It is well established that muramyl dipeptide (MDP) can induce fever and enhance slow-wave sleep. Recently, crude or purified supernatants of activated macrophages containing endogenous pyrogen (EP) were also shown to enhance slow-wave sleep. These similarities and the recent finding that a mammalian factor that enhances slow-wave sleep is a muramyl peptide triggered us to study the possibility...

We have developed a gene transfection method called water-in-oil droplet electroporation (EP) that uses a dielectric oil and a liquid droplet containing live cells and exogenous DNA. When a cell suspension droplet is placed between a pair of electrodes, an intense DC electric field can induce droplet deformation, resulting in an instantaneous short circuit caused by the droplet elongating and c...

Electroporation (EP) is used to transfect skeletal muscle fibers in vivo, but its effects on the structure and function of skeletal muscle tissue have not yet been documented in detail. We studied the changes in contractile function and histology after EP and the influence of the individual steps involved to determine the mechanism of recovery, the extent of myofiber damage, and the efficiency ...

We study neutrino energy emission rates (emissivities) due to electron bremsstrahlung produced by ee and ep collisions in the superfluid neutron star cores. The neutrino emission due to ee collisions is shown to be the dominant neutrino reaction at not too high temperatures (T <∼ 10 8 K) in dense matter if all other neutrino reactions involving nucleons are strongly suppressed by neutron and pr...

This paper focuses on design of systolic architecture and by the application of evolutionary programming to achieve 100% HUE (Hardware Utilization Efficiency) for space representation containing delays in systolic design. Heuristic method involves EP (Evolutionary Programming) to solve the problems where the solution is in large search space. Using EP, we are able to find the number of differen...

BACKGROUND Electroporation is a method of disrupting the integrity of cell membrane by electric pulses (EPs). Electrical modeling is widely employed to explain and study electroporation, but even most advanced models show limited predictive power. No studies have accounted for the biological consequences of electroporation as a factor that alters the cell's susceptibility to forthcoming EPs. ...

Thinning of large antenna arrays in order to obtain low sidelobes is a difficult and nontrivial problem. Evolutionary programming (EP), a multi-agent stochastic search method, is proposed for optimizing thinned phased arrays with a large number of elements. Experiments are conducted to determine the efficiency of EP procedure in terms of the reliability in producing acceptable solutions and the...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To describe a new surgical technique for intraoperative placement of Eye Physics (EP) plaques for uveal melanoma using a toric marker. PATIENTS AND METHODS A toric marker is designed for cataract surgery to align the axis of astigmatism; its use was modified in this protocol to mark the axis of suture coordinates as calculated by Plaque Simulator (PS) software. RESU...

Objective(s): In this study, we desvcribe a simple eco-friendly approach for the synthesis of a potent, stable and benign silver nanoparticles to carry and deliver chalcones and dihydrochalcones present in a methanol extract of Eysenhardtia polystachya (EP). Materials and Methods: In this process silver nanoparticles carring EP compounds (EP/AgNPs) are synthesized in a single step by eliminatin...

background:   objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the expression of enos in the fts of women with tep.   materials and methods: in this case-control study, a total number of 30fts samples were obtained from three groups including: 10 fts of women that bearing an ep, 10 fts from the non-pregnant women at luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, and 10 fts of healthy pregnant women (n=10...