptive pigmented retinal epithelium, the developing telencephalon and the endolymphatic duct. The pattern of steel and c-kit hybridisation in the developing brain differed from ...

Recent revelations that ISPs selectively manipulate P2P traffic have sparked much public discussion. Underlying this issue is the misalignment of interests between consumers on one hand who desire bulk transfers at flat rates, and ISPs on the other hand who are bound by budget and capacity constraints. Our thesis is that much of the tension can be alleviated by time-shifting traffic away from p...

In recently developed thermally chargeable supercapacitors, temperature dependent capacitive effect is employed to harvest and store low-grade heat as electric energy, for which a key factor dominating the system performance is the thermal sensitivity of electrode potential (dV/dT). In the current study, the influence of electrode material properties, particularly the work function, is analyzed...