In this paper we consider pulsating strings in warped AdS 6 × S 4 background, which is a vacuum solution of massive type IIA super-string. The case of rotating strings in this background was considered in hep-th/0402202 and it was found that the results significantly differs from those considered in AdS 5 ×S 5. Motivated by this results we study pulsating strings in the warped spherical part of...

PURPOSE This study was designed to evaluate the levels of Interleukin-6 (IL6) and Hepcidin prohormone (Hep) in the serum and aqueous humor of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), as well as those with senile cataract as a control group. METHODS Levels of IL6 and Hep were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) methods in serum and aqueous humor aspirates taken from ...

Chemoresistance is a major obstacle in chemotherapy of laryngeal carcinoma. Recently, studies indicate that cancer stem cells are responsible for chemotherapy failure. In addition, microRNAs play important roles in tumor initiation, development and multidrug resistance. In the present study, we found that the expression of microRNA-125a was decreased in laryngeal carcinoma tissues and Hep-2 lar...

Streptococcus pyogenes adheres to human epithelial cells in vitro and in vivo. To identify adhesins, cell wall components were extracted from S. pyogenes M6 with alkali or by treatment with mutanolysin and lysozyme. HEp-2 cells were incubated with extracts of S. pyogenes M6 and then analyzed by Western blot (immunoblot) assays, using antibodies to S. pyogenes. Only one streptococcal component (...

Glucose transporter-1 (GLUT-1) and PI3K/Akt are known to be closely involved in resistance to chemotherapy. Co-targeted therapy reducing GLUT-1 expression and PI3K/Akt pathway activity may overcome the chemoresistance of human cancers. Apigenin may inhibit the expression of GLUT-1 and the PI3K/Akt pathway. We hypothesized that over-expression of GLUT-1 and p-Akt was associated with the resistan...

I report on two papers, hep-ph/9806279 and hep-ph/9807336, where complementary strategies are proposed for the determination of the chargino/neutralino sector parameters, M1,M2, μ and tanβ, from the knowledge of some physical observables. This determination and the occurrence of possible ambiguities are studied as far as possible analytically within the context of the unconstrained MSSM, assumi...

We consider gauge messenger models in which X and Y gauge bosons and gauginos are messengers of supersymmetry breaking. In simple gauge messenger models, all the soft parameters except μ and Bμ are calculated in terms of a single scale parameter MSUSY which is proportional to F/MGUT. Unique prediction on dark matter in gauge messenger models is discussed. (Based on hep-ph/0601036 and hep-ph/060...

Heparin (Hep) is a linear sulfated polysaccharide used in clinical treatment of tromboembolic diseases. In 2008, contaminated batches of Hep appeared in the pharmaceutical market. The contaminant was identified as an over sulfated form of chondroitin sulfate (oversulfated chondroitin sulfate, OSCS). Different analytical methods have been developed to identify and quantify OSCS and other impurit...

Amidst long-running debates within the field, High Energy Physics (HEP) has adopted a statistical methodology that primarily employs standard frequentist techniques such as significance testing and confidence interval estimation, but incorporates Bayesian methods for limited purposes. The recent discovery of the Higgs boson has drawn increased attention to the statistical methods employed withi...

BACKGROUND The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway plays a crucial role in embryonic development, tissue homeostasis, wound healing and malignant transformation in different organs including the liver. The consequences of continuous β-catenin signaling in hepatocytes remain elusive. RESULTS Livers of Ctnnb1CA hep mice were characterized by disturbed liver architecture, proliferating cholangiocyte...